In part 2 of a 10 part radio interview series discussing his book, Dr. Fardad Fateri, discusses how to build and create a successful culture within an organization.
Transcript:
welcome back again this is the inner
voice and I'm doctor Foojan and I'm
delighted to have dr. Fardad Fateri
who's the president and the CEO of
International Education Corporation
which owns and operates accredited
college across colleges across the
United States he is the author of a
culture of excellence the art discipline
and practice of breakthrough leadership
dr. Fateri is a part of a small group
of chief executives in American higher
education today with significant
experience in the imperative but rare
interwoven triad of academic operations
and business verticals with over 25
years of experience in higher education
and graduating from UC Irvine and
Harvard University's dr. Fateri has
served as a professor department chair
Dean regional director college president
division president chief academic
officer for director and presidency of
several medium to large-sized nonprofit
market funded and privately held systems
and we have them with us now welcome dr.
Fateri thank you so much thank you
for the invitation happy to be here
wonderful culture is something that you
can also create I think most of people
know culture as something that is and we
just kind of walk into and form into
whatever it is and even when we're
looking at leaders in companies and even
CEOs in the companies as they're coming
from the external world they're being
hired not necessarily if a company is
being run and put together from you know
from zero and coming up but if any of
the people who are going through
leadership sometimes they walk into a
culture of a company and it's as if that
that's given to them for them to follow
and they might not necessarily take the
ownership that they can create culture
and shift the culture in that sense or
somebody comes into a company and says I
don't like this culture and prematurely
is going to shift to with their
individual culture or where they think
that they have can you talk a little bit
about
how to build this culture how to
instigate it how to create it yeah you
you know you have to I think every
organization needs to identify its its
core on various levels and and and
commit to that core for example we run a
post-secondary education system so for
us our students are at the core of all
that we do they are the ones whom we
serve and we align all of our
departments and our fire functions
around students and and we do everything
in our power to ensure student success
some of the values that play a part into
that you know in our environment are
focused on student learning Student
Service Student Success and and of
course that also means that we have to
always hire top talent and people who
really are passionate about changing
lives serving students and create
learning communities conducive to to
peak performance both on the employee
side as well as our students so you know
and then we have a multi-site
distributed organizational structure so
our many thousands of employees are not
in one building you know we are in many
many states many many sites so it's
important we share the fundamental
values of our culture so we can
replicate and duplicate efforts
regardless of the location
we're in so culture plays a very very
important role in our system but also
all organizations that have many many
sites because you you don't want to vary
in the way you serve your customers
based on location wonderful dr. Fardad Fateri
who has created and it's an
e-book a culture of excellence the art
discipline and the practice of
breakthrough leaders dr. Fateri where
can people get your book
actually the book is also sold in
paperback it is available in digital
format
my co-author James York and I very
excited to have that Amazon is probably
the fastest and most accessible way to
the book
About the Author: Fardad Fateri
Dedicated to the advancement of student success, leadership development, and organizational excellence, Dr. Fardad Fateri has devoted his 30-year career to catalyzing innovation and transformation in American higher education.
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