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Flipping the Script NextUp’s Kat Ortiz talks changing cultures and feeding hope KAT ORTIZ, M.S., is a boundless resource for NextUp, where she serves as learning and development program manager. Her expertise as an industrial-organizational (I/O) psychologist pierces through the layers of corporate culture to the core — to what must change, and how to change it.
By Angelina Bice, Content Strategy Specialist, NextUp
I/O makes transforming workplace environments into hard science, using data to fuel powerful outcomes to better our workplaces for women. In this interview, we dive into the power of psychology to change perspectives, from the individual level right up to
changing whole organizations. This article is excerpted from the full interview, which can be read at nextupisnow.org/blog. Bice: What do you look for when you’re looking at a leadership development program? What’s a green flag for individuals to look for that shows a program is actually going to create change, either for the individual or for the organization? Ortiz: In the world of leadership development, there are people we can call influencers who feel they have something worth teaching, some wisdom they feel like
Convenience Store News is pleased to continue this series of educational columns by NextUp, coinciding with the annual CSNews Top Women in Convenience awards given out each fall. Ninety-one female managers, executives and directors who work in the convenience store industry will be honored in our 2022 program. In addition to being a presentation sponsor for the Top Women in Convenience program, NextUp and CSNews have partnered to develop this series of columns directed at helping corporate leaders drive more inclusive company cultures.
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