People Before Strategy Roundtable
#PeopleBeforeStrategy Roundtable
You can have the best strategy, but without the right people, you won’t get anywhere.
Join this free monthly Roundtable designed for leaders who understand that businesses are people. Each session is a live, facilitated space where decision-makers, team leads, and people professionals connect, learn, and grow together.
🗓️ Next Live Session: Thursday, September 24, 2026
🕒 5:30 PM GMT / Use Time Converter
📅 Live on Zoom — Free to Attend
This Month’s Theme
Big C, little c: Understanding Culture as It’s Lived — Not Just Designed
Your values on the wall are not necessarily your culture.
Organizations often approach culture as something that can be designed from the top down: define the values, communicate them, and expect everyone to live them. But the reality is more complex.
Culture is also created through everyday behaviors, relationships, decisions, and the different contexts in which your people work. In global and hybrid organizations especially, the same corporate value can look very different across teams and geographies.
In this interactive #PeopleBeforeStrategy Roundtable, we’ll explore the relationship between Big C culture —the values and systems you intentionally design—and little c culture —how those ideas are actually interpreted and lived.
Together, we’ll explore how to:
⫸ Recognize cultural variation as differentiation, not automatically dysfunction
⫸ Map how organizational values show up across different teams and contexts
⫸ Approach culture as an operating and systems reality, not simply a “soft” leadership issue
Join senior leaders, founders, people professionals, and team leads for a practical conversation about understanding the culture you actually have, not just the one you intended to create.
Why Join the Roundtable?
You can Google leadership tips. But you can’t Google or GPT real-time connection, coaching, and strategy.
This is for you if you want to:
- Lead with confidence and clarity
- Build empowered, energized teams
- Elevate your impact while staying grounded in your values
- Learn from diverse voices and real-life leadership stories
Every month features a new topic with curated guest experts and a facilitated learning experience led by executive and leadership coach Akua Nyame-Mensah.
What Past Attendees Are Saying
“Great guest. Wonderful facilitation. Good participant interaction. Really enjoyed it. The time flew by — always a good sign!”
“As always, quite inspiring! Practical tips and insights. Huge thank you!”
“It’s always a pleasure to join your Roundtable. The subjects are very impactful and the speakers are outstanding.”
“Thank you for all the insights. I wish this continued for more than 1 hour. Thank you for organizing, Akua!”
“Very good conversation, as always.”
“An hour and a half next time for more information on a topic.”
“I enjoy it…The guests were outstanding, it felt like they had a lot more to offer, but the time was limited.”
“I enjoyed the engagement with the audience and how the topic was unpacked practically.”
What to Expect
No fluff. Just an hour of value you can apply immediately.
Case Studies + Mini Trainings
Explore a real-world leadership challenge and hear how experienced leaders approach it
Live Coaching + Q&A
Ask your questions and get support in the moment
Networking
Connect with peers who are serious about people-first leadership
Who Should Join the Roundtable?
- People Managers & Team Leads
- Heads of HR, People, L&D, and Organizational Development
- Founders and Executives in Growth Mode
- Consultants and Service Providers who support leaders and teams
If you’re responsible for culture, performance, or team dynamics — this is for you.
Previous Roundtable Topics
- Self-Promotion: How Leaders Can Showcase Their Value Without Bragging
- Balancing Empathy and Accountability
- From Manager to Coach: Transitioning to a Coaching Leadership Style
- The Art of Delegation: How to Let Go and Trust Your Team
- Navigating Tough Conversations: Mastering Difficult Dialogues
Each month builds leadership capability while centering the human side of work.
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Thursday, September 24 · 5:30pm UTC (1h)Register View more
Hosted by Akua Nyame-Mensah - Leadership & Culture Advisor
Your values on the wall aren’t your culture.
Organizations spend a l…
Read moreHosted by Akua Nyame-Mensah - Leadership & Culture Advisor
Your values on the wall aren’t your culture.
Organizations spend a lot of time defining values and designing culture from the top down. But culture is also being created every day—in conversations, decisions, behaviors, teams, and local contexts.
For global and hybrid organizations, these different interpretations are inevitable. Instead of automatically treating variation as dysfunction, what if leaders learned to understand and work with it?
This live conversation will explore culture as an operating reality and help you examine the difference between the culture you intended to create and the culture your people actually experience.
We’ll talk about how to:
⫸ Recognize cultural variation as differentiation, not automatically dysfunction
⫸ Map how organizational values are actually lived across teams and geographies
⫸ Understand culture as a systems and operating conversation, not simply a “soft” one
With special guests:
⫸ André Lauer — Learning Experience Designer & L&D Specialist
Specializing in leadership development, learning culture, collaboration, mental health and wellbeing, with extensive experience facilitating across cultures and contexts.
⫸ Dr. Anthony Moss-Zobel, PCC — Neuroeducation & Applied Neuroscience Consultant, Researcher & Coach
Bringing research-based perspectives on how people learn, lead, perform, and create sustainable behavioral change.
This 60-minute interactive session is designed for senior leaders, founders, people professionals, and team leads across sectors.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Nope! Register anyway and you’ll get access to the replay after the event
Yes, 100% free. It’s part of Akua’s commitment to supporting intentional, people-first leadership.
If you lead people, support people leaders, or influence culture and strategy, this is for you.
Absolutely. Feel free to share the registration link with your team or network.
No problem. You’ll be welcomed in, and you don’t need to prepare anything. Just show up ready to engage.
Akua's guest experts are from her network. Many of them she has worked with directly. If you are interested in becoming a guest expert for an upcoming Roundtable please contact her via her contact form and select 'Other.'
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