Transparent culture is sharing information freely to benefit the organization and its people. When an organization is transparent, it increases employee engagement and allows them to communicate freely. A transparent culture creates trust between employers and employees and being transparent costs nothing, which gives it an exceptional ROI. Today’s guest is Syed Ishaqui, Founder and CEO at AvistaTech. Inc Magazine ranked his company #3022 on the 2022 Inc 5000 list. AvistaTech is a recruiting company providing consulting, strategic solutions, and staffing using a proprietary tool to identify resource gaps and assess technology. In this episode, Syed talks about creating a transparent culture and its impact on the organization. He also shared his insights about leading by example and how as a leader, it always starts with you. Discover how you can create a transparent culture to drive growth for your company.

About Syed Ishaqui:

Syed Ishaqui extensive experience in strategizing and architecting complex development projects as well as building the underlying Organizational capabilities to support it. Some of the professional accomplishments are outlined below:

• Key leadership in creating the Enterprise Information Management Strategy which included a step by step approach all the way from foundational initiatives finally feeding the bigger strategic imperatives
• Provided a new mechanism to support the flow of data from web portals to internal clinical systems involving disparate systems in multiple locations, thereby saving the company from data issues and reducing the amount of time/money necessary to move referrals from one system to another.
• Contributed to the development of a new line of business for the company by creating a comprehensive integration solution that can handle online assessments as well as in-depth care, which could be sold to other healthcare companies.
• Formulated security policies for the production systems, including implementing a database monitoring system that aided in solving performance problems, which saved the company thousands of dollars.
• Implemented a scheduling product (Autosys by Computer Associated), which worked toward automating manual tasks, thereby reducing operational costs and eliminating the need for 8 employees over 2 years.
• Managed database licensing for the company and saved upwards of $200K in Microsoft SQL-Server Licensing.
• Enabled divestiture of the company’s medical supplies division for $130M by contributing to the successful completion of a data migration project.