Culture is everything.

Our client partners, the leaders of ethics and compliance at their respective firms, are in the unique position to deeply impact the development of corporate culture. Once upon a time, “check the box” compliance training was common practice. It was simply staff training for the sake of regulatory compliance without much thought into the why, the how, the wherefore, and the people in the process. But now, in greater numbers, companies are starting to understand the value of catalyzing culture.

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is a phrase made famous in the early 2000s in association with Peter Drucker, a renowned management guru and namesake of the Peter Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. The point is that humans are always at the center of business, and the best laid plans will be undermined by poor culture—poor alignment around shared values—and it is through the prioritizing of culture that businesses win. (And they will win across many important indices, from employee retention to financial performance, as our research shows.)

Culture has been a priority at LRN since the company’s founding, both internally in how we operate and externally in the services and solutions we provide.