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What does it take to keep your people’s fire alive—and build organizations where everyone can thrive?

In this episode of The Culture Coach Podcast, Wendy Brand sits down with Telle Whitney—computer scientist, co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, former CEO of the Anita Borg Institute, and author of Rebooting Tech Culture: How to Ignite Innovation and Build Organizations Where Everyone Can Thrive.

Telle brings decades of experience leading in technology and building communities for women in computing. Together, we explore:

💡 Why so many employees enter organizations with passion and leave a few years later feeling burned out or undervalued
💡 Telle’s Six Cs of Culture—creativity, courage, confidence, curiosity, communication, and community—and how leaders can bring them to life
💡 How to move beyond the numbers and create environments where people’s best ideas can flourish
💡 The critical role of storytelling, collaboration, and belonging in driving innovation
💡 Practical ways leaders can model curiosity, encourage courage, and design more inclusive workplaces

If you’re a leader who wants to build an intentional culture that keeps people engaged, inspired, and performing at their best, this conversation is for you.

Connect with Telle Whitney

🌐 Website: tellewhitney.com
📖 Book: Rebooting Tech Culture

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🌐 Website: culturecoachwendy.com

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With 25+ years of leadership experience, spanning multiple roles across corporations and non-profits, I have gained a wealth of experience in understanding what makes organizations successful.

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In this episode, Wendy Brand unpacks why clarity and focus are the quickest wins for CEOs and culture leaders. Without them, even the best teams slip into misalignment, decision fatigue, and constant firefighting. With them, leaders reclaim their energy, teams align around what matters, and culture becomes the system that drives results.

You’ll hear:

• Why clarity is the foundation of every thriving culture
• The difference between clarity and focus—and why you need both
• The hidden costs of operating without clarity (and how to stop paying them)
• A simple 3-step practice to reclaim clarity and focus in just 30 days

If you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying the weight of your business alone, this episode will show you how clarity creates momentum and focus protects it.

✨ Ready to put this into action?
At the end of September, I kick off two programs designed to help you operationalize culture and lead with energy, clarity, and confidence.

Sign up today!

• The Empowered CEO – A 6-month accelerator for women CEOs ready to stop being the bottleneck and start building a self-managing culture. https://culturecoachwendy.com/ceo/
• Culture Strategy Lab – A quarterly implementation community for CEOs, HR leaders, and founders who are done talking about culture and ready to build it into their systems. https://culturecoachwendy.com/strategylab/

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With 25+ years of leadership experience, spanning multiple roles across corporations and non-profits, I have gained a wealth of experience in understanding what makes organizations successful.

The Empowered C.E.O.: https://culturecoachwendy.com/ceo/

Culture Strategy Session Calls:
https://culturecoachwendy.com/strategysessions/

CONNECT WITH ME
Website: CultureCoachWendy.com
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/wendybrand/
Instram: Instagram.com/culturecoachwendy
YouTube: YouTube.com/@CultureCoachWendy

The CultureCoach Podcast Page: CultureCoachWendy.com/podcasts/

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This week, I break down each of the five biggest reasons culture transformations fail—straight out of the latest Harvard Business Review article and echoed in my own work with organizations.

Learn practical ways leaders can avoid these pitfalls and build an intentional culture that actually sticks.

And if you’re ready to go deeper:
👉 Join the Culture Strategy Lab ($57/month community launching Sept. 29) for coaching, frameworks, and real-world solutions. https://culturecoachwendy.com/strategylab/

👉 Explore Culture Strategy Sprints (3-month group intensives) if you want to map and execute your next culture initiative. https://culturecoachwendy.com/strategysprints

👉 Or, for CEOs ready to lead from the front, The Empowered CEO opens in September with a strategy retreat in Texas Hill Country this January. https://culturecoachwendy.com/ceo/

Culture isn’t a side project. It’s your strategy.
How are you making sure yours doesn’t fail?

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With 25+ years of leadership experience, spanning multiple roles across corporations and non-profits, I have gained a wealth of experience in understanding what makes organizations successful.

The Empowered C.E.O.: https://culturecoachwendy.com/ceo/

Culture Strategy Session Calls:
https://culturecoachwendy.com/strategysessions/

CONNECT WITH ME
Website: CultureCoachWendy.com
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/wendybrand/
Instram: Instagram.com/culturecoachwendy
YouTube: YouTube.com/@CultureCoachWendy

The CultureCoach Podcast Page: CultureCoachWendy.com/podcasts/