Julie Pham on the JDS Podcast: Challenging Assumptions to Build Better Teams

How do curiosity and respect — practiced intentionally — change the way we lead, communicate, and collaborate?

In this episode of the JDS Podcast, host Joshua Agbontaen sits down with CuriosityBased founder and CEO Dr. Julie Pham for a conversation spanning the 7 Forms of Respect® framework, cultural identity, community building, and what it means to think differently about inclusion and leadership.

Julie draws on her full range of experience — Vietnamese refugee, Cambridge-trained historian, community organizer, entrepreneur — to explore how the assumptions embedded in our backgrounds shape the way we show up at work. And why getting curious about those assumptions, rather than acting on them by default, is one of the most practical things a leader can do.

Key themes: The 7 Forms of Respect® · Cultural identity and communication · Curiosity as a leadership practice · Inclusion and collaboration · Community building · Career reinvention

#CuriosityAtWork #RespectAtWork #InclusiveLeadership #WorkplaceCulture #Belonging #CuriosityBased

Explore more podcasts featuring Dr. Julie Pham at https://curiositybased.com/press/

Julie Pham on Control or Be Controlled podcast: Rethinking Respect, Curiosity, and Assumption

What assumptions are shaping how you lead — without you realizing it?

In this episode of Control or Be Controlled podcast with host Darlington Ogbuka, Julie  explores that question from multiple angles: the 7 Forms of Respect framework, the intercultural experiences that shaped it, and the unconventional path — refugee childhood, Cambridge doctorate, Vietnamese community newspaper, nonprofit leadership — that gave her a different lens on what curiosity actually looks like in practice.

Julie and host Darlington dig into navigating workplace conflict, rethinking diversity and inclusion, making career pivots, and why asking better questions might be the most underrated leadership competency of our time.

Key themes: The 7 Forms of Respect · Cultural assumptions in the workplace · Curiosity as a leadership practice · The Vietnam War’s South Vietnamese perspective · Career reinvention · Communication and conflict

#CuriosityAtWork #RespectAtWork #InclusiveLeadership #WorkplaceCulture #Belonging #CuriosityBased

Explore more podcasts featuring Dr. Julie Pham at https://curiositybased.com/press/