From quick tips to best-selling books, Chris is passionate about equipping leaders, teams, and entire organizations to harness the power of Organizational Constitutions.
Chris’ Video Blog: Culture Leadership Charge
Twice each month on YouTube, Chris offers best practices and practical guidance for creating and sustaining servant purpose and values alignment in your workplace.
Chris’ Articles
The world’s leading news outlets consistently feature Chris’ insights in creating cultures that are purposeful, positive, and productive.
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Chris’ Books
Chris’ books read like field guides for leaders – practical, actionable, and enjoyable to implement.
Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck
For decades, businesses worldwide have exhausted billions of dollars attempting to improve company culture. They spend countless hours developing strategies to increase employee engagement, decrease burnout, increase retention, and improve productivity. Yet most workplaces still suck: employees don't feel valued, organizations aren't fun or compassionate places to work, and performance is often lagging.
In Good Comes First, S. Chris Edmonds and Mark S. Babbitt go beyond theoretical advice, offering their hard-won tools and actionable insights for building and sustaining a work culture that delivers respect and results in equal measure.
"As a business leader, I encourage you to take in every word Chris and Mark have written here in Good Comes First. More importantly, I challenge you to take on the role of change champion as you begin redefining your company culture and make the demonstration of respect as important as achieving results."
- Venus Williams - tennis champion and entrepreneur
The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace
The Culture Engine is a step-by-step guide that shows you exactly how to create a high performing, values-aligned culture through the creation of an Organizational Constitution.
I know few people better qualified to help leaders create high performing, values-aligned cultures. In this book Chris explains what constitutes a culture that drives results and what it takes to make that culture come alive.
~ Ken Blanchard, Author, The One Minute Manager
Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition
Chris co-authored the best selling revised and expanded edition of Leading At A Higher Level with Ken Blanchard and select colleagues. This book is a compendium of Blanchard’s most successful leadership, culture, teams, and coaching solutions.
Overall, a great book to have in any leader's personal library and one I wish I had read many years ago at the start of my career.
~ Paul Gallagher, Independent Amazon Reviewer
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