Robert Richman

Culture Architect and Keynote Speaker, Co-creator of Zappos Insights

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Robert Richman is a culture strategist and was the co-creator of Zappos Insights, an innovative program focused on educating companies on the secrets behind Zappos’ amazing employee culture.

Robert built Zappos Insights from a small website to a thriving multi-million dollar business teaching over 25,000 students per year. Through his work, Robert has been helpful for improving the employee culture at hundreds of companies.

As one of the world’s authorities on employee culture, Robert is a sought after keynote speaker at conferences around the world and has been hired to teach culture in person at companies like Google, Toyota, and Eli Lilly. He has pioneered a number of innovative techniques to build culture, such as bringing improv comedy to the workplace.

 

“Culture drives everything. Once you learn what drives culture, you can design the future”.

 

Robert Richman is author of «The Culture Blueprint», a systematic guide to building a company culture that fosters committed, enthusiastic employees.

Robert shares stories of the strength of the core values at Zappos.com (A company that became the #6 Best Place to Work in America and #1 in Customer Service), then shares the science behind why they work so well. Once you learn the secrets behind how values work, you will know how to shape culture. Robert gives the group a process to use in discovering and then implementing the values across the organization.

Robert’s speeches are a rallying call. People learn the power of culture and how they are directly responsible for creating and maintaining it.  Rather than a lecture, Robert shares inspiring stories and great techniques to create a thriving workplace immediately.

Robert Richman is graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in film, as well as from Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching Program. He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, and he is based out of San Diego (though he’s on the speaking tour most of the time).

Activate your culture.

Robert’s speeches are a rallying call. People learn the power of culture and how they are directly responsible for creating and maintaining it. Rather than a lecture, Robert shares inspiring stories and great techniques to create a thriving workplace immediately.

Built for growth: the values based company.

Engaged employees are productive, efficient, and have a great time. This means low turnover, and highly motivated employees you don’t have to micro manage. Values-based companies have employees who manage and motivate themselves.

Robert shares stories of the strength of the core values at Zappos.com (A company that became the #6 Best Place to Work in America and #1 in Customer Service), then shares the science behind why they work so well.

Once you learn the secrets behind how values work, you will know how to shape culture. Robert gives the group a process to use in discovering and then implementing the values across the organization.

IN THIS KEYNOTE, YOU’LL GET:

Inspiring stories about how companies shifted their industries.
Counter-intuitive principles to actively created disruption (rather than getting disrupted!)
How to create stability in your organization, so that it’s safe to disrupt without jeopardizing the company.
Techniques for shaking up jobs and careers in a way that enlivens people and reinvigorates their passion.
Activate demonstrations, Q&A and live disruption.

Culture hacking.

Culture Hacking a way for anyone at any level to shift the culture. As Culture Strategist for Zappos.com and the manager of Zappos Insights, Robert learned how to create change fast by using the power of hacking for good and applying them to culture. Robert leaves the group with three high leverage tools that can be used immediately to create long-term change.

Audiences are excited to become culture hackers and often report making changes the very next day.

IN THIS KEYNOTE, YOU’LL GET:

How Hackers exploit networks, and what we can learn from them to shift the network of people.
Why it’s better to destroy what’s not working than to spend time and money on initiatives that may not work.
How to turn customer and employee complaints into innovation.
Pre-fabricated culture hacks based on years of testing.
Why standard feedback mechanisms don’t work, and how to hack them.
The secret to learning what is that you don’t know that you don’t know.

The dynamics of disruption.

Change is the new normal. Entire industries are being disrupted. Simply having a great product and service does not guarantee market leadership. And employees who are simply doing a good job is no longer the standard for a world class company.

In this talk Robert shares stories about disruption, and the principles behind it. It then gets really exciting when he shows how they can be applied to your business in a counter-intuitive way. People at all levels of the company will benefit from learning how they can out-do themselves, increasing both performance, as well as people’s passion for their own jobs.

IN THIS KEYNOTE, YOU’LL GET:

How the best organizations in the world keep their people inspired.
Why most culture work is actually the equivalent of spoiling children.
How to take the principles of online gaming and apply them to creating the most engaging experience for employees.
What to look for in new employees and questions that will help you learn the truth immediately.
The #1 metric to measure culture and how one small shift can create massive engagement.

The Culture Blueprint: A Guide to Building the High-Performance Workplace

The Culture Blueprint is a systematic guide to building a company culture. This book is about fostering committed, enthusiastic employees. Distilling his years of experience teaching culture-building to companies like Google, P&G and Amazon, Robert Richman reveals: The Culture Blueprint includes: The complete Culture Toolkit to immediately upgrade your company culture How to make sure your culture attracts the right employees (and repulses the wrong ones) The Core Value Discovery Formula and how to use it to integrate your mission, vision, and values How to apply the 99% Rule to stop annoying your employees Why Unbreakable Rituals are the most underrated tool in your culture arsenal In order to thrive, companies must do more than satisfy their employees; they must create passionate ones. The Culture Blueprint will teach you how to develop a culture that does just that.

The Culture Blueprint: A Guide to Building the High-Performance Workplace

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