Scaling Culture

Our guest is Deon Blyan - Director of  Global Talent Development at Sunwing Travel Group .   Driven to help people thrive in dynamic organizational cultures, Deon spent 17 years in corporate retail operations in roles focused within learning, development, and people initiatives. In 2015, Deon aligned his career focus by officially joining the People & Culture side of business. Now within North Ame...

Our guest is Brett Putter - the founder and CEO of CultureGene and the author of 2 books: “Culture Decks Decoded” and “Own Your Culture: How to Define, Embed and Manage your Company Culture” . Prior to founding CultureGene Brett was the Managing Partner at a specialist London based Executive Search firm where he successfully completed CxO, VP and Director level searches for over 400 companies. Bre...

Our guest is Lieutenant Colonel Oakland McCulloch , the author of “Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be” In his 23 year career in the Army he held numerous leadership positions in the Infantry and Armor branches and instructed at the US Army Ordinance School, the US Army Command and General Staff College, the Australian Command and Staff College, University of South Ala...

Our guest is Michael Canic , President and Chief Flagbearer of Making Strategy Happen, a consulting firm that helps committed leaders of mid-market companies turn ambition into strategy, and strategy into reality. His recent book, Ruthless Consistency reached the top of two bestseller lists and was selected by The Enterprisers Project as one of “10 Leadership Books to Stretch Your Skills in 2021.”...

Our guest is David Henderson , Group Chief Human Resources Officer at Zurich Insurance . Since joining the company in 2017, David has executed an HR strategy to support culture transformation, focused on delivering tangible improvements in employee experience and on aligning the capability, commitment, and culture of the company to its strategic vision, purpose, and values. Prior to Zurich Insuran...

Our guest is Dawn Crouch , COO Global Regulatory & Public Policy for Deloitte . Dawn has spent over 20 years of her career with Deloitte in both internal strategic roles and client-facing consulting roles across the financial services, pharmaceutical/life sciences, manufacturing, and the public sector. In her current COO role, she leads talent, finance, operations, and strategic projects for the b...

Our guest is Jon Love, the founder, and CEO of KingSett Capital , a Canadian private equity real estate investment business that owns interests in a $19.1 billion portfolio of assets. Founded in 2002, KingSett has raised $12.5 billion of equity for its Growth, Income, Urban, Mortgage, and Affordable Housing strategies. Jon serves on the Board of Directors of the Chief Executives Organization, is a...

Our guest is Lorenzo Gomez - a 3x bestselling author, the founder of Geekdom Media, Texas’ largest coworking space, and cofounder of The 80/20 Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to investing in the future of San Antonio. His new book, The Rack We Built , hit #1 best seller on Amazon and is catching a nice bit of buzz. It talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly of creating compa...

Our guest is Tina Hodges - Chief Executive & Chief Experience Officer at Advance Financial and President at Tennessee Action 24/7, an online sports betting company with fantastic customer service which very different from many of their competitors. Obsessed with employee and customer experience, Tina grew Advance Financial to 1,400 employees across 100+ locations and was named for 8 consecutive ye...

Our guest is Bob Selle - Chief People Officer at Ocean State Job Lot . Bob is recognized as an HR Icon, Futurist, and Culture Transformation Influencer. Together with his team is leading a transformation that has named Ocean State Job Lot a Forbes Best Midsize Employer three of the past four years and has received DEI recognition and multi state safety and associate wellbeing awards. Also, as a be...

Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth , which has been translated into 11 languages. Amy has been recognized by Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011,...

Our guest is Wayne Davis , ex-SVP of HR at Comcast and an HR Consultant. A Human Resources veteran with more than 25 years of experience, Wayne has developed and led human resources teams for several fortune 500 companies including Comcast NBCU, YRC Worldwide, American Greetings, Northrup Grumman, Baxter International, and Frito-Lay. In many of his roles, he has overseen the delivery of a comprehe...

Our guest is Lori Costew, Chief Diversity Officer and People Strategy at Ford Motor Company . In this role, Lori oversees the company’s corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to cultivate a culture of belonging and advance the organization’s mission and business objectives. She has been with Ford for nearly three decades and has leveraged her expertise in various positions. In addition...

