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Peter McGuinness joined Impossible Foods in 2022 as President and CEO to lead the company’s next phase of global growth and to help shape food habits around the world. Peter has more than 30 years of CPG experience, previously holding executive positions at Chobani and advertising agencies DDB Chicago and Gotham. He is known for building iconic brands and for transforming organizational structures.
In a fireside chat discussion, Peter will discuss learnings from his career, the methods he applies to leading Impossible Foods, and his opinion on the future of alt-meat products.
Peter McGuinness joined Impossible Foods in 2022 as President and CEO to lead the company’s next phase of global growth and to help shape food habits around the world. Peter has more than 30 years of CPG experience, previously holding executive positions at Chobani and advertising agencies DDB Chicago and Gotham. He is known for building iconic brands and for transforming organizational structures.
In a fireside chat discussion, Peter will discuss learnings from his career, the methods he applies to leading Impossible Foods, and his opinion on the future of alt-meat products.





![Episode 2: How to Keep Hybrid Workers Connected to the Mission
In this world of hybrid work, how to build and maintain long-lasting and impactful relationships at your company can be a head-scratcher of a question.
The Culture Kit hosts, Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava, are here to help. On today’s episode, they’re answering a question from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan about how to keep employees connected whether they’re at home or in the office.
Do you have a vexing question about work that you want Jenny and Sameer to answer? Submit your “Fixit Ticket!” at https://forms.gle/mxt7gBpRFqy4e52z5.
Find the full transcript and learn more about the podcast at: https://haas.berkeley.edu/culture/culture-kit-podcast/.
Jenny & Sameer’s 3 Main Takeaways:
1. Engage – connect people to the broader culture through meaningful shared experiences.
2. Expand – make those shared activities opportunities to broaden their networks within the organization.
3. Experiment – be open to new ways of creating connection, while also being willing to drop bad ideas and adjust over time.Show Links:
• Our Work-from-Anywhere Future (https://hbr.org/2020/11/our-work-from-anywhere-future) [Harvard Business Review]
• Work-from-anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.3251) [Strategic Management Journal]
• The Future of WFH (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q7uajc7ly2fvltxkas2nk/Berkeley.pdf?rlkey=vmf6uvskfhukcvy40ysloy651&dl=0) [2024 Culture Connect Conference slides – Nick Bloom]
• Does Working From Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment (https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18871/w18871.pdf) [NBER]
• The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01196-4) [Nature Human Behavior]
• When choice is demotivating: Can one desire too much of a good thing? (https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-16701-012) [Journal of Personality and Social Psychology]
• How to Build Your Network (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Uzzi/publication/7434264_How_to_build_your_network/links/5eab3f4992851cb2676913d5/How-to-build-your-network.pdf) [Harvard Business Review]
• In the Changing Role of the Office, It’s All about Moments That Matter (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/in-the-office-it-is-all-about-moments-that-matter/) [Microsoft]
• How Working from Home Boosted Golf (https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj24291/files/media/file/golfingfromhome.pdf)
• Case Study: How Visa taps into volunteering to keep its hybrid workforce engaged (https://www.tlnt.com/articles/case-study-how-visa-taps-into-volunteering-to-keep-its-hybrid-workforce-engaged-volunteering-to-keep-its-hybrid-workforce-engaged) [TLNT]
• Is Commitment Getting Infected Too? How COVID-19 Stay-Home Orders Influence Workgroup Commitment (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/mhqbv)
• The Ritual Effect (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ritual-Effect/Michael-Norton/9781982153021)
• Remote Work Revolution (https://www.tsedal.com/book/remote-work-revolution/)
Do you have a vexing question about work that you want Jenny and Sameer to answer? Submit your “Fixit Ticket (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1c6kSlpzNd_xvfyH_sg8hfBQC5ZGXML8gmJr7O3ThROI/edit) !”
You can learn more about the podcast and the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation at https://haas.berkeley.edu/culture/culture-kit-podcast/.
*The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer is a production of Haas School of Business and is produced by University FM.* Episode 2: How to Keep Hybrid Workers Connected to the Mission](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jna11ERpoa8/mqdefault.jpg)




