The Culture Code

Feb 23 2024 56 ep. 26 mins 3
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Welcome to The Culture Code podcast. On this podcast, you’ll learn how to grow, shape, and sustain a high-performance culture with the CEO of LEADx, Kevin Kruse. From designing and delivering highly effective leadership development programs, to measuring and improving the employee experience, you will understand what it takes to cultivate a thriving company culture. Through interviews with Chief People Officers, deep dives into key topics, and recordings of our invite-only community sessions, we bring you cutting-edge, data-backed insights from the most desirable companies to work for in the world.

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What Being A CPO Looks Like At A Small Company with the CPO of Aperian

Feb 23 2024 18 mins  
The CPO of Aperian, Addie Johnsen talks about what it's like to be CPO at a 65-employee organization. We discuss: how she uses the smaller company size to personally coach every leader. how she indexes company values team by team her book recommendations for HR professionalsEnjoy! ☕️ 🎧

RANT: My Problem with the Kirkpatrick Model

Feb 16 2024 7 mins  
I break down my problem with the Kirkpatrick model and what you should do about it!

L&D’s Transformation From Order Taker To Trusted Learning Advisor with the CLO of BDO Canada

Feb 08 2024 19 mins  
If L&D wants to evolve from "order-taking" into a strategic entity, a significant mindset and behavior shift is required. In comes Dr. Keith Keating, author of The Trusted Learning Advisor and CLO at BDO Canada.He covers: 1. The most common stumbling block L&D professionals run into as they adopt a strategic mindset. 2. How to leap over this stumbling block. 3. The critical

How Consensus Cloud Solutions Scales And Sustains A Thriving Hybrid Culture, with CPO Lynn Johnson

Jan 29 2024 30 mins  
In this interview, CPO of Consensus Cloud Solutions, Lynn Johnson, explains how she scales and sustains company culture to 600 hybrid and remote employees. A few highlights include: 1. How she sustains culture with "an iron fist but a velvet glove." 2. How despite being a 600-employee company, she scales executive coaching to all of her first-line leaders. 3. Lynn's favorite books

The Secret To Great Leadership? Develop Your Aspiring Leaders with The Aerospace Corp's CPO

Jan 22 2024 46 mins  
In this episode, we sit down with Heather Laychak, the CPO at The Aerospace Corporation. She covers everything from her best-in-class approach to aspiring leadership programs to an industry-shifting diversity initiative and her top three book recommendations.Key topics include:The Aspirational Manager Program: How and why Heather and her team take an “open to all” approach to h

RANT: Why Bot Coaches Don't Work (And What Works Better)

Jan 15 2024 5 mins  
Five years ago, I wrote a check for $1 million to launch an AI-powered coach using IBM Watson.We then created the world’s first executive coach bot (long before Chat GPT).And it DID NOT work.Here’s why:Even though the leaders liked the tool…The BUYERS—CPOs, CHROs, CLOs—DID NOT.The issue was this: Occasionally the bot would make a mistake. And this put the Buyers at risk.S

A Scrappy And Highly Practical Approach To Develop Frontline Leaders with Collective Health's CPO

Jan 08 2024 34 mins  
Abbie Buck, CPO of Collective Health, breaks down her scrappy approach to leadership dev. This one's full of creative and stealable ideas! Key Topics Covered:Her scrappy approach to develop frontline leaders: Abbie designed and delivered in-house development programs and recorded them for future use. Cultivating a customer-centric culture: The company uses "love letters" from custo

Why Leadership Development Is The Key To Scaling Culture with Symphony's CPO

Jan 05 2024 35 mins  
In this conversation with Courtney Panik, CPO of Symphony, we cover:How she helped Symphony scale its culture as it grew from a startup to a scale-upHow Symphony's flat organizational structure and an open-door policy foster accessibility and trust.The role of people managers as "culture carriers" at Symphony.Leadership Development Tactics: Panik's "secret weapon" for cultivating e

How A Personalized Approach Solved For Attrition with SugarCRM's CHRO

Jan 02 2024 22 mins  
This episode explores the innovative way the CHRO of SugarCRM reduced employee turnover from 23% to 9% after joining the company.In addition to reducing turnover, CHRO Shana Sweeney shares: How she cultivates a unique company culture: She unveils the core values that make SugarCRM’s culture stand out, including the transformative "Yes, if" approach to problem-solving.How she tack

Drive Employee Engagement By Building A Culture Of Caring with One Medical's CPO

Dec 18 2023 29 mins  
LEADx and Gallup research on employee experience shows that “your manager cares” is now a top five driver of employee engagement.One great example of “caring” in action is at One Medical, where “manager care” is a top-scoring item on their engagement survey year over year. To learn more, I had the chance to meet with CPO Christine Morehead. Here are three highlights fro