hacking the intersection of business impact and employee interest
to sustainably transform workplace cultures.
When it comes to a thriving business and an engaged workforce, you shouldn’t have to choose.
Quick culture fixes and status quo solutions have given way to a new era.
You’re eager to leave a legacy, inspire innovation, and build a movement that’s magnetic to top talent – and sends better people home at the end of the day.
But there’s a problem (or two):
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How do you operationalize something with so many moving pieces and parts?
You’re looking for a reality check on the impact of your culture today and defining what is needed for tomorrow.
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You want to work proactively to create a culture of impact for tomorrow; but it's hard to get out from under the pressing needs of your people today.
You’re struggling with systemic culture challenges that are holding back the impact of your people and your business.
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Your HR team isn’t an expert in culture-building — yet. We’re growing towards strategic HR departments that have the ability to facilitate sustainable culture work.
In the meantime, you need a trusted strategic partner to work with you and your organization side-by-side.
A guide to help map and work towards a sustainable and healthy organizational culture that aligns with the mission and purpose of your people and organization.
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To the rest of the team, it appears out of touch at best.
What can be done to mobilize the team? Or is that even the right question to be asking right now?
You want to find sources of disengagement from your employees and activate employee engagement.
Solution: Our IMPACT Culture Program is a fully guided culture change experience.
We work with you to turn your company into an environment where employees can deploy their contributions for positive organizational outcomes and out in their communities for social impact.
Building businesses that thrive to support employees require:
Considering your people as individuals first and employees second. When this happens, they channel that care toward your customers, your shareholders, and your strategic plan.
Simply put? When you invest in your staff, you reap the benefits in your bottom line and beyond: Organizations boom, communities thrive, and people prosper. This approach has transformed organizations across dozens of industries–and you’re next.
Together, we'll create a workplace that puts your people first.
Through impactful micro progressions, and a data-backed, psychologically informed approach, we’ll help you diagnose symptoms of harmful culture, be objective in the face of hard truths, and facilitate meaningful change in your organization through operationalizing culture-building.
How it works
IMPACT CULTURE PROGRAM
We help you scale a human-centered workplace that creates social impact
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The first phase is focused on inviting you and your organization into the process. You can’t do this work alone, and there will be skepticism about what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and why now - which is why this first step is so crucial.
Using our thoughtful approach to invite and enroll all members of your organization to this work is a pivotal part of ensuring the full process is adopted and sustainable.
We start by learning your story, history, values, needs and internal culture. We work together to establish a timeline, milestones, and ways of working.
At the end of this phase, context is created. We’ve identified expectations and set key milestones. You receive a project plan and a communications playbook to keep everyone in the loop. This phase is rooted in objective information gathering and analysis to uncover details not otherwise known or shared.
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During this phase, we work on building an inclusive communications strategy around your change program.
Effective communication is essential to successful change initiatives. Inclusive and conscious communications sets the tone for change, articulates the vision, invites diverse voices into the conversation, defines the process, encourages engagement, and ultimately builds trust, creating psychological safety and enabling greater productivity and innovation. Effective communication must include two-way channels for employees to give feedback, ask questions, share ideas, and express concerns.
At the end of this phase, you’ll have a multi-layered polished and personalized communication plan for the next 6 months.
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Without leadership alignment, measurement, and accountability, culture and change initiatives fail. Which is why we spend 3 full days with your senior leadership team aimed at introducing a simple, proven and effective model of modern leadership and developing a Culture Charter to include:
Your Culture Statement
Observable behaviors aligned to your core values
A high-level plan on how incorporate and “bake” your cultural statement and behaviors into your operating model
Roles and norm-setting with the leadership team on building, driving, and holding each other accountable for the road ahead
At the end of this phase, you’ll have an identified and aligned culture ethos ready to socialize with your team and “bake” into the most sustainable parts of your operating model.
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During the assessment phase, we start by understanding the now and compare that with the developed Culture Charter in Phase3 3.
We review internal data such as past survey responses, departmental strategies, decision-making protocols, and org charts. 100% of your organization will complete a diagnostic survey and 10% of your organization will be asked to participate in diagnostic interviews. We code and consolidate the data, and start determining the future state of your organization.
At the end of this phase: your employees feel validated, and we’re able to report on our findings.
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We create a Culture Blueprint, and share it to generate buy in and receive feedback. Your needs as an organization are clearly identified, and you’ll be given an operationalization library so you can implement sticky change.
During phase 5, you are set up for success with recommendations and timelines to start implementing culture change. Your blueprint affects and enrolls everyone in your organization, at all levels, and includes a current state synopsis, a culture activation plan and organizational design recommendations to promote sustainability.
At the end of this phase: You’ll get a real-time and representative pulse on your culture’s impact today and develop a plan to advance your culture for tomorrow.
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In the final phase, we conduct a meeting to hand off your blueprint and identify next steps for your organization. Your team has decided how to take action, and you’ll be held accountable for doing so.
You have the option to:
Hire our team to support the implementation.
Execute your results with access to our team for support and guidance
We’ll meet monthly for 6 months, and you’ll report on progress via a scorecard. You’ll get a strategic partnership custom to your needs and focused on culture discovery, change and sustainability.
Our Team is Your Extended Team
Our team brings experience in Organizational Psychology, Change Management, Program Evaluation, and EID (Equity, Inclusion & Diversity) to make meaningful change by cultivating culture.
Through a data-driven, psychologically informed approach, We help enroll employees in your movement, be objective in the face of hard truths, and facilitate meaningful change within your organization through intentional infrastructure and curated culture building.
Together, we’ll transform your enterprise into an environment that people want to be apart of–one where employees are empowered to thrive so they can maximize their potential in the office, in their communities, and in the world.