Cultivate your Culture by Zoran Stojković | A Podcast for Leaders

Zoran Stojkovic
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Cultivate Your Culture is the podcast where we decode how leaders create environments where teams thrive and do their best work. Each episode features pioneers in team dynamics and culture—from business, sport, and the military—sharing clear, practical techniques to build, evolve, and measure culture. With over 92,000 hours of our lives spent at work, the real difference comes down to relationships—and when those flourish, results follow. I’m your host, Zoran Stojković. I help people build habits and behaviors that unleash their greatness and create lasting impact. Cultivate Your Culture is produced by me through Kizo, my leadership coaching practice that helps teams achieve results while building cultures that make a positive mark on the world.  Learn more at kizo.ca/

  1. 11/18/2021

    How to Ignite Improvisation, Adaptability and Learning with Travis Thomas | S02E05

    Travis Thomas, Leadership and Team Dynamics Coach for the US Men's National Soccer Team talks about how he has helped shift the culture on the national team, how improvisation can boost results and build adaptability, and how to use reflection to supercharge learning. In today's episode, you'll learn: How he has helped shift the culture at the US Men's National Soccer TeamHow improvisation can build adaptability and boost resultsWhen and how to build in reflection to supercharge learningVisit www.kizo.ca/podcast to get extra resources or join our mailing list. Our guest, Travis Thomas is the Leadership and Team Dynamics Coach for the US Men’s National Soccer Team. Travis is a performance coach, speaker and author of the book “3 Words for Getting Unstuck: Live Yes, And.” He uses the principles of improvisation to teach mindset, collaboration, and culture, based on his 20+ years as a performer.  Connect with Travis on LinkedIn, Twitter,  Facebook, Instagram, visit his website, or buy his book. Cultivate your Culture is a show that decodes how leaders can create environments where their teams do their best work and flourish. Our guests are pioneers in team dynamics and culture from the worlds of business, military and sport. Hear them share simple, straightforward techniques that you could use with your team to set up, evolve and measure culture. The host, Zoran Stojkovic helps people build habits and behaviors that unleash their inner greatness so that they can contribute positively to the world. Through his company, Kizo, he equips organizations and people with culture and mindset tools to reach full engagement through powerful workshops, memorable keynotes, and transformative individual consultations. Cultivate Your Culture is produced by Kizo, a leadership coaching organization helping teams to get the results they want so that they can positively impact the world. To learn more about the services Kizo can provide for your team, please check out our website at kizo.ca/about.  Support the show

    49 min

  2. 11/11/2021

    Building Toronto Blue Jays Culture with Mark Shapiro | S02E04

    Mark Shapiro, President and CEO at the Toronto Blue Jays talks about how the Blue Jays came up with their values, how to deal with star performers who have a negative impact on culture, and why it’s important to align the person we are with the leader we are. In today's episode, you'll learn: How the Blue Jays came up with their values and who was part of that processHow to deal with star performers who have a negative impact on cultureHow to create a framework to make great decisions Why it’s important to align the person you are with the leader you areVisit www.kizo.ca/podcast to get extra resources or join our mailing list. Our guest, Mark Shapiro is the President and CEO at the Toronto Blue Jays. Widely considered one of MLB’s top executives, Mark has been named Executive of the year multiple times. He spent 24 seasons in Cleveland, where he quickly moved up the ranks, and has been with the Blue Jays since 2015 and recently re-signed another 5 year contract extension. Mark and I met and talked at a sports conference in Toronto in 2018. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Cultivate your Culture is a show that decodes how leaders can create environments where their teams do their best work and flourish. Our guests are pioneers in team dynamics and culture from the worlds of business, military and sport. Hear them share simple, straightforward techniques that you could use with your team to set up, evolve and measure culture. The host, Zoran Stojkovic helps people build habits and behaviors that unleash their inner greatness so that they can contribute positively to the world. Through his company, Kizo, he equips organizations and people with culture and mindset tools to reach full engagement through powerful workshops, memorable keynotes, and transformative individual consultations. Cultivate Your Culture is produced by Kizo, a leadership coaching organization helping teams to get the results they want so that they can positively impact the world. To learn more about the services Kizo can provide for your team, please check out our website at kizo.ca/about. Support the show

