What Matters

I'm in the business of cultures that work.

You know a culture is good when it works - that is, a culture enables positive, productive work.

You know a culture is working when:

• People feel they belong and can bring their best.
• The collective effort is stronger than the sum of the parts. A good culture is where people feel safe and hopeful for the future.
• People are clear on, and feel connected to, the organisation’s purpose, where individuals and teams can learn, fail, grow, and develop mastery.
• People have genuine choice and work autonomously toward shared goals. 

For a culture...

We know culture is important. Sixty-seven per cent of respondents in PwC’s 2021 Global Culture Survey considered culture more critical for success than strategy or operating model, and 81% attributed culture as a point of competitive advantage.

We know culture can be changed on purpose. PwC’s survey found that a staggering 80% of team members are disappointed with their organisation’s culture, 76% of leaders believe culture is changeable, and 65% of leaders believe they need to change their current culture. Yet only 15% of organisations report culture...

My mission is to make culture simple and actionable for leaders.

I work with executives, CEOs and leadership teams to shape, shift, strengthen and lead cultures.

Having led culture at the Executive and Board level for more than 15 years, with ASX10 and global teams, I now work as a strategist, speaker, and mentor, building cultures that work.

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Does your culture invite belonging? Or is it a culture of fitting in (even if the norms have shifted)?

#workplaceculture #belonging #fittingin #cultureshift #leadershift #culture #rulesofbelonging #brenebrownwisdom

In a McKinsey survey with a representative sample of more than 1,000 participants from US companies, 82 percent agreed on the importance of purpose, but only 42 percent reported that their company’s stated “purpose” had much effect.

Having read plenty of purpose statements, that's not surprising!

Many organisations’ purpose statements are so generic that they do little to inspire or challenge business as usual. At some point, they blur and all start to sound the same.

More than a vision and a strategy, a purpose elevates performance. A strong vision and strategy...

Culture isn’t someone else’s job. We all contribute to culture.

How you show up in your team and your workplace impacts those around you.

We’ve all worked on teams where one person has shifted the culture around them - for better or for worse.

Don’t wait for someone else to tackle your culture. Share some good vibes and contribute positive energy to your team culture.

#workplace #work #culture #contribution #cultureshift

When you lead people, Culture is your day job. It’s not something special and different that you do once a year before a survey. Culture is not extra work on top of how you do things. Culture is not somebody else’s job. Culture is how you get things done every day.

According to McKinsey, digital transformations require cultural and behavioural changes such as calculated risk taking, increased collaboration and customer centricity.

Of course, we know, that Cultural change is behaviour change.

In fact, all change is behaviour change. 

#cultureproof #cultureshift #culture #change #behaviour #behaviourchange

Your Culture is not a monoculture. Never was, never will be.

Don’t fight it. Embrace and nurture your subcultures.

Like a beautiful garden full of different plants, a healthy Culture is made of lots of subcultures coming together, sharing common ground.

Love your subcultures - they are what connects your Culture and people on the ground. 

#culture #subculture #connection #leadership #cultureshift #leadershift

If you visit the Drucker Institute website, one whole page is dedicated to things Peter Drucker never said. Easily the most misattributed is “Culture eats Strategy for breakfast”.

Culture. Still eating Strategy for breakfast.

No matter who said it first.

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