Our guest is Melissa DiMuro - Chief People & Culture Officer at Limbach, a public company of 1,700+ team members delivering engineering, construction and services solutions to owners and partners across the United States.
Since joining the Company in January 2021, Melissa has designed a ‘First Choice Employer’ strategy to increase stability in a diminishing labor market, resulting in a 27% less attrition for them YoY.
Previously, Melissa spent 15 years in global leadership roles in GE Aviation. Recognized by the CEO of GE Aviation for ‘Culture of Innovation Leadership’, she earned a reputation of scaling businesses and talent, scaling one engineering organization by nearly 5X to support record new product intros and promoting a record number of new executives.
Melissa is a passionate advocate for diversity and has led the strategy for each organization she has been a part of, as well as serving as a leader of the GE Women’s Network.
In this episode of Scaling Culture, Ron and Melissa discuss:
Limbach's 120-year legacy: experience of going from a family company to private to public and what things changed and stayed the same?
How to get through to people who resist or won't buy into culture?
Change management tactics and the big mistake many leaders make.
For more information about Melissa, please follow her on LinkedIn.
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