What Culture Could Be

CEO of VML, Jon Cook, shares from his 22 years of experience working for the same company about how workplace culture should be a priority for every CEO in business today.

Every single day people walk into their places of business and have a vastly different experience within their work environment than they do outside their work environment.

In this episode we sat down with John Sigmon, Founder and CEO of Sigmon Leadership Solutions. He encourages business leaders to be aware of their external and internal message and "bring the outside in" as part of a mentality to engage employees more effectively.

John believes that companies who ignore this or refuse to make changes will lose in the job market competition that seems inevitable.

Every single day people walk into their places of business and have a vastly different experience within their work environment than they do outside their work environment.

In this episode we sat down with John Sigmon, Founder and CEO of Sigmon Leadership Solutions.  He encourages business leaders to be aware of their external and internal message and “bring the outside in” as part of a mentality to engage employees more effectively.

John believes that companies who ignore this or refuse to make changes will lose in the job market competition that seems inevitable.  

Lee Burbage, Chief People Officer at The Motley Fool, talks about initiating culture change and the one thing his company did to make them one of the best employers to work for the United States.

Pete Hess share how meaning and connection are vital to any winning culture. As the CEO of Lithium Technologies and former CEO at Advent Software, he has lead teams through practical exercises in developing real connections with their coworkers that allow for much needed dialogue on the issues of company mission and values and how they relate to day-to-day work for every member of the team.

In any business environment, people want to feel appreciated and prioritized. But how do you build that kind of culture at work? It's a lot more than just putting a ping-pong table in the break room.

Autumn Manning, Co founder and CEO of YouEarnedIt, is dedicated to driving and changing the conversation around employee engagement and performance enablement in companies of all sizes.

In this intro episode, Autumn shares that listeners can expect to hear a lot about what culture isn't, and to take part in really honest conversations around what has worked in certain industries while building company culture, and what old tools need to be thrown out.