Episode 10: “Courageous cultures”: How to build high performance, highly engaged cultures

Breakthroughs: Smart Strategies for Career/Business Growth

Since the onset of COVID-19,people are more anxious than ever about their current employment situation. For those who are fortunate to have jobs, they want to keep them. They’re less likely to open up & share ideas that could help their firm for fear speaking up could peg them as complainers. In this episode I interview leadership experts, Karin Hurt & David Dye who devote their practice to helping leaders build cultures where people feel safe to speak up. Karin and David help leaders achieve breakthrough results with easy to implement strategies that get people to share their ideas & become more skilled at critical thinking. They’re the founders of “let’s grow leaders” an international leadership development and training firm. They’re also the award-winning authors of “courageous cultures: how to build teams of micro innovators, problem solver‘s and customer advocates” and “winning well: a managers guide to get the results without losing your soul”. Karin is a top leadership consultant & CEO of “let’s grow leaders”. A former Verizon wireless executive she was named to Inc. magazine’s list of great leadership speakers. David is a former executive, elected official, and president of “let’s grow leaders”. Their clients include Amazon, Microsoft, USAA, national Institute of health, Kforce and the University of Florida’s health system. This dynamic couple, both sought after leadership consultants, offer practical advice for Leadership on how to inspire people on all levels of the organization to speak up and become micro innovators. It’s in these cultures that companies engage & retain their best people, their teams achieve remarkable results & where employees find purpose in their work.