About Us
Who we are
We are a collection of eclectic individuals who are passionate about strengthening organizations’ resilience and adaptability by making culture work.
What we do
We offer an approach that develops culture shaping skills and taps into your real time journey to guide you on your journey towards your optimal culture.
The Populii Leadership Team
Greg Smith, CMC
Greg Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Populii Inc. has been President of GHS Enterprise for over 20 years and will continue in that capacity as well. His role as Managing Partner and Co-Founder of CultureShapers Collective will collapse into his role within Populii. OrgFitech becomes the technology name brand for the web based tools that Populii will be offering. His role as Founder and CEO of OrgFitech enables him to continue to support both product enhancement and further develop Populii’s product portfolio.
His experience initiating start ups, consulting, educating, advising and coaching has put both learning and culture shaping center stage to help Populii’s clients to grow and prosper.
Greg has taught Leadership both at University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management and Algonquin College. His experience in leading an M&A practice for a major HR Consulting firm lit a fire to mitigate failures in that area due to the lack of organizational culture considerations. He has embraced “Culture Shaping” as today’s primary change management practice. He also believes that it is the greatest potential “pivot” for businesses to experience sustainable success.
Mathew Burns
Mathew Burns, President and COO of Populii Inc. His role as Partner and Co-Founder of CultureShapers Collective will collapse into his new role within Populii. Mathew is a recovering marketer with 20 plus years of experience across B2C, B2B, and Digital, Mathew has seen it all. He started his career in Direct Marketing and embraced the benefits of storytelling as the most effective way to communicate a message and engage emotionally with your audience.
Storytelling and insight led to a focus on learning and development, which all came together for the launch of Populii. Having seen first-hand the positive and negative impacts of culture on an organization, he became passionate about understanding culture. That passion led to the development of a series of solutions to better define the purpose of culture as a force for positive growth. Those solutions became Populii.
Our Story
Background
Prior to GHS Enterprise, Greg Smith spent 5 years as an M&A Practice Leader for Watson Wyatt Worldwide based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and 10 years as Managing Partner for Strada Change Management based in Raleign, North Carolina, United States.
The insight gained through that professional experience helped Greg develop the capability to help organizations improve how they conduct themselves as a foundation to be more successful with a focus on “culture shaping” and “continuous learning”.
Orgfitech
OrgFitech was a company focused on helping Organizations strengthen their culture by ensuring the right Fit between employees and organization utilizing innovative technology.
After evolving iterations of software since 2012 from beta testing sites, the company manifested itself in 2019. An Organization’s employees, both current and future hold the balance of power of Organizational success. Choices around culture is the ingredient which truly makes a difference.
OrgFitech cloud applications provide tracking, selection and retention tools to help organizations successfully find and keep their greatest assets, people. Job seekers and organizations can use the tools to assess mutual fit. Organizations can rapidly check in with employees through quick and impromptu polling to see how their culture is translated into the workplace experience.
OrgFitech lives on as Populii’s technology tool set to fuel Insight and Fit.
CultureShapers Collective
Mathew Burns and Greg Smith collaborated to develop and offer a series of “culture shaping” self-directed learning programs during Covid. These programs became the focal point in launching CultureShapers Collective in 2020.
CultureShapers Collective mission was to provide the knowledge and skills any organization needs to articulate and build towards its optimal culture.
This mission still lives heartily within Populii’s three primary solutions.
Populii
Is the combination of the experience from GHS Enterprise, the knowledge building capability of CultureShapers Collective and the insight garnered from the Orgfitech suite of tools. This combination provides our clients the solutions they need to understand and action their culture as a driver for future success.
Learnings from GHS Enterprise
Want to learn more? Visit the GHS Enterprise website now.
Affiliations
You can choose the right mix and timing for your organization.
Let’s talk about your needs.