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The People Playbook is for professional business owners and leaders who understand business rises and falls on people. You will hear practical, real-world conversations on clear leadership, smart hiring, and building strong teams- all formulas for retention! Get ready to hear your professional peers and industry experts as they discuss lessons learned and best practices. Get that journal out, you'll be taking lots of notes!
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Leadership teams don’t develop talent through instinct alone—they develop it through shared clarity about performance, readiness, and potential. In this episode of The People Playbook with Coach Cora, Coach Cora speaks with the Senior Director of Field Enhancements at Whataburger about what leaders actually learn when they begin using a talent matrix in a complex, field-based organization.
Drawing from real operational experience, the conversation explores how a structured talent framework changes the way leaders discuss high performers, identify potential, and challenge assumptions about their teams. The matrix itself isn’t the value—the value is the clarity it creates about development priorities, succession readiness, and where leaders may be overlooking or misjudging talent across the organization.
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