    43 min

  3. 11/04/2021

    How to Harness Equity in your Team with Rita Sever | S02E03

    Rita Sever, founder of Supervision Matters talks about how to harness equity (not equality), what hidden rules are and how to change the toxic ones, and how to hire people who promote equity. In today's episode, you'll learn: How to harness equity in your team and organizationWhy teams need equity, and not equalityWhat hidden rules are and how to change the toxic onesHow to tailor recruiting practices to hire people who promote equityVisit www.kizo.ca/podcast to get extra resources or join our mailing list. Our guest is Rita Sever, founder of Supervision Matters, a company that coaches organizations on how to improve culture, supervision and HR. With an MA in Organizational Psychology, Rita has taught at University of San Francisco and Sonoma State University in California. Her new book, Leading for Justice: Supervision, HR and Culture, is a practical look at how we build justice organizations that are connected, efficient, and resilient. Connect with Rita on Twitter, LinkedIn, or through Supervision Matters. Her book can be bought on Amazon. Cultivate your Culture is a show that decodes how leaders can create environments where their teams do their best work and flourish. Our guests are pioneers in team dynamics and culture from the worlds of business, military and sport. Hear them share simple, straightforward techniques that you could use with your team to set up, evolve and measure culture. The host, Zoran Stojkovic helps people build habits and behaviors that unleash their inner greatness so that they can contribute positively to the world. Through his company, Kizo, he equips organizations and people with culture and mindset tools to reach full engagement through powerful workshops, memorable keynotes, and transformative individual consultations. Cultivate Your Culture is produced by Kizo, a leadership coaching organization helping teams to get the results they want so that they can positively impact the world. To learn more about the services Kizo can provide for your team, please check out our website at kizo.ca/about.  Support the show

    38 min

  4. 10/28/2021

    How to Cultivate Powerful Relationships with Theresa Ito | S02E02

    Theresa Ito, Principal at Blue Mountain Solutions talks about the three dials leaders need to keep in check, how to set up honest communication in your team, and how to accelerate the evolution of culture change. In today's episode, you'll learn: The three dials leaders need to keep in checkWhy honest communication starts with the leaders firstHow to set up honest communication in your team How to accelerate the evolution of culture changeVisit www.kizo.ca/podcast to get extra resources or join our mailing list.   Our guest is Teresa Ito, principal of Blue Mountain Solutions, a leadership and customer service development company. Teresa has worked in leadership internationally for over 30 years and delivers sessions in person and online that are filled with leadership best practices, useful anecdotes, and a healthy dose of humor. One thing that really came across in our conversation is how passionate Teresa is about people and relationships. Connect with Theresa on Instagram, LinkedIn, or through Blue Mountain Solutions. Cultivate your Culture is a show that decodes how leaders can create environments where their teams do their best work and flourish. Our guests are pioneers in team dynamics and culture from the worlds of business, military and sport. Hear them share simple, straightforward techniques that you could use with your team to set up, evolve and measure culture. The host, Zoran Stojkovic helps people build habits and behaviors that unleash their inner greatness so that they can contribute positively to the world. Through his company, Kizo, he equips organizations and people with culture and mindset tools to reach full engagement through powerful workshops, memorable keynotes, and transformative individual consultations. Cultivate Your Culture is produced by Kizo, a leadership coaching organization helping teams to get the results they want so that they can positively impact the world. To learn more about the services Kizo can provide for your team, please check out our website at kizo.ca/about.  Support the show

    46 min

  5. 10/28/2021

    How to Analyze Culture with Bryce Tully | S02E01

    Bryce Tully, CEO at Innerlogic shares ways to measure culture, questions you can ask your team to build cohesion, and how implicit learning can level up the systems in your team. In today's episode, you'll learn: Four questions you can ask your team today to build alignmentWhy the system you set up in your team has the biggest impact on cultureWhat implicit learning is and how to leverage it to build a better cultureHow to measure and analyze cultureVisit www.kizo.ca/podcast to get extra resources or join our mailing list. This week we talk with Bryce Tully, CEO at Innerlogic, a software company devoted to helping organizations enhance the measurement and tracking of team culture and emotional health. Bryce is also a sport scientist in the Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic and has been to 2 Olympic games supporting national teams. His work focuses primarily on building high-performance cultures, learning environments, and individual athlete optimization strategies. Connect with Bryce on Twitter, LinkedIn, or through innerlogic. Cultivate your Culture is a show that decodes how leaders can create environments where their teams do their best work and flourish. Our guests are pioneers in team dynamics and culture from the worlds of business, military and sport. Hear them share simple, straightforward techniques that you could use with your team to set up, evolve and measure culture.  The host, Zoran Stojkovic helps people build habits and behaviors that unleash their inner greatness so that they can contribute positively to the world. Through his company, Kizo, he equips organizations and people with culture and mindset tools to reach full engagement through powerful workshops, memorable keynotes, and transformative individual consultations. Cultivate Your Culture is produced by Kizo, a leadership coaching organization helping teams to get the results they want so that they can positively impact the world. To learn more about the services Kizo can provide for your team, please check out our website at kizo.ca/about.  Support the show

