There is only one sustainable competitive advantage in business today—company culture—and Josh Levine is on a mission to help organizations harness its power. His book, Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, presents the tools business leaders need to understand, design, and manage their own culture. As one of America’s leading voices championing culture as a business tool, Josh’s unique and energetic keynotes challenge audiences and organizations to embrace new ways of working to improve employees’ lives and companies’ bottom lines.

Josh leads Great Mondays, LLC, a culture design consultancy that partners with ambitious technology leaders ready to improve engagement, decrease turnover, and outperform competitors. For nearly two decades, he has helped build culture-driven brands for Silicon Valley heavy hitters, prominent nonprofits, and well-respected blue chip corporations like PagerDuty, IBM, the DC Public Library, UCSF Health, and Microsoft.

He has written for Forbes.com and Fast Company and has appeared on APM’s Marketplace as well as many business and leadership podcasts. BookAuthority listed his book Great Mondays as one of the best culture books of all time. Josh travels internationally for events and offers virtual keynotes, training, and workshops. He’s spoken at leading institutions and venues, including Stanford, Toyota, Humana, and SXSW. He is Adjunct Faculty at the California College of the Arts Design MBA program, where he teaches brand strategy and organizational culture. He was a founder of the international nonprofit culture LabX.

Josh holds a BS in Engineering Psychology from Tufts University and a BFA in design from the Academy of Art University. He lives in Portland with his wife, three children, and one dog.

Topics:

  • Burnout didn’t start with the pandemic, but it did become a widely shared experience. Despite companies’ attempts to get back to business as usual, the burnout rate remains close to its high pandemic level. What’s behind this problematic trend, and how can we leaders get a handle on it?

    In this talk, company culture expert Josh Levine shares his vision and principles of an organization that provides employees with the support and structure to move from exhausted to engaged—the Anti-Burnout Company.

    Josh explains the trends driving our collective malaise, what leaders and managers can do to help struggling employees now, and how companies can begin to build an enduring culture where their people are not just surviving, but doing the best work of their lives. Get your teams started on their journey with Josh’s 15-Day Anti-Burnout Challenge. Each keynote is accompanied by a series of short episodes in video or audio format that leaders can share with staff to reinforce and activate the talk's concepts.

  • Relationships are the synapses of business. Unfortunately, distributed work has all but removed our ability to maintain these crucial bonds in the ways we know how. Without the impromptu chats in office corridors, the collaborative buzz of conference rooms, and the camaraderie of after-hours gatherings, how can teams foster the connections that have always powered collaboration, innovation, and business itself?

    Join Josh Levine in exploring a transformative approach for increasing trust and connections in remote and hybrid environments, what it takes to build trust over Zoom, and why human connectivity is critical to excellent company culture.

    This discussion is an opportunity to reimagine and reconstruct your team’s operational landscape for a digital world. Learn the skills the very best distributed teams harness to innovate and collaborate like never before.

  • How will you stay ahead when competitors can imitate features, copy designs, and hire away talent? In breakneck business landscapes, your culture is your only sustainable competitive advantage. But Josh Levine is here to help.

    Learn why:

    * Culture drives top-line goals and bottom-line profitability

    * Culture accelerates new hires’ speed to work

    * Culture can’t be stolen or copied

    * Culture empowers front-line decision-making

    Culture is a modern leadership discipline, and when done well, managers will lead with values-driven mandates, and executives can inspire action through a clearly defined “why.” Culture is how your people get work done across projects, teams, and locations.

    Learn why corporate culture is more important than ever and how to lead using culture as a management platform. Using Silicon Valley startups and stalwarts as a lens, Josh Levine discusses actionable methodologies for implementing and measuring culture change.

  • Companies of all types are fighting to attract and keep talent. The trends of this new talent-constrained reality—pandemic priority shuffling, working for anyone from anywhere—are driving jaw-dropping salaries. For companies that can’t pay Silicon Valley-sized paychecks, there’s good news. Great talent wants more than money, which is why employers must go beyond offering pay and benefits to attract and keep great people. In this session, culture guru Josh Levine teaches the importance of The Employee Hierarchy of Needs, a five-part strategy that helps employers understand and prioritize what employees want, and how to apply the framework so you can start improving your offer acceptance rate now and keep your talent for the long haul.

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