The Social Capital Show

Human Networks, Social Capital, & the Adaptive Organization. How relationships shape performance, influence, and change.

The Social Capital Show explores how value, information, and influence actually flow through organizations — not through org charts, but through human networks. Each episode brings leaders inside the hidden relationship structures that shape execution, innovation, trust, and adaptability in an era of constant change.

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About the Show

Organizations don’t succeed or fail because of strategy alone — they succeed or fail because of how people connect, collaborate, and coordinate.

This show examines how informal networks, trust, influence, and social capital shape real outcomes inside organizations, often more powerfully than formal structures, roles, or processes.

Through executive conversations and research-informed insights, The Social Capital Show helps leaders see the invisible networks inside their organizations — and learn how to strengthen, activate, and design for healthier, more adaptive human systems.

What This Show Explores

Each episode explores one or more of the following themes:

  • Organizational network analysis and informal influence
  • How work, information, and decisions really flow
  • Trust, collaboration, and social cohesion at scale
  • Hidden brokers, bottlenecks, and key connectors
  • Networks and innovation, learning, and change
  • Social capital in hybrid and distributed organizations
  • Designing organizations for adaptability and resilience
  • The relationship between networks, culture, and performance

Who This Show Is For

This show is for leaders and practitioners who are responsible for how work actually happens inside their organizations, not just how it’s designed on paper.

This includes:

  • CHROs, CPOs, and senior people leaders

  • Learning, leadership development, and coaching leaders

  • Employee experience, engagement, and organizational effectiveness leaders

  • General managers and senior leaders building high-performing teams

  • Coaches, consultants, and advisors supporting organizational transformation

If you’re leading in an environment where collaboration, influence, and networks matter more than hierarchy, this show is for you.

Format & Experience

  • Executive interviews and expert conversations
  • 30–45 minute episodes
  • Practitioner-led and research-informed
  • Focused on real-world organizational networks, not theory alone
  • Select live sessions with audience Q&A

The goal is not just insight — it’s seeing and shaping the invisible systems that drive performance.

 

Why Social Capital Matters Now

As organizations become more distributed, more matrixed, and more dependent on knowledge flow, collaboration, and trust, social capital has become a critical — and often unmanaged — asset.

Without healthy networks:

  • Collaboration breaks down
  • Innovation slows
  • Silos harden
  • Change efforts stall
  • Burnout increases

This show exists to help leaders understand the real human systems inside their organizations — and intentionally design for connection, flow, and adaptability.

Featured Guests & Contributors

This show features senior leaders, researchers, authors, and practitioners shaping how organizations understand and leverage networks, social capital, and informal influence.

Guests include executives and experts across organizational effectiveness, transformation, HR, analytics, leadership, and network science.

For Sponsors & Partners

The Social Capital Show explores how modern organizations drive performance, innovation, and adaptability through networks, relationships, and trust — not just structure and process. Each episode brings executives inside the invisible human systems that shape collaboration and change.

Sponsors gain access to an audience of CHROs, COOs, CIOs, transformation leaders, and organizational architects who are actively seeking better ways to understand influence, break silos, accelerate collaboration, and build resilient, high-performing organizations.

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Ready to see how value really flows inside organizations — and how to design for it?

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