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Customer to Producer
In school you’re the client — you’re the one paying. At work that rotates 180 degrees, and nobody mentions it.
For Podcast Hosts & Producers
Book Kevin & Bryan
Two co-authors, twenty years working together, and a book about the rules nobody tells you. Everything you need to pitch this to your audience is on this page — clips, questions, the advance copy, and a form that takes about a minute.
Welcome to Work · 58 Unwritten Rules for Winning at Work · OCTANT8 Press · May 5, 2026
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What we sound like
Two clips from the same conversation. Under three minutes each.
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Your Manager Isn’t Your Professor
Calc I gets you into Calc II. Nothing at work is built like that — and everyone still wants to know where they stand.
The Book
The rules nobody
tells you about.
You did everything right. You got the degree, landed the job, showed up ready—and then realized nobody told you how any of this actually works. Not the politics. Not the unspoken expectations. Not why some people rise fast while others stay stuck.
Welcome to Work changes that. Kevin Gosa and Bryan Horvath spent decades in strategy, leadership, and talent development watching talented people stumble over the same blind spots—and wrote the book they wish everyone had from day one. 58 practical, honest rules. No soft-skills platitudes. Just the map they never gave you.
46%
New hires who fail within 18 months
89%
Of those failures are behavioral, not technical
2×
Annual salary: the cost of one departure
45+
Combined years in the room
46% and 89% from Leadership IQ’s study of 20,000+ new hires. We’re happy to walk a producer through the underlying research.
The Guests
Who you’re booking
Gifted in both strategy and saxophone.
Kevin Gosa
Strategic Facilitator · Co-Founder, NYC Meeting Facilitators
Kevin Gosa is a strategic facilitator, co-founder of NYC Meeting Facilitators, and co-author of Welcome to Work and Fire the Foosball Table. With 25 years working inside leadership teams, nonprofits, and Fortune 100 companies, he specializes in the conversations that change how people work—and the unwritten rules that determine who wins.
Engineered Cadillacs. Fronted a rock band. Bakes cakes.
Bryan Horvath
Entrepreneur · Co-Founder, NYC Meeting Facilitators
Bryan Horvath is an entrepreneur, strategic facilitator, and co-founder of NYC Meeting Facilitators and Nonprofit Velocity. With 20+ years advising boards and C-suite leaders across industries, he has engineered Cadillacs, toured 45 states as a front man, and licensed his own inventions. He finds the pattern underneath—wherever others stopped looking.
Kevin and Bryan interview together. They’ve worked side by side for twenty years and it shows on tape.
Interview Prep
Eight questions to
get you started
Take them, cut them, ignore them. We’ll follow wherever you go.
- 01What made you realize there was a book here—and not just a blog post?
- 02Which of the 58 rules do you see violated most often, even by high performers?
- 03You’re critical of the phrase “soft skills.” What’s wrong with it?
- 04Is this a Gen Z problem, or is something bigger going on?
- 05What’s the one thing a manager can do this week to help their early-career people close this gap?
- 06You’ve both been in the room where culture is made for decades. What’s the pattern you keep seeing?
- 07What’s the rule in the book that you wish someone had told you on your first day?
- 08The title is Welcome to Work—who gave you the warmest welcome when you started out?
“This isn’t a generation issue. It’s a transition issue. And your organization has more leverage over it than you think.”
— Kevin Gosa & Bryan Horvath
Take What You Need
Press assets
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Kevin and Bryan are available for a short pre-interview call to tailor the conversation to your audience. Just say so in the form.
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