E28: DEI, Engagement, and Org Health: Beyond the Symptoms w/Julie Diamond, PhD.

"Culture feels squishy to a lot of people. It is squishy and hard to quantify. When you look at visible and observable behaviors - how people show up - you start to get data that gives you an organizational diagnosis of where and why people are experiencing the organization. Culture is often defined by the worst behavior tolerated. How do people treat the lowest ranking member in your organization? That is the picture of culture that people experience." ~ Julie Diamond Julie Diamond, CEO, and founder of Diamond Leadership joins us in this second part of this three-part series looking at the value and cost of culture for organizations going through transition and growth. Julie dives into the way power-specific assessments can be a useful diagnostic tool in looking at culture through everyday work behavior and insight into drivers for cultural health: job satisfaction, turnover, and retention. The practical and actionable insights Julie brings through her work make this podcast a must for anyone interested in working for organizational health, DEI, and combating burnout. She has spent her entire career creating transformational growth experiences for leaders and organizations around the world for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, labor unions, and international NGOs. She is the developer of Power Intelligence®, a framework and set of competencies for helping leaders understand how to use power and authority with greater impact and effectiveness. Her special passion is to help leaders not only be their best but be able to bring out the best in the people they lead. And her area of focus for the past 30 years has been on the topic of power, a topic that is often misunderstood and maligned. Her latest book, Power: A User’s Guide, is a  handbook for using power effectively and ethically, no matter what role you’re in. We are Open Circle is a certified provider of her DPA and DPI tools, and Adam is a certified Diamond Power Coach.  Connect with us if you want to learn more, and go deeper than the symptoms to find real solutions.