Mind the Culture™
Why do some workplaces thrive while others quietly burn out? How can leaders build cultures that bring out the best in people instead of draining them?
In Mind the Culture™, journalist and neuroscience-based culture strategist Larissa Ensor investigates the science and stories behind organizational transformation.
The show bridges evidence and insight—bringing you research, statistics, stories, and insights about how people think, feel, and perform inside organizations.
Each episode blends data-driven reporting, behavioral science, and practical tools to help you improve leadership communication, employee engagement, and organizational well-being.
From psychological safety and culture transformation to values and purpose-driven performance, Mind the Culture™ reveals how awareness and alignment can turn everyday workplaces into catalysts for human growth.
Mind the Culture™
Mind the Culture (Trailer)
There’s a quiet crisis in the modern workplace.
Organizations around the world are investing in culture, engagement, and leadership development — yet many people still feel disconnected, unmotivated, or unseen. What if the problem isn’t a lack of strategy, but a lack of alignment?
In this intro episode of Mind the Culture, host Larissa Ensor — journalist and neuroscience-based culture strategist — invites you to pause and look beneath the surface of work as we know it.
Through the lenses of neuroscience, positive psychology, and storytelling, Larissa explores how emotions, communication patterns, and hidden beliefs shape everything from performance to purpose. She unpacks the invisible architecture of organizational culture — the systems, stories, and human dynamics that determine whether people feel safe to innovate, speak up, and bring their full selves to work.
You’ll learn:
- Why so many workplaces look successful on the outside but feel misaligned inside.
- What neuroscience reveals about trust, belonging, and psychological safety — and how these shape decision-making and engagement.
- How storytelling acts as a neural shortcut for culture change, helping teams reconnect faster than policies ever could.
- Why the future of leadership depends on our ability to blend data and depth, logic and intuition, story and strategy.
This episode sets the tone for everything to come: evidence-based insights, global research, and reflections that help you rise above the noise to see your organization — and yourself — more clearly.
Because once you see the full picture — the systems, the emotions, the unseen connections — you can finally lead from awareness, not autopilot.
If you’re ready to move beyond buzzwords and start understanding the science and alchemy of culture, this show is for you.
🎧 Follow Mind the Culture to explore the intersection of neuroscience, leadership, and organizational transformation — and learn how to build cultures that work for humans, not machines.
There is a quiet crisis in the modern workplace. Companies are talking more about culture than ever before. Yet, fewer people feel truly connected to it.
Burnout, disengagement, confusion, complacency, they aren't just signs of stress. They're symptoms of a deeper misalignment between who we are, what we value, and how we work.
I'm Larisa Ensor, and this is Mind the Culture.
I combine neuroscience, positive psychology, storytelling, and culture strategy to help leaders see the invisible forces that shape their organizations and learn how awareness and consciousness can transform them.
Have you ever noticed that some workplaces thrive while others quietly fall apart, even when their strategies look the same?
The answer lives beneath the surface, in emotions, stories, and unspoken patterns of behavior.
It lives in the way we communicate, lead, and make meaning together.
Here we explore the space where science meets soul, where behavioral data meets human experience.
You will hear evidence-based insights, global research, and reflections that invite you to look inward before you lead outward.
We'll look at what research says about trust, motivation, and psychological safety, how our brains process connection and threat, and why storytelling isn't soft, it's science.
Because the future of work belongs to those who understand what makes us human and how to inspire, not manipulate, people.
My goal isn't to tell you what's wrong with work, although I might.
It's to help you rise above the noise, to see your organization from a higher perspective.
Because once you see the full picture, the systems, the patterns, the emotions, the unseen connections, you can finally lead from awareness, not autopilot.
And that's when everything changes.
As Carl Jung would say, until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Each episode will bridge data and depth.
Logic and intuition, story and strategy.
My goal is that you walk away not just informed, but transformed with new language, clarity, and tools to help you shape the kind of culture the world needs next, so you can bring your people together and turn your vision into reality.
Welcome to Mind the Culture.
