The Best of Culture Code Champions

Join the first Human Resources Professional for Mustang Engineering as she discusses her (HUGE!) role in transferring a great business culture internationally at Mustang. She also explains how she took the great culture to other Companies. She believes that a truly unique, intentional culture will drive employee happiness as well as drive higher profits. In this podcast – Sharon talks about how ev...

If you are an HR professional seeking guidance and a seasoned voice to help your organization identify, develop and measure an intentional culture – these two podcasts with HR Guru Sharon Paul is for you! Sharon was Mustang's first executive HR leader at Mustang and she joins Forbes Books Author, Billion dollar entrepreneur and speaker as they explain and share some great examples of creating your...

Intentional culture drives excellent returns – for people, teams, organizations and profits! This is the second of the podcast series with Bill Higgs, Billion dollar entrepreneur and Forbes Book Author, and Adam Witty, Entrepreneur, Publisher and Author. If you are looking for unique ways to reward and incent your Team to be more productive, engaged and on-fire, these two entrepreneurs talk about...

Join two entrepreneurs, founders and authors as they discuss the importance of connections, the repeatable process and tenacity in identifying and building an intentional culture. Listen to how they created global organizations that changed the face of Publishing (Adam Witty – founder of Forbes Books and publisher) as well as the Engineering industry (with Host Bill Higgs, founder of Mustang Engin...

This is our second and final podcast with Culture guru Chris Dyer, Founder of G2, Best selling Author and Inc Magazine's #1 Leadership speaker discusses his passion on giving back (Step 7). Chris and Bill Higgs, Forbes Books author of Culture Code Champions, discuss the power of intentionally using unique phrases like "Making Heros" or "Hack-a-thon" to propel your intentional culture on a daily ba...

In this first of a two part episode, host Bill Higgs talks with the Founder and CEO of PeopleG2, Chris Dyer. Chris is Inc. Magazine’s 2020 #1 Leadership Speaker with a focus on culture. PeopleG2 is a leading human capital due diligence service provider leveraging proprietary processes and tools to serve clients’ risk management needs and support their most strategic people-related decisions. Chris...

Great cultures start with a vision that is shared with every employee and every experience! This will drive higher productivity, greater job satisfaction, positive momentum in your communities and best in class profits. In this episode, Culture Code Champions author Bill Higgs is joined for the second time with Barefoot Wines founders Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey. Authors of the New York Tim...

Culture Code Champions exist at all companies! Bill Higgs, Forbes Book Author and $1B entrepreneur, speaks with the two founders of the iconic Barefoot Wine brand (eventually acquired by E&J Gallo), Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey. In this first of a two-part series, Michael and Bonnie share their unique Money Map in the onboarding of all employees understand their role in the Company's suc...

If you are wanting to materially improve the value of your company and trying to figure out how to make the most of failure – then this podcast is for you! Forbes Books author Bill Higgs speaks with the Culture Authority Kevin Sheridan. Both Bill and Kevin have built massive global businesses with one very key similarity – CULTURE. Kevin and Bill address three key topics: (1) How Culture impacts t...

Your Culture may be COSTING you in terms of lost revenue, higher expenses, higher turnover and unmotivated employees. In this first of a two-part podcast series, Bill Higgs, Forbes Book Author is speaking with the Culture expert, Kevin Sheridan to explore and answer three primal questions about Business and Corporate Culture: (1) What is your current culture costing you, (2) Could your current cul...

John C. Maxwell wrote a book called The 5 Levels of Leadership where he describes the different levels of leadership and shows you how to master each one and rise up to the next to become a more influential, respected, and successful leader. In this episode, host Bill Higgs sits down and talks with the Founder and CEO of Level Five Associates , Robert Mixon, about his company that teaches values-b...

In today’s episode, host Bill Higgs sits down and talks with the Vice President of Communications and Missions at Refined Technologies, Inc. , Heather Broeder, about her successful career at Mustang Engineering. She narrates how she fit in with the male-dominated construction field team and how forward-thinking Mustang was around flexible work. She also dives into the Young Guns Program and how th...

