Call for Culture

Excited to share that our paper Cultivating Workplace Culture: Unveiling the Hidden Roots a Comprehensive Guide to Transforming your Organization’s Culture for Sustainable Success was accepted to SSRN (an open platform for the sharing of early-stage research)! Thank you to our research partners Dara Murray + Jennifer Tolisano for helping to bring to life our Call for Culture methodology research on a dual method for culture change. In this paper learn: 1. Why you have to look beyond what you see when it comes to workplace culture 2. What creates toxic workplaces, and why culture change matters for the bottom line 3. How each approach, when used singularly, falls short 4. The critical features of top-down and bottom-up culture change that make each effective 5. The 5 action steps you can take to implement a dual approach to culture change BONUS: a checklist for successful, human-centered leaders You can access the full research paper by signing up to our newsletter, Voices for Change: https://lnkd.in/gPiT4QsC Or by reading the abstract here; https://lnkd.in/gTu6nwVa

I can’t think of a better way to kick off the New Year than to welcome Brandon Z. Hoff to our 2025 Call for Culture Impact Lab speaker line up! He is the Founder of the Responsible Use of Digital Intelligence (RUDI) Initiative and champions ethical AI adoption to drive community development, workforce equity, and digital transformation. At RUDI, they empower community-based organizations through responsible AI integration by bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI technologies and real-world challenges. Their approach builds capacity, fosters innovation, and improves services for the communities that need them most. At the lab, Brandon will work with attendees to explore how to reimagine the role of work in society by embracing community-driven approaches and emerging technologies. Drawing from his experience in inclusive economics, cooperatives, and employee ownership, we will discuss how historically disenfranchised communities—particularly the Black community—have built resilience through collective efforts, and how we must return to these roots in the face of rapidly advancing technology. This topic at the intersection of cooperative economics, generative AI, and community wealth-building will not only help us address how these elements can transform the future of work, but also how we can empower workers, especially in underserved and underrepresented communities, to create pathways for both individual growth and collective progress. Learn more about Brandon and RUDI: https://lnkd.in/gaszWXaW Join Brandon and register for Culture Impact Lab 2025: https://lnkd.in/grx6zSbz

Culture Impact Lab 2025 Speaker Announcement! 📣 We’re excited to welcome June Kaewsith from Your Story Medicine LLC to the line-up of speakers for Call for Culture Impact Lab 2025! June is a Wellness Consultant & Life Doula at Your Story Medicine and brings a holistic approach to combining mindfulness practices with culturally responsive frameworks to ensure that leaders are equipped to create equitable, welcoming workplaces. June’s story is an inspiring one, and her approach invites changemakers to look beyond the urgency of the present moment and instead adopt a long-term, ancestral perspective—a paradigm shift that encourages us to reimagine ourselves as future ancestors. During her session (“Envisioning Ourselves as Future Ancestors: The Stories We’ll Tell”) , she will invite participants to engage in a 500-year visioning process. Instead of focusing solely on the next five years or immediate organizational goals, she challenges leaders to think of themselves as future ancestors—what kind of world do you want to leave behind for future generations? This shift from short-term planning to legacy thinking allows individuals to break free from the reactive, often trauma-driven approaches that dominate the field and instead move toward creating a foundation of collective wellness and justice. Attendees will leave with mindfulness tools and a renewed sense of purpose, ready to embody their mission within their organizations. This session reminds us that the revolution begins within and invites us to think beyond immediate goals, envisioning a future where our actions create a legacy for future generations. Join us in this nourishing and immersive experience that empowers you to lead with intention, embrace joy, and act as a steward of a better tomorrow, ultimately redefining the role of work in society. Register for the Culture Impact Lab 2025: https://lnkd.in/grx6zSbz Check out June’s TedX Talk “How to Connect with Your Ancestors”: https://lnkd.in/giZ6gzTe #cultureimpactlab25

Culture Impact Lab 2025 Speaker Announcement! 📣 We’re excited to welcome back Theon Hill to the Call for Culture Impact Lab in 2025! Dr. Theon E. Hill serves as Associate Professor of Communication at Wheaton College and is The Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow. His work focuses on the relationship between rhetoric and social change as a form of civic engagement and public advocacy. When we think about organizational change and culture, we don’t always equate it to the world of politics, but places of work can and *are* political. His talk last year “Leading Social Change Through Strategic Communications” focused on social change models powered by strategic communications. Dr. Theon Hill was an undeniable Lab favorite, and we can’t wait to have him back to speak to our community again in 2025!

