From Traditional to Transformative Work Cultures with Jody Thompson

About Jody Thompson

Jody Thompson serves as the CEO and Founding Principal of CultureRx®, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For nearly twenty years she has worked with organizations to bring them to a state of sustainable high performance.

Leaders from multiple industries including: creative professional services, finance and accounting, information technology, publishing, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, government, education, and more have experienced numerous positive outcomes. Clients report:

• Growth
• Increased productivity
• Increased net income
• Decreased costs
• Increased employee engagement
• Increased employee satisfaction
• Decreased turnover rates, improved employee retention
• Increased on-time delivery rates
• Decreased carbon emissions
• Decreased stress
• Improved well-being and health outcomes
• Improved quality
• Increased trust
• Improved equity
• Decreased work-life spillover
• And a 168% return on their investment working with Jody and the CultureRx team

What sets Jody Thompson apart from others is her vision, her ability to see beyond current norms, identify macro-level trends, and guide organizations along a path for success in the twenty-first century.

Jody Thompson’s work receives high praise from a number of business journals. She has been featured on the covers ofBusinessWeek, Workforce Management Magazine, HR Magazine, and HR Executive Magazine, as well as in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME Magazine, USA Today, The New Yorker, and on Good Morning America, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, and MPR. She has co-authored two best-selling books on the modern workplace and contemporary management principles: Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It; and Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It.

Once you hear Jody speak, you will quickly understand why Daniel Pink recognized her as one of six business thinkers who gets it, who understands how to redesign work for the future to achieve outstanding results.

 

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According to a study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Neurology in 2009, people who own cats have a decreased risk for death due to heart attack or stroke. The study looked at over 4000 people over 20 years.

Another study conducted by scientists from the University of Minnesota found that having a cat living in our homes can be of great benefit and can even make us live longer.

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