We got a chance to get to know the Cultivator’s new Community Manager when he gave us 30+ minutes to ask him anything we wanted.

As a global leader in eye care, Alcon relies on innovation and collaboration—and to stay on top of the market, the company needs its associates at the top of their games.

Alcon R&D wanted to create a culture that nurtured and grew ideas and talent—but in a global enterprise, top-down initiatives rarely lead to real change. A true community of changemakers needs to be built from the ground up. That’s where Cultivate came in.

Truly listening to employees and their ideas remains a struggle for many large organizations. With so much to do, it can be easy to ignore the insights and ideas that our front-line employees are sitting on, even when we know there can be tremendous opportunity in those insights and ideas.

Before the-year-that-must-not-be-named came to an end, the Cultivators Community hosted a Goal-Setting Workshop.

Welcome to our learning design shop at Cultivate! We recently developed a new program called the Empowered Cultivator Lab. You may have heard about it.

For those of you curious about how we create this sort of thing, here's a behind-the-scenes look.

The beginning of the year is frequently when many of us focus on building new habits and taking new actions. And while we may feel steadfast in our commitments to these new behaviors at the outset, keeping up with them over time can be challenging.

I don’t know about you folks, but I LOVE research, and that’s a good thing because I had a chance to do a lot of it over the past several months as we designed our Community Accelerator program.

At Cultivate, we talk a lot about turning ideas into action—but first, you need that essential spark. And then you need to give that spark the space to turn into a fire. But amid the repetition of day to day life, it can be hard to make space to nourish creative thought.

What sets a true changemaker apart? Action. The trailblazers who create real cultural change don't wait to be asked for their opinions. Instead, they take decisive action based on their convictions.