Title: The Hidden Cost of a Bad Culture: What It’s Really Costing Your Bottom Line

Speaker: Rod W. Querry, Fractional CHRO & Managing Partner, The Arcue Group

Presentation Description:
Culture is often treated as an HR issue, but its impact reaches far beyond employee engagement. Leadership inconsistency, unclear expectations, poor communication, and lack of accountability create very real costs through lost productivity, management time, turnover, rework, and slower execution—costs that may never appear as their own line item on the P&L.

In this practical and interactive session, Rod Querry will examine the hidden financial impact of workplace culture and show how clarity, consistency, and accountability can improve organizational performance. For organizations operating across multiple locations, regions, and countries, the discussion will also explore how distance, differing communication norms, and leadership expectations can magnify existing alignment gaps—and why intentional leadership becomes even more important in a distributed organization.

Speaker Bio:
Rod W. Querry is the Managing Partner of The Arcue Group and a Fractional CHRO with more than 30 years of executive HR and organizational leadership experience. He partners with CEOs, business owners, and executive teams to address the people and leadership challenges that directly affect business performance, including organizational alignment, culture, leadership effectiveness, employee relations, compliance, and HR strategy.

Known for making complex people issues practical and understandable, Rod approaches HR from a business perspective—connecting leadership decisions and organizational culture to productivity, performance, retention, and financial results. He holds a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership and a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Development and is a Certified Executive Leadership Coach.