Creating Synergy Podcast #74 - Aga Bajer, CEO of CultureBrained® & Host of The CultureLabs Podcast, on how to Create a World Class Culture
Aga Bajer is an expert in corporate culture and is currently the Founder and CEO of CultureBrained® Which is a one-of-its-kind, virtual community of leaders looking for new ways of cultivating remarkable cultures at scale in this brave new world of work.
On top of this, Aga runs her own consultancy firm, is an author, a keynote speaker, and a fellow podcast cast host, where she runs the world-renowned podcast The Culture Lab where every interview is of the highest level, and where she has interviewed World Leading thought leaders such as Simon Sinek, Frances Frei and Seth Godin.
Aga is one of the foremost experts in Corporate Culture and over the past 20 years, she has been helping companies pay attention to their culture in a way that produces desirable results. From VC-courting startups to Fortune 500, she has worked on cultivating remarkable cultures that scale and that help people do the best work of their careers first, as part of consultancies such as HayGroup, Korn Ferry, and PwC – and later as the founder of her own consulting firm, Aga Bajer & Associates.
On today’s show, Aga shares her journey from founding and leading an Ice Cream company, to consulting, and now becoming the CEO of CultureBriains and Host of the very well known podcast The Culture Lab.
We deep-dived into a range of topics such as:
- Her podcasting journey
- Her love for learning and reading books
- Aga's thoughts on the area's leaders and organisations should concentrate on first when looking to embark on the large scale change
- The three pillars to a thriving culture, based on Aga's research: Fun, Meaning and Belonging
- How to deal with that Brilliant Jerk that you see in lots of teams
- Statistics on the Returns on Investment if you decide to invest in your organisation's culture, and how to actually manage a culture transformation if you are about to embark on that change
Books mentioned in this episode:
- Building and sustaining a Coaching Culture - By David Clutterbuck, David Megginson, Agnieszka Bajer
- Free time - By Jenny Blake
Where to find Aga Bajer:
Join the conversation on Synergy IQ on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram (@synergyiq) and please support other leaders by liking, subscribing and sharing this podcast.
Access SynergyIQ Website to get to know more about us.
Say hello to our host Daniel Franco on LinkedIn.