Only a great leader can train great leaders. In this episode, Barry Conchie, the Founder and President of Conchie Associates , talks about building efficient leaders and coaching leadership teams. Sharing how he moved from research at the Gallup Association Organization to founding Conchie Associates in 2013, he goes through the ups and downs of founding his own company. He also shares his insight...

How has social media and technology improved your life? Being a leader or a game changer of your chosen niche, how have you been using new tools and concepts in helping others find their purpose, leading a team to be more connected with each other, and helping people improve their self-perception? Today’s guest, licensed Clinical Psychologist and host of The Daily Helping , Dr. Richard Shuster, re...

When life gave him lemons, Brian Cruver started a lemonade factory out of that. Coming out of a horrendous experience at the demise of Enron, Brian has been starting companies with positive impacts such as Xenex and AlertMedia , to name a few. He is also an investor and advisor to dozens of early stage startups through his investment firm called Marketdriver Ventures . With everything he’s gone th...

One of the world’s best, and often overlooked, crystal ball lies in the eyes of the consumers. This is what Dr. Wolfgang Baier , the Group CEO of Luxasia and a culture and thought leader, discovered. Anticipating change through the consumers in this age of digital transformation, Dr. Baier shows us the value of becoming an omnichannel where the online and the offline converge in business. Zoning i...

Passion breaks all barriers that keep us from pursuing what we love. Our guest, Sandy Coleman , did just that. Despite being a male-dominated industry, Sandy threw herself into the middle of NASA to pursue her passion and vision for space travel. After 40 years, she has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in Aerospace. In this episode, she tells us all about her journey – from her Gi...

Building a team culture that fosters fulfillment and growth is no easy feat in today's business climate. Kris Krohn , a real estate and breakthrough mentor, talks about developing a repeatable process in business that enables you to live with independence. Kris' business success led him to build a "second home environment" in the workplace that greatly reduced employee turnover. Learn why accompli...

Applying what you have learned from others and from life experiences, in general, can either make or break you. As for Stephanie Higgs, she uses her learnings to catapult her unique bespoke clothing business to greater heights. As a Millennial CEO of Cielo Brands in New York, Stephanie shows us how she is re-imagining her company by using her experience in dressing famous celebrities like Lebron J...

In this episode Bill Higgs interviews John Geraci about storytelling to grow your business. Slow down to use storytelling and nudges…to speed up communication and action.” “Storytelling will help move your team in a new direction.

Building a winning team culture produces great results. Host Bill Higgs chats with Wendy Stevens , a world-class athlete who also coached and built one of the best lacrosse programs in the United States, about the seven steps to help build a culture. Wendy shares how she was able to build her tight-knit team through her own winning program and how she guides her athletes on giving back to the comm...

The culture is a reflection of the leader. Equipping you with the formula of formulas that will help you develop a business that matches who you are in the leadership position is Sean Callagy , one of America’s top trial attorneys and creator of Peak Performance Technologies . Sean speaks on how to make our culture count by improving ourselves as leaders, detailing the models and systems for self-...

The people you have in the company are just as important to your success as the systems you have in place. A key contributor to Mustang’s unstoppable take off from its inflection point, Mary Needham – senior-level leadership recruiting specialist – talks with host Bill Higgs about how she helped Mustang as well as others do market entry and find the right people who allowed them to succeed. Diving...

There is more to leading than simply being a leader. Greg Sills , the Managing Director at Apollo Global Management LLC , lays some of the groundwork to talk about management and leadership principles. As a leader himself, he shares some leadership techniques that he teaches his team, including the seven steps of culture building. Greg also talks about the Atlantis Project, the complexities that c...

Businesses, at the end of the day, always come back to its people. It is with this that company culture is so crucial to having business success. At the center of this is the role of the founder or CEO who are the ones steering the entire organization in the right direction. Greg Higgs, the Founder and CEO of Fab Fours , sheds light to the challenges that come with these leadership positions. Taki...