Scaling Culture

*This episode was sponsored by Empyrean, a top-tier HR technology company that empowers organizations to build a better culture by connecting employees to meaningful, life-enriching benefits. To take Empyrean's Benefits Maturity Assessment, please click here.
Our guest is Carlos Adame - a Senior Global HR Leader at Amazon. In his role, Carlos is responsible for all strategic people planning and execution globally to optimize finance and Amazon performance.
Prior to Amazon, he held HR executive roles at Providence and other well-known organizations such as UPS, PacifiCare, United Healthcare, and AltaMed.
Also, Carlos is an associate professor teaching graduate-level Human Resources courses at USC Bovard College.
In this episode of Scaling Culture, Ron and Carlos discuss:

• Carlos’ personal journey from Providence to Amazon
• Some ways Amazon uses data science to get closer to the customer and to their staff
• A new exciting initiative of Amazon’s with far reaching impact to rural communities
  
• Speed, innovation and systems to allow people to prioritise the most important thing

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Our guest is Jim Reid - Author of 'Leading To Greatness’ and Former Chief HR Officer at Rogers Communications.
An accomplished executive and trusted advisor to seven CEOs, Jim has navigated significant change and immense pressure to build winning teams that outperform competitors.
Originally trained as a military pilot, Jim built his expertise working alongside some of the best thinkers on leadership including Jim Collins, Jeffrey Pfeffer, John Kotter, and Dave Ulrich.
Jim’s new book ‘Leading to Greatness’ combines the best research on high performance with over 30 years of observing what the very best leaders do differently to excel. It provides an actionable, practical playbook for all leaders to take their leadership in work and life to the next level.
Jim is also recognized as one of the 50 Best Executives in Canada by The Globe & Mail’s Report on Business Magazine.
In this episode of Scaling Culture, Ron and Jim discuss:

• Jim's personal journey from being a military pilot to working with Jim Collins to joining Rogers Communications as a CHRO
• The Role of a leader in shaping culture and why and how best leaders are different
• Roger's culture transformation and key reasons and initiatives that Roger’s implemented during that change
• Jim's book Leading to Greatness and his coaching work helping leaders perform at their best and strategies on how to prevent burnout

For more information about Jim, his book ‘Leading to Greatness’ or his coaching work, please follow him on LinkedIn.
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Caroline Stockdale is Chief People and Communications Officer at First Solar and a member of the Forbes Human Resources Council.

Prior to joining First Solar, Caroline served as the Chief Executive Officer for First Perform, Chief People Officer for Medtronic, EVP of Global Human Resources and Business Operations for Warner Music Group, The senior HR leader in global divisions of American Express and General Electric.
In this episode, Ron and Caroline discuss:

• The power of a strong mission
• How to build an agile and innovative culture
• Corporatitis vs the mindset of being an entrepreneur

Jodi Rabinowitz is the head of talent and organization development at Zoom Video Communications and former head of talent acquisition and organizational development at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she implemented a five-year strategic plan focused on enhancing the employee experience. She honed her nimble leadership approach as a talent advisor at The Center for Creative Leadership and through her early career in social work.

Today Jodi shares with us everything about the culture at Zoom and what makes an amazing ‘Zoomie’.

Paul Akers is the founder and president of FastCap, a product development company specializing in woodworking tools and hardware for professional builders.

He is also the author of 2 Second Lean, Lean Health, Lean Travel, lean Life and Banish Sloppiness. In 2016, Paul’s book, 2 Second Lean, was recognized by the Shingo Institute and won the Research and Professional Publication Award.

Paul is an energetic speaker whose core passion is helping people discover their full potential and showing others how to implement Lean in their business and personal life.