End to End Culture Change

Our award-winning 3-stage methodology

Backed by over 15 years of experience, our methodology delivers measurable shifts in productivity, performance, inclusion, and employee experience.

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Stage 1: Understanding the Problem

Overview

Our Culture Assessment is an award-winning diagnostic tool, recognised by the CIPD and the Business Culture Awards, and informed and enhanced by over 15 years of delivering results for clients.

It combines contemporary business and HR thinking with leading-edge organisational psychology, and is underpinned by leading cultural models: Schein’s three levels of culture, Johnson & Scholes’ cultural web and Hatch’s dynamics of organisational culture. 

It gives a fast yet robust, evidence-based view of your current culture, either though our online employee survey only (Express) or with the additional insights from focus groups and leadership insight (Plus).

It highlights where culture is enabling or blocking performance, surfaces subcultures, and pinpoints where leadership focus is most needed.

  1. Analysis of existing culture insight, e.g. any employee survey and HR data, to leverage existing insight (Plus only)
  2. Interviews with the Leadership team to clarify strategic goals and surface cultural enablers or blockers; it can also be used to inform survey design and questions (Plus)
  3. Online survey assessment across four quadrants and 20 attributes
  4. Focus Groups with small cross-section of employees held to uncover the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’ – gain qualitative insight and highlights underlying assumptions and beliefs (Plus)
  5. Analysis of survey answers and focus groups (if applicable) generates quick-win actions to kick-start change and realise early benefits, and longer-term cultural imperatives to shape design
  6. Comprehensive report and executive summary for leadership

The output of the Insights phase is a culture assessment report which is packed with deep insight and future recommendations, in an easy to digest way. The report:

  • Highlights the overarching culture and any positive & negative microcultures
  • Segments data to clearly show variances across geography, sub-brands or departments
  • Provides baseline measurement from which to measure the culture shift
  • Identifies untapped potential and culture opportunities
  • Uncovers leadership capability gaps 
  • Outlines quick wins & rapid improvements for maximum impact
 
*For Culture Assessment Express, an online report is generated from the survey results, and an Executive Summary with high-level recommendations is developed*

Stage 2: Designing the Solution

Overview

We turn insight into action by designing the future culture required to deliver the strategic ambitions. 

The exact nature of the design stage will be determined by the gap between your current culture and desired end-point, but often includes co-designing the purpose (mission), vision and values that drive performance, defining the skills and mindsets required to live the culture, shaping the employee experience through an EVP, behaviours, and communications.

With all design activities, we utilise your internal resources wherever possible, so that you are enhancing your internal culture change capabilities as a natural part of project delivery. 

Design work-packages can include:

  1. Defining future culture (Purpose, Vision & Values) to set the strategic ways of working to fulfil strategic ambitions.
  2. High-level behaviours developed, or behavioural competencies defined.
  3. Developing strategic narrative and communications plan, from launch to embedding, to support the change journey. 
  4. Shaping an EVP and Employee experience (EX) blueprint.
  5. Shaping leadership capabilities and facilitate workshops to align on ambition and priorities.
  6. Developing key metrics and culture dashboard to measure success and business impact/ROI
  1. Defined mission, vision, and values at group and/or regional level.
  2. Clear leadership skills, behaviours, and mindsets to role-model the culture.
  3. Employee behaviours and competencies aligned with performance management.
  4. A compelling strategic narrative to guide culture change.
  5. An EVP to enhance engagement, recruitment, retention and the employee experience.
  6. KPIs to track, measure, and sustain progress.
  7. Internal comms plan that keeps all employees engaged throughout the process.

Stage 3: Embedding Behaviour Change

Overview

Designing company culture is just the start – embedding it is where real cultural transformation happens. The final stage ensures culture becomes business as usual, avoiding the common problem of employees slipping back into old habits as momentum falters.

Our proprietary tech platform CulturEmbed™ makes change stick. Using a Team-Based Embedding approach, we help teams translate values into daily behaviours, decisions, and collaboration – building ownership and accountability from the ground up.

The result is a self-sustaining culture, lived consistently across the organisation and reinforced through action plans, measurement, and continuous improvement – with clear ROI. 

Through a 5-point scale, we highlight the stages that every organisation goes through on the journey to a fully embedded culture, and provide practical tools and development solutions to empower your people to own and implement the changes needed to move their team up the scale. 

CulturEmbed is a leader and manager led facilitated approach which empowers and enables teams to apply the behaviours to their own ways of working, embedding the defined culture into a lived reality. The process builds leader, manager and team capability to discuss how they operate as a team, interact with other teams, and undergo a continuous process of review in line with defined behaviours. 

 

  1. Stronger team ownership and engagement, driving long-term cultural change
  2. Increased trust, belonging and collaboration, improving cross-functional teamwork
  3. Faster cultural alignment, leading to immediate performance gains
  4. Sustained high performance and motivation, as employees increasingly see their role in shaping the culture
  5. A self-sustaining change leadership model, reducing reliance on senior management for cultural transformation

our awards

Business outcomes of end to end culture change

From Pepsico to England Golf, we’ve partnered with hundreds of organisations across dozens of industries, and the pattern is clear: when culture is designed with intent rather than left to chance, the ROI is undeniable.

Culture Consultancy challenged our norms and assumptions whilst being pragmatic 
and progressive. Their human approach resulted in mindset shifts and behaviour from the front line to our Exec team. As a partner, they were a pleasure to work with.

Sam Chessex,

Chief of Staff, Network Rail

Our Team

Culture Consultancy delivers creative, innovative, and tailored design solutions.

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Frequently asked questions

Why should organisational culture transformation be a Leader’s priority?

Because culture is the critical enabler of strategy. Without an intentional end-to-end culture change journey, transformation initiatives stall, productivity dips, and talent disengages. Embedding culture change ensures your organisation delivers on strategic priorities, future-proofs against disruption, and safeguards performance. Also, unlike piecemeal initiatives, a comprehensive culture change journey delivers business-wide impact, ensuring leaders can track improvements in employee engagement and productivity, innovation outcomes and risk reduction.

Misaligned culture is one of the top reasons strategy execution fails. Left unchecked, it creates regulatory risk, reputational damage, stalled innovation, and attrition of key talent. At the same time, during major transformations – whether cultural integration in M&A, digital transformation or rapid scaling – culture often makes or breaks success. An end-to-end culture change approach mitigates risks and ensures leadership alignment, clarity of purpose, and team-level adoption, ensuring a high-performance culture that sustains growth through disruption

Many organisations attempt isolated culture programmes that fade over time. Our end-to-end methodology ensures sustainability: an audit baseline, co-designed culture blueprint, and embedding culture change through CulturEmbed™ and the 6Es Human Change Principles. This turns organisational culture transformation into a strategic asset, not a short-term campaign

CEOs can expect returns across three dimensions:
Performance – stronger innovation, execution, and customer outcomes.
Risk – reduced regulatory, compliance, and reputational exposure.
People – higher employee engagement and productivity, plus improved attraction and retention.
The outcome: a high-performance culture that becomes a lasting competitive advantage