--- title: "Culture Is The Answer: Practical Success In The C-Suite From A Repeatable Playbook For Excellence" description: Carrie Willetts shares a practical leadership framework, showing how culture drives results and how she balances strategy with execution. image: https://www.valuecapturellc.com/hubfs/Carrie%20Willetts%20Podcast%20banner.png --- # Culture Is The Answer: Practical Success In The C-Suite From A Repeatable Playbook For Excellence May 6, 2025 Written by Value Capture, LLC ## Listen: Welcome to Episode #92 of [**Habitual Excellence**](https://valuecapturellc.com/thought-leadership/our-podcast-habitual-excellence/), presented by Value Capture. Carrie Willetts is one of the next-generation leaders of the Habitual Excellence movement, finding new ways to connect its ideas to *everyone* in the organization, practically and efficiently, using plainer language and simpler core concepts to achieve profound results at scale. As Chief Administrative Officer of the rapidly growing WVU Medicine, Carrie has succeeded at increasingly higher levels by thoughtfully aligning her deepest values, the institutions she chooses to serve, and a repeatable leadership framework rooted in the belief that culture is the answer to every challenge. In this episode of *Habitual Excellence*, Carrie delivers a tour de force explanation of her leadership framework, sharing compelling stories that illustrate how she applies it, along with evidence of major success. She also explains how she has become a rare C-suite leader who is equally comfortable with strategy and execution. Carrie’s story will energize listeners and offer insights that make the leadership path ahead both easier and more fulfilling.  [Full (unedited) transcript can be accessed here.](https://www.valuecapturellc.com/hubfs/Carrie%20Willetts%20Podcast%20Episode%2092%20Transcript.pdf) --- ## Subscribe: To make sure you don't miss an episode, be sure to subscribe today! Please rate and review the podcast. 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