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Culture Eats Strategy: The Ripple Effect of a Healthy Workplace with Jay Doran
Is your company culture silently working against you?
You can have the best strategy, a killer product, and all the right hires, but if your culture is off, everything feels harder than it should be. You can’t fake a healthy work environment, and deep down, your team knows when things feel transactional, unsafe, or hollow. If you’ve ever wondered why great people leave or why momentum stalls even when the numbers look good, this episode will hit home.
Jay Doran is a culture consultant, speaker, and founder of Culture Matters. He’s spent over a decade studying the invisible forces that shape how people show up, lead, and build inside organizations. From interviewing thought leaders to coaching companies on their “cultural DNA,” Jay brings a sharp lens and real-world insight into what it actually takes to create an environment where people thrive and why most leaders get it wrong.
Ready to find out what your business feels like from the inside out? Hit play for a raw, eye-opening convo on hiring misfires, founder blind spots, team trust issues, leadership energy, and why “culture” is way more than values on a wall.
“Culture matters because people matter." —Jay Doran
Episode Highlights:
- 02:58 From Anxiety to Action
- 07:27 The Importance of Writing Down Goals
- 12:52 The Role of Culture in Business
- 17:22 Culture Starts from the Top
- 22:06 The Impact of Adversity on Leadership
- 33:03 The Role of Purpose in Business
- 40:19 The Role of Exposure in Growth
- 45:19 Life is About Experiencing It
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Connect with Jay:
Jay Doran has spent the majority of his life studying people, business, and entrepreneurs, and after all of that studying, he has come to one simple conclusion: culture matters. In his pursuit of knowledge, Jay has become a coach, advisor, and mentor to founders and CEOs across a myriad of different businesses and business landscapes. With his philosophy of reading to think, writing to develop, listening to hear what is unsaid, speaking to let go, and embracing conflict as it comes, Jay has helped the leaders of organizations to grow their businesses and, more importantly, grow as leaders.
As the founder and CEO of Culture Matters, an advisory and consulting firm helping companies exceed their potential without losing sight of why they started in the first place, Jay is singularly focused on helping others achieve their goals. Jay specifically advises the founders and CEOs of organizations and, based on the specific needs of the culture, Culture Matters is there to assist in whatever capacity is necessary
Quotes:
02:02 “Invisible threads are the strongest ties.” —Jay Doran
05:19 “Writing down a goal can turn anxiety into movement, into impulse, into drive, into motion.” —Jay Doran
07:32 “At any given time, there’s more than one of us vying for dominance over who we are and who we can be.” —Jay Doran
10:21 “Have a vision and write it down. Write it down so it registers deeper into your subconscious mind.” —Daniel Gomez
12:37 “So many people don’t have a desired outcome, so they get stuck in the UN-preparation.” —Daniel Gomez
13:55 “Culture starts at the top; it starts with the leader.” —Daniel Gomez
15:40 “Culture matters because people matter.” —Jay Doran
21:44 “Sometimes you have to fall from grace because it makes you a better person in the long run.” —Daniel Gomez
22:34 “Culture where people are thinking long-term and are able to responsibly face impulse short-term — they’re going to lift the most people in the good times and in the worst times, they come together.” —Jay Doran
24:01 “Profit is the scorecard of culture. But the question is: what timeline are we on? And the strongest cultures have the longest timeline.” —Jay Doran
25:37 “When the tide goes out and you’re exposed, what does the world see?” —Daniel Gomez
26:43 “Too many businesses contract way too much, and when you contract way too much, it’s hard to keep the momentum of sales growth and morale up.” —Daniel Gomez
27:26 “My enemy’s contempt for me helps my prayers be heard.” —Jay Doran
28:05 “There’s a grain of truth in all criticism.” —Jay Doran
29:06 “So the more the leader suffers, it changes the context of how the people suffer.” —Jay Doran
34:59 “Without the vision, the people perish. We need a leader; so work!” —Jay Doran
39:20 “It doesn’t matter who you are. Your life has to have meaning and purpose. So if you lose your purpose, you’re gone.” —Daniel Gomez
39:58 “To have a purpose, you have to go through that process of saying, ‘what do I want?’ and go through that process of clarifying it.” —Jay Doran
43:20 “One of the great ways to grow to what you’re exposed to is to be exposed to bigger and better environments. You grow to what you’re exposed to.” —Daniel Gomez
