Our Expertise
As culture consultants, we’ve seen that companies whose cultures enable transformation have an enormous edge over the competition.
Products can be imitated. Strategies can be mirrored. Physical assets can be bought and sold.
In a disruptive, uncertain era where strategies have shorter shelf lives with each passing year and the demand for innovation, customer service and market responsiveness is dramatically accelerated, corporate cultures are an increasing point of competitive differentiation.
Today, there is growing recognition that culture is more than an edge for organizations, it can be their most valuable competitive advantage. While more organizations are treating culture as a top priority, it is still a mystifying topic for many companies. Where does it come from? How does it exist and exercise influence today? How can it be changed?
As a culture consulting firm, we have nearly 25 years of experience. In our tenures as both advisors and in-house corporate executives, our leaders have seen the transformative power that organizational cultures can have when they inspire behaviors that operate in harmony with both strategy and structure. As a culture consulting firm, we have partnered with scores of the world’s leading companies to help them effectively harness their cultures to make work more joyous and meaningful for employees and to yield superior results.
Culture starts with experience. As the founder of Habitat for Humanity Millard Fuller once said, “It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.” When you give people a new experience, you jolt their thinking. New thinking eventually inspires new behaviors and new behaviors mean new results.
These levers of culture are values, energy, behaviors, symbols, systems and communication. At the start of a culture consulting engagement, we work with you to assess the experiences and beliefs that currently shape your culture, then reverse engineer your strategy to identify what new beliefs need to arise to elicit new behaviors. We then take a design-centric approach to thoughtfully and intentionally create experiences that cause people to think, consider and change. It’s only through this experience-based process that cultures can truly evolve.
