Does your company care about people?

I have to tell you something -
I'm obsessed with companies that care about people

I’m Vanessa Shaw, and for the last 12 years I’ve been on a quest – to uncover the most inspirational stories of brands and companies that treat their people best.

This passion has taken me on a global journey of 35 culture tours, dozens of events, hundreds of interviews and too many books to count.

I’ve uncovered how they do it and what the rest of us can do to build more connected and aligned customer and employee experience.

I have discovered:

  • The best of the best focus on people, which means everyone - customer, employee, community - all stakeholders
  • It is not just management or the CEO who need to take action - we all influence and can create a thriving ecosytem
Let’s work together to create a company that cares about people. Ready to get help with culture strategy, events and coaching?
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When organizations are designed to care for people we achieve more.
Happy Customers
Inspired Employees
Beloved Brand
Business Performance
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Without people,
the value your brand, product and services bring doesn’t matter.
Invest in every person your company touches.

VANESSA SHAW

HUMAN SIDE OF TECH

I know you got this. But help is good, too.
Let's work together.
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HR Leaders:
Innovate your People & Culture Operations

Design Thinking Workshops for Talent Management

Drive Culture Strategy for first time leaders

Agile and Lean practices for fast moving organizational change

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HR/People OpsBrand/MarketingCulture Career Seeker

Brand Marketers:
Build your Customer Community, Events & Conference Strategy

Bring your community together

Enhance brand visibility

Be thought leaders in your space

Exhibit your unique value proposition

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Rising Stars:
Create your Career in Culture

Individual coaching

Find new approaches to workplace challenges

Discover your own skillset to improve your workplace

Build a career working on culture

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I love working with people
A sampling of my work
    123 is this working

    Fireside Chats

    Customer Events

    Community Building

    Keynotes & Large Events Strategy

    Impactful Team Offsites

    (Truly) Interactive Workshops

    Engaging Industry Thought Leaders

    Better Meetings by Design
    • The workshop had a great flow of the activities. Vanessa was great at creating energy and engagement as well as guiding self-reflective activities. Excellent experience with many immediately applicable takeaways.
      Line Morkbak, Managing Director, Global_LEAP
    • Vanessa was delightful, funny, aware and respectful. The course was great for our group of many people with various backgrounds. The exercises she designed helped us break out of our stuck focus. Vanessa's approach to facilitation was both entertaining and effective. Highly recommend.
      Dennis Britton, CEO, Discovery Spaces
    • Vanessa's session was extremely engaging and fun. She is both charistmatic and informative. We received powerful examples, case studies and simulations that really have stuck with me and how I approach my work.
      Michael de la Maza, Agile Coach, eBay
    • Vanessa approaches her work with great care to ensure participants depart with a transformative experience and insight that can be applied the first day back at work.
      Karen Lechner, Organizational Change Leader, State of Alaska
    • Vanessa was knowledgable and very attentive to our group. I left the course feeling inspired and with a lot of actionable ideas I could apply immediately.
      John Westworth, Program Manager, Microsoft
    • Vanessa is inspirational. I have taken her ideas and applied them to how I lead my teams. Her approach and creativity gave me lots of resources to create a more engaged workplace culture.
      Josh Briggs, Agile Coach, Spotify
      Agile Coach, Spotify
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