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Hack Your Culture: Crowdsourcing to Solve Your Organizational Challenges

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26 minutes August 7, 2025

The best ideas for improving employee experience and engagement are often already inside your organization, they just need the right environment to surface. More than a focus group, hackathons harness the insights of your teams to turn abstract goals into actionable solutions. In this session, you'll learn how to design, launch, and scale your own hackathon to empower employees and drive internal innovation. You’ll learn:…

The best ideas for improving employee experience and engagement are often already inside your organization, they just need the right environment to surface. More than a focus group, hackathons harness the insights of your teams to turn abstract goals into actionable solutions. In this session, you'll learn how to design, launch, and scale your own hackathon to empower employees and drive internal innovation. You’ll learn:

  • The Hack-a-thon Model: Learn the building blocks of what works and what does not for internal hack-a-thons, including how to define the challenge and recruit cross-functional teams. 
  • Ideas into Action: Key tactics to guarantee your hackathons evolve abstract culture goals into specific, team-driven solutions that employees help build to create instant buy-in.  
  • Build Buy-in: Tips to turn employees into co-creators of culture and build ownership to ensure solutions stick. 
  • Bring it Back, Scale it Up: Leave with a model you can adapt and scale inside your organization to activate change from within.  
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