Cultivate your Culture by Zoran Stojković | A Podcast for Leaders

Mark Shapiro, President and CEO at the Toronto Blue Jays talks about how the Blue Jays came up with their values, how to deal with star performers who have a negative impact on culture, and why it’s important to align the person we are with the leader we are.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

• How the Blue Jays came up with their values and who was part of that process
• How to deal with star performers who have a...

Rita Sever, founder of Supervision Matters talks about how to harness equity (not equality), what hidden rules are and how to change the toxic ones, and how to hire people who promote equity.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

• How to harness equity in your team and organization
• Why teams need equity, and not equality
• What hidden rules are and how to change the toxic ones
• How to tailor recruiting practices to hire ...

Theresa Ito, Principal at Blue Mountain Solutions talks about the three dials leaders need to keep in check, how to set up honest communication in your team, and how to accelerate the evolution of culture change.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

• The three dials leaders need to keep in check
• Why honest communication starts with the leaders first
• How to set up honest communication in your team 
• How to accelerate t...

Bryce Tully, CEO at Innerlogic shares ways to measure culture, questions you can ask your team to build cohesion, and how implicit learning can level up the systems in your team.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

• Four questions you can ask your team today to build alignment
• Why the system you set up in your team has the biggest impact on culture
• What implicit learning is and how to leverage it to build a better ...

Hey, welcome to Cultivate your Culture!

This is a podcast where we decode how leaders can create environments where their teams do their best work and flourish. Our guests are pioneers in team dynamics and culture from the worlds of business, military & sport. Hear them share simple, straightforward techniques to set up, evolve and measure culture. With over 92,000 hours spent working, let’s focus on the relationships...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we talk with Adam Kreek, who is and Olympian and one of North America’s top Executive Business Coaches. He shares easy-to-apply principles for developing character as a leader, why results and commitment are both important, and how to deal with pushback with culture change. This is the last episode in Season 1. Season 2 of Cultivate your Culture is returning in fall 2021!

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In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we talk with Nadine Dubina, who is the former Associate Director of Coach Development for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. She blends her passion for coaching with an experiential learning facilitation style to create coach development workshops, courses, and presentations that are unique, practical, and purposeful. Nadine collaborated on creating the 6 guiding princip...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we talk with Dr. Lauren Tashman, who is a performance coach and certified mental performance consultant based in New York City. She works with clients in a variety of performance domains on mindset, leadership, and team culture through her private practice Align Performance, LLC and as a master coach for Valor Performance. Lauren co-hosts The Path Distilled podcast exploring the shared hum...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we are joined by Kimia Hamidi, the founder of Buyer - Negotiation as a Service for tech-focused companies. Buyer audits a company's spend and negotiates their contracts without being jerks. Kimia has been involved in a few other companies, a previous exit, and tons learned along the way. He distills practical tools for how to rebuild a team, how to identify people who fit your culture...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we are joined by gold-medal Olympian, professor, and organizational consultant Jennifer Walinga who shares easy-to-apply techniques to foster values-based teams.

Connect with Jennifer on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram. Check out her website for more details on what Jennifer does and the impact she can make in your organization.

The host, Zoran Stojkovic believes that we...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we are joined by Monique Kavelaars. Monique is a retired Olympic fencer, entrepreneur, business facilitator, and trainer. She has been working with teams to create cultural shifts in pursuit of high performance for over 15 years. Building on her experience as a Canadian Olympian, Monique guides teams to learn about what it takes to be an effective team while focused on the results. Returni...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we are joined by Bruno Guévremont. Bruno builds and rebuilds elite performers. He continues to inspire greatness on battlefields and in boardrooms, building high-performance leaders and organizations in every arena he enters, rekindling and sparkling greatness, bridging generations and connecting those in uniforms with those in power suits. Today, Bruno helps high profile CEOs, executives,...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we are joined by Landon Gorbenko. Landon is the Director of Performance PowerUp Academy and GScience. He is also the host of the No Tilt Mind Podcast. He has a Masters in Performance Psychology and works as a Mental Performance Consultant with a wide range of amateur to professional esport athletes to improve their mental skills and overall performance.

Connect with Landon via T...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we are joined by Susan Scott. Susan founded Fierce in 2001 after 13 years leading CEO think tanks and more than 10,000 hours of conversations with senior executives. Over the past two decades, she has shared her expertise with clients through her keynote presentations, TedX Talks, and award-winning books, Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Ti...

In this episode of Cultivate your Culture we are joined by Valorie Kondos-Field, often referred to as Miss Val. She is a retired American gymnastics coach. She was the head coach of the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team of the University of California, Los Angeles from 1991 to 2019, leading the Bruins to seven national championship titles.

In her book, Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance, Miss Val shares personal stories, an...