Colin D. Ellis

Colin D. Ellis is a culture change expert, and an award-winning author and international speaker. Based in Australia, Colin is the author of four books, including his most recent, Culture Hacks: 26 Ideas to Transform the Way You Work (Major Street $29.95) and Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work (Wiley, Nov. 4, 2019). Colin D Ellis is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or connect on LinkedIn.

C-Suite Advisory

Why remote work doesn’t work for teams long term

Colin D. EllisC-Suite AdvisoryMarch 20, 2021

The removal of requirements to work from home forces business leaders into a decision of how they bring office working back into people’s lives. Whilst there have been benefits of remote working during the pandemic, it doesn’t work as a permanent solution for most teams long-term and many have already...

Chief Executive Insights

Letting everyone work from home forever isn’t good for teamwork

Colin D. EllisChief Executive InsightsFebruary 22, 2021

One of the positive things to come out of the COVID-19 crisis is the fact that organisations around the world have finally removed the barriers to their staff being able to work from home. There were never any technological barriers to people doing so, most of the issues centred around...

Executive Insider

Millennials Value Culture As Much As Money

Colin D. EllisExecutive InsiderNovember 14, 2019November 14, 2019

Every year consulting firm Deloitte produces a survey that captures the current zeitgeist with regards to working culture. Called the Deloitte Millennial Survey it asks a range of questions with regards to the thoughts and feelings that the latest generation of workers have towards business. I’ve been reading the reports...

C-Suite Advisory

How to build an aspirational vision for your organisation

Colin D. EllisC-Suite AdvisoryNovember 4, 2019

‘A vision helps to inspire and capture aspiration and assist people in overcoming the inherent incohesion associated in moving away from the familiar.’ So wrote Benjamin and Rosamund Stone Zander in their excellent book The Art of Possibility. Yet, most organisations vision statements do the exact opposite, leaving staff bereft...

Executive Education

Why Culture and Strategy Must Eat Together

Colin D. EllisExecutive EducationOctober 22, 2019

Peter Drucker once allegedly said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company that ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast.’ It’s a quote that’s used extensively these days to emphasise the importance of how a company operates over the why. Yet – and I’m sure Peter Drucker will be devastated...

C-Suite Advisory

Transform Company Culture to Optimize Performance

Colin D. EllisC-Suite AdvisoryOctober 2, 2019

Your organization’s culture permeates everything your organization is and does. If it’s vibrant, it attracts and keeps staff and customers. If it’s stagnant or toxic, it drives them away. Leaders are well aware that their organization’s viability directly relates to its culture. Research shows that a whopping 92 percent of...

Colin D. Ellis

Why remote work doesn’t work for teams long term

Letting everyone work from home forever isn’t good for teamwork

Millennials Value Culture As Much As Money

How to build an aspirational vision for your organisation

Why Culture and Strategy Must Eat Together

Transform Company Culture to Optimize Performance

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