Robert Richman | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

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Speaker

Culture Hackers

Degrees (2)

Radio/TV/Film

Northwestern University

1994 to 1998

Leadership Coaching

Georgetown University

2003 to 2004

Bio

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About Robert

Robert Richman is a culture hacker, and was Culture Strategist at Zappos. He co-created Zappos Insights, an innovative program focused on educating companies on the secrets behind Zappos’ amazing employee culture.

Together with CEO Tony Hsieh, Robert built Zappos Insights from a small website to a thriving multi-million dollar business teaching over 25,000 students per year. Through his work, Robert has been helpful for improving the employee culture at hundreds of companies.

As one of the world’s authorities on employee culture, Robert is a sought after keynote speaker at conferences around the world and has been hired to teach culture in person at companies like Google, Toyota, and Eli Lilly. He has pioneered a number of innovative techniques to build culture, such as bringing improv comedy to the workplace.

Robert graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in film, as well as from Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching Program. He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council

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Presentations

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World Class Company Culture

Engaged employees are productive, efficient, and have a great time. This means low turnover, and highly motivated employees you don’t have to micro manage. Values-based companies have employees who manage and motivate themselves.

Robert shares stories of the strength of the core values at Zappos.com (A company that became the #6 Best Place to Work in America and #1 in Customer Service), then shares the science behind why they work so well.

Once you learn the secrets behind how values work, you will know how to shape culture. Robert gives the group a process to use in discovering and then implementing the values across the organization.

Culture Hacking

Culture Hacking is a way for anyone at any level to shift the culture. As Culture Strategist for Zappos.com and the manager of Zappos Insights, Robert learned how to create change fast by using the power of hacking for good and applying them to culture. Robert leaves the group with three high leverage tools that can be used immediately to create long-term change.

Audiences are excited to become culture hackers and often report making changes the very next day.

IN THIS KEYNOTE, YOU’LL GET:
How Hackers exploit networks, and what we can learn from them to shift the network of people.

Why it’s better to destroy what’s not working than to spend time and money on initiatives that may not work.

How to turn customer and employee complaints into innovation.

Pre-fabricated culture hacks based on years of testing.

Why standard feedback mechanisms don’t work, and how to hack them.

The secret to learning what is it that you don’t know that you don’t know.

Dynamic Disruption

THE DYNAMICS OF DISRUPTION
Change is the new normal. Entire industries are being disrupted. Simply having a great product and service does not guarantee market leadership. And employees who are simply doing a good job is no longer the standard for a world class company.

In this talk Robert shares stories about disruption, and the principles behind it. It then gets really exciting when he shows how they can be applied to your business in a counter-intuitive way. People at all levels of the company will benefit from learning how they can out-do themselves, increasing both performance, as well as people’s passion for their own jobs.

Workshops (1)

Open Space: The Crowdsourced Event

4 hours

The smartest people in the room are your own people. So why should strategy be determined by only the top brass or an outside consultant?