Mike Perk
Culture As Strategy
Serial entrepreneur, Mike Perk, shares a practical framework to help entrepreneurs cultivate the best culture for their business.
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About This Recipe
Mike helps entrepreneurs understand organisational culture and introduces a four-lever framework to help them shift it. Discover what your culture is, whether it’s working for you, and how to change it. Reflecting on his years of experience, Mike navigates entrepreneurs through every stage of transformation. Dig in to achieve your business goals while supporting both your organisation and your people.
What You'll Learn
- Understand how culture was born.
- Create the right culture for your business.
- Find out where entrepreneurs go wrong with work culture.
- Learn the four levers to shift culture.
- Determine whether your culture works for you.
- Prepare for the challenges of changing culture.
- Unpack the stages of cultural transformation.
- Find out why entrepreneurs struggle with change.
- Develop both people and culture.
- Take the first step to influencing culture.
Is This Recipe For You?
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Who Is Our Heavy Chef?
Mike Perk is a partner at consulting firm GrayFeather Consulting, and a founding partner of VCTR, a transport technology solutions company. He is also a founding partner of Heavy Chef and a director at Piper Dynamometers. Since the mid-1990s, Mike has helped leaders grow and transform their organisations for the digital age. Through GrayFeather Consulting, he works with executives and HR teams to build Future Fit leadership and drive the cultural change needed for digital transformation. His focus includes developing more agile and exploratory leadership, fostering collaboration, and creating kinder, more human workplaces. Mike has worked across sectors with clients such as Estée Lauder, iStore, Hyundai, City of Cape Town, Rand Merchant Bank, Virgin Mobile, Jaguar Land Rover, and Woolworths. He also brings his passion for technology and culture into VCTR and Piper Dynamometers, and is the author of HopePunk: A Guide for Optimists, Bettering Workplaces.
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