The Culture Code

Feb 23, 2024 — The CPO of Aperian, Addie Johnsen talks about what it's like to be CPO at a 65-employee organization. We discuss: how she uses the smaller company size to personally coach every leader. how she indexes company values team by team her book...

Feb 16, 2024 — I break down my problem with the Kirkpatrick model and what you should do about it!

Feb 08, 2024 — If L&D wants to evolve from "order-taking" into a strategic entity, a significant mindset and behavior shift is required. In comes Dr. Keith Keating, author of The Trusted Learning Advisor and CLO at BDO Canada. He covers: 1. The most common stumbling...

Jan 29, 2024 — In this interview, CPO of Consensus Cloud Solutions, Lynn Johnson, explains how she scales and sustains company culture to 600 hybrid and remote employees. A few highlights include: 1. How she sustains culture with "an iron fist but a velvet glove." 2....

Jan 22, 2024 — In this episode, we sit down with Heather Laychak, the CPO at The Aerospace Corporation. She covers everything from her best-in-class approach to aspiring leadership programs to an industry-shifting diversity initiative and her top three book...

Jan 15, 2024 — Five years ago, I wrote a check for $1 million to launch an AI-powered coach using IBM Watson. We then created the world’s first executive coach bot (long before Chat GPT). And it DID NOT work. Here’s why: Even though the leaders liked the tool… The...

Jan 09, 2024 — Abbie Buck, CPO of Collective Health, breaks down her scrappy approach to leadership dev. This one's full of creative and stealable ideas! Key Topics Covered: Her scrappy approach to develop frontline leaders: Abbie designed and delivered in-house...

Jan 05, 2024 — In this conversation with Courtney Panik, CPO of Symphony, we cover: How she helped Symphony scale its culture as it grew from a startup to a scale-up How Symphony's flat organizational structure and an open-door policy foster accessibility and trust....

Jan 03, 2024 — This episode explores the innovative way the CHRO of SugarCRM reduced employee turnover from 23% to 9% after joining the company. In addition to reducing turnover, CHRO Shana Sweeney shares: How she cultivates a unique company culture: She unveils the...

Dec 18, 2023 — LEADx and Gallup research on employee experience shows that “your manager cares” is now a top five driver of employee engagement. One great example of “caring” in action is at One Medical, where “manager care” is a top-scoring item on their engagement...