Marc is the founder of the leadership development and research firm, Lead With Purpose, where he took the over $1M in leadership training the Navy poured into him and distilled it down into simple concepts and skills to create leaders at every level of an organization.
Over 51,000 leaders have been developed through Lead With Purpose's SHRM-accredited organizational leadership consulting, coaching, courses, and simple systems.
Marc's experience in both the nuclear submariner service and the business world has led him to become one of the foremost experts on Elite Leadership - a needed, relevant, and achievable approach to leadership for this new, disruptive world.
Marc is the best-selling author of Leading With Purpose, a hands-on guide to developing engaged, empowered, and encouraged employees. He is also the host of the Surfacing Leaders podcast, where he tells the stories of leaders in unlikely places and the human spirit that drives us all.
Jessica Kriegel, Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture, Culture Partners
Why a Culture of Employee Fulfillment Out-Performs Employee Engagement
Jessica is the Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture for Culture Partners, leading research and strategy in best practices for driving results through culture. For 15+ years, Jessica has been guiding global, national, Fortune 100 and other organizations across finance, technology, real estate and healthcare industries on the path to creating intentional cultures that accelerate performance.
After she got her MBA and became a global consultant for a human capital management solutions provider, Jessica consistently saw highly-stressed leaders failing to deliver against lofty financial goals. She knew that if these leaders could transform their cultures, performance and profitability would follow. But, because culture is often viewed as an intangible, these leaders didn’t know where to begin.
So, Jessica set out on a personal mission to ‘quantify culture.’ Her doctoral research and consulting engagements with Oracle, Toyota, Lockheed Martin, Federal Reserve, and Bank of America to name a few, led to the Culture Equation - a tested model where strategy combined with culture to deliver consistent results.
Today, Jessica applies data-driven insights to dismantle the chaos of poor morale, low performance, and missed financial goals. CEOs have leaned on her to ask questions that their internal resources may be too afraid or unaware to ask, and get the results they need. As a certified Business Impact ROI specialist, she can translate seemingly soft skill programs into monetary values. With data, humor, and energy, Jessica Kriegel is a disruptive thought-leader on culture transformation that companies need to build organizational success. She works with clients in-person and virtually to drive business results. She is based out of a little house on the river in Sacramento, California.