Today’s HRchat Podcast guest believes the C-suite holds the key to shaping healthy organizational cultures. By understanding and embracing their role as architects of culture, she says, CEOs can redefine the way organizations operate but right now, efforts to improve DEI metrics are not enough.
I’m joined in episode 595 by Dr. Sylvana Storey, psychologist, Managing Director at Global Organizational Integrators Ltd, and a recent speaker at DisruptHR London.
Through role modeling, influencing adoption, and provoking change, CEOs inspire their teams to adopt new ways of thinking and working, leading to healthier and more successful organizations. It is through the collective efforts of leaders, employees, and HR professionals that we can create a work environment where everyone thrives.
Questions for Sylvanna include:
- What does effective leadership look like for you?
- Let’s talk about your book, The Aperture for Modern CEOs. In it, you discuss concepts such as Psychological Contouring and provocation on the impact of leadership behaviours and organizational health. Tell us more.
- Tell us about your recent DisruptHR London talk: Is DEI Failing? Who Cares?
- Why do you believe DEI is failing?
- What are the reasons that cause DEI to fail?
- How can we learn more get a copy of your book, The Aperture for Modern CEOs?
More About The Aperture for Modern CEOs
Along with input from Global CEOs, this book examines and assesses how CEOs defines, navigate and instill key activities of organizational life and provokes and challenges the nature of their practice. It shares practical strategies on how CEOs ways of being can influence and contribute to the adoption and embedment of ways of working that better serve employees, stakeholders and organizations.
Ultimately, in the pursuance of healthier organizations! Key activities of organizational life include purpose and vision; strategy and structure; leaders’ actions, behavior and mindset; culture change and change drivers; new ways of thinking, doing and being and, activities for the future in terms of space, innovation and reimagining.