Kyndryl: Culture Transformation, 3Fs Concept, Empowerment & Inclusivity - Episode 88

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Our guest is Maryjo Charbonnier - Chief HR Officer at Kyndryl, an IBM spin-off that is one of the largest startups in corporate history. In her role, Maryjo is responsible for the design and implementation of all human resources strategies, policies, and processes.

Kyndryl is a talent-centric company and Maryjo is proud to be at the helm of their global effort to become the employer of choice in the more than 60 countries where they operate – supporting people to advance their skills and careers as they deliver for their customers. With more than 90,000 experts globally, Kyndryls are restless to power the future and operate as a startup -- flat, fast, and focused.

Prior to joining Kyndryl, Maryjo was also an HR executive in a variety of leadership roles at Wolters Kluwer, Broadridge Financial Solutions, and PepsiCo.

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

• Kyndryl's culture change and transformation process and journey after separating from IBM
  
  
• How for the 1st time in history Kyndryl gathered all their 800 top leaders together to talk about culture and empathetic leadership
  
  
• How Kyndryl created leadership behaviors and reworked the language, messaging, surveys, rewards, celebrations, and symbols around those 
  
  
• How to drive empowerment and inclusivity
  
• Kyndryl 3Fs concept (flat, fast, focused)
  
  

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