Igniting Purpose within Organizations with Christina Foxwell

How can you build a culture of trust and purpose in your organization? Tom Fox’s guest this week, Christina Foxwell, is an expert in helping companies unleash the purpose within each employee to build a sustainable business. In this episode, Tom and Christina explore the world of organizational transformation: Christina shares how her team helps companies put programs in place to measure outcomes and document results, satisfying stakeholders such as regulators and shareholders. She also emphasizes the importance of building a coaching culture, which can help transform company culture as well as the personal lives of employees. 

Christina Foxwell is the Global CEO of Ignite Purpose, a company that aims to make a difference to one person's life a day so that they can make a difference to their world. She is a renowned leadership and transformation expert who has spent more than two decades working with organizations and executives to achieve their goals. At Ignite Purpose, Christina and her team specialize in partnering with organizations to create transformational change through culture change, leadership development, and team optimization. She is also a sought-after speaker and podcast host, using her platform to share insights and inspire leaders to unlock their full potential. 

You’ll hear Tom and Christina talk about:

• Building a culture starts with one person and then cascades into the organization.
• Organizations need to foster connections among people and create communities where employees can bring their whole selves to work.
• Trust is essential, and it starts with individuals trusting themselves before they can trust others.
• In a hybrid work model, companies need to create opportunities for employees to come together, both physically and emotionally.
• There is no cookie-cutter solution to building a culture of purpose and values. It requires a relentless effort to find the answer together.
• Measurement and documentation are crucial for demonstrating outcomes to regulators, shareholders, and stakeholders.
• Transformation requires a shift in culture, not just a tick-box approach.
• Coaching executives on how they show up, including their thoughts, speech, and emotions, is critical to creating a coaching culture.
• Creating a coaching culture helps to change the language of failure to learning, promoting purpose and engagement in the workforce.
• Podcasting helped to build Christina’s courage and gave her a platform for sharing insights, for challenging and inspiring others.
• The younger workforce wants to learn and develop differently, challenging organizations to think about how to reach them through different mediums.

KEY QUOTES

"Connection isn't just a physicality. It's an emotional choice to be connected. What we've got to do is we've got to give our people permission to make that emotional choice and teach them the gift of community and connection." - Christina Foxwell

"We change the language of failure to learning, which means we want people to show up." - Christina Foxwell

"We need to be able to open our mind...As a business owner, how do we reach people in different mediums to create the talent growth within the organization?" - Christina Foxwell

“For me, [podcasting] is about sharing insights and learning and maybe learning to have the courage to use my voice and to speak to people, to bring about new ideas.” - Christina Foxwell

Resources:

Christina Foxwell on LinkedIn | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook  

Ignite Purpose