How People Work

On this episode Jordan talks with Meredith Bronk, CEO and President at Open Systems Technologies, Inc. OST is an integrated, cross-functional business technology firm that brings together strategy and insights, digital experiences, connected products, data center transformation and enterprise managed services. 

Meredith has been with OST almost from the beginning and has much to share about its growth and values. So much so, that she has a blue card printed with the company values right on her desk and with her whenever she’s engaging with her team. The company was living its values long before they were formally codified; she talks about the importance of not taking that living of values for granted. She addresses the importance of constantly embodying those principles and avoiding what she calls cultural hypocrisy. She also reflects on the notion that values remain the same while culture may change.

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In this episode, Jordan talks with Chris Sullens, CEO at CentralReach. CentralReach provides a complete software and services platform that helps children and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) — and those who serve them — achieve better outcomes and live more independent lives.

Chris shares an important strategy in change management: acknowledging what has been done so far and demonstrating your willingness to learn. That willingness to learn also extends to identifying bad hires and exiting them quickly before they can demoralize the team. Chris also emphasizes the importance of management being involved in the interview process, not brushing it off as “something the team can handle.” Chris advocates for shining lights on certain topics, even if they aren’t the easiest to discuss.

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On this episode of The BragWorthy Culture podcast, Jordan talks with Laura Bowden, Vice President of People at Tessitura Network. Tessitura is a nonprofit tech company focused on CRM, that works exclusively with arts and cultural organizations.

Laura explains how the organization came into existence when the Metropolitan Opera of New York was trying to integrate various systems into one unified program. Laura goes on to discuss how most of the team have either worked in arts or culture or are artistic themselves and how “living the culture” influences the way the company grows. One of the ways that companies in the arts can grow is in terms of increased diversity and inclusion, and Laura reminds listeners that when companies are silent, they’re still saying something.

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On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Arnie Malham, Founder/President of BetterBookClub.com. Better Book Club is an innovative approach to company-sponsored learning. It uses a cloud-based platform to allow companies to recognize and reward team members for reading.

Long ago, Arnie discovered that instead of telling people what to read, huge rewards could be reaped from simply encouraging a culture of reading. That culture leads to stronger leadership, which in turn leads to stronger team members. Arnie discusses his own leadership journey and the role that books played in helping him to develop. Part of what drives him is getting to know others through what they think and those conversations are often driven by asking others about the books that they’ve recently read.

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On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Jonathan Siddharth, Founder and CEO of Turing. Turing is on a mission to help unleash the world’s untapped human potential by offering the best remote engineers to companies worldwide. Not concerned with technical skills only, Turing also vets engineers’ English skills and remote-working capabilities.

Jonathan has already been part of a successful acquisition in Silicon Valley. The need for engineers to build his last startup led him to look at remote options which opened up great possibilities. Jonathan also talks about the challenges of remote work and what Turing has built to deal with these challenges. In the last part of the episode, Jonathan turns the tables and asks Jordan about what Fringe is doing to take care of its team members.

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On this episode of The BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Pamela Mattsson, SVP of People and Organizational Development at Outreach. Outreach is the first and only sales execution platform helping revenue teams bring AI into workflows to unlock visibility across the entire revenue cycle and to create forecasts with greater confidence.

Pamela shares her passion for making sure we are looking at “human beings” and not just “human doings” within a company. Part of how she achieves this at Outreach is through having the employees’ backs: not just celebrating successes and owning failures but being honest and transparent as much as possible. She also talks about how her team has doubled down on awareness of unconscious bias to perform better when hiring remotely. Pamela is big on values and culture being expressed in processes and procedures as well as in interviews and mission statements. That means that those who best reflect the company values and culture should be targeted for promotion.

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On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Emil Sayegh, President and CEO at Ntirety Inc. Ntirety is the only company that embeds compliant security throughout all your systems, applications, and devices and does so using easy, affordable subscription pricing for every budget.

Emil discusses the importance of culture as a competitive advantage. He illustrates this through his own experiences, in recessions (including the Great Recession) and more recently, in the pandemic. He and Jordan also discuss some winning principles to successfully guide a company through a merger, which he did recently with Hostway and Hosting.com. One of those principles is transparent communication, which includes ensuring that leaders have the courage to mentor those around them who lack confidence despite showing outstanding talent.

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On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Mahim Mishra, President and CRO at TalentQuest. TalentQuest provides a hire-to-retire Talent Management and Development platform that automates traditional processes, leverages behavioral science, generates prescriptive insights and guidance, and allows organizations to shift to a more individualized approach to talent management and development.

Mahim discusses the importance of employee centricity (not just having it as a logo on a wall), how TalentQuest dealt with Covid (no layoffs, no pay cuts), and why employees need to bond together, even though remote working is becoming more popular (it’s one of the best ways to get everyone on the same page about vision).

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On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Mark Ralls, President and COO at Invicti Security. Invicti has been an Applications Security leader for more than 15 years and enables organizations in every industry to continuously scan and secure all of their web apps and APIs, regardless of platform. Invicti provides proof of any vulnerabilities so the client doesn’t have to spend time verifying them. Invicti’s HQ is in Austin, Texas, and it serves more than 3,500 organizations. 

Throughout his career, Mark has had the opportunity to build and manage teams and coax great work out of them. He shares hiring tips (he loves candidates that are “his kind of crazy”), the importance of diversity (“the more diverse your team is, the better performing it will be”), what Covid-19 triggered for Invicti (revealed that they were true to their values), and why he thinks it should be called the Great Reckoning, not the Great Resignation.

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On this episode of The BragWorthy Culture podcast, Jordan sits down with Clint Oram, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at SugarCRM. SugarCRM offers sales force automation, marketing campaigns, customer support, collaboration, mobile CRM, social CRM, and reporting.

Clint starts the discussion by sharing his love for his company and what he does. That love has made him a “non-serial” entrepreneur — he’s simply focused on Sugar. At the heart of his discussion with Jordan is Clint’s passion for customer-centricity. Of course, a company that makes a CRM is going to be under a particular type of spotlight when it comes to how it interacts with customers. But Sugar leans into that, sometimes bending “too far” to accommodate customers, confesses Clint. Yet with all that accommodation, boundaries and rest matter too, and Clint shares how he and his team have prioritized time with family and recharging.

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