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Dr. Shari Simpson 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. 

Shenandoah Chefalo Shenandoah Chefalo Trauma Informed Systems Change Consultant | Chefalo Consulting

Shenandoah Chefalo is a trauma informed systems change and leadership consultant with Chefalo Consulting and the author of Garbage Bag Suitcase.

She helps leaders and HR teams build people first cultures through practical, repeatable behaviors that strengthen trust, clarity, and accountability.

Her work supports organizations to reduce burnout, improve retention, and create psychologically safer workplaces where people can thrive and perform.

Name It, Tame It: Trauma-Informed Leadership and Felt Safety at Work

What looks like a performance problem is usually a culture problem.

When performance problems show up at work, most organizations respond by adding something: a new policy, more training, another initiative. But those problems usually aren't what they look like. What gets logged as a performance issue is often a nervous system response to culture, and no policy fixes a nervous system.

Key takeaways:

  • Why what looks like a performance problem is usually a nervous system problem caused by culture, and why that changes the intervention entirely
  • How the community meeting practice from Dr. Sandra Bloom creates felt safety through ritualized behavior, so hard conversations stop feeling like surprises
  • Why the first move in any culture change effort should be asking what you can stop doing before adding anything new
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