There aren’t many entrepreneurs whose career experience includes police officer, presidential campaign fundraiser, marketing strategist and founder of two healthcare IT startups. Cindy Jordan’s current venture came to light in 2017 motivated by her stepdaughter’s struggle with a mental health crisis.
When Thomas Shivers, CEO of Fourstone Partners, started the business they had rapid growth. However, the culture he started with was not the culture that was going to sustain them. He encountered problems that many leaders face when scaling a fast growth company and on this episode, he is willing to share honestly and openly about the lessons learned and how he made the pivot.
Do you know how rare it is to see a huge focus on culture and people in a 10-year strategic plan? When you focus on your people, you get more profitability, which is what Jim and his business partner have done.
Do you ever feel like maybe we leaders take ourselves too seriously? If you find yourself wound up about a missed detail and yelling at one of your employees because of it, you need to hear from Steve Cody about the importance of humor. He is the CEO and Founder of Peppercomm where humor is a core value of his highly successful and recognized strategic communications firm. He is also co-authoring a book called the ROI of LOL due out this year.
A 2022 study by Gartner found that just 34% of employees believe their pay is equitable. In addition, their survey found that employees who perceive their pay as unequitable have a 15% lower intent to stay with their employer and are 13% less engaged at work than employees who perceive their pay as equitable. Can you afford to lose 13% engagement and productivity from 2/3 of your workforce, and/or possible resignations from those employees?
Who would have thought that having a great culture would result in more customers? Today we welcome Shannon Carlson onto the show. She is the CEO and Founder of Curator24 where she and her team are global experts in branding and marketing. Her secret weapon is also having a great place to work.
How can you unlock team potential through self-organization and agility? That’s what we’re going to talk about today with George DeMet. He is the founder and Co-CEO of Palantier.net, a full-service digital consultancy that uses open-source technologies to help others discover, create, and share knowledge- and he’s applied these same ideas to his staff and culture.
When you’re running a business, it’s common, and maybe easier – to think that you should obsess over the customer experience. But what if you spent as much time or – even more – obsessing over the employee experience? After all, the better your employees are, the better your customer experience is going to be. We interview Bob Ruffolo to learn more.
Learn leadership lessons from Farzon Dehmoubed, the CEO of Lotus Sustainables, a purpose-driven Certified B-Corp that is all about creating change and bringing people into the fold that are passionate about the cause too.
Imagine building a company that is on the cutting edge of science and of the way we manage medicine and disease – this mission is phenomenal – but how do you build a culture that will bring the right team of people in to accomplish such a big mission?
In this interview, you will learn how to organize a company so that employees have as much “skin in the game” as owners, why how you structure your company can improve employee performance and productivity, and much more!
Julia shares insights from her experience including what values she looks for when recruiting new team members that go beyond skill set, her unique approach to what it takes for her employees to be truly happy doesn’t feel like a reprimand, and much more!