Performance Culture

How to Build Teams That Win

Unlock the next great business advantage—inclusive culture that drives performance.

While most organizations obsess over technology, processes, and operations, they overlook the most powerful lever they have—culture. Each year, businesses spend over $366 billion on culture and development programs. And yet, 70% of that investment fails to improve performance.

In Performance Culture, Diversio CEO and workplace performance expert Laura McGee reveals why legacy culture, DEI, and engagement programs have stalled—and how to replace them with a measurable, ROI-driven system. Drawing on data from 200,000+ employees, case studies from companies like OMERS, Ubisoft, and Costco, and research partnerships with institutions including the Alan Turing Institute and Queen’s University, McGee introduces the Performance Culture Formula:

Performance = Culture (Motivation × Inclusion) × Development (Training × Opportunity)

The formula isn’t theory. It’s a practical operating system that connects human potential directly to revenue, cost, and profit. Inside you’ll learn:

• Why most engagement, DEI, and training programs fail—and how to build ones that work
• How to diagnose and fix the culture–performance gap in your organization
• What high-performing companies do differently to achieve measurable returns
• How to design infrastructure that turns motivation and inclusion into sustained excellence
• How to future-proof your culture in a post-DEI, AI-enabled, politically volatile world

Whether you’re a CEO aligning culture with growth, a CHRO rebuilding trust and retention, or a skeptical operator tired of vague culture talk—this is your playbook to stop measuring feelings and start engineering performance.