Culturati Summit

Culturati Summit 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 Cul

turati 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/

What if emotional fitness is not a personal wellness concern, but a business operating condition?In our upcoming Cultura...
05/29/2026

What if emotional fitness is not a personal wellness concern, but a business operating condition?

In our upcoming Culturati: LIVE session, neuroscientist Paul J. Zak will build on his Culturati: Summit 2C26 conversations to explore how trust, emotional regulation, and physiological readiness shape the way people think, connect, and perform at work.

Drawing from decades of research on oxytocin, human connection, and organizational performance, Paul will unpack why emotionally fit teams are better equipped to navigate stress, build trust quickly, sustain engagement, and make sound decisions in complex environments.

This conversation moves emotional fitness out of the realm of “soft skills” and into the operating system of business: measurable, trainable, and directly tied to resilience, collaboration, innovation, and ex*****on.

Sign up for LIVE on Tuesday, June 23 at Noon CT: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1990594360317?aff=oddtdtcreator

The workplace is having a strange week to talk about human value.Memorial Day asked us to honor sacrifice, including the...
05/29/2026

The workplace is having a strange week to talk about human value.

Memorial Day asked us to honor sacrifice, including the burdens people carry after the visible duty ends. And Mental Health Awareness Month has brought the larger workforce’s struggles into focus, with many employees saying they are in survival mode, struggling to access care, or considering quitting because of their mental health.

At the same time, companies are cutting headcount, debating HR’s value, and using phrases like “lower value human capital,” as if people become less human when they become less economically convenient.

Humans still matter because organizations still run on belief, context, courage, memory, care, and the willingness to keep showing up for one another. Mental health belongs in that conversation. The healthier the people, the stronger the system.

Inside this week’s On Culture:
→ ExtensisHR: Mental health support as a lever for retention, trust, and performance
→ Lyra: Access is up, outcomes lag; benefits need measurable recovery
→ Spring Health: Time and cost block care; AI uncertainty adds pressure
→ APA Foundation: Burnout is widespread; training and stigma reduction matter
→ Texas Veterans Commission: Healing starts with honesty, community, and peer support

Read the full issue → https://www.culturatisummit.com/post/on-culture-about-that-lower-value-human-capital-comment

Last week’s Culturati: LIVE session with Brian Johnson landed on a practical point: confidence under pressure is not bui...
05/27/2026

Last week’s Culturati: LIVE session with Brian Johnson landed on a practical point: confidence under pressure is not built in the moment. It is built in advance.

His framework includes three things leaders can actually work on now: define the protocol that keeps you at your best, manage energy as seriously as time, and make your identity standard explicit enough to guide behavior when pressure rises.

Visit https://www.heroic.us/ to find out more about building antifragile confidence with Brian Johnson and the Heroic team.

When Friedrich Nietzsche wrote “God is dead,” he was describing the collapse of a moral framework that had organized Wes...
05/22/2026

When Friedrich Nietzsche wrote “God is dead,” he was describing the collapse of a moral framework that had organized Western society for centuries. Charlie Sull’s “culture is dead” struck me similarly this week: a recognition that another organizing principle may be breaking down—the belief that institutions carry responsibility for the humans operating inside them.

Inside this week’s On Culture:
→ Fortune: AI layoffs aren’t correlating with stronger returns (Gartner)
→ Deloitte: “Cultural debt” builds as AI outpaces trust and alignment
→ Wired: Meta’s profit surge alongside collapsing morale and fear
→ Harvard Business Review: Augmentation beats automation for adoption and wellbeing
→ Fair Play Talks: Layoff expectation, burnout, and distrust are compounding

Read the full issue → https://www.culturatisummit.com/post/on-culture-culture-is-dead

05/21/2026

Reading the headlines is not a preparedness strategy.

Connor Haseley of Ergo argues that executives need a better way to think about geopolitical, economic, and other exogenous risk. Less as episodic disruption, more as part of the operating environment.

The goal is not to predict every headline. It is to be less surprised by the ones that matter.

If your team is running on pressure, urgency, and depleted energy, this conversation is for you.Today at Culturati: LIVE...
05/20/2026

If your team is running on pressure, urgency, and depleted energy, this conversation is for you.

Today at Culturati: LIVE, Brian Johnson will break down a practical framework for building antifragile confidence across individuals, teams and organizations.

The session will explore why confidence is trainable, why energy management outperforms time management, and why leaders who define “who we are at our best” create stronger standards, trust, and ex*****on.

Join us today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988833510568?aff=oddtdtcreator

When the external signals are this consequential, preparedness becomes an operating discipline. . . The World Bank proje...
05/19/2026

When the external signals are this consequential, preparedness becomes an operating discipline. . .

The World Bank projects energy prices to rise 24% this year and overall commodity prices 16%. The WTO expects merchandise trade growth to slow from 4.6% in 2025 to 1.9% in 2026, with a durable oil shock cutting that to 1.4%.

Connor Haseley’s 2C26 breakout: preparedness starts before the headline. Define what ready looks like, identify the issues that matter most, track the right indicators, and decide in advance how the business will respond.

Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey calls Heroic “the best self-development platform in the world.” Behind that praise is...
05/18/2026

Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey calls Heroic “the best self-development platform in the world.” Behind that praise is Brian Johnson’s work with an extraordinary range of elite performers, including UFC champions, Cy Young winners, Olympians, executive teams, and leaders operating in some of the highest-pressure environments imaginable.

Brian joined our keynote panel, “The Biology of Courage”, and led the breakout session “Forging Antifragile Confidence: The Leadership Operating System for Human Flourishing”. This Wednesday, May 20, he brings that conversation to a wider audience through Culturati: LIVE at 12 p.m. CT.

Brian is the founder & CEO of Heroic, author of “Areté”, and creator of Philosopher’s Notes. Over the past two decades, he has translated ancient wisdom, behavioral science, and performance psychology into a practical system for helping individuals and teams build antifragile confidence: the ability to grow stronger through challenge while strengthening trust, culture, and performance.
Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988833510568?aff=oddtdtcreator

What if AI’s first great disruption is not labor, but taste?Not taste in the aesthetic sense. Taste in the executive sen...
05/15/2026

What if AI’s first great disruption is not labor, but taste?

Not taste in the aesthetic sense. Taste in the executive sense. Judgment. Discernment. Instinct. The human ability to recognize when a decision expands possibility, strengthens identity, and creates energy instead of reinforcing the AI-generated sameness creeping into strategy, culture, and leadership.

Inside this week’s On Culture:
→ Harvard Business Review: How AI agents can flatten strategic differentiation
→ MIT Sloan Management Review: Why responsible AI depends on human expertise
→ Fortune: Managing AI agents as operational coworkers
→ Wired: What stressed AI agents reveal about workplace systems
→ The Guardian: How AI surveillance reshapes worker autonomy

Read the full issue → https://www.culturatisummit.com/post/on-culture-the-death-of-taste

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