Melissa Daimler

2022

Melissa helps leaders design, operationalize, and scale their culture. She currently serves as the Chief Learning Officer for Udemy, where she develops learning strategies for both customers and employees. Melissa brings over two decades of experience across Learning and Development, Talent Management, and Organizational Development. Prior to Udemy, Melissa created and built Learning, Organizational, and Talent Development functions for Adobe, Twitter, and WeWork. She is a speaker, panelist, and contributor to broad industry publishers including Harvard Business Review (HBR) and Forbes. One of the first coaches certified by the International Coach Federation ("ICF").

One of today’s most renowned culture thought leaders and practitioners provides the systematic approach business leaders need to create the kind of workplace that drives outcomes, growth, and profits  

Business leaders are scrambling to evolve their culture for the 21st Century business landscape. They create and communicate corporate values, but these values don’t translate into behaviors—and the project fails as soon as it began.

ReCulturing solves this persistent problem by helping readers form a “systems” perspective of culture, where all the parts—behaviors, strategy, and purpose—connect with one another to form a solid, powerful whole. It explains how to design values and behaviors and integrate them into organizational processes and practices. Along the way, readers find real-life stories of what has worked and what hasn’t at some of today’s largest and most influential companies.

Beyond looking at culture from the organizational lens, ReCulturing also focuses on the important role leaders and teams play in designing, building, and reinforcing culture.

●Daimler recently was appointed as Chief Learning Officer for Udemy, an educational technology company that just went public and is set to become one of the largest companies in this sector.

●Daimler’s 2018 Harvard Business Review article about the importance of operationalizing culture, indirectly referencing her most recent experience at WeWork was one of the publication’s top trending articles with 300,000-page views, and HBR republished it in 2021 with great success.

●Daimler will leverage her relationships with decision makers at major business and organizations like Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Salesforce, Starbucks, Adobe, Amazon, Pixar, University of San Francisco, University of California, Stanford University, and London School of Economics.

The Foreword is written by Walmart’s celebrated SVP and Chief People Officer Donna Morris, who has 35,000+ LinkedIn followers on LinkedIn and is a major figure in the world of HR