Why Fast-Moving Cultures Win – With Tom Milar

In this new episode of Mastering Workplace Culture, hosts S. Chris Edmonds and Mark S. Babbitt welcome Tom Milar, founder and CEO of Eqvista, an equity management and private market valuation platform serving more than 25,000 companies worldwide. Through Eqvista, Tom and his team help private companies manage ownership, valuations, compliance, and capital market activities at scale.

Tom's leadership philosophy challenges many modern workplace assumptions.

While some organizations become trapped in meetings, bureaucracy, and endless approval cycles, Tom believes great companies move quickly, learn constantly, focus relentlessly on customers, and empower talented people to make decisions.
Throughout the conversation, Tom shares lessons from building multiple companies across Europe and Asia, scaling remote teams, managing rapid growth, and creating a workplace culture driven by accountability, learning, execution, and customer success.

One theme appears repeatedly: Culture follows execution.

When people understand the mission, embrace responsibility, and focus on solving customer problems, growth follows.

One of Tom's most memorable observations: "If you hire good people, they hire good people."