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Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed Joan Hibdon.

The Joan Hibdon Commentaries

On a recent Price of Business show, Host Kevin Price interviewed Joan Hibdon.

Leaders frequently encourage employees to speak up, share ideas, and provide honest feedback. But what happens when someone actually tells a leader something they don’t want to hear?

During this segment, Joan explores why creating a healthy feedback culture begins with the behaviors demonstrated at the top of the organization. She examines the difference between inviting feedback and genuinely receiving it, how defensiveness and dismissiveness can silence employees, and why vulnerability and accountability are essential leadership capabilities.

Drawing on her experience working with executive teams, Joan discusses how leaders can create an environment where feedback flows upward, downward, and across functions—and where courageous conversations become part of everyday business.

Strong leaders in healthy organizations are open to exploring whether employees are comfortable telling the truth, or have they learned that silence is safer?

Joan Hibdon is the founder of jdhInsights, LLC, where she coaches and develops leaders to become the best version of themselves. Through her writing, facilitation, and strategic coaching, Joan helps organizations build feedback-rich cultures that fuel sustainable growth.

Joan’s approach to coaching is tailored to meet the unique needs of the individuals she is working with. In doing so, she creates awareness, purpose, intent, and action resulting in success for the client. Joan’s insights and experience can heighten executive effectiveness, emotional intelligence, improvement in team dynamics, the ability to navigate through complex situations, accountability, and provide the map to achieve goal attainment. In her practice, she leverages a variety of assessments – both traditional and non-traditional — to co-design a comprehensive development plan with her clients that are focused on reaching and sustaining their goals.

She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), certified through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Additionally, Joan holds certifications with The Leadership Circle and the Leadership Culture Survey, Emotional Intelligence (EQi 2.0) and (EIP3), iEQ9 Enneagram, The Prosci ADKAR Organizational Change Methodology, DiSC, Myers Briggs MBTI Personality Type Assessment, Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Assessment, and is a Lominger Leadership Architect.

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