Consolidated Edison is one of the nation’s leading energy delivery companies with revenues over $12B and assets over $48B. We power the lives and livelihoods of 10 million people living in New York City and Westchester County. Today, the utility industry is faced with many challenges such as improving the safety of our employees and the public, controlling costs, meeting increased customer expectations, managing…

In 2010, I was working for DFJ Gotham Ventures and led the firm’s new investment in SinglePlatform, a software platform to help local merchants market themselves online. The founder, Wiley Cerilli, built an incredible team culture at the company. This culture was based on respect for each member of the team and on celebrating successes. Celebrating success included some measures you might see at other companies, such as a gong and later leaderboard for the sales team and many social events.

Since its inception, VirtualHealth has been dedicated to nurturing an employee-centric culture that places a high value on diversity. Notably, the company is comprised of 40 percent women and 30 percent minorities, and more than 50 percent of the leadership team is female. This is one of many reasons the company was named as a 2018 Best Place to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare. Many tech companies create initiatives and programs to promote diversity but their leadership often doesn’t reflect those goals.

If you truly want to become a Top 10% Manager in your company, listen up! You’re about to learn how to set yourself apart from the pack! To do that, you’ll simply need to start holding weekly "Book Club" Meetings with your team.  “Say what?!! What the heck is a ‘Book Club Meeting’?”  Yeah, I thought you might ask. We’ll get to that in a moment, but first let me explain by telling you how I discovered the power of this principle of “educating my people.”  “Say what?!! What the heck is a ‘Book Club Meeting’?” Yeah, I thought you might ask. We’ll get to that in a moment, but first let me explain by telling you how I discovered…

Outside of being the right thing to do for employees, I have a core belief that curating a culture that aligns and supports a company’s mission and vision is critical to creating long term value.  I put that belief to the test when I joined WorkWave (formerly Marathon Data Systems) in 2008 and the results speak for themselves.  In my 10 years as CEO, we transformed WorkWave through significant investment and 11 strategic acquisitions.

One of the most important pieces of the company puzzle, to me, has always been building my company’s culture around the people who work here. From structuring dress codes to planning group events, every decision is carefully considered to reflect what our employees enjoy and appreciate. The best marketing tool for a company is your employees, so at T-ROC, we have created an environment that emphasizes personal and professional growth, balance, and fun.

San Francisco is a great city to start a business, but it’s hell on the bottom line when you’re shipping to anywhere except Southern California. So we started planning for a more strategic shipping center. After looking around some, we decided on Nashville, Tennessee.