134: Prioritise Connection...with...Natalie Johnson

And for those that aren't familiar with your work, what are you normally doing on a day-to-day vital work? What is the nature of your business?

We are a culture transformation firm.

We are based here in the U.S. We have a small firm, about 13 of us, and we help teams and organizations to create intentional culture.

Our purpose is to elevate and preserve human relationships as the world is evolving.

And we believe that culture is the way that we relate to each other.

So in real life, that means that myself and our team members are either out there doing trainings at meetings or doing keynote events, or we're really deep in the work of discovery and learning about teams and companies.

So we can come up with a longer term strategic plan around how to optimize their culture.

Great.

Right.

What is it that you love about that? I can tell that you do.

So what is it that really lights your fire in this?

Especially these days, Simon, where there's so much change and so much technological advancement, it feels really important to me to have this opportunity to go into companies and point out and help people understand how important the human relationships are, because you can have all the technology you want in the world, but we as human beings don't tend to react to change and technology advancements in a way that connects us.

We more naturally, from a human performance standpoint, tend to react to change and not connect to each other.

And so it feels really important to me to have this opportunity to elevate and preserve relationships, especially as technology is integrating the workplace.

Yeah, such a critical moment for us.

I think making decisions, setting precedents for how we respond to those circumstances.

I love that.

I'm sure we'll cover some of those things in more detail as we go through the conversation.