The Best of Culture Code Champions

Join the first Human Resources Professional for Mustang Engineering as she discusses her (HUGE!) role in transferring a great business culture internationally at Mustang. She also explains how she took the great culture to other Companies. She believes that a truly unique, intentional culture will drive employee happiness as well as drive higher profits. In this podcast – Sharon talks about how everyone plays a role in culture, how to transfer a great culture to other organizations and, finally, the cost of a great (and terrible) culture!

If you are an HR professional seeking guidance and a seasoned voice to help your organization identify, develop and measure an intentional culture – these two podcasts with HR Guru Sharon Paul is for you! Sharon was Mustang's first executive HR leader at Mustang and she joins Forbes Books Author, Billion dollar entrepreneur and speaker as they explain and share some great examples of creating your culture – new hire breakfasts, written communication and holding on to your best talent.

Intentional culture drives excellent returns – for people, teams, organizations and profits! This is the second of the podcast series with Bill Higgs, Billion dollar entrepreneur and Forbes Book Author, and Adam Witty, Entrepreneur, Publisher and Author. If you are looking for unique ways to reward and incent your Team to be more productive, engaged and on-fire, these two entrepreneurs talk about the power of daily planning, silo busting and rewarding the very culture you seek to build. Adam's personal brand around growing people to create scale and leverage in any business will inspire individuals, teams and leaders to greatness.

Join two entrepreneurs, founders and authors as they discuss the importance of connections, the repeatable process and tenacity in identifying and building an intentional culture. Listen to how they created global organizations that changed the face of Publishing (Adam Witty – founder of Forbes Books and publisher) as well as the Engineering industry (with Host Bill Higgs, founder of Mustang Engineering and Forbes Books Author of Culture Code Champions – 7 Steps to Scale and Succeed in Your Business). In this session you will hear how building a winning culture will improve start up success, define your unique differentiator and deliver exceptional financial outcomes. Stay tuned for the second part of this podcast in the next episode.

This is our second and final podcast with Culture guru Chris Dyer, Founder of G2, Best selling Author and Inc Magazine's #1 Leadership speaker discusses his passion on giving back (Step 7). Chris and Bill Higgs, Forbes Books author of Culture Code Champions, discuss the power of intentionally using unique phrases like "Making Heros" or "Hack-a-thon" to propel your intentional culture on a daily basis. This podcast will finally shed light on what mistakes successful people do that may be holding them back from great-ness!

In this first of a two part episode, host Bill Higgs talks with the Founder and CEO of PeopleG2, Chris Dyer. Chris is Inc. Magazine’s 2020 #1 Leadership Speaker with a focus on culture. PeopleG2 is a leading human capital due diligence service provider leveraging proprietary processes and tools to serve clients’ risk management needs and support their most strategic people-related decisions. Chris and Bill will debunk the traditional thinking of crawl/walk /run. Chris talks about prioritizing culture initiatives like transparency and embracing mistakes. If you are truly interested in building a culture of right-first-time and maximizing your bottom line – this is a must listen.

Great cultures start with a vision that is shared with every employee and every experience! This will drive higher productivity, greater job satisfaction, positive momentum in your communities and best in class profits. In this episode, Culture Code Champions author Bill Higgs is joined for the second time with Barefoot Wines founders Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey. Authors of the New York Times bestseller, The Barefoot Spirit, Bonnie and Michael discuss how to grow and maintain the entrepreneurial spirit and how they have capitalized on the newest communication tool, Audio Theatre, to engage all new hires – even after they have sold the business to E&J Gallo.

Culture Code Champions exist at all companies! Bill Higgs, Forbes Book Author and $1B entrepreneur, speaks with the two founders of the iconic Barefoot Wine brand (eventually acquired by E&J Gallo), Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey. In this first of a two-part series, Michael and Bonnie share their unique Money Map in the onboarding of all employees understand their role in the Company's success. Bonnie and Michael underscore the importance of the Culture Code Champion Steps 5 and 6 (Sell While the Shop is Full and Continuously Recruit Top Talent). If you are seeking unique, impactful and tested methods to retain great talent and support your sales team – this is for you!

