Open-Mic: Culture Is Not Wallpaper - It Is the Foundation.

*This is a recorded event. Those who speak "on stage" will be featured in the resulting WorkCookie Podcast and WorkCookie Video Podcast episodes.

Description: Organizations spend billions on strategy, technology, and process redesign, and then wonder why results do not follow. The answer is almost always the same: culture was treated as an afterthought rather than the operating system beneath everything else.

When culture is decorative, change is cosmetic. When culture is infrastructure, transformation is sustainable.

In this session, we will explore what it actually means to treat culture as a structural priority, not a values poster on a wall or a town hall theme, but the invisible architecture that determines whether your people can execute, innovate, and withstand pressure. We will also examine what organizations get wrong, what the research tells us, and what a different approach looks like in practice.