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Ep 23 - Ownership Changes Everything | Caitlyn Cook
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In this episode of The Intangible Brand, Jerry and Carl sit down with Caitlyn Cook, Marketing and Employee Owner Experience Lead at ESS Companies, to explore how employee ownership reshapes culture, accountability, and brand.
Caitlyn shares how her role bridges marketing and the employee experience, and how ESS has grown rapidly while maintaining a strong sense of ownership across its teams. We talk about what it takes to build connection across regions, why culture cannot be manufactured from the top down, and how employee ownership changes the way people show up to their work.
The conversation also looks at the relationship between employee experience and client experience, why alignment between marketing, HR, and leadership is critical, and how firms can create a culture that actually holds as they scale.
We cover:
• What changes when employees are also owners
• Why employee ownership shapes both culture and brand
• How employee experience influences client experience
• Why culture is built through connection, not messaging
• The importance of alignment across marketing, HR, and leadership
• How to maintain culture while scaling a growing organization
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• Radical Candor by Kim Scott
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