If you are wanting to materially improve the value of your company and trying to figure out how to make the most of failure – then this podcast is for you! Forbes Books author Bill Higgs speaks with the Culture Authority Kevin Sheridan. Both Bill and Kevin have built massive global businesses with one very key similarity – CULTURE. Kevin and Bill address three key topics: (1) How Culture impacts the value of your company (2) How to build a magnetic culture and (3) How embracing failure (yes, FAILURE) will make your organization stronger, more agile and better!

Your Culture may be COSTING you in terms of lost revenue, higher expenses, higher turnover and unmotivated employees. In this first of a two-part podcast series, Bill Higgs, Forbes Book Author is speaking with the Culture expert, Kevin Sheridan to explore and answer three primal questions about Business and Corporate Culture: (1) What is your current culture costing you, (2) Could your current culture be the reason for turnover and (3) How to find and hire the best people?

John C. Maxwell wrote a book called The 5 Levels of Leadership where he describes the different levels of leadership and shows you how to master each one and rise up to the next to become a more influential, respected, and successful leader. In this episode, host Bill Higgs sits down and talks with the Founder and CEO of Level Five Associates, Robert Mixon, about his company that teaches values-based leadership that works. Robert has over 35 years of leadership experience in building teams and growing level five leaders in both the military and business, from units the size of 40 people to companies of over 30,000 people. Today, he explains the attributes of a Level Five leader and what he’s doing with his company to help others develop that type of leadership.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

In today’s episode, host Bill Higgs sits down and talks with the Vice President of Communications and Missions at Refined Technologies, Inc., Heather Broeder, about her successful career at Mustang Engineering. She narrates how she fit in with the male-dominated construction field team and how forward-thinking Mustang was around flexible work. She also dives into the Young Guns Program and how they were creating a culture within its culture. Learn more about putting the Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale & Succeed In Your Business to work as Heather shares more gold nuggets on creating a culture of success on today’s show.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

Only a great leader can train great leaders. In this episode, Barry Conchie, the Founder and President of Conchie Associates, talks about building efficient leaders and coaching leadership teams. Sharing how he moved from research at the Gallup Association Organization to founding Conchie Associates in 2013, he goes through the ups and downs of founding his own company. He also shares his insights on a successful team and the importance of the recruitment cycle. Know more about coaching, leadership, and accountability as Barry takes us to his process of creating team leaders.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

How has social media and technology improved your life? Being a leader or a game changer of your chosen niche, how have you been using new tools and concepts in helping others find their purpose, leading a team to be more connected with each other, and helping people improve their self-perception? Today’s guest, licensed Clinical Psychologist and host of The Daily Helping, Dr. Richard Shuster, reintroduces the true purpose of social media and uses this to make teams more cohesive instead of members being more individualistic. Dr. Shuster also tackles helping people at a larger scale identify their strengths and weaknesses through several platforms, and shares how he and his wife go about founding and growing their organization called Every Kid Rocks.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

When life gave him lemons, Brian Cruver started a lemonade factory out of that. Coming out of a horrendous experience at the demise of Enron, Brian has been starting companies with positive impacts such as Xenex and AlertMedia, to name a few. He is also an investor and advisor to dozens of early stage startups through his investment firm called Marketdriver Ventures. With everything he’s gone through, Brian has some very interesting experiences to share on building great company culture on today’s show.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

One of the world’s best, and often overlooked, crystal ball lies in the eyes of the consumers. This is what Dr. Wolfgang Baier, the Group CEO of Luxasia and a culture and thought leader, discovered. Anticipating change through the consumers in this age of digital transformation, Dr. Baier shows us the value of becoming an omnichannel where the online and the offline converge in business. Zoning in on the importance of developing leaders of today, he takes us through what he calls transformational leaders and the concept of sharpening the saw of others. Empowered by the Millennials, Dr. Baier breaks the misconceptions people have around this misunderstood generation and encourages us to look at the disruption they bring that is vital in transforming a company.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

