Marc HaineCEO & Founder | Speaker Curation Specialist, Elite Headline Speakers · Customer & Employee Experience Strategist | Keynote Speaker | TEDx Organizer | Author of Lights! Camera! Action! | Driving leaders to turn operations into jaw-dropping experiences

Marc on Relations @Work podcast Investing in Employees The Key to Effective Leadership

19 Jan 2026 · 0 min

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Marc Haine argues that companies treat employees as costs when they should treat them as investments. Most organizations have historically undervalued people, but effective leadership can shift that mindset and unlock real value in your workforce.

But that goes to show that employees are starving for good leadership. Like, I mean, it's great that they became so popular, but the start was the beginning of that was literally our people are not important enough to invest in.
That is the story that they were telling you. Because you have the CFO sitting in a, in another office telling everybody that employees are an expense, a cost, whereas I like to think of it that we invest in our employees.

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