Episode 109: Rewarding Vulnerability: Andrew Neal, Chief People Officer, Communisis
Andrew describes the business transformation he has helped lead Communisis through, sharing how this centred around clarity in business purpose, and how strategy, outcomes and impact, including mapping to the UN SDGs, cascaded out.
Bringing business purpose to life across a diverse organisation with colleagues in 28 countries, Andrew describes building psychological safety and rewarding vulnerability, including with listening sessions, and shares the guidelines for how Communisis has made these successful, the role of exec sponsors and ‘spikey questions’, and what the results have been.
Topics in Andrew’s episode:
- Business transformation - the role of Purpose
- Rewarding vulnerability - psychological safety
- When Exec Board members share personal experience
- Spikey questions
- Mapping every employee’s role to the UN SDGs
- Human-centricity in business
- Being a single dad of a neuro-diverse 8-year-old
- Being yourself
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