Bryan Smith Co-Founder MyLeon.co Challenging the Employee Engagement Status Quo through AI Powered Individual Employee Tailored Programs
Is Corporate Culture and Employee Engagement Really Meeting Employees Expectations in 2020? Bryan Smith, Co-Founder of MyLeon.com a SaaS AI-Driven Employee Engagement platform shares his POV and also how working with Rio 2016 Olympic Athletes, gives him some unique perspective for the need for a more curated employee engagement experience. This is part of a candid conversation with Bryan Smith, co-founder of MyLeon dot co, (not com). He shares an interesting conversation around his time as a sports science consultant for U.S. Track and Field working with the U.S. and global Olympic athletes who participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics. We discuss his point of view around corporate culture and the transformation trends within HR and employee engagement and overall corporate wellness space. 🏃♂️🥈🏃♀️ working with Olympic athletes 🌍origin impacts your entrepreneurial journey 📚 business book recommendations Bryan explains how he finds top athletes need customized training programs to become world-class athletes is not too different than what employees need to become high performers. 👉 Get more about his employee engagement perspectives and his unique origin story on this week's Workforce pulse episode highlight of Smart Chickens A Diversity Meets Innovation and Growth Podcast & Show (digitechy.com/smart-chickens) You'll also get three books he recommends, which have made him a better leader and more astute with his businesses.
Smart Chickens A B2B SaaS Demand Gen Drives Innovation & Growth Podcast · Gianni Quintana, Bryan Smith
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Episode Summary
In today’s episode, we have a very special guest Bryan Smith, Co-founder of MyLeon.co, a very niche AI Employee Engagement Platform, it's a new kind of thinking for HR and C-levels looking to really empower their employees in an individualized way towards creating a super performer.
Bryan shares an interesting conversation around his origin story growing up in Philadelphia, his sports science consultant career journey with a U.S. Track & Field Olympic athletes, which catapulted him to better understand the need to individualize employee engagement programs for companies who are looking to create top performers.
He talks about what's wrong with the corporate culture is everything mentality currently in companies and how to better serve one employee based on their individual goals, psyche, physical, motivational and work and life skills, versus the standard HR/Talent Management status quo of one to many approach or style. Below are just some of the takeaways from this interesting episode.
1. Culture alone won't guarantee loyalty or high performance
2. Curating to an employees individual needs is where the future of EX is heading (actually it's here already)
3. Never second-guess your journey, as an entrepreneur you have to believe in your mission/vision
We also take the fictional trip with Michael J. Fox and his Back to the Future DeLorean to see what he would say to a younger Bryan Smith.
You'll also see and hear his book recommendations during this episode to get 1% better each day!