[WEBINAR] Roundtable: Culture --The Best Rocket Fuel for Your Business
Stop fighting fires! Invest in your company culture for rapid growth
Podcast - Bay Area Founders Series
Originally held: Thursday, October 20th 10:30 am PST / 1:30 pm EST
As a business owner, you have a million things to do and endlessly shifting priorities. You may have asked yourself, “Is investing in my company culture a good use of my time?”
The answer is YES. Why? Because according to our research, the Best Small and Medium Workplaces have triple the revenue growth of their peers. Trust also boosts innovation, productivity, employee retention, and other performance metrics.
Join us for a roundtable discussion with successful entrepreneurs and business owners who have created a great workplace while wrestling with challenges such as limited resources, ever-changing competitive threats, and a war for top talent in the Bay Area. This webinar will show you how to make a high-trust culture the rocket fuel that accelerates your growth.
Topics Covered:
- When you should focus on company culture
- How to invest in your culture when you have major resource and time constraints
- Overcoming challenges in attracting top talent in the Bay Area
- How to use a high-trust workplace culture to grow your business and get better financial results
- Research from Great Place to Work® and others that shows why and how culture matters
Speakers:
Michael C. Bush
CEO of Great Place to Work®
Founder of The 8 Factors
Michael is responsible for the growth and management of the global network’s U.S. business. Michael joined Great Place to Work® Previously he served as President of 8 Factors, an online learning organization, as well as CEO of Clark Sustainable Resource Developments, and CEO of Tetra Tech Communications which he grew from $40 million to $300 million in revenues.
Michael is a founding board member of the private equity seed-fund, Fund Good Jobs, and taught entrepreneurship courses at Stanford University and Mills College. Michael is also a member of President Obama's White House Business Council.
Jonathan Gray
CEO and Founder of Cask Data
Jonathan is an entrepreneur and software engineer with a background in open source and data. Prior to Cask, he was at Facebook working on projects like Facebook Messages. At startup Streamy, Jonathan was an early adopter of Hadoop and HBase committer.
Diishan Imira
CEO and Founder of Mayvenn
Diishan is founder of Mayvenn, an online platform that enables hairstylists and beauty professionals to retail without having to buy or hold inventory. Mayvenn has raised a total of $13M dollars in VC funding from Andreesen Horowitz and TrinityVC, as well as name investors like Serena Williams, Steve Stoute, Jimmy Iovine, and Troy Carter. Over 40,000 stylists are able to increase their income by using the Mayvenn platform.
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