Your Culture Isn't Broken. Your Leadership Is.

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Ember & Oak Consulting LLC
17 March 2026

Management: leadership & motivation; Working patterns & practices

Most companies believe they have a culture problem.

They don't.

They have a leadership problem.

In workplaces across every industry, employees are told that low morale, high turnover, and burnout are symptoms of a broken culture. Consultants are hired. Mission statements are rewritten. New ""engagement initiatives"" appear overnight.

And yet nothing actually improves.

Because culture isn't the problem.

Leadership is.

In Your Culture Isn't Broken. Your Leadership Is., Katie Simpson delivers a sharp, unfiltered look at the everyday leadership habits that quietly destroy workplace trust. Drawing from years of real-world professional experience, she exposes the dysfunction employees see every day but rarely feel safe to say out loud.

From corporate buzzword theater and pointless meetings to favoritism, toxic managers, broken hiring systems, and burnout disguised as laziness, Simpson pulls back the curtain on how organizations slowly undermine their own people.

But this book isn't just a critique of modern workplaces.

It's a call for better leadership.

Through practical observations, honest storytelling, and moments of humor that will feel painfully familiar to anyone who has survived corporate life, Simpson shows how leadership decisions shape every aspect of workplace culture. When leaders drift away from accountability, fairness, and transparency, the damage spreads quickly. When leaders choose integrity and clarity, organizations transform.

Inside this book, readers will discover:

- Why most companies misunderstand workplace culture

- The leadership behaviors that quietly destroy trust and morale

- How corporate jargon and performative meetings erode credibility

- Why burnout is often a leadership signal, not an employee failure

- The hidden costs of favoritism, poor hiring, and weak accountability

- What real leadership actually looks like in practice

Direct, insightful, and refreshingly honest, Your Culture Isn't Broken. Your Leadership Is. challenges the comfortable myths many organizations tell themselves about culture, engagement, and employee loyalty.

If you're an employee who has ever wondered why your workplace feels dysfunctional, this book will put words to experiences you already understand.

If you're a leader who wants to build a stronger, healthier organization, it offers a clear reminder of what leadership was supposed to be in the first place.

Because fixing culture doesn't start with slogans.

It starts with leadership.

By: Katie Simpson
Imprint: Ember & Oak Consulting LLC
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 191g
ISBN: 9798993149073
Pages: 134
Publication Date: 17 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Your Culture Isn't Broken. Your Leadership Is.

""A brutally honest and refreshingly clear look at why so many workplaces feel broken. Simpson says what employees have been thinking for years."" ""Sharp, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, this book exposes the leadership habits that quietly destroy workplace culture."" ""If you've ever sat in a pointless meeting and wondered how leadership lost the plot, this book will feel painfully familiar-and incredibly validating."" ""A must-read for leaders who actually want to understand why morale, trust, and engagement disappear inside modern organizations."" ""Part workplace reality check, part leadership wake-up call. Simpson pulls no punches-and that's exactly why this book works."" ""This book reads like the conversation employees wish they could have with their executives.""