Aaron Brown, VP Talent Development at Mountain America Credit Union. A systems-thinking data-driven business minded leadership development professional that is passionate about people, learning, and culture. He knows how to strategically align people, processes, and workforce systems to shape high-performance culture. He designs success drivers into the system vs. chasing engagement and attrition through symptomatic approaches. Aaron shaped his career and helped him a lot with his opportunity growth in an overseas environment growing up and learning about diversity. He believes that investing in people is the best way to achieve business objectives.
Here are some key moments from our conversation:
- Tell us about how Mountain America Credit Union got to be recognized as the best place to work by Glassdoor? (4:55)
- How did you help each person in your organization to help embody the company values? (8:45)
- Behavioral change in the bigger picture. (13:20)
- What are some of the biggest challenges you face as a talent development leader? And how do you overcome those challenges? (21:20)
- What is next, where do you go from here? (26:15)
- How do you enroll the executive team and the whole leadership Council into the approach (35:30)
- How would you describe your true north as a leader? (40:15)
- How does your true north inform your leadership decisions? (48:30)
- What do you do to recharge and sustain yourself in what I'm sure is a very demanding role? (54:10)
- If you could take everything you know about leadership and distill it down to one key piece of advice for our listeners, what would that be? (57:30)
- And what about Talent Development leaders specifically, what advice do you have for them? (58:40)
- Any final thoughts you want to leave the audience with? (1:01:08)
