A FIRST STEP
The Culture Clarity Session®
A culture strong enough to carry your strategy. Every major change, whether an acquisition, an AI rollout, or a new strategy, eventually asks one question: can your culture carry it? In eight weeks, we answer it with you, and we build the path forward with your people.
HOW IT WORKS
Eight weeks, four overlapping tracks.
Unite: weeks 1 to 8
Your leadership team works as one, from the kickoff to the closing half-day.
Listen: weeks 2 to 6
Listening tours with a cross-section of every level show where your people stand today and where they believe the company can go.
Reveal: weeks 3 to 7
See what is true: what already works, what stands in its way, and who your champions are.
Commit: weeks 7 to 8
Choose the path together and turn it into a 90-day roadmap, with owners and measures your team holds.
WHAT YOU GET
Four things your team owns.
01 A united leadership team
One shared ambition, with every leader clear on their part.
02 The honest picture
Where your people stand today, and where they are ready to go.
03 Your Strengths-and-Barriers Map
What already works, what stands in its way, and your champions, named.
04 A 90-day roadmap
Owners and measures, yours to act on, with a 90-day check-in to see what held.
HOW WE WORK
We do not deliver culture. We uncover it with you.
Instead of a thick report, then goodbye: a leadership team aligned around one ambition, with a plan they own.
Instead of leaders handing the change down: executives go first, modeling the change before asking it of anyone else.
Instead of a survey of your people: their unfiltered voices, brought directly into your leadership sessions.
Instead of a junior team doing the work: senior practitioners in every room, drawing on two decades of culture work inside Fortune 500 transformations.
Instead of culture as an HR program: culture as the way your business runs, owned by your whole leadership team.
Instead of change that fades when the consultants leave: champions and owners who carry it forward long after we leave.
WHO TAKES PART
Your leaders, in the room.
Your full executive team at the kickoff and the closing half-day, focused working sessions with your leadership team in between, and listening tours with a representative cross-section of every level.
Participation is voluntary and confidential. We share themes, never names, and only when several people raise them.
WHY IT MATTERS
A clear read, before the big bets.
Disengaged teams, leadership turnover, and major changes that stall all carry real costs. A clear read on your culture costs far less than any one of them.
It is a fixed fee, agreed before we begin and credited in full toward any further work together.
Gallup's 2024 analysis found that work units in the highest engagement quartile had median turnover rates 21% lower in high-turnover organizations and 51% lower in low-turnover organizations than those in the lowest engagement quartile. Gallup also estimates that replacing an employee can cost one-half to two times their annual salary. These findings explain why engagement and retention deserve attention; they do not establish the outcomes of a Culture Clarity Session®.
High-turnover organizations: above 40% annual turnover. Low-turnover organizations: 40% or below. Sources: Gallup, Q12 Meta-Analysis (2024); Gallup, "This Fixable Problem Costs U.S. Businesses $1 Trillion" (2019).