
Welcome to O.C. Tanner's Culture by Design podcast, where we discuss the research, practices, and strategies that help organizations create thriving workplace cultures around the world.
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Episodes
Oct 5, 2020
Oct 5, 2020
37 min
This episode, we’re talking with legendary poker player, Annie Duke, about decision making under pressure and why embracing uncertainty is the key to better leadership. Her latest book, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, is on sale now.
Influence Greatness 2020, O.C. Tanner's annual recognition and culture conference is streaming now—for free—with a rich library of on-demand content featuring experts, authors, researchers, and HR leaders from all across the globe. Watch now at octanner.com/influencegreatness.
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020
36 min
This episode, we’re talking with author and designer Ingrid Fetell Lee about joy—why it’s not the same as happiness, and what we can change about the places we work to make our jobs, and ourselves, more joyful.
Aug 24, 2020
Aug 24, 2020
26 min
This episode, we’re talking with Andrea Procaccino about the work she’s done to transform and strengthen the culture of recognition at one of the nation’s top hospitals—New York-Presbyterian.
Aug 10, 2020
Aug 10, 2020
21 min
This episode, we're talking with Namrata Yadav from Bank of America about inclusion, diversity, and why those terms are so much more than buzzwords.
Jul 27, 2020
Jul 27, 2020
26 min
This episode, we talk with Tim Kuppler from Human Synergistics about how workplace culture evolves and what we can do to guide it in the right direction like the tiny cultural tugboats we are.
Jul 6, 2020
Jul 6, 2020
30 min
This mini-ep, we’re back at it, digging into the O.C. Tanner Institute’s ongoing research on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting people, organizations, and the workplace cultures that tie them together with friend of the program, Alex Lovell.
Jun 29, 2020
Jun 29, 2020
43 min
This episode, we’re featuring another podcast that’s fighting the good fight for better workplace cultures—HCMx Radio. Created by the Brandon Hall Group and hosted by their COO, Rachel Cooke, HCMx Radio has some of the best in-depth analysis of organizational culture in the podcast-a-verse. Their latest episode just to happens to have our very own David Sturt as a guest—and since David will be back on The Work Place in an upcoming episode, it seemed appropriate to showcase him on the receiving end of an interview for a change.
Jun 15, 2020
Jun 15, 2020
29 min
This episode, we talk with Melissa Arnot, the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen, about team-based leadership and decision-making in high-risk environments.
Jun 1, 2020
Jun 1, 2020
6 min
This mini-ep, we have tangible takeaways from O.C. Tanner's weekly pandemic pulse surveys—how it's changing workplace cultures, companies, and the people who work in them.
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
33 min
This episode, we're talking with founder of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani, about bravery, inclusion, and how to raise the next generation of female business leaders.
