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Amplifying Company Culture to Attract and Retain Top Talent with Bill Condron, The Granite Group

Apr 20, 2022

Want to know the secret to promoting a vibrant, growth-oriented company culture? Forget about the pingpong table in the breakroom. Bill Condron, CEO of Boston-based The Granite Group, says it starts with doing right by your associates and customers––even when no one’s watching. 

Jason chats with Bill about his approach to bottom-up employee engagement, his company’s aggressive expansion strategy, and striking the balance between healthy growth and sound culture.

Bill’s broader belief is that Granite’s enviable reputation as a service- and innovation-oriented supplier is shaped by the staffers who typically get relegated to the middle or bottom of org charts at other companies: pickers, branch managers, and truck drivers. 

Maintaining Granite’s culture isn’t a hands-off endeavor. The company’s yearly calendar boasts quarterly meetings, branch dinners, and town halls. 

The company has done an excellent job amplifying its culture to attract top talent, back-fill positions vacated by promotion and appeal to a demographic that this industry has traditionally ignored: women. 

“It's not perceived [as] welcoming or open or a place where women can be successful. That's absolutely false,” says Bill.  Granite boasts a finance team led by women and women-led branches as well. “If you’re able to do that, you're going to up your success by a factor of many.”

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