Gaude Paez, Riot Games

In episode 5 of this bonus miniseries of Leadership2050, Andrew White and co-host Adam Canwell of EY talk to Gaude Paez, Head of Global Corporate Affairs at Riot Games, about reshaping company culture.

Riot Games is the game developer and publisher behind blockbuster PC games such as League of Legends and Valorant. Gaude talks openly about the cultural transformations Riot Games undertook to shift the disruptive communication behaviors that had emerged over the years following a 2018 class-action lawsuit in the US and the impact of a global pandemic. How do you effectively reshape a company’s culture and reset expectations in the wake of a crisis? We’ll hear how co-constructing a social movement with leaders and the workforce is key.

Says Gaude: “The health of your workforce, how people work together towards a common goal, can make or break a company. Don’t underestimate as leaders the distance you might have from the day-to-day experience of some of your employees, so it’s helpful to get folks who are closer to that in the loop early. That really pays off in terms of striking the right tone. It’s all about the human element.”

For this special deep dive into transformation leadership Dr Andrew White has teamed up with research partner Adam Canwell from the EY organisation to explore the journey global leaders and their workforce went through as they successfully led their organisations through significant change. The series is part of a year-long research project in which Andrew and Adam’s team has surveyed 935 senior leaders and direct reports, as well as 1,127 workforce members from around the globe and across multiple industries. Their aim is to demystify the process of transformation.

Featuring:

Dr Andrew White, Senior Fellow of Management Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Adam Canwell, EY Oceania Workforce Advisory Leader.

Gaude Paez (@GaudeP), Head of Global Corporate Affairs, Riot Games.

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