"Skip to content\n\n# You Were Promised a Family. You Got a Dorm.\n\nWelcome to the ColdPlayed Effect: a movement exposing how performative leadership and empty values erode workplace trust. Discover the truth behind corporate illusion and reclaim your voice.\n\n\nTake the Quiz Have You Been ColdPlayed?\n\nDownload the Free Guide 10 Signs You’re in a ColdPlayed Culture\n\nPreorder the BookComing Soon\n\n\n\n## What Is the ColdPlayed Effect?\n\nThe ColdPlayed Effect describes a modern leadership crisis: when companies preach values like “family,” “authenticity,” and “well-being”: only to act behind the scenes with immaturity, favoritism, and hypocrisy.\n\nIt’s what happens when corporate culture becomes a performance…\n\n…and you’re the one left cleaning up the emotional mess.\n\nEmployees show up with heart, loyalty, and belief: only to be silenced, sidelined, or gaslit when leadership doesn’t walk the talk.\n\nSound familiar?\n\nYou might be ColdPlayed.\n\n🆕 Coming Soon:The ColdPlayed Effect\n\n## About the Book\n\nHow Corporate Culture Became a Lie We Lived With: and How to Break Free\n\n\nThis groundbreaking book by Dr. Eric Fishon pulls back the curtain on workplace betrayal,\ntoxic leadership, and the emotional toll of working in organizations where values are\nspoken: but never lived.\n\n\n📌 Learn how to:\n\n- Spot the signs of a ColdPlayed culture\n- Heal after organizational betrayal\n- Build (or lead) with true integrity\n- Transform your experience into purpose\n\n✨ Includes stories, research, and a roadmap to reclaim your power.\n\n\nPreorder the Book Download Sample Chapter\n\n\n\nTake a Quiz\n\n## Have You Been ColdPlayed?\n\nFind out where you land on the ColdPlayed spectrum: Are you a Casualty, an Observer, or an Authenticity Advocate?\n\n\n👀It only takes 2 minutes: get clarity, validation, and next steps.\n\n💔The Casualty\n\nYou’ve been deeply impacted by broken promises and toxic leadership.\n\n\n👁️The Observer\n\nYou see the contradictions clearly but haven’t been directly harmed.\n\n\n✨Authenticity Advocate\n\nYou’re committed to genuine leadership and model integrity in action.\n\n\nDiscover your ColdPlayed profile and get personalized insights to move forward.\n\n\nTake the Free Quiz Now\n\n🔒 No credit card required✓ Instant results📧 Optional email follow-up\n\n\n\n📋\n\n### 10 Signs You’re in a ColdPlayed Culture\n\nFree PDF Guide\n\nFree Resource\n\n## Free Download: 10 Signs You’re in a ColdPlayed Culture\n\nThis visual PDF guide breaks down the top red flags that your workplace values might just be… performance art.\n\n\n📥What’s inside:\n\n- The most common ColdPlayed contradictions\n- A reflection sheet to assess your work environment\n- Strategies to protect your peace, power, and integrity\n\nGet the Free PDF\n\n🔒 We respect your privacy. No spam, ever. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\nPrivacy Policy\n\n✓Instant Download\n\n✓No Credit Card\n\n✓7,500+ Downloads\n\n## Our Blog\n\n\n\n\n\n## Stated Values Vs. Daily Reality: Why the ColdPlayed Effect Is the Ultimate Workplace Betrayal\n\nRead More\n\n\n\n## How to Spot Corporate BS and Reclaim Your Sanity: The Ultimate Guide to the ColdPlayed Effect\n\nRead More\n\n\n\n## Why The ColdPlayed Effect Will Change the Way You View Your Company’s “Family” Culture\n\nRead More\n\n\n\n## AI Productivity Tools: 10 Game-Changers for Managing Invisible Disabilities at Work\n\nRead More\n\n## The Ultimate Guide to Spotting Performative Culture: Everything You Need to Succeed Without Getting ColdPlayed\n\nRead More\n\n## The Ultimate Guide to Spotting Performative Culture: Everything You Need to Succeed Without Getting ColdPlayed\n\nRead More\n\n\n\n## How to Call Out Corporate BS Without Getting Fired: The ColdPlayed Survival Guide\n\nRead More\n\n\n\n## Access is Dignity: How Digital Platforms are Flipping the Script on Disability Advocacy\n\nRead More\n\n\n\n## From Target’s Accessibility Wins to AMC’s Lawsuit Losses: The Tale of Two Approaches\n\nRead More\n\n\n\n## 7 Mistakes You’re Making with Workplace Authenticity (and Why Your Employees See Right Through the Theater)\n\nRead More\n\nNew Podcast Segment\n\n## ColdPlayed Conversations\n\nFrom Plugged Into Your Day with Dr. Disruptor\n\n\nReal stories. Raw truth. Reform-minded leadership talk.\n\n\n🎧Featured Episodes:\n\n- “Gaslit by the Mission Statement”\n- “The Wellness Lie: When DEI Is Just PR”\n- “Calling Out vs. Being Called In”\n\nListen Now Submit Your Story\n\n## Join the Movement\n\nThis isn’t just a book. It’s a reckoning.\n\nBe part of a growing community demanding values that are lived, not marketed.\n\n\n### Subscribe to get:\n\n- 📚Book launch alerts\n- ✍️Blog updates & leadership essays\n- 🛠️Tools for healing & advocacy\n- 🎯Access to future webinars and community events\n\n✉️ Email Address\n\nJoin the Movement\n\n\n🔒 We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime."