# Jason Lauritsen

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What To Do When You Feel Stuck

Feeling stuck is one of the most common and most isolating experiences in work and in life. In this solo episode, Jason Lauritsen shares his own year-long effort to move his business forward after realizing he kept landing in the same place, year after year. He walks through what it actually took t…

Caring for the Whole Person at Work with Tim Anderson

Most leaders were trained to tell people to leave their personal lives at the door. This conversation makes the case for the opposite. Tim Anderson, president and CEO of the United States Senate Federal Credit Union, explains how his team built a workplace that treats employees as whole people and …

Workplace Connection: What Drives Motivation, Retention, and Performance

Workplace Connection: What Drives Motivation, Retention, and Performance Host: Steve Boese Guest: Jason Lauritsen, Workplace strategist, Executive advisor, Keynote speaker, and co-author of the Human Connection Study   Summary In this episode of At Work in America, Steve Boese speaks with workplace…

Why Team Agreement Falls Apart After Meetings

You wrap up the meeting feeling good about it. Everyone nodded, the decision got made, and then the moment people step out of the room, it starts to come apart. This episode is about why that happens and what to do about it. The core idea is that agreement is not alignment. Agreement is the nod in …

Jason Lauritsen - The Human Connection Study (Part 1)

If your engagement strategy feels like it keeps hitting a ceiling, it may be because you are measuring the outcome instead of building the cause. We sit down with returning guest Jason Lauritsen in this two-part episode to unpack The 2026 Human Connection Study, a deep dive into connection-shaped m…

How To Scale Culture Without Losing It with Dan Kessler

Growing a company from twenty people to a few hundred changes almost everything about how you lead. Culture is usually the first thing to feel the strain. In this conversation, Jason Lauritsen talks with Dan Kessler, president of Energage, the research partner behind the Top Workplaces program. He …

Jason Lauritsen - The Human Connection Study (Part 2)

The return-to-office debate loves a simple story: more time in the office equals more connection. Our conversation with Jason Lauritsen continues and flips that assumption with a research-backed curveball from the 2026 Human Connection Study. In their data, non-management employees working fully on…

AI vs. the Manager

Many leaders are asking whether AI will replace managers or just make their jobs harder. This episode takes a different angle and looks at how managers can use AI to get better at the work only they can do. Jason Lauritsen walks through three practical opportunities: using AI to sharpen clarity in …

AI Can Replace Coordination. It Can’t Make People Feel Motivated.

Jason Lauritsen, CEO of Connected Performance Group, spent close to two years building a study on workplace connection with almost 300,000 employee responses, and what he found upends the assumption that the manager relationship matters most. Here's what we cover: Why connection to a company's pur…

Hired Then Ghosted: Why Sometimes You Just Have To Keep Going | Jason Lauritsen

Jason Lauritsen sold copiers out of a minivan in rural Iowa, got sued by his old employer for starting a competing firm, watched his new business partner disappear into addiction treatment two weeks after they opened the doors, and once tried to lay off a colleague out loud in a budget meeting befo…