June 25, 2025 – In the last few years, we have seen several major movements happen in the workforce. During the height of COVID, employees across all major industries resigned en masse due to a variety of reasons – pay stagnation, inflexible working environments (aggravated even more so by the pandemic), and an overall job dissatisfaction.
This was called The Great Resignation, and it reflected an overwhelming lack of engagement from the American workforce. The fact that the pandemic was a catalyst for this movement is merely circumstantial – this was a workforce that felt undervalued by the leaders and the organizations that they worked for. This is exactly what a human-centered work environment is designed to avoid.
Repertoire Magazine recently sat down with Ryan Estis, keynote speaker and author of Prepare for Impact: Driving Growth and Serving Others through the Principles of Human-Centered Leadership, to discuss what human-centered leadership looks like and how leaders can use it to change their growth strategies.