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.
Leadership Development
Humor: The Power of Laughter in Building a Great Workplace Culture with Steve Cody
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.
Compensation Packages As Your Competitive Edge
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?
A Culture of Care Results In More Customers – An Interview with Shannon Carlson
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.
Unlocking Team Potential Through Self-Organization and Agility with George DeMet
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.
Why You Should Be Obsessed With Employee Experience – An Interview with Bob Ruffolo
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.
Using Business For Good – An Interview with B-Corp Certified CEO Farzan Dehmoubed
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.
Fear Is Not a Motivator For Your Teams – An Interview with Tim Lu from Senti Biosciences
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?
Employees With More Skin In The Game with Jason Wiener
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!
Leading Without a Playbook – An Interview with Julia Y.C. Huang
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!
Culture Needs to Be The #1 Thing – An Interview with Lola C. West
Lola shares how being different from your business partner can be a good thing as a leader, how to give feedback to employees that doesn’t feel like a reprimand, and much more!
Building International Remote Teams That Thrive
Federico Baradello shares how to get to a favorable result as a start-up and land on a killer strategy, effective team management tips when your people are international and remote, and much more!






