Your Character Is Your Culture: Lessons From UnitedHealth Groups Transformational Journey by Sparkman, Dave
Your Character Is Your Culture: Lessons From UnitedHealth Groups Transformational Journey by Sparkman, Dave

Your Character Is Your Culture: Lessons From UnitedHealth Groups Transformational Journey

Stop launching culture initiatives. Start leading a movement.Why do most attempts at corporate culture change fail? Too...
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Author: Dave Sparkman
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Your Character Is Your Culture: Lessons From UnitedHealth Groups Transformational Journey by Sparkman, Dave

Your Character Is Your Culture: Lessons From UnitedHealth Groups Transformational Journey

$46.32
Your Character Is Your Culture: Lessons From UnitedHealth Groups Transformational Journey by Sparkman, Dave

Your Character Is Your Culture: Lessons From UnitedHealth Groups Transformational Journey

$46.32
Author: Dave Sparkman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Stop launching culture initiatives. Start leading a movement.

Why do most attempts at corporate culture change fail? Too often, they are treated as "outside-in" HR mandates or superficial marketing campaigns relying on creative slogans, top-down directives, and forced compliance training.

In Your Character Is Your Culture, Dave Sparkman offers a different, field-tested path. Drawing directly from his nine-year tenure as Senior Vice President of Culture at UnitedHealth Group-a Fortune 5 enterprise with hundreds of thousands of employees-Sparkman submits that sustainable organizational change only happens from the inside-out. It requires individuals to personally invest in company values, fundamentally transforming how they think, behave, and work every single day.

As a former Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and partner at Arthur Andersen, Sparkman bridges the gap between rigorous financial discipline and human-first leadership. He bypasses abstract academic theories to deliver a tactical framework showing how deeply embedded core values act as a direct engine for long-term economic performance, operational excellence, and employee retention.

What You Will Discover Inside:

  • The SPARK Framework: A structured, inside-out blueprint designed to move your organization past "flavor-of-the-month" programs into a culture owned by the business and lived by the heart.
  • 18 Practical Trail Markers: Standalone, actionable chapters providing proven tactics to navigate cultural dissonance, align metrics, and sustain momentum over a multi-year timeline.
  • The Truth About Culture ROI: Clear guidance on how to look past rigid mathematical formulas to measure what truly matters, balancing institutional IQ with critical emotional intelligence (EQ).
  • Real-World Case Studies: Honest reflections from UnitedHealth Group's cultural transformation, detailing both the breakthrough successes and the systemic challenges faced along the way.

Whether your organization consists of a small team or a global workforce, culture is advanced one person, one day, and one step at a time. This book provides the practical roadmap senior executives, team leaders, and aspiring managers need to build a healthy, high-performance workplace that stands the test of time.



Author: Dave Sparkman
Publisher: Indie Books International
Published: 05/22/2026
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781966168782

About the Author
Sparkman, Dave: - Dave Sparkman is the founder of SPARK Your Culture, a workplace culture advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations flourish through healthy, high-performance cultures. For nine years, Dave served as the SVP of Culture at UnitedHealth Group, where he helped lead a historic transformation for the Fortune 5 company. A retreaded CPA and former partner at Arthur Andersen, Dave brings a unique blend of financial discipline and human-first leadership to his work. Beyond the corporate world, he serves as the Executive Director for Crossroads Career, a faith-based ministry that helps the unemployed and unfulfilled find purpose in their work-a role that reflects his deep belief that transformed character is the true engine of a transformed culture.

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