The Core Concept: Every culture develops problem-solving patterns over centuries. These cultural algorithms are like behavioral code – efficient, repeatable processes that run on people instead of computers and get passed down through shared experience.

The core message of this talk is to encourage leaders to view their teams not just from what their skills and career highlights, job descriptions, and even their outward personalities bring to the workplace.

Instead, Dee suggests that we look deeper at the inherent, unique cultural contexts contributors bring to the table that may jolt us out of our own ingrained ‘ways of working’ to novel paths to innovative solutions.