Jody Thompson is the CEO and Founding Principal of CultureRx®, headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Daniel Pink recognized her as one of six business thinkers who get it, who understand how to redesign work for the future. If you are ready for a new narrative, someone who will challenge the way you think about work, you will appreciate how quickly Thompson engages your thinking.
In addition to receiving accolades as a future of work thought leader and international keynote speaker, Thompson’s work receives high praise from a number of business journals. She has been featured on the covers of BusinessWeek, Workforce Management Magazine, HR Magazine, and HR Executive Magazine, as well as in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME Magazine, USA Today, The New Yorker, and on Good Morning America, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, and MPR.
She has co-authored two best-selling books on the modern workplace and contemporary management principles: Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It; and Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It.
Thompson works with select organizations to bring them to a state of sustainable high performance. For over 15 years she has personally facilitated the change management communication and training process in organizations across multiple industries with a variety of roles, including retail, manufacturing, government, creative professional services, financial services, healthcare, IT, publishing, and education in both the private and public sectors. Her clients consistently see increases in productivity, employee engagement, client satisfaction, improved employee health and well-being, and the ability to attract the best talent from all generations.
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Testimonials for Jody Thompson:
- If you are looking to elevate your thinking on leadership, management and the way we work, you need to book Jody Thompson. Jody’s provocative and ground-breaking thinking on how to build a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) had our audience sitting up and paying attention. Her ability to challenge old ways of thinking about work with humour and directness is grounded with real-world experience that was highly relatable to our audience. Refreshing, pointed but still fun, Jody is the whole package. I could not recommend her highly enough. – G.R.M., PRESIDENT, THE ROUNDTABLE VERIFIED @GOROUNDTABLE.COM
- The presentation to our Best Practices Conference was thought provoking, insightful, not to mention hilarious. Jody kept an audience of hard-nosed operators, and sometimes cynical human resources officers, engaged, challenged and informed about the seismic shift in workplace values that will ultimately impact everyone in the service sector. ROWE is a concept that might be slightly ahead of its time, but she is right in time to deliver the thought leadership that can change organizations. – J.T.D., CEO, PEOPLE REPORT VERIFIED @BLACKBOXINTELLIGENCE.COM
- Thank you for your brilliant facilitation of our Leadership Seminar. The buzz hasn’t stopped! ROWE is a complete game changer for today’s workforce. The philosophy of managing the work and not the people will help our organization engage the RIGHT people for the RIGHT roles and will no doubt help us reach our goal of being THE place to work. With growing expectations, the principle of completing our work when and how we need to is life changing for many. – W.H., EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, ATB BUSINESS AND AGRICULTURE VERIFIED @GMAIL.COM