Culture Eats Strategy
In today’s competitive landscape, business leaders often emphasize strategy, but it’s culture that truly drives long-term success. At this month’s breakfast, guest speaker Chris Chan will explore why “Culture Eats Strategy” is not just a phrase but a cornerstone for building high-performance teams that thrive. Drawing on his experience leading a team that has stuck together across three companies, he’ll demonstrate how fostering a cohesive, empowering culture is the key to achieving extraordinary results.
Through lessons from Silicon Valley and companies like Yahoo, Splunk and TANDA, we’ll examine how an intentional culture drives innovation, retention, and adaptability. You’ll learn how to build a culture that becomes your strongest asset, one that not only attracts top talent but keeps them engaged and performing at their best.
Chris Chan
Hacker. Speaker. Mentor.
Chris Chan has spent 17 years navigating various roles in Silicon Valley, including frontend engineer, product manager, engineering manager, and now co-founder of a fintech startup. He earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of Victoria.
Chris’s career began at Yahoo, where he spent a decade contributing to Yahoo Search, Yahoo Index, and Yahoo Finance. Notably, he holds the record for the most hackathon wins in Yahoo’s history, with an impressive 13 victories. In 2017, he transitioned to Splunk, where he co-founded the Splunk Mobile team. At Splunk, Chris played a key role in driving mobile initiatives, hiring during hyper-growth, and cultivating a strong team culture across a 250+ person organization.
In 2023, Chris left big tech and co-founded TANDA, a fintech startup that helps people build financial security and community. The company received seed funding from industry titans - Sequoia Capital and Initialized Capital. Start-up life hits Chris’ sweet spot where technology, design, and entrepreneurship converges.
In addition to his professional endeavors, Chris is dedicated to mentoring early-career individuals and is an experienced public speaker, having spoken at prestigious events like TEDxSFState. Outside of work, he practices martial arts and earned a black belt in Krav Maga in 2022.
Love Your City Network
Our city matters. It matters to us that we continue to grow and flourish for our friends and families to live well. We make our cities better by working together.
Love Your City Network is a Together Green Bay sponsored monthly breakfast gathering of community leaders from the non-profit, faith, education, and business sectors of our cities. Our purpose is to equip leaders with tools and language to transform their lives, workplace and communities and collaborate to see our cities flourish.
We meet the third Thursday of the month, August through November, from 7:30 to 9 am. These meetings take place at The Automobile Gallery, in downtown Green Bay, located at 400 S Adams Street. There will be time for breakfast, a collaboration exercise, and teaching.
Upcoming Dates:
Thursday, October 17
Thursday, November 21