She’s back after a year long break! Welcome back to Social Responsibility at Work where we advocate for building workplaces where people, purpose and progress come together. Not only are we reviving social responsibility at work, but we’re also taking things to an entirely new level by integrating it in with our Call for Culture annual conference, the Culture Impact Lab - an equity centered conference for work and change leaders. Catch episodes starting in the New Year. Follow and subscribe to get insights, stories, and advocacy from Call for Culture and our special guests back in your podcast rotation! 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gPdcnGwh

Meet Our Call for Culture Impact Lab Speaker: The Founder of Evolving Minds, Anthony Sartori! Anthony is the executive director and founder of Evolving Minds, a mental health nonprofit on a mission to create a culture of care in workplaces nationwide. Their Connected Cultures program is grounded in the US Surgeon General’s Workplace Mental Health and Well-being Framework and is a model that educates about the essential elements of a healthy workplace. Evolving Minds also just recently got accepted into the John Hopkins Social Innovation Lab 👏🏽 After graduating from the University of Maryland with a degree in psychology, Anthony launched this initiative during the early days of the pandemic, turning his own experience with workplace stress and isolation into a movement for cultural change. By empowering leaders and teams with actionable tools like mindfulness, gratitude, and emotional intelligence, he has proven that small, intentional actions can drive transformative impact. Register: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/grx6zSbz More on Evolving Minds: https://lnkd.in/gAS_Rtyb #WorkplaceWellbeing #MentalHealthLeadership #CultureImpactLab #ConnectedCultures #EmpathyInLeadership #CultureImpactLab25

Culture Impact Lab 2025 Speaker Announcement! 📣 Have y’all met Ramona Robles, MS, SPHR ? If not, you need to. And you can at Culture Impact Lab 2025! 🔗 to register: https://lnkd.in/grx6zSbz Ramona is the eldest daughter in a Mexican family, a first-generation professional, and an industrial/organizational psychology expert who is no stranger to navigating and embracing the space between dualities. By embracing the duality of equity-centered work as both a means of survival and a pathway for creating a better future, Ramona will share her story and her expertise in working with leaders to reimagine work as a transformative force that shapes not just businesses, but the communities they serve. This timely talk will provide participants with a challenge to shift from “Binaries to Bridges” and build around adaptability, resilience, and responsiveness in an ever-changing business and societal landscape. #cultureimpactlab25

We’re excited to announce and welcome Jasmine Williams-Jacobs as a Call for Culture Impact 2025 speaker! Jasmine is the Director of Black Remote She LLC , a community-driven platform for Black queer, trans, nonbinary people and allies interested in working remotely. Through the platform, they connect Black LGBTQ2SIA+ people with equitable and gender-affirming workplaces and resources, as well as reinforce accountability and transparency from organizations to center and prioritize employee wellness, anti-oppressive principles, and harm reduction in the workplace. Jasmine will discuss reinforcing equity, psychological safety, and inclusion in the workplace with transparency, accountability, and harm reduction as tools for change. Examining diversity, equity, and inclusion at its’ core, they will also address the importance of centering employee wellness and anti-oppressive principles, dismantling power dynamics, and how to set up systems and tools benefiting those most impacted by systemic oppression. Register today and see our full list of speakers: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gJfT_ffx More on Black Remote She: The platform engages in community-based practices by providing free access to a community-informed job board, curated events focused on reallocating career and mutual aid resources to the community, and a resource hub, which includes fellowships, wellness funds and sabbaticals, workplace legal support, community grants, and online support groups in gender-affirming spaces.

We’re thrilled to announce Qasim Rashid, Esq. as the opening speaker for the Call for Culture Impact Lab! Qasim is a renowned human rights attorney, author, and advocate whose work centers on justice, equity, and designing systems that create opportunity for all. His powerful insights on building cultural empathy and driving meaningful change align perfectly with our mission to create impact at the intersection of work and social change. Qasim will kick us off with a thought-provoking discussion that will frame up the landscape of worker’s rights, economic justice, and human rights issues and the role of business leaders and organizations to build cultures and systems that do good for people and humanity. If it’s happening in the world, it’s happening at work and Qasim will help us set and understand the burning platform ahead so can continue to lead and advocate the future of equity-centered work. Register today and see our full list of speakers: https://lnkd.in/gJfT_ffx Be sure to subscribe to Qasim’s Weekly Re-cap: Let’s Address This (we are!). It’s a deep dive into the human rights issues affecting humanity. Pulling from his experience as a human rights lawyer—he brings the receipts to disentangle fact from fiction and advance the fight for universal human rights. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eJgwwRaF

Will you be attending.. 👀 The equity-centered conference for work and culture change leaders? Where you’re in a space designed just for you to pour into yourself in a holistic way. Where you don’t just hear from experts, but you work side by side with them too. Where leaders find their voice, movements start, and work gets organized to create a better world and better world of work. Where reimagining better shifts to reframing action. Where you find “your people.” Join us and 100 other work and culture change leaders on May 14 + 15 in Chicago at the 2nd annual Call for Culture Impact Lab. We’re expecting registrations to heat up in the New Year, so if you’ve been thinking about joining us, be sure to register or look into our tuition grant to join. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/grx6zSbz #cultureimpactlab25 #voicesforchange