Our guest is Renata Ledecky Brum, Vice President of Human Resources at Bank of America. Renata is a master coach, motivational speaker and humanitarian who is committed to guiding people and organizations into their highest potential. Her passion lies in supporting people out of suffering and limitation and into fulfillment. Her superpowers of intuition, no-nonsense and empathy help people break t...

Our guest is Kevin Oakes - Author of Culture Renovation and CEO and founder of the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp). Kevin is a frequent author and international keynote speaker on next practices in human capital and works with business and HR executives on people practices that drive high performance. Kevin led numerous companies, for example he was Founder and President of SumTotal Sy...

Our guest is Laura Dannels - Head of Talent and Chief Learning Officer at Wellstar Health System and Associate Faculty for Columbia University’s Human Capital program. Laura’s background is connected to well-recognized establishments: At Kaiser Permanente her leadership efforts were globally recognized in Training Magazine where she was selected as a “Top 5 Global Emerging Leader” for the creation...

This episode's guest is Darius Mirshahzadeh, Core Value Evangelist, a Best Selling Author of “The Core Value Equation”. Darius was ranked #9 in Glassdoor’s Top Ranked CEOs in America as CEO of TMS and is an Inc 5000 CEO, ranking #40 in the entire country.  He is also the host of the Top 100 Podcast, The Greatness Machine, where he interviews some of the most interesting and accomplished people who...

The guest of this episode is Amy Hanlon-Rodemich, Chief People Officer at GlobalLogic. Amy is a deeply experienced HR executive who has helped some of Silicon Valley’s top brands scale and grow, from Yahoo to VMware. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Amy was VP of Human Resources at Synopsys and EVP of People at Milestone Technologies   In this podcast, Ron and Amy discuss: How to deal with the younge...

Lars Schmidt is the Founder of the Redefining HR Accelerator and Amplify (an HR executive search and consulting firm). Lars has spent over 20 years in the industry building a range of leading global companies. He’s a writer for Fast Company, author of the bestselling book Redefining HR, co-author of Employer Branding for Dummies, and Host of the Redefining HR podcast.   In this episode, Ron and La...

Caroline Stockdale is Chief People and Communications Officer at First Solar and a member of the Forbes Human Resources Council. Prior to joining First Solar, Caroline served as the Chief Executive Officer for First Perform, Chief People Officer for Medtronic, EVP of Global Human Resources and Business Operations for Warner Music Group, The senior HR leader in global divisions of American Express...

Kelly Rider is Chief Learning and Talent Officer at PTC, a leading digital transformation solutions company. She is responsible for establishing the central learning organization and driving PTC’s learning digital transformation. Prior to PTC, Kelly held leadership positions in corporate L&D at SAP, SuccessFactors, Hewlett-Packard, and ACS/Intellinex. In this episode, Kelly and Ron discuss: How to...

Jacob Morgan is a 4x best-selling author, TED and keynote speaker, futurist, and the creator of FutureofWorkUniversity.com, an online education and training platform that helps future proof individuals and organizations by teaching them the skills they need to succeed in the future of work. Jacob also hosts the Future of Work podcast, a weekly show where he speaks with senior executives, business...

Hilary Corna has over 10 years of experience working in senior executive positions for companies like Toyota Motor Asia Pacific and speaking on stages across the world. Hilary’s been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, ForbesWoman, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, and dozens of other publications. As a best-selling author of “One White Face”, her words have influenced leaders at every level to e...

Michael Salamey is Chief People Officer for a 3D e-commerce company “Ultimate 3D Printing Store”.  Michael has spent 20 years in HR and Operations leadership, holding roles from Manager of People Development for North America's 12th largest LTL (Less-Than-Truckload) carrier to Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of an international property mapping firm and Chief Operations Officer for a large Ta...

Derek Gaunt is the author of Ego, Authority, Failure and a lecturer & trainer with 29 years of law enforcement experience, and ultimately became commander of hostage negotiations teams in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He is a negotiation trainer and personal coach now at Black Swan Group. Derek trains organizations around the world, on how the practices and principles on hostage negotiatio...