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A winning culture is the ultimate competitive advantage. It is the most difficult company attribute to duplicate. Focus on the people and the culture as your top competitive advantage.

Time is the great equalizer. Have you ever prioritized based on your ROT (Return on Time). A simple equation to focus your efforts on the most impactful priorities.

Do you delegate tasks or responsibility? Empowerment and trust starts with delegating ownership

Brian Formato of Groove Management and LeaderSurf on How to Grow Beyond Your Comfort Zone to Grow Both Personally and Professionally

Pender County, NC CTE Teachers engaged in the Charity Bike Build Team Challenge at Heide Trask High School. This was part of teacher orientation to kick off the school year.

C4 Therapeutics engaged their entire organization in the Charity Bike Build Challenge and donated 25 bikes to The Boys and Girls Club of Newport, RI.

The Pantheon Global Marketing team participated in the Charity Bike Build Team Challenge and donated bikes to the Salesian Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco.

As organizations scale they tend to create silos. A metaphor to help drive collaboration and transparency is to replace silos with swim lanes. This approach will open lines of communication.

The term micro-leadership doesn’t exist. We all know about micro-management but leadership is about freedom not control. Leadership is about inspiration rather than control.

The Databricks People team participated in the Charity Bike Build Team Challenge during their 2023 Company Kickoff.

FreedomFirst Credit Union engaged in the Charity Bike Build Team Challenge facilitated by Groove Management. The team built bikes that were donated to a local charity.

The Niche Sales Team engaged in the Charity Bike Build Challenge with Groove Management in Pittsburg, PA and donated bikes to the local Big Brothers and Sisters of Pittsburg, PA.

On September 8, 2020 LeaderSurf’s founder, Brian Formato provided a webinar for the Surfrider Foundation Charlotte Chapter on Paddling Through Uncertainty.

Ryan Hartley’s Always Better Than Yesterday Podcast hosted Brian Formato, founder of Groove Management and LeaderSurf for an engaging conversation about passion and people.

When trying to balance between being nice and tough as a boss, why not try another approach. Forget the carrot or the stick and just sharpen your carrots. You can motivate through this positive approach.

We typically only do post mortems on our failures, but dissecting successes can yield repeatable winds. Do you dissect your successes?

ServiceNow’s EBC team participated in the Charity Bike Build Team Challenge during their team offsite in Santa Cruz.

Salient Systems Employees “SHIFTED” gears together building 25 bikes for a local charity in Austin, TX. This even was part of the annual company kick off.

Asking for help is a leadership skill. Hear how Groove Management leveraged external expertise to refresh their website. A good example of tapping external expertise.

E59: Paddleboard coaching and vulnerability with Brian Format, executive coach and founder of Groove Management. Brian joined Brad Solomon for the Lockdown Session.

Groove Management’s Brian Formato hosted a panel discussion on Leadership and Surfing featuring Erik Logan, CEO of the World Surf League, Claude Silver, Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia and Suhana Gordhan Executive Creative Director at Duke.

Brian Formato interviews Toast founder, Aman Narang in a fireside chat where Aman shares his experiences and the hard decisions Toast made while navigating through the pandemic.

Chief People Officer panel discussion on the post pandemic workplace featuring Databricks, Circle K and the Motley Fool CPOs.

Brian Formato from Groove Management talks about resilience and change and how to lead a company through to the other end.

Groove Management’s Adam Cannavo joins WBTV’s Jamie Boll On Your Side to discuss why people really quit their jobs and three things employers can do to engage and retain talent.

Groove Management replay of two webinars to share best practices and insights on making working from home work for your organization.

AccrueCares Career Coaching Session 4, Unlocking the Power of Self-Awareness with Groove Management’s Brian Formato

Groove Management’s Adam Cannavo was featured on WBTV’s On Your Side in a two part series on working from home. This is part 2.

Groove Management’s Ada, Cannavo was featured on WBTV’s On Your Side to discuss work from home strategies for employees. This is part 1.

Groove Management hosted a webinar on Resilience on March 26, 2020 to help clients to navigate through the Corona Virus pandemic.

Groove Management’s Adam Cannavo sat down with WBTV’s Jamie Boll to discuss tactics for keeping employees engaged when they are passed over for an internal job.

Groove Management’s Adam Cannavo was featured on WBTV to address employee engagement, job hopping, workplace satisfaction and employee retention.

Team building activities require value-added discussion about personalities, communication style, conflict management and group interaction.

88% of organizations admit they could do a better job with employee onboarding. We see it as the key to employee engagement.

Bike Build team challenge with North Carolina Instructional Management Coordinators from NC Schools

Groove Management's CEO, Brian Formato sits down with Senior Consultant, Adam Cannavo to officially welcome him to the team.

Disrupt HR Charlotte talk by Groove Management’s Brian Formato on Failure, Learning and Risk Taking in HR.

EP 27 of the Always Better Than Yesterday Podcast featuring Ryan Hartley and Brian Formato.

Groove Management and Raven Solomon Enterprises team up to provide an engaging, fun and impactful generational diversity workshop. This video captures the interplay between millennials and gen-xers.

Groove Management and Charlotte Cycleboats have team up to provide Charlotte's most unique team building activity.

Partial keynote presentation to the SCTE by Brian Formato on Disruption, Innovation, Change and Resilience.