How to Actually Change Your Company Culture

Tom Cannon is the CEO of National Carts, a company that has been around for over 30 years. He talks about the process of creating a common vision when stepping into somebody else’s company, as well as the process of realizing that nothing about the culture was aligned with that future vision. He describes his investment in changing the culture, including taking everybody through Radical Collaboration®, which focuses on building collaborative skills like self-awareness and self-accountability, and elaborates on growing his own self-awareness.

SHOW NOTES

• Similar to Gary Vaynerchuk quantifying the ROI of social media, Tom equates the ROI of investing in culture to the ROI of your mother – here’s the short video from Gary V on it.

•   We reference Starter Studio, which originally was the name of the accelerator where Tom and Laura both volunteered as mentors and founders.

•   We talk about Bungo Box, a company that Tom founded.

•   We talk about the Association for Corporate Growth, an organization that hosted a cocktail evening and a luncheon for growing companies in Central Florida, and the place where we first met.

•   We talk about Code School, one of our early clients, the CEO of which recommended Laura. To Tom, which peaked his interest.

•   The company that hired Tom Cannon as its CEO in 2015, Mid Florida Golf Cars Distributors, Inc.

•   Tom mentions feeling inspired by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and his philosophy about taking care of your people.

•   We mention Radical Collaboration, the 3-day workshop that Tom invited his whole organization to participate in to create a common language and build collaboration skills.

•   We reference one of Tom’s employees, Ben O'Connell, who also did a podcast episode to talk about his journey and “the lifestyle.”