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A community of CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors and other C-Suite leaders who practice and study cultur Unpacking the future of workplace culture.

Culturati brings together the best minds in corporate culture to share playbooks and perspectives, learn, and discuss what it takes to build cultures that drive performance, help employees thrive, and contribute to our communities. The Entrepreneurs Foundation, along with our Knowledge Partners, Microsoft and McKinsey & Company, welcome you to our 2022 Virtual Summit. Building on the in-person Culturati Summit, an invitation-only event held April 3 & 4 in Austin, the open-invitation Virtual Summit on June 6 & 7 features recorded presentations from Cynt Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks; David Brooks, author and NYT's columnist; Andrea Alexander, Chief People Officer of Rent the Runway; Chris Hyams, CEO of Indeed; and more, plus additional content produced specifically for this event. The Virtual Summit focuses on tactical application. Our programming pillars are the pressures CEOs tell us they’re facing now, the context for our conversations. They are the Great Resignation, the Future of Work, and Civil Discourse. Through lines, including Social Capital; the CEO as Chief Communicator; Belonging in DE&I; and the Mental Health Crisis, bring fresh perspective and point to promising approaches to these challenges as well as emerging risks and opportunities. This is an interactive experience (through online, narrated chat) with live emcees. We look forward to seeing you soon! Many thanks to our Knowledge Partners, Microsoft and McKinsey & Company; underwriters: NI, DLA Piper, Indeed, JDI, NXP, and Atlassian; and sponsors: Google, SailPoint, Silicon Labs, Hagerty, Capital Factory, HEB, Total Men’s Health, and Remix Communications for making this event possible. Learn more about the in-person Cuturati 2.0 Summit here: https://www.culturatisummit2022.com/

10/29/2026

AI adoption raises bigger questions than tool selection alone. It forces leaders to decide how fast to move, who owns which decisions, how work itself may need to change, and what value is actually worth scaling.

Join us today at 12:30 p.m. CT for Culturati: LIVE — The CHRO-CIO Partnership with Abby Payne, Chief People Officer at SailPoint; Sreeveni Kancharla, CIO at SailPoint; and John Adcock, Co-Founder of Kinsugi Labs. We’ll explore what it takes for HR and IT to align around enterprise AI in ways that are practical, grounded, and built for real adoption.

Today | 12:30 p.m. CT | Zoom Webinar
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002954100633?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/26/2026

Our next two Culturati: LIVE conversations tackle two of the leadership questions shaping organizations right now: how to lead AI transformation across functions, and how to lead through pressure and complexity.

October 29 | The CHRO–CIO Partnership
Abby Payne, Chief People Officer at SailPoint; Sreeveni Kancharla, CIO at SailPoint; and John Adcock, Co-Founder of Kinsugi Labs, on what it takes to align AI strategy across technology, workforce, governance, and change.

November 10 | Courageous Leadership
Former Austin Mayor Steve Adler joins us for a conversation on courageous leadership and his new book, "Hot Seat, Hot City", drawing on his experience leading Austin through explosive growth, public-safety crises, COVID, and political pressure.

Both sessions are live on Zoom.

Register for one or both: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/culturati-live-30105765430

10/23/2026

Our next Culturati: LIVE brings together leaders working across both sides of enterprise AI transformation: technology and people.

Sreeveni Kancharla, CIO at SailPoint, leads enterprise technology, AI transformation, identity security, and global operations, with experience building AI governance programs and Centers of Excellence.

Abby Payne, Chief People Officer at SailPoint, has helped scale SailPoint’s workforce and culture since 2011, leading global talent strategy, employee experience, and organizational growth.
John Adcock, Co-Founder of Kinsugi Labs, brings 25 years of experience in workforce strategy, organizational psychology, and technology-driven transformation, with a focus on whether leadership decisions actually translate into employee adoption.

Together, they’ll explore what it takes for HR and IT to align AI timelines, outcomes, workforce readiness, and communication across the enterprise.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002954100633?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/23/2026

Consciousness is difficult to define. Part brain science, part philosophy, part spirituality, it turns metaphysical very quickly.

But within leadership, the idea becomes more practical. Purpose and self-awareness work as a pair: knowing what you’re for, while seeing clearly how you’re actually showing up and impacting the people around you.

And then there’s AI. Can a machine ever have an inner experience, or only learn to behave as though it does? If consciousness itself eventually becomes harder to distinguish, perhaps the more important human differentiators will be awe, wonder, compassion, gratitude, and the experiences that connect us to something larger than ourselves.

