Empowering Workplaces

Kicking off 2021 with a fresh take on work, life, culture, and the employee experience. Sanja Licina, Ph. D., President, Workforce at QuestionPro and Maddie Grant, author, co-founder and culture designer at PROPEL are ready to share one of a kind insights with you every week! This episode's topic is about how to manage mental wellbeing in the workplace.

Kicking off 2021 with a fresh take on work, life, culture, and the employee experience. Sanja Licina, Ph. D., President, Workforce at QuestionPro and Maddie Grant, author, co-founder and culture designer at PROPEL are ready to share one of a kind insights with you every week! This episode's topic is financial literacy and managing financial stress at work.

Kicking off 2021 with a fresh take on work, life, culture, and the employee experience. Sanja Licina, Ph. D., President, Workforce at QuestionPro and Maddie Grant, author, co-founder and culture designer at PROPEL are ready to share one of a kind insights with you every week! This episode's topic is pay satisfaction and the feeling of self worth.

Kicking off 2021 with a fresh take on work, life, culture, and the employee experience. Sanja Licina, Ph. D., President, Workforce at QuestionPro and Maddie Grant, author, co-founder and culture designer at PROPEL are ready to share one of a kind insights with you every week! This episode's topic is burnout and what we can do about it.

Kicking off 2021 with a fresh take on work, life, culture, and the employee experience. Sanja Licina, PhD, President, Workforce at QuestionPro and Maddie Grant, co-founder and culture designer at PROPEL are ready to share one of a kind insights with you every week! 

Why do intention and commitment matter so much at work? In this episode we talk to long-time HR pro and author of the new book " HR on Purpose ,"  Steve Browne . He talks about developing a deliberate people passion and redefining what HR is.

Can brand be extended to organizational culture? In this episode we talk to  Mona Amodeo, PhD , author of the forthcoming book “ Beyond the Sizzle: The Next Evolution of Branding ,” to find out. Special guest host and WorkXO Managing Director, Ed Bodensiek, explores the book’s central argument – that culture and purpose can and should be used to transform organizations into brands that matter.

In this episode we hear from Jennifer Marszalek, Chief Talent Officer with Havas Chicago  on the extent to which she, her team, and her organization go to "walk the talk" when it comes to their workplace culture. They've gone far beyond the lip service many organizations still pay culture. They take the time, make the investment, and dedicate the resources to making sure everything they do - the w...

In this episode, Lotus Yon , Director of Human Resourceas and Learning with Northwest Community Healthcare , shares her experience around creating a workplace culture that brings flexibility to life. This is not about policies and programs; it's about embedding, ingraining, and infusing the lifestyle of flexibility into our very fabric. It's about creating a culture that reinforces and clarifies t...

In this episode,  Dina Gallay , Senior Director at The Steely Group , shares her first-hand experience with organizations that use a deeper understanding and appreciation for their cultures in attracting the right candidates to their business. We explore the importance to truth-telling, brand messaging with the appropriate color and context, and going beyond the same-old-same-old buzz words in how...

In this episode, we chat with Joe Gerstandt , keynote speaker, thought leader, advisor, consultant and sage in the world of inclusion. Charlie and Joe discuss how poorly misunderstood inclusion and diversity really are in the workplace and Joe clarifies how companies that "get it" are using it as a true competitive advantage. Saying inclusion is important to us (and we all say it) is one thing; bu...

In this episode, we chat with  Sanja Licina, Ph. D. , Future of Organizations at  Globant , about the challenges organizations face in bringing their values to life. How do companies that are crystal clear on what they value make sure they back it up with authentic context, color and identity? How do they weave that identity into the fabric of culture so that it reinforces and clarifies what's tru...

In this episode, we chat with Jason Lauritsen , Keynote Speaker / Author / Consultant, JasonLauritsen.com about all things performance management. It is at the center of what we refer to as workforce operating systems fueling a more meaningful employee experience yet has a reputation as something managers don't like issuing and employees don't like receiving. But it doesn't have to be that way. Ja...

In this episode, we chat with Kirsty Spraggon , International Motivational Keynote Speaker / Author / Producer / TV Host. Kirsty's work deals lot with the strongest human emotion: Fear. How does fear factor into the modern workplace? How does she see fear showing up in workplace culture? How can we get better at identifying it, and what are the next steps in addressing fear in the workplace after...

In this episode, we chat with Kris Dunn , CHRO, Partner, Kinetix about his journey from college hoops to HR, with an emphasis on workplace culture. Charlie and Kris talk about disrupting the traditional paradigms of work, the role HR plays in challenging historical norms of not questioning the status quo and how your organization can get more comfortable with that evolution and the Future of Work....

In this episode, we chat with Dawn Hrdlica-Burke, Advisor / Speaker / Writer , Dawn Burke HR about why it is so easy to talk about culture yet so difficult to actually do something about it and stay committed and focused on it. Dawn and Charlie discuss how to take corporate culture to the next level while maintaining a standard of excellence through periods of growth. How we work has a lot to do w...

In this episode, we chat with Jason Seiden, Speaker / Facilitator / Consultant at Jason Seiden LLC about transformation in the workplace. Jason lays out the necessary ingredients for business transformation, why it all begins with a sense of humanity and how essential subcultures are in the process. Jason and Charlie also discuss how pizza fits into the whole equation (trust us, it won't be in the...

In this episode, we chat with Stephanie Waite, Director of Leadership and Organizational Development at Lurie Childrens Hospital about her philosophy of a culture of customization. She explains what that is--essentially appealing to the unique and distinct needs of the individual as opposed to the organization—and how she applies these principles in her workplace. Stephanie is a true “graduate lev...

In this episode, we bring acclaimed author of Getting Grit: The Evidence Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance and Purpose , Caroline Miller, BACK a second time to the Culture Chat podcast to talk about her newest book and to proclaim the start of the Grit Revolution!  Listen to the first conversation with Caroline here http://workxo.podbean.com/e/culture-chat-on-grit/.

Remote teams are a hot topic these days, which will only become more and more important as organizations allow remote working. But how do you preserve your organizational culture when your people are in many locations? Rebecca Achurch of Achurch Consulting and Tim Sarrantonio from Neon One  talk to us about their experiences. 

We collectively in the business world (and here at WorkXO for sure), think and write and observe and opine about generations a lot, but always with a particular focus on Millennials (as you know we wrote a book about their impact on the workplace). So in this episode of the Culture Chat, we wanted to talk to someone who could address the other side of the equation - baby boomers - but specifically...

In this episode, we chat with Marc Lamik, Head of Innovation and Partnerships at Zalando , a European retailer making a big splash with their culture practice of Radical Agility, comprised of Purpose, Mastery and Autonomy. In this fascinating conversation, we dig into the specifics of Mastery and what that means for fostering innovation.

"As companies look to recruit the best and brightest from college campuses, they are overlooking one major factor in the attraction and retention of recent graduates— incorporating campus design elements into work environments to attract young professionals. Global infrastructure and design firm, AECOM, along with contract furniture company, KI, conducted new research on collegiate design as a dri...

In this episode, we chat with Benjamin Warsinske of Branded World , about the concept of the "unshakable brand" and how culture plays a part in not just being unshakable, but also flexible and evolving.

This episode is all about creating a Winning Team Culture, as CARFAX 's VP of Human Resources, Adrienne Webster, shared with us.  And their formula's super interesting - combining being goal oriented, encouraging independent thinkers, wisdom of the crowds, and the 3 C's (collaborative, creative, and competitive) - listen to the conversation for the details!