Creating Sustainable Company Culture

With Ron & Josie Ross, a beautiful couple engaged in helping businesses succeed. Ron is a dynamic speaker, facilitator, consultant, an accomplished writer, and an expert on building successful culture and group dynamics. Prior to his career as a consultant and executive coach, Ron served as head of Learning for a national leader in the home healthcare industry, and has served as a consultant for healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotech firms based throughout the United States. 

On the other, Josie is a thoughtful and engaging speaker, and has served as a fractional Head of HR for several start-ups in the healthcare space. She brings her 15 years of successful business operations and leadership to her coaching and consulting engagements, and has led several high-performing teams to record sales, consistently the top performer, where she grew her division to 60 million in annual sales from scratch.

Ron and Josie co-founded Avant HR Solutions – HR and Leadership Development Consulting Company focused on small to mid-sized businesses, where Ron gets to create a rich laboratory to tinker and help clients solve their most juicy organizational challenges, while Josie gets to apply her operations lens, scientific mind, and passion for organization and talent development to help other businesses achieve success by scaling up their HR and people operations.

In this insightful conversation, Ron and Josie discuss the importance of courage and emphasize communication as a critical skill for entrepreneurs seeking success in dealing with difficult conversations, particularly in the context of our increasingly diverse world. Also, they highlight the advantages of inclusive teams and the need to question certainties that can lead to HR challenges. Furthermore, they share their individual journeys and how they transition into the field of HR.