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.
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.
Culture
Shapers 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 two primary solutions.
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 shaping journey as a driver for future success.
Greg Smith, CMC
Greg Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Populii Inc. will also continue on as President of GHS Enterprise.
His past roles as Managing Partner and Co-Founder of CultureShapers Collective and Founder and CEO of OrgFitech will collapse into his role within Populii. The creation of web-based tools he initiated with OrgFitech constitutes the suite of culture shaping tools offered by Populii and the in person training programs he designed and delivered represent the core ingredients for the suite of self-directed culture shaping skills programs offered by Populii.
His experience initiating start ups, consulting, educating, advising and coaching has put both learning and culture shaping center stage to help Populii’s clients 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.
previously worked with the largest bank in Canada (RBC) and with one of the largest global banks (HSBC) which showed him the power of organizational culture, both good and bad.
Successfully navigating senior leadership positions at both organizations taught him the value of culture when building a thriving team with engaged employees. He also experienced the lack of insight many corporations have into their organizational culture and how that lack of understanding can hinder change. He learned first-hand the opportunity to empower employees to build a positive culture is difficult to grasp for leaders and employees.
Having started his career in sales and marketing and he learned how an earnest value proposition, stupendously communicated, cannot overcome a contradiction in the cultural expectation for how that value proposition is delivered.
Aligning the promises made to customers, with the promises made to employees and embedding that commitment can be a challenge without the right knowledge and guidance. Customer commitments, employee experience, learning, culture. That’s his goal, that’s what he does.
Learnings from GHS Enterprise
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