How do you scale culture, lead through chaos, and keep people at the center? Tim Banick, President of Entegra Procurement Services Canada, joins Jason to share the leadership principles behind his 30+ year career across PepsiCo, Entegra, and beyond. We dig into self-awareness, creating psychological safety (“tops & flops”), leading large teams without silos, staying available to your people, and why diversity + candor beats consensus every time.

What you’ll learn

• Building culture with transparency, cadence, and follow-through
• Why patience (and bringing people along) accelerates results
• How to create a safe room for real talk and learning
• Leading through crises (COVID, tariffs) without losing your people
• Spotting future leaders: passion, attitude, and influence (title ≠ leadership)

On this episode of The People Playbook Podcast, host Jason Taylor sits down with Jason Wentzell - a Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist, past president of CAPhO, and founder of Extend Pharmacy - to explore how oncology expertise can be brought closer to home. Jason shares why community-based cancer care matters, how the Extend Cancer Pharmacy Network (ECPN) trains and supports independent pharmacies, and what leaders should look for when building mission-driven healthcare teams.

You’ll learn:

• Burnout safeguards for high-empathy oncology teams
• How Extend Pharmacy grew from a hospital insight to a community model
• Collaboration > competition: empowering local pharmacists with specialty oncology care
• Traits Jason hires for as he scales beyond Ontario
• Practical hurdles with take-home cancer drugs—and how to solve them
• The future of oncology: immunotherapy, targeted therapies, and care at home

What makes a culture durable - and a team unstoppable? Jason sits down with Jeff Clark (ex-President, Kitchen Partners; now President & CEO, Jeff Clark Consulting) to unpack four decades of building high-performing teams in food manufacturing and multi-unit restaurant supply. Jeff shares the “get the best people” play, how to coach A-players and strugglers, leading through COVID, and why purpose, values, and clear metrics turn “people-first” into performance.

You’ll learn:

• Hiring to a bar, not a vacancy
• Coaching the top 10% to move the middle
• Communicating under pressure (even when you don’t have all the answers)
• Embedding purpose/values so growth strengthens culture
• Keeping innovation alive with “always improving” habits