When we focus on people, people thrive!
It turns out that research now knows what our hearts have known all along. What we want in life and business is to be valued as people, and to create value for others. That means putting people first, putting human connection first. VP Culture is what fuels our lives and our organizations. It excites us to thrive. We have built a blueprint that trains leaders and cultures. When your people thrive your business thrives.
Randal Weidenaar
Culture Expert, Researcher,
Author, Consultant
Randal Weidenaar is the founder of the VP Culture. He founded it out of a passion to make organizations what they really should be, a place where business and relationships thrive. His research indicated that when people give and receive value it fostered life-giving human thriving and it also fueled business growth. However, when human value was made secondary to the bottom line, it destroyed both the people and the bottom line. The VP Culture was born to help organizations become people focused on valuing people.
RESEARCHER
Randal is a behavioral and organizational psychologist. In the process of authoring his books on organizational culture creation, he surveyed a vast amount of literature and culture systems. This led him to scientifically-based solutions to improve corporate cultures. Randal has his master’s degree from London Metropolitan University and has studied Business Process Design at MIT Sloan School of Management, Culture-Driven Team Building at the University of Pennsylvania, Fundamentals of Neuroscience at Harvard-x, and Quantitative Research Methods at the University of Amsterdam.
CULTURAL EXPERT
Randal was educated in Europe and lived there for ten years. There, he worked with teams of diverse national backgrounds from every continent. His work brought him in contact with diverse socio-economic strata from Wall Street consultants to poverty-stricken refugees on the streets of Greece. Randal uses his cultural insight, and anthropological education to spot the norms and values that shape organizational cultures.
MARKETING MOTIVATOR
He owned the Chicago-based Ergo Marketing Communications in the 90s and currently owns Notionfront Marketing. He has worked with major New York City firms, with non-profits, with large corporations like US Cellular and with local governments. Marketing gave him unique insights into the motivational heuristics that lie beneath the obvious. Additionally, this experience also brought him in contact with countless c-level executives and business cultures.
PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT
Randal is also the director of Grace Encounter, an inner healing workshop. It is an immersive interactive workshop that helps people work through past wounding and personal issues. This gave him insight into the transformational power of intentionally structured workshops to bring personal growth.
RANDAL’S BOOK
These four threads of research, culture, marketing and psychology wove together to form the powerful synthesis that resulted in Randal’s seminal work “The Ultimate Why”. The book is based on the one thing that motivates all people and cultures. His concepts work universally across cultures, backgrounds, and diverse workplaces.
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