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Culture
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How’s your culture? Find out with this team worksheet designed to help you assess your current culture and brainstorm your next steps for shaping it.

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Core Values
Worksheet

Improve your collaboration with your team. Use this visual as a tool to learn about the values your team members hold near and dear!

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PB&J 1x1
Worksheet

Want better 1-on-1 meetings? This tool will help you gauge your employee’s wellbeing, engagement, and overall success, so you can support and encourage them.

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Keynote Videos

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San Diego, A House Fire, and the Circle of Control

How to Understand and Improve Your Team Culture

In this keynote segment, corporate leadership expert Lisa Even shifts from storytelling to strategy, helping leaders understand how to truly analyze and improve their team culture.

She encourages leaders to take a closer look at their “crew” and identify what people enjoy, what they dislike, and most importantly, why.

Lisa explains that great culture work begins with curiosity. Instead of assuming everyone feels the same way about team events, communication styles, or work habits, she suggests asking thoughtful questions and listening with intention. By paying attention to what energizes or frustrates team members, leaders gain valuable insights into how their people experience work.

Lisa’s key message is that strong cultures are built on awareness, empathy, and action. When leaders take the time to understand their team’s perspective, they create space for collaboration, engagement, and growth.

Culture Is What’s Normal: The Everyday Habits That Shape Your Team

In this segment, corporate leadership expert Lisa Even breaks down what culture really is and invites leaders to take a closer look at their own teams.

She explains that culture isn’t built by slogans or posters, it’s created by our everyday ways of being, the traditions, habits, and beliefs we practice often without even realizing it.

Lisa encourages her audience to visualize a specific team or department and reflect on two questions: What’s their attitude? and What’s normal to see? From casual comments after meetings (“That could’ve been an email”) to shared frustrations (“Why does everyone hit reply all?”), these little moments reveal what’s truly accepted within a workplace.

Through humor and relatable storytelling, including a new nurse asking if “they take a lunch” and being told, “We work until the work is done,” Lisa reminds us that culture lives in these small, unspoken norms. It’s the collection of everyday choices and behaviors that define who we are as a team and how we work together.

How Your Values Shapes the Way You Lead

In this video segment, corporate leadership expert Lisa Even invites leaders to pause and reflect on how they became who they are.

As she connects the ideas of culture and personal values, she challenges her audience to identify their top three values and consider where those values came from.

Lisa shares a personal example: “meaningful work,” a value she traces back to her dad. A man of few words, he often told her, “We might not have more money than the next guy, but we know how to work hard.” That belief fueled Lisa’s drive to always outwork everyone around her, a strength that eventually led to burnout. Over time, she realized joy needed to move higher on her list, inspiring her to write a book about finding both joy and meaningful work.

Through this exercise, Lisa reminds leaders that our values are rarely random. They are shaped by the people and experiences that have influenced us, including parents, mentors, and coworkers, and they continue to define how we show up, lead, and contribute to the cultures we create.

Leader Takes (Quick hit leadership insights)

Leader Take #1: How to have better 1x1s with your team

I often hear from leaders that they're either doing 1x1s and they're not getting a whole lot out of them, or they've really just decided they're not doing them at all (not giving them much benefit or value). And that's where I call a big time out. My one-on-ones as a leader are the most important touch point in communication. Here's a quick tip on how you can make better one-on-one experiences.

Leader Take #2: It's not your job to make your team members happy, but you are the Cruise Director

It's not your job to make your team members happy. But here's the thing, you are the cruise director. If you've ever been on a cruise or even been to an all-inclusive resort, there is someone whose job it is to really consider and create the experience and be thinking about what activities and experiences do we offer. Here's an engagement strategy for creating better experiences.

Leader Take #3: The Bad Apple Effect

One toxic behavior can quietly shape an entire team culture. In this quick Leader Take, I break down the “bad apple effect,” why negative attitudes spread so quickly, and a practical 3-step strategy leaders can use to address it before it impacts performance, trust, and team standards.

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We’re either helping people launch or compressing them.

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The Leadership Hangover

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Do Nothing or Something? That is the Question

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Have Good Ripple Effect

A Leadership & Life Podcast

Have Good Ripple Effect explores how small moments create big impact...at work, at home, and everywhere in between. Hosted by Lisa Even, each episode dives into the science and strategy of intentional life and leadership design.

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Tools and Insights for Creating a Good Ripple Effect Anywhere You Are

Resources

Keynote Videos

San Diego, A House Fire, and the Circle of Control

How to Understand and Improve Your Team Culture

Analyzing Culture Attitudes, Norms, Beliefs

Culture Is What’s Normal: The Everyday Habits That Shape Your Team

Values Shape Experiences and Team Culture

How Your Values Shapes the Way You Lead

Leader Take #1: How to have better 1x1s with your team

Leader Take #2: It's not your job to make your team members happy, but you are the Cruise Director

Leader Take #3: The Bad Apple Effect

Articles

We’re either helping people launch or compressing them.

The Leadership Hangover

Do Nothing or Something? That is the Question