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About Legacy Business Cultures
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Legacy Business Cultures is a workplace training, coaching, and organizational development firm. For more than 27 years, it has helped businesses, government agencies, and nonprofits build workplaces that are more respectful and resilient. Founded by Paul Meshanko, author of The Respect Effect, the firm has trained over 500,000 people across 5 continents in 30+ languages.
The Business Case for Respect
Disrespect at work is expensive. It drives turnover, invites harassment and discrimination claims, and erodes the trust that high-performing teams depend on. Organizations that invest in respect-based culture don't just avoid these costs — they see measurably higher engagement and, per industry research, up to 218% higher revenue per employee. For HR leaders and executives, this isn't a compliance box to check. It's a performance strategy.
Leadership Development That Gets Results
Every organization already has the raw ingredients for its next generation of leaders — what's usually missing is the right guidance. Legacy's leadership development curriculum is built around three domains every effective leader needs: personal mastery (self-awareness, values, and leadership brand), relationship mastery (coaching, conflict navigation, and building a culture of respect), and technical mastery (communication, performance management, and critical thinking).
Delivered as a modular 1-to-4-day program by facilitators who've been leaders themselves, the training is built to help both current and emerging leaders apply what they learn immediately — not just sit through it. Clients including Apollo Mechanical Services and Eddie Bauer have used it to guide new managers and supervisors through mergers, restructuring, and rapid growth.
Who We Work With
Legacy has partnered with organizations ranging from 20 employees to 200,000+, across manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, government, law enforcement, and education. Clients include DuPont, Johnsonville, Cleveland Clinic, Progressive Insurance, and Toyota, alongside federal agencies such as the U.S. Coast Guard, EPA, and EEOC. Legacy is also a GSA contract holder (GS-02F-032CA), serving federal, state, and local government.
What We Offer
- Respect and Sensitivity Training
- Leadership and Supervisor Development
- Unconscious Bias Training
- Anti-Harassment and Discrimination Training (including new e-learning for 2026)
- Conflict Resolution and Team Building
- Executive and Leadership Coaching
- Cultural Surveys and 360 Assessments
- Train-the-Trainer Certification (delivered in 25+ languages)
Training is delivered in-person, via webinar, or through e-learning — scaled to fit organizations of any size, anywhere in the world.
- Daily rate
- US$4,500 – US$5,500
- Number of employees
- 1 to 10
- Years trading
- 29
- Has own premises
- No
- Apprenticeships
- No
- Funded Courses
- No
- Telephone
- 2025586511
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Client Results
Johnsonville
Johnsonville wanted to expand respect training company wide while reaching employees across multiple locations, cultures, and languages.
After a successful pilot, Legacy Business Cultures launched Connecting With Respect® across Johnsonville. Workshops brought together employees from manufacturing, sales, headquarters, and international teams. Members created Codes of Cooperation, and training was delivered in English and Spanish with multilingual support.
Johnsonville exceeded its goal, training 85% of 1,400 employees in the first year while strengthening an already strong culture of respect.
Dupont
Respect for people was a core value, but it lacked the structure, training, metrics, and resources supporting DuPont's other core values.
Legacy Business Cultures customized the Connecting With Respect® workshop for DuPont's global rollout. The company committed to training facilitators worldwide, delivering respect training in 20 languages, and supporting the initiative with leadership, communications, metrics, and dedicated resources.
Nearly 90% of employees already saw DuPont as respectful, with a global rollout planned for 40,000 employees in 20 languages.
Expert Insights
Connecting With Respect Workshop - From Our Clients
For organizations ready for a different kind of "diversity" training, Legacy Business Cultures' Connecting with Respect workshop represents the newest and most original approach to cultural excellence in decades.
Specialized Industries
- Financials
- Real Estate
- Consumer Discretionary
- Consumer Staples
- Industrials
- Basic Materials
- Energy
- Utilities
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Manufacturing
- Legal
- Media
- Construction
- Quantity Surveying
- Healthcare
- Private Education
- Public Education
- DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion
- Museums & Collections
- Sports
- Banking
- Consulting
Reviews
Executive Coaching
02 Jun, 2025 • Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for the coaching you have provided me. The sessions have truly opened my eyes to different perspectives, and I have grown tremendously from them. The tips and strategies you shared were new to me and incredibly valuable. I felt understood and not judged during our sessions, which allowed me to share honestly and comfortably. As a result, I have experienced significant growth both professionally and personally. Thank you for your time and for sharing your knowledge and perspective with me. Not only have I benefited from your coaching, but the employees who report to me will also see and feel the positive changes I've been able to make thanks to your guidance.
The Road to Inclusion
14 Feb, 2024 • In Person
This course was an important reminder about practical ways to lead and facilitate a respectful work environment with inclusion as a backdrop. The concepts were taught in an easy-to-understand manner and our facilitator did a good job keeping the topics moving where the full day of training did not seem overwhelming.
Blindsided Unconscious Bias Training
09 Feb, 2023 • Virtual - On-demand learning
Thank you! We all have biases, and they can be managed in a healthy and productive way. I think this course should be rolled out to our entire company.
Safe Spaces - Avoiding Harassment & Discrimination
15 Mar, 2021 • Virtual - On-demand learning
Safe Spaces was very informative and painted a very clear picture of how our actions can jeopardize others, the company, and even ourselves. Discussing the real-life scenarios was particularly helpful.
Connecting with Respect
06 Feb, 2020 • Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
The feedback has been overwhelming. Everyone greatly appreciated the content, the engagement of the team, and really look forward to next steps.
Leadership Training
17 Apr, 2019 • In Person
What an absolute pleasure. Great course and ideal for anyone in Fire/Rescue about to step into leadership.
Connecting with Respect
15 Aug, 2017 • In Person
Once again, thank you very much for speaking at the Cleveland HR Star Conference. I am very pleased to report that you received a 96.55% approval rating. Twenty people scored you as the best presenter at the conference.
Connecting with Respect
08 Aug, 2017 • In Person
Paul, just another thank you for an amazing day yesterday. I've heard nothing but positive comments from our staff – many saying that the Legacy Respect training was the best workshop they have attended. I look forward to future work together and possibilities.
Connecting with Respect
05 Nov, 2014 • In Person
Thanks so much for facilitating our training today! I've already gotten a lot of positive feedback and it seems like people got a lot out of it. I can't overstate the little push this gave us to start moving more intentionally in our D&I efforts.