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Dr. Shari Simpson Senior Manager Thought Leadership | Paylocity

Shari Simpson, EdD, is the host of HR Mixtape and a senior thought leadership leader at Paylocity. With over two decades of experience across training, talent, payroll, and employee relations, she brings curiosity, candor, and real-world perspective to every episode. Shari holds a Doctor of Education in Leadership and Innovation, along with an MBA, MHRM, and SHRM-SCP certification.

Jared Quoyeser Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Louisiana Impact Fund

Jared Quoyeser is a private equity leader, operator, and builder who has spent more than two decades leading in high-pressure environments where decisions carry real consequences. He is Co-Founder of the Louisiana Impact Fund, an operator-led lower-middle-market private equity platform, and Chair of Louisiana's largest private employer.

He is the author of The Flow Multiplier (Entrepreneur Press, 2026), which introduces the PEAK Performance Framework — a structured system for how senior leaders sustain focus, judgment, and decision quality when the stakes are highest.

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Bring Your “A” Game: How Leaders Protect Their Judgment Under Pressure

A calendar full of back-to-back meetings proves you showed up. It says nothing about what you delivered.

Podcast

November 03, 2026

Most leaders who lose their edge still work hard. They log 60-hour weeks and sit through back-to-back meetings, and somewhere in there the judgment their job depends on starts wearing down.

Jared Quoyeser, co-founder and managing partner of the Louisiana Impact Fund, spent more than 20 years at Intel and is chair of Louisiana's largest private employer. His book, The Flow Multiplier, lays out the system he built after two decades of making calls where a bad one cost real money.

Key takeaways:

How to find your own deep-work hours (his run from 4 to 11 a.m.) and tell your team exactly when and how you're reachable
Why HR gets further with executives by pitching peak performance, and why the wellness pitch gets waved off
What the "above the line" split means as AI takes over the messy middle of work, and why HR has to connect senior judgment to entry-level hires

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