Thought Leader

Shelley Smith is a culture curator, executive coach, talent optimizer, and CEO of Premier Rapport, whose work helps companies transform their workplace cultures. Her strong entrepreneurial spirit comes from her background and a family with generations of entrepreneurs. Shelley shares stories from her childhood and the lessons she learned from her father’s words. Shelley is very passionate about culture in the corporate world and also in mid-size businesses. She explains why companies should align their culture with their values and why employees are now more interested in that alignment. We discuss the modern tsunami of resignations and why people stay in unhealthy environments and toxic workplaces.

Show Notes

🖼️ Purple swirls behind Shelley makes her happy. 00:45
🧐 What causes issues for the employee’s engagement with the employer. 02:03
🧪 Culture is changing: toxic cultures cause a  tsunami of resignations. 04:00
🌺 Clashing of our work lives and our personal lives: its impact on younger generations and the gig economy. 06:04
😫 Bad employees can’t stay in the workspace for long, but a lousy employer is there to stay. 08:30
🧈 Why do people feel trapped: “Suck it up Buttercup” mentality and perspective. 10:27
👧🏻 Working as a nine-year-old girl: flea market auction house, a girl who enjoyed freedom and independence. 14:09 
👨‍👧 Shelley’s dad had a fantastic gift of engaging and selling: a resilient daughter. 18:08
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⚡ She visualized herself to be a CEO from a very young age. 19:56
🩹 Learning from scars, experiences, and life: slow simmer versus a quick instapot. 21:12
🎙️ Shelley has a few podcasts:  The Morning Commute is a daily show with short culture messages.  23:08
 
 
 
Connect with Shelley: www.linkedin.com/in/shelleydsmithpremierrapport
🤓 Connect with us: www.resonateengine.com
▶️ Check us out at: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com
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What is Thought Leader?

We put scare quotes around the term “thought leader.” Don't worry - no hagiographic interviews here. No upsells, no bullshit.

We have great conversations with true innovators, thinkers, disrupters, creatives, and a few fools. (You decide.) We ask them all for insights, stories and tools. (You'll laugh, you'll shout, you might fall asleep. It's all good.)

We are all thought leaders. Think more. Lead better.