“Performance Culture is a breakthrough guide that transforms how organizations think about people, performance, and culture. Laura McGee draws from years of research and real-world application to reveal a powerful formula for multiplying motivation, inclusion, and development into lasting performance gains. Insightful and refreshingly clear, this book is essential reading for leaders ready to turn good intentions into scalable, high-performing results.”

—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“Performance Culture offers a compelling reframing of one of the most important leadership challenges today: connecting culture to real organizational results. Laura McGee outlines a brilliant framework linking motivation, inclusion, training, and opportunity as reinforcing multipliers, giving leaders a practical way to move beyond rhetoric and build systems that translate values into outcomes. Too often, organizations measure activity rather than impact. This book challenges leaders to focus on what truly matters and to design infrastructure where people, purpose, and results strengthen one another. For leaders in mission-driven organizations especially, this perspective is both timely and deeply useful.”

—Michael Klompus, chief people and operations officer, UNICEF

“Inclusion efforts are often hard to measure. McGee does a masterful job in connecting culture and development to performance—and provides a blueprint for an ROI-driven system. If you want your organization to be more inclusive and to perform at its highest level, this book is essential reading.”

—Dr. Shawn Andrews, speaker, consultant, business-school professor, and author of The 5 Levels of Male Allyship and The Power of Perception

“Laura has written a truly important book for our times, delivering a rigorous, data-informed, and comprehensive guide to understanding and dramatically improving an organization’s culture, talent, and performance management. No muss, no fuss, and all backed up with data, metrics, and a systematic and intuitive approach to designing a successful organizational culture. It’s written beautifully and is a true practical guide. I couldn’t recommend it more to the C-suite and board of any company or other entity. Brava!”

—Andrea Bonime-Blanc, JD, PhD; CEO and founder, GEC Risk Advisory; and author of Governing Pandora

“Laura McGee delivers rare value, combining measurable insights with practical implementation to tackle vivid real-world examples of team leadership tradeoffs. This need-to-have book equips undergraduate and graduate learners not just to understand team leadership ideas but to apply them meaningfully across relevant contexts. I am excited to leverage this book as a powerful learning resource for any course that involves leading teams.”

—Dana Kanze, TED fellow and professor of entrepreneurship, Georgetown McDonough School of Business

“Grounded in evidence and real‑world insight, this book moves culture out of theory and into practice, cutting through the noise to show what truly drives performance. Laura clearly demonstrates how development, culture, and performance interconnect—and provides tangible, actionable ways leaders can strengthen the conditions for people to grow, contribute, and thrive. An indispensable resource for any organization committed to creating a future‑ready, high‑performing, and inclusive culture.”

—Catherine Fendall, CPHR, senior human resources leader

“This book does what many culture and DEI efforts never quite manage to do: it makes performance the point. Laura McGee offers a rigorous blueprint for building inclusive cultures that move beyond good intentions to actually drive revenue, retention, and results.”

—Priya Nalkur, executive coach and author of Stumbling Towards Inclusion