Meet Angela.
“They’re not a culture fit” was a phrase I heard far too often while working in corporate spaces.
My response has always been - “what are they fitting into?” and “if we want them to fit, we’re not creating the culture we think we are.”
This was also personal to me. I grew up in Rogers Park - the North side of Chicago - a community rich with diversity, with over 80 countries represented and 40 languages spoken. This brought a beautiful mix of diversity and culture to my life. As a Black, bi-racial kid growing up amongst a utopia of representation, I was sheltered from the idea of having to fit in somewhere until I entered the corporate workforce at age 19.
Being the “other” started to become routine for me. For a long time, I felt like “not fitting” was a disadvantage. Entering where I feel like I belonged became more scarce and harder to achieve. I spent a lot of my energy grappling with the dissonance between what organizations said and how I was experiencing them. I learned, then, that my story was not unique - that many organizations had not created workplace cultures and structures that created inclusive spaces where all people were able to thrive.
This unique lived experience, my graduate degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and spending 15 years leading people and culture teams gave me the confidence and conviction to build Call for Culture. I started this business because it’s time that organizations and leaders see their profound role and responsibility in shaping positive, inclusive, and workplace cultures.
Your company has the potential to transform into a meaningful environment where every human on your team is a culture amplifier and can deploy their diverse contributions for positive organizational outcomes and out in their communities for social good. It’s social responsibility at work, so let’s get to it!
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Equity-Centered Leadership
Equity-centered leadership and transforming organizations into spaces of inclusion, belonging, and impact.
The Future and Evolution of Work
Navigating generational shifts and building culture for the next workforce.
Sustainable Culture Change
Building change-ready organizations that align with societal and business demands.
Sustainable Culture Change
Building change-ready organizations that align with societal and business demands.
Angela’s Bio
Angela R. Howard is a globally recognized equity-centered organizational culture and change strategist who speaks, writes, and advocates for the transformative power of work in driving social impact. As the Founder of Call for Culture, a strategic advisory firm and community of practice, Angela helps organizations align, mobilize, and transform into humane, people-centered workplaces that create meaningful and lasting change.
A former executive leader and Head of People and Culture, Angela has firsthand experience navigating organizations through complex culture transformations. She has witnessed how the workplace often lags behind societal and generational shifts, and how unsustainable approaches to change can negatively impact both people and profit. Leveraging her expertise, Angela has guided organizations worldwide to build sustainable, adaptive, and responsive workplace cultures.
Angela holds an MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and lives in the Chicagoland area, where her and her team lead Call for Culture’s annual Culture Impact Lab conference. This event brings together culture changemakers to address challenges at the intersection of social impact and the workplace, fostering a vision for a more equitable, inclusive, and just future of work.