Claudette Rowley is the CEO of Cultural Brilliance, a cultural design and change management consultancy and the author of Cultural Brilliance: The DNA of Organizational Excellence (2019). Over the past twenty years, Claudette Rowley has consulted at Fortune 1000 companies, small businesses, academic institutions, and start-ups, helping them create proactive and innovative workplace cultures that deliver outstanding results.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Seth Godin
- Claudette Rowley’s business coaches
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I started it a bit naïvely and really the thing I had to overcome and learn quickly was sales and marketing. Was how to market the business, how to bring your new clients… As many business owners find it’s not the delivery of the service it’s getting the sales that is the bigger challenge and that is something I had to learn H reminders amount about”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life Book by Gregg Michael LevoyFavourite Quote:
“if something doesn’t feel right it probably isn’t right”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Seth Godin author of Seth s blog Discover his free videos, his seminars and workshops and his books
- Real Leaders is the world’s first sustainable business & leadership magazine. They aim to inspire better leaders for a better world; a world of far-sighted, sustainable leadership that helps find solutions to the problems that 7.5 billion people have created on a small planet.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“trust yourself, trust your gut. do your due diligence on everything and make sure that you have dotted your i’s and crossed your t’s so you are not kicking yourself later. And really look at ways to take strategic calculated risks that will drive the business forward”…[Listen for More]
More About Claudette Rowley:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.” Herbert Bayard Swope
Other Quotes From the Chat with Claudette Rowley:
- “you really want to start thinking intentionally and consciously about the kind of culture that you want, and that may be based upon your personality as a founder, it might be based upon what is going to support your business success or probably a combination thereof. That in the beginning is hugely important.”
- “I am a big proponent of my gut feeling and my own intuition and I really follow it. I do back it up with data and information whenever possible… I think gut is really important but I think balancing it with information is just a good way to mitigate your risks”
- “what is the outcome I am trying to achieve and is this the best path to get there or is there another path”
- “you have to have faith in yourself and you really have to trust yourself, you have to have courage”
- “sometimes we aren’t rooted enough in data and information and the reality of the situation”
- “have your vision and ideas but look at reality with your eyes open”
- “make sure your risks are strategic and calculated”
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