The perspectives of First Nations employees in the workplace will feature heavily in a new Australian podcast which aims to shift the leadership conversation from optics to accountability.

Culture Capital is co-hosted by human rights lawyer and corporate advisor Prabha Nandagopal and BlackCard CEO Mundanara Bayles. The pair believe the podcast will gain widespread interest due to ongoing employment scandals, power imbalance and diversity fatigue across workplaces.

The podcast aims to bring real-life experiences, legal expertise and Indigenous voices to the centre of Australia's most pressing workplace conversations.

"Respect and inclusion aren't optional anymore - they're legal requirements and baseline expectations, particularly for younger generations entering the workforce," Ms Bayles, the award-winning host of Black Magic Woman podcast, said.

"Culture Capital is a space where leaders do not share polished statements, but real stories about courage, blind spots, mistakes and accountability."

Ms Nandagopal said recent research showed workplace issues were widespread, with 39 per cent of Australian employees saying they would leave their jobs if diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) were not prioritised.

"The expectation-action gap is exactly where our podcast begins," she said.

"We're living through a time of deep political and cultural division, and that tension doesn't stop at the office door."

Ms Nandagopal said leaders and managers avoided hard conversations or retreated to safe language, a fracture developed between what organisations said and what people were experiencing.

"This isn't just about policy: it's about truth, authenticity, and having the courage to lead through cultural unrest with clarity and conviction," Ms Nandagopal said.

With board directors and business leaders across the country scrutinised more than ever, Culture Capital's 25-minute podcasts focuses on candid and current interview topics such as rebuilding trust, navigating failure, addressing power imbalances and embedding inclusion beyond policy documents.

Early guests include former MP and Indigenous advocate Linda Burney, who spoke openly about workplace culture inside Parliament, including power imbalances and gender harm, and why behaviour regarded as "sackable" elsewhere was too often normalised in politics.

The former federal minister for Indigenous Australians shared lessons she learnt from navigating reform after the Voice referendum, carrying cultural responsibility while representing a diverse electorate, and shifting leadership from symbolic to collective accountability.

Ms Nandagopal said workplace cultural shortfalls were often felt away from the office, or when the cameras were off.

"It's how people feel seen, valued, and safe, or not," she said.

"Our conversations explore both the breaking points and the breakthroughs that define modern leadership.

"The content will be of interest to all leaders... those emerging as well as established ones."

Culture Capital is now avialable on BlakCast and the iHeart Radio Network on all major platforms.