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Scott Overcarsh returns to HR Studio Podcast to share more on the culture at Chick-fil-A, where he spent his entire career until his retirement earlier this year. Scott has just published Is Everybody Happy!?!: Creating Culture Where Success & Happiness Thrive – The Chick-fil-A Way. In this episode, he explains how the underlying philosophy of Chick-fil-A’s founder shaped its culture. He offers advice to HR Leaders who are seeking evidence that employee-centric leadership, policies, and programs can yield improved results. Scott discusses leadership principles and attitudes that are foundational in his last company’s success, as well as approaches to hiring, retaining, and engaging employees.
From age 16, Scott worked at Chick-fil-A and became an expert in its culture, spending years helping restaurant operators be more successful in their work. He led the leadership development program to help operators become more effective in the business. Since his retirement, Scott consults, sharing his knowledge and experience about building an effective and successful culture.
As a strategic coach and keynote speaker, Ash Seddeek works with executives to advance their leadership impact through communications, messaging and storytelling. He currently works with Cisco’s innovation startup teams to help them craft compelling value proposition narratives, clear business models, and to develop winning investor pitches. Ash shares the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Strategic Leaders based on his coaching and book research. He discusses how HR leaders can adopt these habits to position themselves as strategic business partners and internal consultants within their organizations. Ash is a bestselling author and talks about the emphasis on sales and leadership communications with his book, MEANING, and his second bestseller coauthored with Jack Canfield, Road to Success. He is a leadership mentor with Women Unlimited and a communications expert with the American Management Association where his Own it Win it Crush it Success blueprint is featured in the Success Skills for the Next Generation program.
For all show notes, please visit www.hrstudiopodcast.com/ash-seddeek.