Employee-Driven Culture Development

An approach to organizational values and culture that solicits input from all employees rather than top-down leadership pronouncements, ensuring values resonate authentically and create shared ownership of corporate identity.

2 episodes

Ep 34 - Brantley Fry: Why Connecting People and Process Is Your Secret Weapon

Ep 34 - Brantley Fry: Why Connecting People and Process Is Your Secret Weapon

Brantley Fry, partner at Tech CXO's human capital management practice, shares her unconventional career path from environmental lawyer to political state director to HR strategist. She discusses her work on major environmental cases including the TVA coal ash spill and BP oil spill, her role as state director for Senator Doug Jones, and her current focus on helping high-growth companies optimize people operations. The conversation explores M&A communication strategies, non-traditional hiring approaches, and Birmingham's emerging biotech ecosystem.

Ep 19 Kathryn O'Day —Triathlons, Startups, and Success: A Playbook for Entrepreneurs

Ep 19 Kathryn O'Day —Triathlons, Startups, and Success: A Playbook for Entrepreneurs

Katherine O'Day, partner at Atlanta Ventures, discusses her journey from employee #9 at Pardot through two successful acquisitions (ExactTarget, then Salesforce) to COO at Rigger (acquired by Splunk, then Cisco). She shares insights on building company culture, bootstrapping versus raising capital, and her current work doing early-stage investing and running a venture studio that co-founds companies with experienced entrepreneurs.

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