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Bold conversations with executives and workplace innovators exploring leadership, culture, AI, wellbeing, and the future of human performance — hosted by LifeGuides CEO Derek Lundsten.

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The Live Show

Unpacking what HR leaders are seeing inside organizations in real time — from burnout and retention to leadership pressure and workplace culture — hosted on LinkedIn every other Thursday by Devin DiNofa.

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ABOUT REBELS WITH A HEART

This is where the next era of leadership gets debated out loud.

From AI anxiety and manager burnout to loneliness, retention, trust, belonging, leadership capability, and the rise of Non-Clinical Mental Health, Rebels with a Heart goes beyond trends to unpack the deeper questions leaders are struggling to answer. Every episode is designed to challenge assumptions, spark conversation, and give leaders practical insight they can bring back into their organizations immediately.

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The Leadership Gap No One’s Talking About

In his conversation with Derek Lundsten, SHRM’s Alex Alonso challenged some of the biggest assumptions in leadership development, from the overemphasis on training completion to the missing support systems managers need after the learning ends.

We pulled key insights from the episode and expanded them into a deeper written perspective on what it will take to build better leaders now.

Derek Lundsten

Part strategist, part philosopher, part organizational disruptor, Derek Lundsten has spent his career challenging the idea that high performance and human connection exist on opposite sides of the table.

As CEO of LifeGuides and host of the Rebels with a Heart Podcast, Derek is known for asking the questions most leadership conversations avoid. The result is a podcast that feels less like corporate commentary and more like a real conversation about what it actually takes to lead people through pressure, uncertainty, burnout, growth, and change.

Equal parts thoughtful and rebellious, Derek brings executives, CHROs, founders, and workplace innovators into conversations that cut through jargon and get to the human reality underneath work.

Devin DiNofa

If Derek pulls leaders into deep conversation, Devin DiNofa turns the mic toward the people living it in real time.

As the host of the Rebels with a Heart Live Show and a growth leader at LifeGuides, Devin has a gift for creating the kind of conversations people wish happened more often at work: honest, unscripted, insightful, and unexpectedly human.

His sessions bring together HR leaders, practitioners, and culture builders to unpack what’s really happening inside organizations right now — from leadership fatigue and employee trust to culture pressure, retention, and the emotional weight people carry into work every day.

No scripts or polished corporate talking points. Just smart people thinking out loud together about the future of work.

What the Rebels Are Saying

"There are roughly two hundred million people managers that need support. They are looking for an understanding about empathy."

Alex Alonso

Chief Knowledge Officer, SHRM

“Instead of worrying about how AI is going to take your job or not take your job, we should instead be thinking about what artificial intelligence can do for us in the way that we think about the world of work."

Jim Link

CHRO, SHRM

It's time to rebel.