Speaking & Workshops

Speaking about Corporate Culture

Most companies are struggling with endless cycles of failed change programs, cynical or burned out employees, and uncertainty about how to lead appropriate and sustainable change. If your leaders know corporate culture is a barrier to strong performance but aren’t clear how to act on that knowledge, Corporate Culture Pros customizable keynote or workshops provide clear, implementable strategies and tactics for changing your culture.

Speaking and Workshops

Lisa Jackson and Gerry Schmidt are nationally acclaimed speakers and thought leaders in the field of corporate culture, with specific methods for how culture leverages innovation, collaboration, and stronger performance, especially during change.

In 2 hours, we got more practical tips than I got in 2 days of a team building workshop. Lisa was able to get to the crux of the matter quickly and show people how to harness the positive aspects of change.”  – Jenni Cohen, Husch Blackwell Sanders

Culture change workshops and keynotes that work in the real world

Based on their book “Transforming Corporate Culture: 9 Natural Truths for Being Fit to Compete” – they can provide a content-rich, high-energy presentation that will provide immediately actionable tips for improving workplace culture.

Sample Program Descriptions

1)    Small Change: Natural Truths of Great Cultures

• What is culture and when does it matter?
• What you must change – and must NOT change – about a culture;
• It’s not personal! Separating culture from personality;
• How to navigate the actionable and shortest paths from culture to performance;
• 9 essential shifts to build a great culture, drawing on lessons from nature.

2)    Permanent Whitewater: The Nature of Mastering Rapid Change

• Jump-start your mission-critical initiative or merger;
• Tricks to help over-extended executives escape the “I must do-it-all” trap;
• Install better, faster decision making even during head-spinning uncertainty and change;
• Improve how you deliver good, bad, and ugly news, even when you don’t have answers;
• Build bridges across silos and turn turf wars into alignment;
• Influence change without people feeling coerced or manipulated.
• Walk away with a toolkit of small shifts you can make to restore sanity to your workplace.

3)    Seeds of Leadership: Using Positive Intent to Transform Your Culture

• Where intention begins: preparing the soil bed;
• Establishing a clear link between positive intent and trust;
• Learning to embed positive intent into every interaction;
• Case study of client who transformed his organization through one simple practice using positive intention;
• How to ensure that you can tell the truth, even when the news is difficult or ambiguous;
• Building bridges across silos and turning turf wars into alignment.

4)       Collaborative Leadership For Change: Making Sense in an Uncertain World

• Communicating during change to build trust;
• Do’s and don’ts in sponsoring an initiative up and across the chain of command;
• The rules of role clarity and decision making;
• Managing conflicting expectations across a complex matrix organization;
• Transform lackluster meetings plagued by vague goals or agendas, lack of structure, “free-for-all” or rambling discussions that lead nowhere, and bored participants;
• Working across silos effectively with less chaos;
• Engaging group members in creativity and problem solving.

5)    Seeds of Leadership: Using Positive Intent to Transform Your Culture

• Where intention begins: preparing the soil bed;
• Establishing a clear link between positive intent and trust;
• Learning to embed positive intent into every interaction;
• Case study of client who transformed his organization through one simple practice using positive intention;
• How to ensure that you can tell the truth, even when the news is difficult or ambiguous;
• Building bridges across silos and turning turf wars into alignment.

6)       Collaborative Leadership For Change: Making Sense in an Uncertain World

• Communicating during change to build trust;
• Do’s and don’ts in sponsoring an initiative up and across the chain of command;
• The rules of role clarity and decision making;
• Managing conflicting expectations across a complex matrix organization;
• Transform lackluster meetings plagued by vague goals or agendas, lack of structure, “free-for-all” or rambling discussions that lead nowhere, and bored participants;
• Working across silos effectively with less chaos;
• Engaging group members in creativity and problem solving.

Participants of each program receive a free sampler from Corporate Culture Pros “Culture Builder Toolkit” including a laminated cheat sheet our clients are using to transform their culture.

We customize each program to the specific needs and issues of the audience

Full Speaking Kit (pdf) (This contains all of the files above.)