Episodes

Chuck and Jenni open 2026 with a list of the leadership and comms habits that should have stayed in 2025. A Forbes piece argues employee happiness predicts stock performance — Jenni’s response is that what it actually measures is the baseline of leadership. Her own read of the year’s trends leads to a question about whether “internal communication” still describes the job. A LinkedIn debate asks whether buzzwords are harmful or occasionally useful, and Chuck disagrees with the author. And the research behind the open-plan office finds face-to-face interaction down 70% and the square footage per employee down by roughly the same — which Chuck argues was always the actual point.

Closing out 2025 with 25 hours and 41 minutes of Frequency behind them, Chuck Gose and Jenni Field count down the 10 themes that defined the year in work, leadership, and internal communication, then share five AI-generated predictions for what 2026 might bring.

Chuck Gose and Jenni Field swap festive traditions — Festivus lunches versus Icelandic book-and-hot-chocolate nights — before digging into new research on psychological safety as a strategic resource, a LinkedIn debate on strategy versus plans in internal comms, Leesman’s hybrid work “rhythms” data, and a pointed disagreement over whether AI anxiety is really just ordinary change anxiety.

Chuck Gose plugs the iCology mentorship program and settles the “is Die Hard a Christmas movie” debate before Jenni Field takes the wheel on a report-heavy week: the UK Government’s RESIST framework for misinformation, new wellbeing data from Reward Gateway, a Gallup event on UK disengagement, and a “human work” model from Fauna and CultureCon.

Recorded live on stage at Unily’s Unite25 conference in Nashville — Frequency’s first ever live episode — Chuck Gose and Jenni Field share their keynote takeaways, react to new research on AI trust and courageous leadership, and take questions from the audience on AI-generated content and delivering bad news well.

Chuck Gose celebrates the UK’s first snowfall of the season and Jenni Field’s Business Book Awards shortlist certificate before the pair dig into new Gallup data on the purpose gap at work, Kate O’Neill’s argument that feedback needs shared context, Mita Mallick’s case against “firefighter” leadership, and unsettling new research on AI reading personality from LinkedIn photos.

Chuck Gose vents about the annual arrival of LinkedIn “2026 trends” posts before he and Jenni Field dig into new “culture rot” research showing only 14% of UK professionals feel aligned with their company’s values, data on gossip outpacing HR in layoff announcements, Jenni’s takeaways from the Gallagher Digital Experience Summit, and new research on America’s shifting relationship with work.

Jenni Field shares reflections from Chris Ducker’s Long Haul Leader Summit before she and Chuck Gose dig into a new “Meaningful Productivity” report on workplace exhaustion, MIT Sloan’s case that poor leadership — not hybrid work itself — is the real problem, data on manager engagement and recognition, and the risk of over-specializing in a comms career.

Jenni Field brings a new research report on the value of internal communication that she co-authored with Dr. Kevin Ruck, then she and Chuck Gose take on a Times piece asking what HR is actually for, The Economist’s look back at 1990s-style management “re-engineering” as a caution for today’s middle-management cuts, and a new report on the systemic barriers facing female entrepreneurs.

Chuck Gose and Jenni Field explore “microshifting” as the next stage in flexible work, dig into fresh data on how people actually use ChatGPT and where GenAI is already reshaping the comms function, and close with a simple two-word phrase for setting real boundaries at work.

Fresh off Frequency’s live episode at Unite in Nashville, Chuck Gose and Jenni Field dig into new Workvivo research showing 92% of internal comms professionals can’t prove ROI, Mike Klein’s case for shifting from “engaged” to “effective,” a Dewpoint Communications report on frontline worker communication gaps, and a LinkedIn challenge to the idea of “best places to work.”