Beth Shelton (Speaker) Chief Executive Officer, Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa In January of 2019 our organization made national headlines for our new policy, allowing parents to bring their babies to work with them. Yes, everyday. While certainly the most attention-grabbing thing we've done, it was just the latest in our 3-year transformation that took our employee satisfaction rating from 19% to 89%. From "disruption grants" to baby wearing, we've made a mark on organizational transformation and developed tools and tips to get other organizations on that path. We've used data to shape innovation in the workplace and are excited about sharing it!

1. How a Lot of Disruption… and a Few
Babies, Transformed Our Culture
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2. CEO: Girl Scouts of
Greater Iowa
• 67 Iowa counties, 2
South Dakota
counties & 1
Nebraska county
• 52 FT employees/
70 PT
• 4 offices
• 4 camp properties
• 1,000 acres/ 71
buildings
• $10M+
Who we are

5. “Prepare them for the path, don’t prepare
the path for them.”
3rd Borns: “Looser boundaries, adventurous, uncomplicated, free spirited.

6. “When you become a manager of people it is not a transition of power,
but a transition to service.” –Doug Billings

7. Hurdles &
Frustrations Solution
Get
over it
Remove
yourself

8. Absolutely not.

9. Reflection

10. Ecosystem.
.
..

11. Research.

12. How should
we make
organizational
decisions?
other
Logical
things
RISK!
PROCESSES
CULTURAL FIT
MISSION

13. "We've never lost an American in space, and we
sure as hell aren't gonna lose one on my watch.
Failure is not an option!” –Gene Krantz
Think like
Mission Control.

14. What if I said
“we have to.”
What would the plan look like?

15. All the babies.
 10 page document
 Parents and guardians can bring children with them every day up
to age 6 months (or until crawling)
 Up to 3 Alternate Care Providers (ACP’s)
 Designated spaces, time limits on noise disruption
 Designate “Quiet Room/ lactation room”
 Waivers

16. Parenthood doesn’t
change the skills,
dedication and
experiences that we
so highly value in our
people. We want to
practice what we
preach, and
normalize a reality
where having
children and
advancing your
career are not
mutually exclusive.

17. Other benefits
Year 1: 24 days of PTO
15 paid holidays (entire week of Christmas) + 4
bonus days
Close at noon on Fridays in the summer
12 weeks paid parental leave
4 weeks paid Caregiver leave
Paid bereavement leave (including 5 days for
miscarriage)
Disruption Dollars Grants

18. Your culture,
quite simply,
is what your
people say
you are.

19. But what about
PRODUCTIVITY?

20.  Shades of Green Gala $: up 330%
 Mud Run attendance: up 24%
 Girls served in outreach: up 40%
 Overall Philanthropic dollars: up 15%
 # of Full time employees: up 6%
 Camp registrations: up 46%
 Online sales: up 155%
 Overall cookie sales: up 6%
 Girl renewals: up 9%
ONE RECENT EVENT
74%

21. Implications? BRAND
$1.2 M
ad
value
2m+

22. GALLUP ISN’T
WRONG.

23. Share “the fix.”

24. Parental
support.
“You don’t get to kind of believe
in equality.”
-Beth Shelton
-Do nothing: leave without pay.
-Charge women more?
-Invite women to use up all of their PTO and sick time. BUT,
be as engaged, innovative, creative, patient, productive and
committed upon return with no foreseeable days off or
contingencies.

25. If you enjoyed today’s presentation, let’s engage on social!
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