Jason Richmond

Jason Richmond is an authoritative culture change strategist whose work over the past twenty-plus years has helped companies build strong, sustained revenue growth by empowering their employees and developing energizing office cultures. As President/CEO and Chief Culture Officer for Ideal Outcomes, Inc., he has designed and implemented Leadership Development Journeys for Fortune 100 companies, and he has guided numerous start-ups on the path to become noted industry leaders. He has also supplied thought leadership and innovative consulting services to various mid-size companies.

Author of two books Culture Spark: 5 Steps to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth and Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership, and a member of Forbes Business Council, Jason is an in-demand keynote speaker who captivates audiences with his direct, refreshing, no-nonsense style. In addition, he heads up a team of culture strategists and trainers whose learning course on the Udemy platform Foundations of a Strong Corporate Culture provides students with a framework for transformative culture change.

Jason Richmond is an Executive Council member at the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

Executive Insider

Age Is Just A Number: Why Older Workers Are Essential Assets

Executive InsiderJason Richmond

You’ve heard the idiom “Age is just a number.” In other words don’t let the number of years you’ve lived on this planet define who you are or what you are capable of. No matter one’s age, you can continue to grow and achieve. Shrug off ageist statements such as...

CEO Insights

8 Offbeat Ways To Beat Hypergrowth Burnout

CEO InsightsJason Richmond

Congratulations! Business is booming. Sales are off the charts. You’re growing exponentially. Your team is working overtime to keep up with the demand and stay ahead of the competition. It’s an exciting, stimulating environment…until it isn’t. There often comes a point when hypergrowth backfires. Employees can’t keep burning the candle...

CEO Opinions

Is A Four-Day Workweek Going from Radical to Routine?

CEO OpinionsJason Richmond

It wasn’t all that long ago that a forty-hour, nine to five, five-day workweek was considered the norm. So normal that Dolly Parton famously sang about it in her unforgettable 1980 hit “9 to 5.” It wasn’t always that way. In the mid-1800s workers typically had to toil more than...

CEO Briefing

Getting To Grips with Change Management in a Fast and Furious Business Climate

CEO BriefingJason Richmond

Does anyone like change? Most of us get settled in our ways, comfortable with the status quo both in our personal lives and at work. Change is hard. It’s disruptive. Many people fear change—because it is a step into the unknown. In the business world change has always been constant...

CEO Briefing

The Highwire Act Of Leadership: Balancing Authority And Sensitivity In Tough Talks

CEO BriefingJason Richmond

CEOs make tough decisions all day every day. But one task even hard-charging leaders often find difficult is having a tough talk with an employee. Whether performance-related, an ethical issue, or a major change in company policy discussing anything challenging is an art and a science. Conversations can feel like...

CEO Agenda

Return To Office: Is It All About CEO Wants Instead Of Employee Needs?

CEO AgendaJason Richmond

Is remote work dead? You might think that’s the case after recent headlines about mega corporations like Boeing and UPS insisting that workers return to the office (RTO) five days a week. They’re not the only big firms that have either mandated such a policy or indicated that heading in...

Executive Insider

9 Kinds of Diversity You Might Not Have Thought About

Executive InsiderJason Richmond

The case for diversity and equity in the workplace usually focuses on gender and race. But when you really think about it, there are many other kinds of diversity that need to be taken into account. Look at your teams and see if they consist of any of the following...

Banking and Finance

Combatting Unconscious Favoritism: Strategies for a More Inclusive Workplace

Banking and FinanceJason Richmond

When you assign key projects do you have a preferred member of your organization who you always call on? Do you have individuals you know you can count on to do a great job and deliver on time? Perhaps you feel that handing projects time and time again to the...

CEO Insider

Sunny Side Up: How Optimistic CEOs Outperform Their Pessimistic Peers

CEO InsiderJason Richmond

Are you a half glass full or half glass empty kind of person? Chances are, assuming you’re a CEO, you’re the former. Research at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business which involved 3,000 comprehensive personality tests of CEOs and CFOs found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that 80% of CEOs are “very optimistic”...

Banking and Finance

The Great Tug-of-War Ends: Hybrid Work Claims Victory in Modern Workplaces

Banking and FinanceJason Richmond

The tug-of-war between office work and remote work has come to an end. And the winner is—hybrid. The upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is in the rear view mirror, and now that the dust has begun to settle it’s obvious that a partnership between working in the office and...

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Jason Richmond

Age Is Just A Number: Why Older Workers Are Essential Assets

8 Offbeat Ways To Beat Hypergrowth Burnout

Is A Four-Day Workweek Going from Radical to Routine?

Getting To Grips with Change Management in a Fast and Furious Business Climate

The Highwire Act Of Leadership: Balancing Authority And Sensitivity In Tough Talks

Return To Office: Is It All About CEO Wants Instead Of Employee Needs?

9 Kinds of Diversity You Might Not Have Thought About

Combatting Unconscious Favoritism: Strategies for a More Inclusive Workplace

Sunny Side Up: How Optimistic CEOs Outperform Their Pessimistic Peers

The Great Tug-of-War Ends: Hybrid Work Claims Victory in Modern Workplaces

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