    41 min

  6. TRAILER

    Trailer: Cultivate your Culture

    Hey, welcome to Cultivate your Culture! This is a podcast where we decode how leaders can create environments where their teams do their best work and flourish. Our guests are pioneers in team dynamics and culture from the worlds of business, military & sport. Hear them share simple, straightforward techniques to set up, evolve and measure culture. With over 92,000 hours spent working, let’s focus on the relationships and the results will follow. I'm your host, Zoran Stojković and I help people build habits and behaviours that unleash their inner greatness so that they can contribute positively to the world. Now let’s get into today’s episode. -- Cultivate your Culture is produced by Kizo, a leadership coaching organization helping teams get the results they want so that they positively impact the world. To learn more about the services Kizo can provide for your team, please check out our website at https://www.kizo.ca/about. Support the show

    1 min

  7. 03/18/2021

    How to Develop Character with Adam Kreek | S01E10

    In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we talk with Adam Kreek, who is and Olympian and one of North America’s top Executive Business Coaches. He shares easy-to-apply principles for developing character as a leader, why results and commitment are both important, and how to deal with pushback with culture change. This is the last episode in Season 1. Season 2 of Cultivate your Culture is returning in fall 2021! Adam Kreek is one of North America’s top Executive Business Coaches, who specializes in leadership development and strategic planning. He has degrees and certifications from Stanford University, UBC Sauder School of Business, and Queens Smith School of Business. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Victoria and teaches strategies and skills of self-leadership, leadership, high performance and perseverance to corporate and government teams globally through keynotes, workshops and online seminars. Adam has coached, trained and taught hundreds of thousands of people, including teams at Microsoft, General Electric and Mercedes-Benz. As an Entrepreneur, Adam runs two small corporations – KreekSpeak Business Solutions and Ergo Eco Solutions, a low carbon initiative that connects small businesses with small governments. Long-term clients include leadership teams from the Aerospace, Finance, Public Service, Nutrition and Clean Energy Sectors. A two-time Olympian, Adam holds 60 international medals, including Olympic Gold, and multiple hall of fame inductions. In 2013, Adam made the first-ever attempt to row unsupported across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America, the subject of the NBC Dateline Documentary, Capsized. Adam’s bestselling book, The Responsibility Ethic, teaches us the how of self-leadership, driving personal and professional results in individuals and organizations. Connect with Adam on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, or through his website. The host, Zoran Stojkovic believes that we are all born to flourish in work and life. Through his company, Kizo, he equips organizations and people with culture and mindset tools to reach full engagement through powerful workshops, memorable keynotes, and transformative individual consultations. Support the show

    53 min

  8. 03/11/2021

    How to Shape a Winning Environment with Nadine Dubina | S01E09

    In this episode of Cultivate your Culture, we talk with Nadine Dubina, who is the former Associate Director of Coach Development for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. She blends her passion for coaching with an experiential learning facilitation style to create coach development workshops, courses, and presentations that are unique, practical, and purposeful. Nadine collaborated on creating the 6 guiding principles of the USOPC’s Quality Coaching Framework and uses this as the basis for all of her coaching work. Nadine earned a B.S. in Athletic Coaching Education from West Virginia University, an M.A. in Sport Psychology from California State University, Fresno and is currently pursuing her Ed.D in Coaching and Teaching Studies at West Virginia University. She was a competitive gymnast and has coached and judged gymnastics at various levels over the past decade. She shares easy-to-use principles for getting the boat moving on culture change, various models on leadership, and how to navigate the change process. Connect with Nadine on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram. The host, Zoran Stojkovic believes that we are all born to flourish in work and life. Through his company, Kizo, he equips organizations and people with culture and mindset tools to reach full engagement through powerful workshops, memorable keynotes, and transformative individual consultations. Support the show

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Cultivate Your Culture is the podcast where we decode how leaders create environments where teams thrive and do their best work. Each episode features pioneers in team dynamics and culture—from business, sport, and the military—sharing clear, practical techniques to build, evolve, and measure culture. With over 92,000 hours of our lives spent at work, the real difference comes down to relationships—and when those flourish, results follow. I’m your host, Zoran Stojković. I help people build habits and behaviors that unleash their greatness and create lasting impact. Cultivate Your Culture is produced by me through Kizo, my leadership coaching practice that helps teams achieve results while building cultures that make a positive mark on the world.  Learn more at kizo.ca/

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