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Patty McCord
Revolutionize your company culture and embrace a future of work with Patty McCord, speaker, Silicon Valley expert, and innovator.
Patty McCord is a Silicon Valley expert who brings fresh ideas and innovation to rethinking our work. With years of experience in both large tech companies and small start-ups, she has witnessed firsthand how companies can become slow and complacent, and employees can become cynical and negative. While at Netflix, she experimented with new ways to work and made their culture deck a reality for their employees. Patty challenges traditional practices, such as performance reviews and strict policies, and believes that people come to work as fully formed adults who want to make an impact and be proud of their work. She is a frequent media presence, with interviews and articles in top publications, and she speaks at CEO forums, business schools, and large groups worldwide.
Patty's talks cover topics such as building a culture of freedom and responsibility, the future of work, reinventing HR, and diversity and equality in the workplace. Organizations have praised Patty for her revolutionary approach to HR and company culture and her engaging and direct speaking style.
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Patty McCord served as chief talent officer of Netflix for 14 years and helped to create the famous Netflix Culture Deck. Since it was first posted on the web, the Deck has been viewed more than 15 million times, and Sheryl Sandberg has said that it may be the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. A veteran of established enterprises and start-ups alike, McCord has vast experience building winning cultures. McCord will discuss how building a culture of freedom and responsibility strips away the constraints that can thwart high-performers so your teams can be lean, nimble, motivated and happy.
As our world becomes increasingly dynamic and connected, the classically standard ways in which we work have simply become irrelevant in today’s workforce. Many companies are struggling not only to understand and accept this certainty, but more importantly to identify the key catalysts behind this transformation. Patty McCord explores how demographics, technology and consumer transparency have already changed the way we work, explains why the idea of a “permanent employee” is no longer a realistic prospect, and encourages audiences to look to the future. In this innovative, informative and forward-thinking presentation, McCord emboldens audiences to embrace change and provides critical insight for companies that want to be ahead of the game as the future of work continues to advance.
As the head of Diversity Programs at Sun Microsystems in the early 90’s, Patty McCord held many talks, programs, initiatives and celebrations to promote equality and diversity. Today, gains towards increased diversity and equality in our society have been startlingly lacking. In this presentation, McCord challenges the audience to change their way of thinking about these issues. Sharing data is a start, but there is hard work ahead to achieve real transformation. First, if equal pay is an issue at your company—fix it. Without a correction to current conditions, we are guaranteed to see the same problems lag forever. McCord acknowledges that the three most female-centric departments in companies are Marketing, Human Resources and Finance. She calls on women in leadership positions to ask—how come we haven’t yet fixed equal pay? We OWN it!
No one in recent history has disrupted the grounds of human resources quite like Patty McCord. In this presentation, McCord engages audiences by delving into the compelling and innovative ideas that made her Netflix slide deck on company culture go viral. She shares thoughts on how to rethink terms like “fired” and “quit” in order to understand the realities of changing jobs in a way that honors service and teaches people to manage their own careers. Her belief is that by thinking like inventors, saying no to “best practices” and aligning what people do to the business and the customers, companies can take the policing out of policy to make work more productive and meaningful.
Book Patty McCord as a speaker to revolutionize your workplace culture with her innovative ideas and firsthand Silicon Valley experience. She challenges traditional practices and inspires teams to embrace freedom, responsibility, and impactful work. Patty's engaging and direct style will motivate your organisation to implement transformative changes.
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Patty McCord draws on her 14-year tenure as Chief Talent Officer at Netflix to ground her presentations in first-hand case material, using the Netflix Culture Deck as a central reference point. She frames workforce and culture challenges through direct institutional examples — such as Netflix's removal of traditional HR policies — to illustrate how organisations can restructure around adult accountability rather than procedural constraint.
Patty McCord speaks on workplace culture and freedom, the future of work and evolving employment models, and diversity and equal pay in organisations. She served as Chief Talent Officer at Netflix for 14 years and co-created the Netflix Culture Deck, which has been viewed more than 15 million times since its publication.
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