Today we’re diving into one of the most overlooked, misunderstood, and high-ROI leadership practices: stay interviews.

Not performance reviews, not hallway check-ins, not annual conversations—true, intentional, proactive dialogues designed to keep your best people before they start imagining a future without you.

Here’s the reality:

Most leaders don’t know what a stay interview is.

Even fewer know how to actually run one.

And almost none understand the massive impact they have on retention, connection, and culture.

Great leaders?

They do stay interviews consistently—and it’s one of the reasons their high performers stay.

In this episode, we break down:

- Why stay interviews matter now more than ever

- Why your top performers (your HiPos) are actually the loneliest people on the team

- What you should be asking—and what you should never ask

- How stay interviews strengthen trust, reduce preventable turnover, and build real culture

- Why waiting for an exit interview means you’re already too late

You’ll also get a simple framework and four essential questions you can start using this week, plus a leadership challenge to put this episode into action immediately.

Because retention isn’t reactive.

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