The Lean Solutions Podcast — 43: Workplace Culture with Siobhan McHale

This week I’m speaking with Siobhan McHale, the Executive General Manager of People, Culture & Change (HR) at DuluxGroup and the author of The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change: Creating a Workplace that Delivers, Grows, and Adapts.

Siobhan and I talk about the importance of workplace culture and the steps you need to take to bring about a culture change in your workplace.

What You’ll Learn This Episode:

  • What is workplace culture?
  • The typical patterns of workplace culture
  • Creating culture change in the workplace
  • Role reframing and how it relates to workplace culture
  • The steps to take to bring about culture shift

About the Guest:

Siobhan (pronounced ‘Shiv-awn’) McHale is the Executive General Manager of People, Culture & Change (HR) at DuluxGroup a paints company based in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change: Creating a Workplace that Delivers, Grows, and Adapts.

Siobhan has worked across four continents, helping thousands of leaders to create more agile and productive workplaces. She has been on the “inside”, as the executive in charge of culture change in a series of multinational organizations. One of these inside jobs was a radical seven-year change initiative at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) that transformed it from the lowest-performing bank in the country into one of the highest-performing banks in the world.

Important Links:

https://www.siobhanmchale.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchalesiobhan/?originalSubdomain=au

https://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Guide-Culture-Change-Workplace/dp/1400214653

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