A Dual Approach to Shifting Culture with Deep Mahajan from Nutanix
Deep is Senior Director and head of People Development and Culture at Nutanix, a leader in hyperconverged IT infrastructure with over over 5,000 employees Deep is passionate about unlocking learning from the confines of workshops and classes, so it can truly flow into an organization’s culture. She is an expert on leading cultural transformations and getting L&D to strategically contribute to business success through cutting edge innovations. Deep’s experience in HR and how she got into L&D at ShellHow Deep leverages her experience in OD consultingThe mistake L&D teams make of jumping to solutions without understanding their thinkingStart with why is one of the culture principlesHow consulting creates a bias for actionDeep has a global team of nine members with five at HQHow to run People Development as a businessThe importance of thinking about the customer experience The importance of language remaining consistent with the businessNutanix classifies their manager development products similarly to the company solutionsHow do you lead a successful cultural transformationGrowing large with a startup mindsetGiving people more clarity on company valuesTaking a duel approach to shifting culture – top down to bottom upUsing open channels of communication to involve employeesHow Nutanix is leveraging HR technology and data for culture and talent developmentHow Nutanix is leveraging digital learning for their global workforceNutanix uses LinkedIn Learning and Janna and creates their own digital learning programsDeep’s greatest accomplishment of taking risks like the culture transformation journeyThe big global leadership experience event they ran to launch their culture intiaitiveTrend: How to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the customer experienceTrend: Virtual Reality (VR) to innovate and reach out to customersAdvice: Network and learn from others“You can get 100 years of experience if you talk to five people who have 20 years of experience and learn from them”Links: Deep on LinkedInAndy on LinkedInFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com Mentioned in this episode:Think Tank conferenceGet your tickets now for the Talent Development Think Tank Conference https://tdtt.us/conference/