South Coast Botanic Garden

in Los Angeles.

We have a show that's a family-friendly Halloween show called Magic of the Jack-O'-Lanterns that's at the South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes.

It's a really nice walkthrough of the botanic garden with thousands of hand-carved pumpkins-

Mm

And today's conversation is about something every organization has, whether we intentionally create it or not, and that's culture.

My guest is Adrian Nakashima, CEO of South Coast Botanic Garden and Foundation, and Adrian and her team have been taking a deep dive into Patrick Lencioni's work on organizational health, particularly the framework he lays out in his book, The Advantage.

Um, his basic premise is provocative but remarkably simple.

Organizational health may ultimately be more important to an organization's success than almost anything else.

Um, but today isn't really a conversation about a book.

It's about what happens when a leader and an organization decide to put those ideas into practice.

We're going to explore the journey South Coast Ca- South Coast Botanic Garden is taking to intentionally build a healthier culture, what that work requires from its leaders, what Adrian is learning along the way, and what she hopes will be different because they made organizational health a priority.

So Adrian, welcome to Lead for Good.