What Are Your Culture Signals with Justin Barksdale

On this episode of the Build Your Success podcast we welcome Justin Barksdale, founder of Barksdale Safety and Barksdale Leadership. Justin shares his 15–16 years as a safety professional, starting as a scaffold builder, and explains his companies’ missions: educating, equipping, and empowering organizations to create safety and building leaders people want to follow and cultures people never want to leave.

Justin defines leadership as servant influence that adds value and builds trust, and defines culture as how people think, act, and interact. They discuss how leaders shape culture through what they reinforce and tolerate, how “culture isn’t what we expect; it’s what we accept,” and how poor culture drives disengagement, turnover, and hidden costs.

Justin warns against “flavor of the month” change, stresses measuring culture, investing in leadership development, and cites Microsoft’s culture shift from “know-it-alls”to “learn-it-alls.”

Guest Social: JustinBarksdale, CSP | LinkedIn

Guest Website: BarksdaleLeadership Solutions ; BarksdaleSafety Solutions -Safety Consultants

Host Email:[e-mail] Host LinkedIn: Brian Brogen, PMP 🧱| LinkedIn

About the host: Do you want true engagement at your event?Expect Brian Brogen to deliver a keynote that sparks dialogue, inspires growth, and leaves your audience thinking long after the event ends.

Drawing on his extensive experience as a general contractorand project manager in the construction, power, and mining industries, Brian brings the real-world credibility and relatable rapport your audience craves.