Agility Champions: CEOs on Time-Competitive Execution
CultureX Co-Founders Don and Charlie Sull interview CEOs of leading companies about how they cultivate agility: the ability to execute strategy in a time-competitive manner and effectively respond to turbulence that the AI era presents.
Episodes
11 episodes
Agility Champions: Jacqueline Arthur, CHRO, Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is a titan of finance but, for a giant, it is remarkably dynamic. Our MIT research has identified the company as an Agility Champion.Agility is a strategic dimension of culture that allows a firm to respond to changing mark...
Agility Champions: Kunal Kapoor, CEO, Morningstar
Kunal Kapoor is the CEO of Morningstar. In 1984, Morningstar was founded out of a Chicago apartment, named after a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote. The company aimed to empower investors to make more successful decisions by providing them...
Agility Champions: Craig Kliethermes, CEO, RLI Insurance Company
Craig Kliethermes is the CEO of RLI Insurance CompanyIn 1961, Gerald Stephens founded Replacement Lens Inc to offer a novel insurance policy that covered the cost of replacing contact lenses. As the price of contacts fell over time, insu...
Culture Champions: Adam Holton, CPO, GE HealthCare
Adam Holton is the Chief People Officer of GE HealthCare. General Electric entered the healthcare more than one hundred years ago. In January 2023, GE HealthCare was spun off from General Electric as a publicly traded company with m...
Agility Champions: Steve Richman, CEO, Techtronic Industries
When Steve joined Milwaukee Tool as president in 2007, the company was 83 years old and sold a limited range of traditional power toolsDuring his tenure as president, Steve led a remarkable transformation of the company’s strategy and cu...
Culture Champions: Loren Shuster, CPO, The LEGO Group
Loren Shuster is the Chief People Officer at the LEGO Group.92 years after its founding in Billund, Denmark, the LEGO Group today ranks first among most reputable companies in the world, according to RepTrak’s 2024 list. The world’s larg...
Culture Champions: Sharon Macbeath, CHRO, Hermès
Sharon MacBeath is the seniormost executive responsible for human resources at Hermès, where she sits on the company’s executive board. Hermès was founded in 1837 when expert leather maker Thierry Hermès opened a Paris workshop to m...
Agility Champions: Manny Maceda, Worldwide Managing Partner, Bain & Company
Manny Maceda has the unique distinction of being the seniormost leader of the best-led company in America, according to Glassdoor’s 2024 Best-Led Companies list. Bain and Company, which Manny led as Worldwide Managing Partner up un...
Agility Champions: Jim Whitehurst, Ex-CEO, Red Hat
Jim Whitehurst has the distinction of leading not one, two companies who were Culture Champions at the time of his leadership: Delta and Red Hat. As Chief Operating Officer, Jim navigated Delta through a hostile takeover bid and ban...
Culture Champions: Marvin Boakye, CHRO, Cummins
Marvin Boakye is the Chief Human Resources Officer of Cummins, where he oversees all aspects of recruitment, people operations, learning and development, culture, and the employee experience.Cummins is a manufacturer and distributor of e...
Culture Champions: Katie Burke, CPO, Hubspot
During Katie Burke’s tenure as Chief People Officer, HubSpot was one of the brightest stars of the tech universe that shone both culturally and financially. HubSpot boasted the highest average culture rating within the enterprise so...
