In this episode, David and Ed DeAngelis examine EDA Contractors’ journey to becoming a top workplace. Ed explains how investing in the company’s culture has affected their bottom line, and what it means to build a “24-hour culture.”

Ed DeAngelis founded EDA Contractors in 1999, and for the last 25 years, the company has worked on construction and historic restoration projects throughout the Greater Philadelphia region, New Jersey, and New York. Today, EDA Contractors is recognized as a top workplace and a leader in the industry. Much of it is thanks to Ed, whose intentionality around psychological safety and the overall workplace culture makes him a true Culture Architect.

The conversation resumes between David and Dr. Kent Wessinger on the millennial and Gen Z workforce. Using insights from his proprietary research, Kent imagines the near future where these younger generations have become their organizations’ leaders and culture-builders.

David is joined by Dr. Kent Wessinger, researcher and author of Bridges over Ladders: Secure Growth and Fortify Revenue with Millennial Employees, Clients and Members. In this episode, Kent introduces his proprietary research — and breaks down why and how most organizations are ill-equipped to attract, engage, and retain younger employees, even though younger generations already take up the largest share of today’s workforce.

In this episode, David and Geneviève Retzlaff continue to explore connections between authentic leadership and high-performing teams — and weigh in on different approaches to the culture-building process.

In this first of a two-part conversation, transformational career coach Geneviève Retzlaff talks about getting her start in human resources with Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group. After a decade in HR and over 40 countries later, at her own company Grow Better Together, Geneviève helps organizations create cultures that encourage authentic leaders and human connections.

David and Dr. Roger Gerard build on the question, “What do employees really need from their leaders?” Roger shares the 5 golden promises leaders need to make and keep as if their life depended on it, and the advice he would give his younger self. 
Roger’s website: https://www.rogergerard.com/

Dr. Roger Gerard brings to the show 5 decades of experience as a leadership consultant and a healthcare executive for ThedaCare and Northern Michigan Hospitals. In this first of a two-part conversation, he and David discuss the profound difference that leadership makes upon various working environments. Roger also shares insights from his latest book, Lead with Purpose: Reignite Passion and Engagement for Professionals in Crisis.

David and Yael Averbuch discuss her evolving perspectives on team dynamics and culture-building, as she moves up from player to team captain to general manager. Yael reflects on the challenges of setting up a young team to be ‘sustainably successful,’ and the two things she wished she had known as a younger athlete.

David welcomes to the show Yael Averbuch, owner of the training app Techne Futbol and general manager for NJ/NY Gotham FC. Yael has been in soccer teams since the age of seven — most notably, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels and the US Women’s National Team. In this episode, Yael shares her experiences of good and bad team cultures, and weighs in on the value of rituals and predictability in the humanly unpredictable world of sports.