Paul Meshanko, Author at Legacy Business Cultures

About Paul Meshanko

Paul Meshanko is an author, speaker and business leader with over 20 years of experience in corporate training and culture change. As a presenter, he has captivated over a quarter million leaders and business professionals on five continents. His company, Legacy Business Cultures, is a global provider of organizational survey and training services. Paul holds a BSBA from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College.

Gender Bias Starts Early and Lasts a Lifetime

By Paul Meshanko|2019-10-10T09:30:54-04:00October 9th, 2019|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: unconscious bias|

Using acceptance speeches to further causes is not new. So, it wasn’t particularly surprising that actress Patricia Arquette used her time at the microphone at the Academy Awards last Sunday to implore us all to pay attention to equal rights for all women. Society’s opportunities for improvement, when it comes to the issue of equal rights in the workplace, are well documented. Stacks of studies outline issues including the glass ceiling, pay equality, and maternal wall bias, or discrimination that occurs against caregivers, and particularly working mothers.

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Why Focus on Respect? It Creates Efficiency, Engagement, and Inclusion!

By Paul Meshanko|2019-10-01T17:23:27-04:00October 1st, 2019|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: communication, Diversity, emotional intelligence, Inclusion, respectful behavior|

Part of practicing respect at work is being willing to invest time in each other for the purpose of increasing our awareness. By getting a better sense of what’s similar in our experiences and what’s unique, we eventually figure out what’s important to each other as well. This “court awareness” dramatically increases both our predictability around each other and our efficiency at getting work done.

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Respect is about Exploring Our Uniqueness…Not Pretending We’re All the Same

By Paul Meshanko|2019-10-01T17:24:13-04:00September 30th, 2019|Categories: Best of our Blog, Cultural Tourism, Interviews, Our Favorite Posts, Respect Tips, Respectful Workplace|

Have you ever heard people proudly exclaim that they are color blind? Or, more broadly, that they treat everyone the same? While that sounds great on the surface (think of Golden Rule), the actual premise for that notion is antiquated at best. At its worst, it can be downright disrespectful. Why? Because we are not all the same.

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Why your company needs a Code of Cooperation and how to create one

By Paul Meshanko|2024-07-30T18:03:18-04:00September 15th, 2019|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: workplace culture|

A Code of Cooperation is a document created by people who work together to encourage an emotionally healthy work environment. It accomplishes this by formally establishing common behavioral expectations that can be supported by all. Codes of Cooperation may articulate both behaviors which a group wishes to encourage as well as those to be avoided. They should be created with input from all group members and are most effective when embraced and supported by everyone.

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Legacy Business Cultures Becomes a Majority Female-Owned Business

By Paul Meshanko|2019-07-09T19:42:34-04:00July 1st, 2019|Categories: News|

Like most other companies, Legacy Business Cultures has to occasionally update its own business course and practices. Earlier this summer, we made a significant change and transitioned to a majority female-owned, small business.

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Wise Women: Rethinking Our Sources of Inspiration

By Paul Meshanko|2018-02-02T08:53:13-05:00February 2nd, 2018|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: gender equality, unconscious bias|

For almost 20 years, Legacy Business Cultures has proudly sent our “Coffee and Keynote” inspirational quotes every weekday morning to thousands of online subscribers. Last year alone, we sent out over 2 million individual messages sharing wisdom of the ages on leadership, teamwork, personal effectiveness and respect to readers around the world. So I have to admit that I was caught completely off guard on morning when one of our subscribers sent us a rather pointed email message stating that she was very upset with the quotations and was considering unsubscribing from the service.

4 Steps for Putting More Muscle Behind Harassment Training

By Paul Meshanko|2026-07-06T12:12:45-04:00November 22nd, 2017|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: sexual harassment, training and development|

Let’s face it. We’re in a different place than we were just a few months ago when it comes to both the substance and emotions surrounding the topic of sexual harassment. As in other situations, a new landscape requires a new strategy. In this case, it also requires a stronger sense of urgency to address the topic of harassment training head-on and in a meaningful, comprehensive fashion. Here are 4 important guidelines they may help your organization.

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Video: disrespect is toxic to the body

By Paul Meshanko|2017-07-31T10:40:16-04:00July 31st, 2017|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: disrespectful workplace, neuroscience|

In the following video, Paul Meshanko explains that, when people are treated with disrespect at work, negative effects may be caused not only to their engagement and productivity, but also may become more prone to stress related physical and mental damages.

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Video: respect requires engagement

By Paul Meshanko|2017-06-28T21:15:01-04:00June 28th, 2017|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: respect|

In the following video, Paul Meshanko shares a story about why respecting one another requires taking the next step towards engagement.

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Video: Avoidance takes effort

By Paul Meshanko|2017-06-28T22:07:02-04:00June 16th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: workplace diversity|

Paul Meshanko describes how, while tolerance is easy, avoidance takes effort. Avoidance stems from suspicions about those who are perceived as different. And while it takes energy to avoid others, it also causes distress to those who feel that they are being excluded.

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