Keep Your Culture Intact While the Company Grows
Chris Sund scaled a company 10x and came out the other side with a Fortune Best Workplaces award and world-class employee NPS. He speaks to executive teams about the part most growth stories skip: what culture costs when you add people faster than you can onboard them, and what protects it.
What Your Leadership Team Walks Out With
Culture is easy to protect at thirty people and hard at three hundred. The founders drift out of daily contact, new managers inherit teams without inheriting the standard, and the people who joined early start saying it does not feel the same. Chris has been through that transition with the numbers to show what worked — and is candid about what he would do differently.
- What breaks first when headcount outpaces onboarding — and the early warning signs
- How to hand your standard to managers who did not grow up with it
- Protecting the things that made you worth joining as the org chart deepens
- Why the second hundred hires reshape culture more than the first
- Original research: 92% believe they are capable of more than they are doing now
Popular Programs for Executive Teams
Every session is customized to your organization, theme, and goals.
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Corporate Audiences Chris Serves
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What Executives Ask
Is this a keynote or a working session?
Either. For a leadership team, the working session tends to be worth more — the room leaves with decisions about their own culture rather than notes about someone else’s.
We are not growing fast. Does it still apply?
Yes. The same forces show up in any transition — a merger, a new layer of management, a leadership change. Growth is just the most common trigger.
Will he tell us things we do not want to hear?
If you ask him to. Chris will speak candidly about what he sees, and executives generally find that more useful than a session that flatters the room.
Can you build around our engagement data?
Yes. Share your survey or NPS results ahead of time and Chris builds the session around what they reveal.
You Are Capable of More
The bestselling book behind the keynotes — ten principles for closing the gap between what a team is producing and what it is actually capable of. It is the framework your leadership team hears on stage, in a form they can work from.
Companies regularly pair a keynote with copies for every manager. Bulk pricing and signed editions are available.
He Scaled It Without Losing It
Chris took Uniti Med from startup to one of the largest healthcare staffing firms in the country — 10x revenue growth and #3 fastest-growing in the Midwest on the Inc. Regionals — while earning a Fortune Best Workplaces award and world-class employee NPS in the first year.
Most companies pick one. Grow fast and burn people out, or protect culture by staying comfortable. Chris is one of the few speakers who can talk about doing both at once, including the parts that nearly did not hold.
He is President & COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare, and Nebula, a Maxwell Leadership Certified coach, a bestselling author, an Inc. contributor, and a Forbes Business Council member.
As Seen & Heard
Television, national business press, and the podcasts where Chris talks culture, growth, and leadership.
Stages I Have Spoken On
Where Corporate Audiences Have Heard Chris
Company meetings, executive events, and conferences where Chris has taken the stage.
BeatStars Company MeetingCorporate
Definitive Healthcare SKOSales KickoffPOWER ConferenceOmaha, NEGreater Omaha ChamberOmaha, NEAuthentica Connect & InspireConferenceCrawford Memorial Recognition DinnerDenison, IAAlso heard on: Culture From the Heart · ClearlyRated Survey Says · Catalytic Leadership · See all speaking engagements →
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