PIZZA PARTIES DON’T BUILD CULTURE. LEADERS DO.
How leaders build loyal teams, improve performance, and keep their best people without relying on perks that go stale by Monday.
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By Julia Wiener, PhD — organizational culture expert & founder of JW Strategies
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THE OLD PLAYBOOK DOESN’T WORK.
Perks get forgotten. Pizza gets eaten. Surface-level initiatives don’t build the kind of culture that drives performance and keeps great people.
CULTURE MUST BE BUILT ON PURPOSE.
This book gives you the practical framework for building a culture where people do their best work and choose to stay.
THE EXTRA TOPPINGS: 7 FREE BONUS RESOURCES
Inside the book, you’ll find access to seven practical tools designed to help you move from reading about culture to building it.
A PREVIEW OF WHAT’S INSIDE
The Culture-First AI Playbook
A five-step guide to introduce AI with trust, clarity, and purpose.
The 60-Day Onboarding Playbook
A day-by-day guide to help new hires feel welcomed, supported, and ready to stay.
Plus five more practical reader resources.
Meet the HALO Culture Framework™
A practical, evidence-based framework to build cultures where people and performance thrive.
Higher Purpose
ALIGN your people around meaning, mission, and what matters.
Adaptive and Conscious Leadership
Lead with clarity, consistency, trust, and adaptability.
Living Design
Design systems and structures that scale with the business.
Organizational Experience
Create a culture where people choose to stay and perform.
For leaders ready to build culture on purpose
This book is for leaders who know culture matters, but need a practical way to build it.
CEOs and Founders
For leaders who need culture to scale with the business.
Leadership Teams
For teams that want more clarity, trust, and alignment.
People Leaders
For leaders tired of perks replacing real culture work.
Growing Organizations
For companies keeping great people through growth and change.
"This book is the practical guide most leaders never get. People talk about winning culture all the time, but very few master it. Not only can Dr. Julia talk about culture, she can also skillfully implement it too."
- STEVE TURNER
Two-time CEO and three-time COO, co-owner of a high-growth startup acquired by a Fortune 500 company, retired Special Operations Army Ranger and Army Aviator, and three-time Bronze Star recipient
About Dr. Julia Wiener
PhD in Organizational Development
Dr. Julia Wiener is an organizational culture consultant, executive coach, and founder of JW Strategies. She helps CEOs and leadership teams build cultures that can keep up with the business, because growth gets expensive when a team is held together with good intentions and pizza.
Her work combines research-backed insight with real-world operating experience across culture-first leadership, organizational design, and mergers and acquisitions.
Founder of JW Strategies
Keynote audiences include Toyota and Salesforce
Adjunct Professor of Organizational Psychology
Helped grow and sell a high-growth startup to a Fortune 500 buyer
Led a multicultural team in Afghanistan for Fluor Corporation
