Jim Reid: How to Build Great Leaders to Shape a Winning Culture - Episode 78

Our guest is Jim Reid - Author of 'Leading To Greatness’ and Former Chief HR Officer at Rogers Communications.

An accomplished executive and trusted advisor to seven CEOs, Jim has navigated significant change and immense pressure to build winning teams that outperform competitors.

Originally trained as a military pilot, Jim built his expertise working alongside some of the best thinkers on leadership including Jim Collins, Jeffrey Pfeffer, John Kotter, and Dave Ulrich.

Jim’s new book ‘Leading to Greatness’ combines the best research on high performance with over 30 years of observing what the very best leaders do differently to excel. It provides an actionable, practical playbook for all leaders to take their leadership in work and life to the next level.

Jim is also recognized as one of the 50 Best Executives in Canada by The Globe & Mail’s Report on Business Magazine.

In this episode of Scaling Culture, Ron and Jim discuss:

• Jim's personal journey from being a military pilot to working with Jim Collins to joining Rogers Communications as a CHRO
• The Role of a leader in shaping culture and why and how best leaders are different
• Roger's culture transformation and key reasons and initiatives that Roger’s implemented during that change
• Jim's book Leading to Greatness and his coaching work helping leaders perform at their best and strategies on how to prevent burnout

For more information about Jim, his book ‘Leading to Greatness’ or his coaching work, please follow him on LinkedIn. 
 
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