Andreza Araújo
Andreza Araújo
Founder & CEO
ACS
The Relationship between Culture, Leadership, and Performance
Organizational culture, in its full functioning, reveals a profound and interdependent relationship with leadership, resulting in solid and consistent organizational performance.
By analyzing the development of culture, we observe that effective leaders play a crucial role in building and sustaining it, embodying and reinforcing organizational values through actions that demonstrate their commitment. These leaders keep the culture alive with coherence, constancy, and consistency, serving as examples of dedication and resilience.
Cultural maturity, driven by engaged leadership, enables the organization to achieve proactive results, strengthening its ability to respond swiftly and effectively to failures, errors, unexpected events, and variability. This virtuous cycle of culture, leadership, and performance transforms challenges into opportunities for continuous growth and adaptation.
Andreza Araújo is the CEO of ACS Consultancy Services and a globally recognized expert in Safety Culture, with over 24 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies in the consumer goods sector.
She has held executive roles, including Global Head of EHS, earning recognition for her strategic and transformative leadership. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva, a specialization in Sustainability from IMD in Switzerland, and certifications in People Management and Coaching from Ohio University, in addition to completing the JAME program in Japan.
The author of 13 books on Safety Culture, Andreza has built a career marked by global impact and international recognition. She has been a keynote speaker at world-renowned conferences, including the United Nations headquarters in Paris, Watec in Israel, and the ILO headquarters in Turin, Italy.
Recognized with multiple awards for outstanding achievements in EHS management, her current mission is to democratize knowledge on Safety Culture, having trained over 25,000 leaders across companies on several continents.