Tobias Sturesson: Making culture a habit

How healthy is your organisation’s culture?

As a leader you play a crucial role in creating and sustaining a healthy culture.

My guest in this episode, Tobias Sturesson, is the author of You Can Culture and co-founder of Heart Management. He outlines four critical habits leaders need to build a thriving culture: get humble, get clear, get listening, and get integrity.

He stresses the importance of aligning culture with an organisation’s mission and having a responsible impact by instilling integrity. He also explores the key things leaders can do to make or break workplace cultures.

Finally, Tobias bravely shares what it took to break free from life in a cult, and the personal journey of overcoming complicity in it.

You’ll hear about:

• What are the signs of a healthy culture?
• Knowing when things become unhealthy
• How to define your values
• Delivering in commercial pressure environments
• Develop better habits that improve culture
• Creating culture change in 12 months
• Balancing humble and looking underconfident
• Instilling integrity with the best of you
• Making or breaking an organisation
• Tobias on recovering from living in a cult
• The impact Tobias wants to have on the world

More about Tobias

Having grown up in a religious cult, and later confronted its toxic culture, Tobias Sturesson became a leading advocate for the critical role of cultural health in both business success and human flourishing, striving for a world free from destructive cultures. He is the author of the international bestseller You Can Culture, co-founder of the culture change agency Heart Management, and host of the highly ranked Leading Transformational Change podcast.

• LinkedIn profile
• You Can Culture book
• The Leading Transformational Change podcast 
• Heart Management, the agency