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Building Cultures That Work

Leadership, Accountability, and Removing Barriers That Limit Performance

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Most workplace challenges are not caused by strategy.

they're caused by

  • The conversations that never happen.
  • The talented employee who quietly disengages.
  • The leader who unknowingly creates barriers.
  • The team that struggles with trust, accountability, and communication.

A Practical Course for Building Healthier, More Accountable Workplaces

Building Cultures That Work is a practical, self-paced online course designed to help you better understand workplacec culture, strengthen your influence, and contribute to environments where people can do their best work.

Whether you are an employee, supervisor, manager, executive, HR professional, or community leader, this course will provide practical tools you can immediately apply to improve workplace relationships, strengthen accountability, and create meaningful culture change.

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What You'll Learn

Identify and remove workplace barriers that limit performance and engagement

Lead with accountability and influence regardless of your title

Improve communication and workplace relationships

Navigate difficult conversations with confidence

Strengthen trust, inclusion, and collaboration

Create meaningful and sustainable culture change

Be First in Line to Build a Better Workplace Culture

Be the first to know when enrollment opens and get early access to a practical course designed to help you strengthen your influence, improve workplace relationships, and create meaningful culture change from any seat.

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Course Overview

This course takes you inside the everyday decisions, behaviors, barriers, and power dynamics that shape how work actually gets done.

Introduction
Start Here
Change The Status Quo
Lesson 1
Embrace Authenticity, Reject Conformity
Lesson 2
Make Inclusion a Core Value
Lesson 3
Raise Your Hand for Change
Lesson 4
Embrace a Human-Centered Workplace
Lesson 5
Own Your Voice
Lesson 6
Fix the System, Not the Symptoms
Lesson 7
Govern for Equitable Outcomes
Lesson 8

What's included:

  • Self-paced lessons designed for real workplace application
  • Practical tools for building trust and accountability
  • Reflection prompts to help you apply what you learn
  • Action steps for creating healthier, more human-centered cultures
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Meet Your Instructor, Ovell Barbee

For more than 30 years, I have helped organizations navigate workplace challenges, strengthen leadership, improve employee engagement, and create cultures where people can thrive.

As an award-winning HR executive, author, speaker, and workplace culture strategist, I have worked with Fortune 500 companies, healthcare systems, public sector organizations, nonprofits, and executive leadership teams across the country.

This course combines real-world experience, practical tools, personal reflection, and actionable strategies that participants can immediately apply within their organizations and communities.

SHRM Professional Development Credits Available

Ovell Barbee is an approved SHRM Recertification Provider.

HR professionals who complete this course may be eligible to earn SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) toward recertification requirements.

Who Should Enroll?

This course is designed for:

  • Employees seeking to strengthen their workplace impact

  • Supervisors and managers leading teams

  • Human Resources and People Leaders

  • Executives and organizational leaders

  • Nonprofit and community leaders

  • Individuals interested in creating stronger workplace cultures

Your Seat Has Influence.
Use It Well.

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