June 2025 Edition

🤑 Q2 Expenses 

Please submit your Q2 expenses by the end of day on June 30th! 

**Reminder: You can spend up to $600 USD each quarter. If you're planning to spend over $300 on a single event, please let Jessie know in advance. 

🛠️  Culture First Workshops Update

Event Co-Hosting Success! 

🤓 People Geek Slack 101

In our last community engagement survey, you all mentioned that you would like more tips and tricks on how to build your local communities. So, we hosted a People Geek Slack 101 session to help you feel more confident navigating and leveraging our digital community of 45K+ members—and wow, it was packed with practical tips, inspiration, and ways to deepen your local and global chapter connections.

A huge thank you to Acey Holmes for hosting the sessions and helping us demystify how to engage more meaningfully in Slack! 🙌

👇 Here’s what we covered:

What People Geek Slack (PGS) is: It’s our digital community for HR leaders, people practitioners, and culture champions to connect, learn, and grow together. Think discussions on steroids. It is separate from our Culture First Slack workspace. 

Easy Ways to Engage in People Geek Slack Right Now: 

• Promote your upcoming events in the #events channel

• Drop photos from recent chapter events + wins in the #humble-brag channel 

• Post reflections and takeaways in relevant topic channels (i.e. #employee-experience or #diversity-equity-inclusion) 

• Invite PGS members to your events (watch the attached Trova tutorial to find members in your area)

• Encourage your chapter members to join PGS to keep the conversation going 

🔗 Useful Links:

📹 Recording of the PGS 101 Session

🛝 Culture First Community Building Best Practices Slide Deck (slides 24 - 31)

📁 People Geek Slack Channel Directory & Community Guidelines

🔍 Trova How-To Video: Learn how to find PGS members near you 

🤝 Collaborating with Other Communities? Read This First. 

It’s okay to co-host with another HR org (like Transform, DisruptHR, or ATD), but a few rules apply.

• Only one official host + registration page (Bevy or theirs)

  • If a Culture First event, the partner can send out the link to register on Bevy to their members

  • If the partner's event, we can send out an email to your members with a link for register on their page. 

• No sharing attendee info

  • If a Culture First event, we will not be sharing attendee contact information or emails with the partner. 

• No pitching or selling

  • Honor 'connection inside, business outside.'

  • As a refresher, here is what that means - "In the context of a CF gathering, we ask people to connect first as humans and if that leads to folks doing business outside the gathering, that's cool. The primary purpose is for people to connect and learn. It's not for hard core sales or surface level networking. Yes, this community is supported by Culture Amp, but this rule also applies for Culture Amp. We ask that no one overtly push their services or ask people to sign up for a demo."

• We must open with who we are + our principles at every Culture First gathering

• Want to collaborate with a direct Culture Amp competitor like Lattice? 

  • It's generally a 'no,' but please chat with Jessie first. 

🎥 Severance & The Future of Work: Recording and Round Two

If you missed our recent session on Severance, don’t worry—we recorded it! 

Session Highlights:

• "Is the show really as dystopian as some say, or do we see those themes in today's working world?"

• "If you’ve ever worked as the head of HR, you'd understand wanting to be severed….."

• “This show is the Dystopian Love Letter to Loneliness.”

• "We are all slaves to the system of work."

• "How can we make work something people don’t need to escape from?"

Save the Date for Part Two - July 22nd!

📣 Promote Other Chapter Events: We're Stronger Together 

I want to give a special shoutout to Christy Tonge, SF chapter lead, who’s always fantastic at promoting other chapter events during their gatherings. It’s a great habit for all of us to adopt! Just because someone is part of one chapter doesn’t mean they shouldn’t join other events—especially topic-based ones like our new Global Trauma (Sarah Giencke + Natalia Bayurova), Mental Health and Neurodiversity at Work (Stephanie Loredo), and soon-to-launch Psychedelics at Work and Founders chapters. Make sure to check the calendar, and encourage your members to explore what’s happening across the entire chapters community!