The Culture Trap book
The Culture Trap book by Dr Jeanne Hardacre
How to prevent and repair harmful culture at work
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What’s The Culture Trap book?
Many workplaces slide into fear, blame, disillusion and burnout. People avoid speaking up. Creativity dies. Trust fades. Leaders feel stuck or overwhelmed. Teams shrink into sheer survival mode. The Culture Trap reveals how well-meaning people get ensnared in these harmful dynamics. In everyday language, The Culture Trap shows you how to prevent or repair harmful work culture, with candour, courage and compassion.
Drawing on three decades of research and specialist consulting, Dr Jeanne Hardacre details the unique H.U.M.A.N. approach. Tested and refined over many years, it’s a guide for leaders and teams who want their relationships and interactions at work to be more effective and fulfilling. This is not another “fix your culture with a clever strategy” book. It’s a practical coach-in-your-pocket for transformation from the inside-out.
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How does The Culture Trap book help?
Reading The Culture Trap is like having a conversation with a wise, well-informed friend who emboldens you and your colleagues to make your unique difference!
It coaches, stretches and challenges you to unlearn habitual, disempowering norms of behaving at work and to embed a new, refreshingly different way of working together with your colleagues and teams. It offers human stories from real workplaces, actionable things to do and say, and a deeply moving invitation to reshape your work culture at its roots.
Grounded in cutting-edge leadership practice, it will help you improve collaboration, influence with more impact, grow trust, enhance accountability and nurture more compassionate, innovative work cultures - one interaction at a time.
Who is the author of The Culture Trap book?
Dr Jeanne Hardacre is author of The Culture Trap and Founder of BeTheCultureChange™.
As an unconventional speaker, executive team coach, specialist consultant and large-group facilitator, she offers a refreshingly candid, bold yet humble approach that positively disrupts the status quo.
Jeanne helps teams and leaders use power less to control, dominate or manipulate, and more to liberate themselves and each other from the harmful grip of The Culture Trap.
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Who is The Culture Trap book for?
It’s for you if you’re:
A leader who wants to build teams where people enjoy their work and choose to stay
A manager who’s aware of something “off” in the culture, but feeling unsure what to do about it
A coach who’s supporting people at work through uncertainty, stress, exhaustion or change
A team member navigating power dynamics, conflict, misunderstandings and
A person who’s thirsty for practical ways to create workplaces fit for humans to thrive
Author: Dr Jeanne Hardacre Publisher: Purple Groove Publishing Publication Date: March 2025 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-0685724-0-1 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-0685724-1-8
Formats: Paperback, eBook Categories / Themes: workplace culture; leadership and organisational behaviour; psychological safety; power dynamics; conflict at work; human-centred workplaces; team dynamics; influencing; innovation and change; wellbeing at work; people and development; work relationships; values and ethics
