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knowledge inside people’s heads.”
Since launching in 2011, Culture
Amp now has more than 2000
companies using its software,
including Adobe, McDonalds,
Airbnb, Etsy, Pixar and Nike.
Didier said organisations are
realising that culture is at the heart
of the company and are therefore
applying new ways of thinking when
it comes to diversity, inclusiveness
and creating a sense of belonging.
“It’s a complicated issue – it’s not just
about how you increase the diversity
among people in your company, it’s
about how you truly become more
inclusive on a whole range of
spectrums,” he said.
Companies are also applying new
ways of thinking about employee
wellbeing, in particular mental
wellbeing.
“Mental health is now the third
largest health cost globally, behind
cancer and cardiology,” said Didier.
“The interesting work for
organisations lies in looking at how to
destigmatise mental health…how do
we design our organisations to
support people, or how do we
redesign parts of our work to make
them less likely to lead to people
getting sick?”
In his own workplace, Didier knows
it’s vital to walk the talk and looks for
evidence of his organisation’s values
in action as an indicator of the
company’s health.
“We are a very values-led
organisation, they are at the heart of
everything we do,” he said.
“One of the things I talk about quite
a bit is that values are not what you
want on a good day, values are what
you are willing to hurt for every day.
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