Passion breaks all barriers that keep us from pursuing what we love. Our guest, Sandy Coleman, did just that. Despite being a male-dominated industry, Sandy threw herself into the middle of NASA to pursue her passion and vision for space travel. After 40 years, she has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in Aerospace. In this episode, she tells us all about her journey – from her Girl Scout days to eventually being in charge of the external tank project on the shuttle managing the Lockheed Martin NASA contract. Sandy takes us through the things she did to set herself up for advancement, inspiring us to move around the glass ceilings that seem hard to penetrate and take control of our career.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

Building a team culture that fosters fulfillment and growth is no easy feat in today's business climate. Kris Krohn, a real estate and breakthrough mentor, talks about developing a repeatable process in business that enables you to live with independence. Kris' business success led him to build a "second home environment" in the workplace that greatly reduced employee turnover. Learn why accomplishing this required his resignation as the manager to become the fun boss instead.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

Applying what you have learned from others and from life experiences, in general, can either make or break you. As for Stephanie Higgs, she uses her learnings to catapult her unique bespoke clothing business to greater heights. As a Millennial CEO of Cielo Brands in New York, Stephanie shows us how she is re-imagining her company by using her experience in dressing famous celebrities like Lebron James. Today, she shares some key takeaways from Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale and Succeed your Business. Changing negative company culture to one that is positive, more interactive, and more focused on building relationships, Stephanie is making Millennials proud through her notable leadership skills.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

In this episode Bill Higgs interviews John Geraci about storytelling to grow your business. Slow down to use storytelling and nudges…to speed up communication and action.” “Storytelling will help move your team in a new direction.

Building a winning team culture produces great results. Host Bill Higgs chats with Wendy Stevens, a world-class athlete who also coached and built one of the best lacrosse programs in the United States, about the seven steps to help build a culture. Wendy shares how she was able to build her tight-knit team through her own winning program and how she guides her athletes on giving back to the community. She also gives some great nuggets about recruiting and training girls with their hustle, the championship culture, and hard communication.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

The culture is a reflection of the leader. Equipping you with the formula of formulas that will help you develop a business that matches who you are in the leadership position is Sean Callagy, one of America’s top trial attorneys and creator of Peak Performance Technologies. Sean speaks on how to make our culture count by improving ourselves as leaders, detailing the models and systems for self-mastery, influence mastery, and process mastery. Sharing his sales method, he introduces the concept of integrity-based selling and lays out the four steps you have to do to close a sale.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

The people you have in the company are just as important to your success as the systems you have in place. A key contributor to Mustang’s unstoppable take off from its inflection point, Mary Needham – senior-level leadership recruiting specialist – talks with host Bill Higgs about how she helped Mustang as well as others do market entry and find the right people who allowed them to succeed. Diving deeper into culture, Mary shares its relationship to sales as part of the Culture Code, which is to sell while the shop is full. Helping the leaders to build a people-first culture, she also talks about some of the biggest leadership challenges and how to overcome them.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

There is more to leading than simply being a leader. Greg Sills, the Managing Director at Apollo Global Management LLC, lays some of the groundwork to talk about management and leadership principles. As a leader himself, he shares some leadership techniques that he teaches his team, including the seven steps of culture building. Greg also talks about the Atlantis Project, the complexities that came with it, and how they met the challenges of the world-class mission. Learn more about how to manage and lead people in this discussion.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

Businesses, at the end of the day, always come back to its people. It is with this that company culture is so crucial to having business success. At the center of this is the role of the founder or CEO who are the ones steering the entire organization in the right direction. Greg Higgs, the Founder and CEO of Fab Fours, sheds light to the challenges that come with these leadership positions. Taking us through his own experiences growing his manufacturing company, he shares great nuggets of wisdom not only on leadership but building a team and dealing with clients. Greg also shares how he set up his yearly planning cycle and some methods that help keep his team on schedule and on budget.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

