Company Culture

Spoken-word performance from poet Azure Antoinette

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After a year of uncertainty and even downsizing, many companies are whiplashing this year into high-growth mode, needing to hire quickly to meet the needs of a fast-moving recovery. Meanwhile, their employees are becoming part of the “Great Resignation,” moving to new opportunities or rethinking their careers. Our panel will look at ways to maintain a great culture and retain your top performers amid volatility.

Lattice’s All Hands podcast will debut a very special episode featuring host Katelin Holloway and her mentor in HR, Katarina Berg, Spotify’s CHRO. In their conversation, Katarina explains the importance of “controlled chaos” in building innovative companies and HR processes, why “no two other roles that should choose each other as much as the CEO should choose his CHRO and vice versa,” the power of a “walk and talk” as a forum for great leadership and connection, and finding connectivity and community in the “great experiment” of hybrid work and “work from anywhere.”

Lattice CEO Jack Altman reflects on the last two years of unprecedented change, and how strong HR leadership, a focus on People Strategy, and an emphasis on empathy are helping companies build robust, adaptable, high-performance cultures strong enough to weather all the challenges that come their way.

One thing that has started happening more and more this year: many organizations are starting to see that empathizing with employees, showing them compassion, is no longer just a “nice-to-have” — it’s a must. And many of us are rethinking their approach for how they lead with empathy and how to manage with compassion. Adam Grant shares his thoughts for areas where he has begun his own rethinking on these questions.

How important is company culture? Company culture needs to be one of the top three priorities of your company and encouraged by HR and other leaders in the company. Otherwise, the company culture will naturally build itself.

Listen to these panelists share their insights and discuss the rewards that come from having a strong company culture.

HR and People Operations roles at companies were evolving well before the events of last year. High growth coupled with competition for talent drove companies to care more about building a great culture and creating workplaces where people felt they could do their best work, grow, and belong. And that put Chief People Officers and similar roles in huge demand. And the last year has only heightened HR’s importance with new needs and new roles within organizations.
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Our panel will explore what HR leaders need to know as they develop strategies and grow their teams to meet the coming challenges employees and companies will face.

Companies want to build a culture that leads with empathy but also cultivates high performance. While that decision needs to start at the top, carrying out that strategy often falls to managers. So how do you cultivate and empower self-aware, emotionally intelligent managers? In this session, our panel will talk over how to make empathy a holistic part of your culture from the top down, show how performance and empathy aren’t at odds, and give practical advice on how to build an empathetic manager practice.

Building workplaces that value and drive diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging has become a major priority for many companies. However, for companies with employees, vendors, or customers across different parts of the world, building a cohesive DEIB strategy can be a challenge. Our panel of People and DEIB leaders will talk over establishing values as well as their best practices for helping make DEIB work across very different teams.

Working sustainably isn’t about chasing a perfect (and unrealistic) state of equilibrium between your personal and professional life. In this session, Chloe Sesta Jacobs, Global Director of Inclusion and Engagement at Deputy, will share how the pandemic profoundly changed her understanding of what “balance” really means as a People leader. She’ll walk through what she’s discovered and will share actionable advice on how to transform your relationship with work and yourself.