Inside this week’s On Culture:
→ Scientific American: Why consciousness remains one of science’s hardest problems
→ Ātman: One of the earliest philosophical frameworks for the inner self
→ Michael Pollan: A six-year exploration of consciousness from neuroscience to altered states
→ Forbes Books: Why self-awareness changes how leaders are experienced by others

Read the full issue →
https://www.culturatisummit.com/post/on-culture-consciousness-is-a-complicated-state-to-define-can-ai-achieve-consciousness

10/22/2026

Anthropic is getting a glimpse of what an AI-heavy workforce looks like.

The share of junior employees among its new technical hires has fallen from 27% to 9%. Meanwhile, AI agents are taking on more work, and employees are spending more time in meetings and making decisions.

There's an uncomfortable question buried in those findings. If companies automate the work that once trained their junior employees, how will they develop the people expected to lead in five or ten years?

Anthropic's new workforce research is worth reading: https://www.anthropic.com/research/employment-at-anthropic

10/21/2026

AI decisions are increasingly becoming workforce decisions, and that puts the CHRO–CIO relationship at the center of ex*****on.

At our next Culturati: LIVE, we’ll examine how HR and IT can align around ownership, timing, workforce readiness, and shared outcomes as AI becomes more deeply embedded across the enterprise.

On 10/29 join Abby Payne, Chief People Officer at SailPoint; Sreeveni Kancharla, CIO at SailPoint; and John Adcock, Co-Founder of Kinsugi Labs, for a practical conversation on where alignment breaks down and what stronger partnership looks like in practice.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002954100633?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/16/2026

More of a company’s value now lives in the intellectual capital of its people. Is that shift helping kill off the alpha manager?

Command and control made more sense when leaders were managing machines, inventory, and tightly defined processes. Today, the work increasingly depends on judgment, creativity, trust, and the ability to help other people succeed.

Servant leadership offers a different model: listening, empathy, development, stewardship, and removing the obstacles that keep teams from doing their best work. As Eugene writes this week, decency provides the moral foundation, civility creates the operating framework, and kindness turns those principles into action.

Inside this week’s On Culture:
→ McKinsey: Why the relationship with a manager can shape both job and life satisfaction
→ The Jack Welch way: Leadership as the work of growing others
→ Stephen R. Covey: Why servant leadership demands accountability, not softness
→ Deseret News: A case for civility over confrontation in public leadership

Read the full issue →
https://www.culturatisummit.com/post/on-culture-the-death-of-the-alpha-manager-the-resurgence-of-servant-leadership

10/14/2026

AI may be powered by technology, but whether it succeeds inside an organization depends just as much on people. As companies move from experimentation to enterprise adoption, CHROs and CIOs are being asked to navigate the same transformation from different sides—technology and governance on one, workforce, skills, culture, and change on the other.

Join Abby Payne, Chief People Officer at SailPoint; Sreeveni Kancharla, Chief Information Officer at SailPoint; and John Adcock, Co-Founder of Kinsugi Labs, for a candid conversation about what effective CHRO–CIO partnership looks like in practice. Together, they’ll explore how HR and IT can align priorities and timelines, clarify ownership, establish governance, communicate change, and create the conditions for AI adoption to succeed.

REGISTER:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002954100633?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/09/2026

What happens when leaders give employees a real voice?

Opening communication across an organization can feel risky. Leaders give up some control over the conversation and create space for employees to say things they did not script or approve in advance.
Gidi Pridor has seen that fear play out across organizations. His experience suggests that when employees are trusted with a voice, they often respond with greater responsibility, creating content, carrying ideas across the organization, and helping shape the culture themselves.

As Gidi puts it: “You get less control, but you actually get a system that’s alive.”

Watch Gidi Pridor and Adam Murphy’s full 2C26 keynote, From Broadcast to Network: A New System for Culture, on Culturati: On Demand. https://www.culturatisummit.com/culturati-on-demand?wix-vod-video-id=8f8a1c0516564a3da0022420b4812515&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-mnrtoro6

10/07/2026

Opening the conversation means giving up some control over it.

That can make leaders uncomfortable. But control also limits who gets to shape the conversation in the first place. At AMC, giving frontline employees greater access created something bigger than another communications channel: employees began creating and carrying more of the culture themselves.

Associates launched their own podcast and produced hundreds of episodes. Theater teams created local spaces where employees could connect before ever working a shift together. Leaders moved from occasional posts to livestreams, unscripted updates and conversations accessible across the workforce.

The result was a culture with more people participating in how it was experienced, shared and reinforced across the organization.

Watch Gidi Pridor and Adam Murphy’s full 2C26 keynote, From Broadcast to Network: A New System for Culture, on Culturati: On Demand. https://www.culturatisummit.com/culturati-on-demand?wix-vod-video-id=8f8a1c0516564a3da0022420b4812515&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-mnrtoro6

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