The Culture Creators
Culture holds a huge power to influence those within it. We read more and more about the impact of culture - particularly toxic culture - in business, government, sport clubs or communities. But still basic fundamental questions still remain unanswered: 1) What specifically makes one culture toxic and another buzzing with life? and 2) How do you actually steer culture from one place to another and avoid regressing back? These are the questions that continue to challenge executives, leaders and those wanting to make real change in the world. These are the questions we explore in the Culture Creators podcast. The podcast features in depth interviews with business leaders, sports coaches, community leaders and others that either have previous experience of steering culture from one place to another or are currently in the thick of managing it today. The purpose of the Culture Creators podcast is to build a repository of case studies, expert points of view and real life examples so that we can: a) better understand the mechanics and dynamics of this unseen, unaddressed and unaccounted for space that holds some much power to influence, and b) develop our own individual capacity to proactively shape and steer the cultures that surround us. Please subscribe to join us on this fascinating journey and develop your own deeper understanding of culture. Also please get involved by suggesting future guests that we all can learn from!!
Episodes
Charlie Sull, Co-Founder of CultureX and Cultural Researcher at MIT, talks in detail about the importance of effective cultural measurement. Charlie shares the key research findings of what makes a positive culture and why most traditional cultural measures simply don’t work.
Overall, Charlie’s message is clear:
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Culture matters
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Culture is a significant driver of any organisations capacity to create and deliver value
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Most c...
In this absorbing conversation Nilesh Makwana, co-founder and CEO of illuminance Solutions, shares a key truth upon which to create organisational culture: that deep down we are all the same, all part of humanity.
Nilesh talks about how his extensive global travels and the experience of coming to Australia as an international student and the requirement to integrate into a new culture forced a deeper sensitivity and appreciation of...
In this wonderfully human conversation, Louise Forster, CEO of Advocare, and I explore how culture can act as a ‘hard drive’ storing the full impact of an organisation’s prior journey and how the unseen aspects of culture reveal themselves.
What shines brightly in this conversation is how connected Louise is to the people around her which provides many great stories and examples of just how culture plays out.
The conversation also ...
In this conversation Catherine Leach - Founder, Owner and MD of Leach Legal – talks about the importance of creating a grown-up adult company culture. She also highlights the significant role stories play in weaving company values into the culture.
To read my own personal learning nuggets that I took from this episode, please go to: https://brynedwards.substack.com/p/creating-a-grown-up-company-culture#details
In this fascinating conversation Emeritus Professor Gary Martin, CEO of the Australian Institute of Management Western Australia, dissects culture to provide a deeper level of understanding and avoid the growing tendency to use it as a ‘catch all’ phrase.
To read my own personal learning nuggets that I took from this episode, please go to: https://brynedwards.substack.com/p/dissecting-culture-with-emeritus#details
Joe Brennan is a founding partner and Managing Director of Eire Total Access, which provides scaffolding and access solutions to the commercial, residential, industrial and oil and gas sectors throughout Western Australia.
In this episode Joe talks about the impact of alcohol on working culture, what he’s done to unwind that and importance of recognising the impact work has on our connections.
This will be a confronting conversatio...
Daniel Simpson is General Manager of BSS and Gryphon Psychology, a mental health provider specialising in the resources and heavy industry sector.
I caught Daniel at an interesting point in time as BSS looks to leverage culture to maintain company values as it scales and expands through its strategy plan.
To read my own personal learning nuggets from this episode, please go to: https://open.substack.com/pub/brynedwards/p/leveraging...
Doug Bester, CEO of Sentient Computing, shares how his time in working in traditional engineering environments gave him a clear guide of what not to in creating a leading edge virtual reality company that draws on local talent within the computer gaming community.
Sentient Computing is a Perth-based software development company that specialises in providing powerful and immersive virtual environments particularly in the resource se...
Experienced HR Specialist Irene Makrillos, Director of HR Consultancy 12IC, shares key insights from being responsible for leading the integration of 3 different organisational cultures within an acquisition situation.
To read my own personal learning nuggets about culture from this episode, go to - https://open.substack.com/pub/brynedwards/p/m-and-a-integrating-3-cultures-together?r=k8517&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Dr. Christian Duperouzel, lecturer at Curtin University's Business and Law School, talks through the wider findings of his Phd. study into Conscious Leadership and how that impacts our surrounding cultures.
In this conversation you will gain a great sense of the flow of the dynamics at play that shape culture and the importance of connection to the human spirit to safeguard against building toxic culture.
In this episode Bourby Webster, former founder and CEO of Perth Symphony Orchestra, talks about the creating and managing the culture of PSO, the organisation's personality and importance of expressing joy in the workplace.
To read my own personal learning nuggets about culture from this episode, go to - https://brynedwards.substack.com/p/the-personality-of-perth-symphony#details
In this short video your host, Bryn Edwards, briefly explains the underlying rationale, direction and purpose of the Culture Creators Podcast.
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