Who says marketing is only for your products and services? In this episode, we go beyond the surface and take a closer look into marketing cultures with world-class marketing professional, Dena Lee. Dena takes us through the process of marketing internally and, later on, externally to clients, suppliers, fabricators, and the like. Working with Bill Higgs at Mustang, she also talks about what it is like to be working with the company, letting us in on her role of facilitating culture change and growth along with the teams. Join in on this insightful conversation with Bill and Dena and learn more about marketing cultures.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

The world is continuously changing that if you don’t adapt to it, you will get left behind. Within organizations, that means going through the motions of change when it comes to leadership and culture. Chris Widener, a world-class thought leader and motivational speaker on leadership, culture, and success, takes us through the different dimensions of leadership and building great team cultures in companies and organizations. Pouring in lessons he learned from his speaking career, Chris talks about helping leaders learn to speak and position themselves to influence others. He also talks about what we need to keep when culture becomes institutionalized and how we could continue to balance it with multiple generations involved.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

When we talk about war, we often think about the people being deployed to support the effort. However, the people that get left behind – their families – need just as much support. Deanie Dempsey, the wife of US Army General Martin Dempsey who was the 18th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, graces today’s episode. When General Dempsey got deployed to the forward operating bases, Deanie assumed a major role in supporting the families left behind. Today, she talks about the importance of supporting unit families through deployments and her role in building a strong unit culture that included the families.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

It’s inevitable that the Baby Boomers are going to go out and the Millenials are coming up to take their place. As a CFO or any leader of an organization or company, do you handle the communication bridge from one generation to the other? Our guest for this episode is Charles Wilds, a Strategic Business Development and Operations Executive Coach for the SOS Group Inc. Charles has helped hundreds of leadership teams find their true north and coalesce into dynamic teams. Today, he tackles leadership development and management, and shares how he’s preparing CFOs and other leaders for the change that’s occurring across generations and cultures, as well as how they can connect at a deeper level with the second, third, and fourth generation leaders who will eventually be running the company.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

When we want to find the best people in the industry, the answer is pretty simple – we need to take good care of them. As an HR professional for Mustang Engineering, Thuy Geraci says the biggest selling tool to bring in people are the employees themselves. When you build a team that everybody else wants to join, it’s easier to hire good people and get them to come to your company. In this episode, Thuy shares a little bit about her experiences when she first joined Mustang before diving into culture coaching and Mustang’s philosophy on how to take care of people.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

A great company culture is something that is not only felt by the people within the organization. When employees look forward to working and creating value out in the world, society as a whole gets to improve. Someone who recognizes this far-reaching value is Moves The Needle’s Brant Cooper, world-class thought leader and speaker on leadership, culture, and success. At the core of Brant’s mission is to help companies empower creativity and inspiration that lives inside all of us. He shares how he's accomplishing that and allowing companies and organizations to innovate rapidly. He also touches digital transformation, the driving force that creates success, the company’s DNA and value proposition, and the power coming in being more inclusive to a broader team.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

Leaders are not born but made, and just as you can teach leadership, you can also teach culture. Centering on this value here at Culture Code Champions, host Bill Higgs brings US Army General Martin Dempsey to share the principles of leadership and creating cultures from the army that made them successful in the civilian world. They talk about what they particularly learned from West Point that is very much still relevant for the next generation of leaders to implement. As the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey is someone who greatly puts in wisdom on leadership; and he lets us in on the experiences he has of leading units and teams not only with what is required of them to do but also in putting importance to continuous learning. Fill yourselves with great life-long nuggets to guide you in becoming the leader that leads your organization to success.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Culture Code Champions today: culturecodechampionspodcast.comCulture Code Champions LinkedInCulture Code Champions FacebookCulture Code Champions Twitter

Contrary to what many expect, part of leadership is recognizing that it is not all about you. Instead, you have to think of the team. Merging those will then get you the winning team culture you need. In this episode, host Bill Higgs sits down with General David Petraeus, a former CIA Director and Commander of United States Central Command. With his background and experience, General Petraeus takes us deeper into leadership and creating a winning team culture that organizations need in order to excel. He also talks about understanding change in large organizations and highlights a few of those that he took from the events that happened in his career. Discover lessons from the military you can apply in your organization with the insights shared here. Screen reader support enabled.