Episode #10
Is There a "Right" Way to Work? - with Robyn de Villiers: The Culture Map | EP10
What if the coworker who drives you crazy isn't wrong, just different? In this episode, Carol Watson sits down with Robyn de Villiers, Founder and CEO of The Three Cs and Founder of Burson Africa, one of only four certified Culture Map© consultants in the world. Robyn spent over 30 years building the largest PR network across Africa's 55 countries, and today helps organizations everywhere build cultural competence and inclusive leadership. Together, they unpack the Culture Map framework, created by Erin Meyer at INSEAD, and how eight scales, from communicating to deciding to disagreeing, quietly shape every misunderstanding at work. They talk about why a follow-up email can feel like respect to one person and an insult to another, why leadership teams often see their own culture completely differently from everyone else, and why the goal was never to find who's right, but to close the gap. Carol and Robyn go way back as former colleagues, and it shows: this is a rich, thoughtful conversation, but also a genuinely fun one, full of easy laughs and old war stories from decades working across the continent. Want to go deeper? Pick up "The Culture Map" by Erin Meyer, the book Robyn references throughout this conversation, for the research and country-by-country data behind everything discussed here. More about Robyn de Villiers & The Three Cs: www.thethreecs.com | LinkedIn: https://za.linkedin.com/in/robyn-de-villiers-5554709 ---------- Culture REfit is a global podcast exploring workplace culture, identity, and belonging. Follow us: Instagram: @culturerefit — https://www.instagram.com/culturerefit/ LinkedIn: Culture REfit — https://www.linkedin.com/company/culture-refit/ Created and Hosted by Carol Watson Produced by Livre Para Social Good Agency www.livrepara.com | @livre_para - https://www.instagram.com/livre_para Lisbon, Portugal & Brazil
