Culture Assessment™
Our comprehensive culture audit tool that evaluates your organisation’s culture and identifies enablers and barriers to performance.
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Culture Assessment™

How we can help

Understanding your workplace culture is essential for business success – yet many organisations struggle to assess it objectively. Our Culture Assessment™, which has been recognised by the CIPD and Business Culture Awards, provides a data-driven, people-focused analysis of your current culture, identifying strengths, weaknesses and areas for culture transformation.

Using our award-winning diagnostic tool, which incorporates interviews, focus groups, culture surveys and desktop research, we assess organisational culture dynamics through four key quadrants and 20 attributes. This ensures a comprehensive view of cultural enablers and inhibitors across different teams, departments, and locations.

Our framework is built on industry-leading models, including Edgar Schein’s three levels of culture, Johnson & Scholes’ cultural web, and Hatch’s dynamics of organisational culture. It allows organisations to:

  • Gain deep insights into current workplace culture and how well it aligns with business strategy
  • Identify negative subcultures, positive micro-cultures and inconsistencies, particularly in multi-entity or multi-geography organisations
  • Understand current lived core values, behaviours, mindsets and working practices
  • Uncover hidden patterns, beliefs, assumptions and leadership loops impacting performance
  • Map current leadership skills and manager capabilities and skills gap
  • Define a clear starting point for culture change, guiding future strategy and transformation

This practical, easy to deploy culture assessment provides actionable insights that help companies create a positive company culture that drives performance, innovation and employee engagement.

Outcomes

Businesses that undertake a culture assessment gain:

  • A clear cultural baseline – understanding current strengths and weaknesses
  • Greater alignment between culture and strategy, improving operational effectiveness
  • Enhanced employee engagement, reducing turnover and improving talent retention
  • Increased business performance, including higher productivity, profitability and innovation
  • Stronger leadership effectiveness, ensuring cultural change starts from the top

For example, one client in the financial sector used our culture diagnostic to identify misalignments between their stated values and actual employee experiences. By implementing tailored interventions, they saw a 15% improvement in employee engagement scores and a more cohesive, purpose-driven workforce.

If you’re ready to take an evidence-based approach to culture transformation, our Culture Assessment™ is the first step. For more information on our full culture transformation process click here.

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FAQs

Our Culture Assessment™ is a diagnostic tool that evaluates the current state of your organisational culture. It provides an objective, data-driven view of your strengths, gaps, and cultural misalignments, helping to establish a clear baseline for cultural transformation. Without a clear picture of your current culture, it’s hard to define what needs to change, so assessing culture first ensures any transformation is grounded in evidence and prioritised for maximum success.
Our award-winning tool integrates respected cultural frameworks – including Edgar Schein’s levels of culture, Johnson & Scholes’ cultural web, and Hatch’s dynamics. Through culture surveys, interviews and focus groups, we assess four cultural quadrants and 20 attributes, providing a detailed map of both enablers and blockers of cultural success. We blend organisational psychology with practical business insights, offering unmatched depth and flexibility.
Our diagnostic tool identifies cultural variances by department, location or entity, allowing leaders to pinpoint specific blockers and tailor interventions for greater alignment and performance. It also surfaces the lived employee experience versus stated goals – helping organisations align with reality and performance goals.
Clients typically see greater employee engagement, improved business performance, stronger leadership credibility, and a clear direction for cultural change. It supports talent retention by aligning culture with what employees actually experience and value. Furthermore, the insights create a strong foundation for further leadership development and broader cultural or structural transformation needs, providing clarity on what leadership behaviours need to shift, where skills gaps exist, and how to embed change at scale.

Further reading

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It’s never too late to address your culture

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Case studies

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Upskilling Leaders and Managers to Align Distributed Teams for Performance and Growth

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Creating Post-M&A Culture Cohesion for a UK Specialist Lender within a Global Mortgage and Finance Group

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Realigning a Culture around Customer Centricity, Innovation, Collaboration and Empowerment to fulfil growth ambitions

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