Culture design
Culture is the heartbeat of any organisation. We help companies design a high performance culture that is aligned to their strategic goals to improve team engagement, productivity, innovation, and long-term commercial success.
Design
Action
Embed
Set the foundations
Using insights and any existing data you have to understand your current culture, strategic goals and leadership capability, we create the foundations of your culture – building the bridge between where you are today and where you need to be.
This stage enables you to design the cultural principles (incl. Mission/Purpose, Vision and Values), high-level behaviours and/or employee experience blueprint required to achieve your ambitions, ensuring alignment, cohesion and the strong foundations needed to future-proof your business, and deliver your strategic goals.
Design
Action
Embed
Action and Expand your culture
Building on your culture design foundations, we bring your culture to life – turning principles into practical actions that shape how people lead, work and collaborate. We make your desired culture tangible ensuring it shapes real decisions.
This could include:
• Behavioural Competency frameworks – defining the behaviours needed to bring your values to life and underpin performance and development.
• Employee Value Proposition – the ‘give and get’ between an employer and its employees, encapsulating the blend of culture, benefits, internal communication, and employer branding
• Business unit/divisional alignment – translating group principles into local relevance.
• Leadership alignment – embedding culture and people priorities into business strategy through workshops and strategic guidance.
Design
Action
Embed
Bringing into BAU
In the Embed phase, we help you turn culture design into day-to-day reality – making it part of business as usual. Using our proprietary tech platform and culture experts, we support you to embed, track and sustain the new culture, providing ongoing insight, nudges and guidance to ensure lasting impact.
Outcomes include:
• A culture that supports and advances your business strategy
• Attracting and retaining the talent you need to grow
• Strengthening engagement, belonging and productivity
• Aligning leadership and teams around clear expectations and behaviour.
our awards
Our approach combines award-winning diagnostics, co-creation with your people, and practical embedding methods that make change stick. With a track record of transforming complex organisations across industries, we bring both the credibility of proven results and the creativity to engage your people at every level.
Culture Consultancy has been very effective at coming up with practical solutions and ideas to tackle issues that have arisen. Our work together is making a significant and positive impact on our culture and organisational effectiveness.
Head of Corporate Affairs, Goodbody
“I was really impressed by Culture Consultancy’s determination and the way they translated their research into practical workstreams we could actually implement. The way the project was run was fantastic.
Vice President, Clouplay
They provided real energy and delivered a full end-to-end service including 3 full-day launch events for the Mission, Vision and Values. Feedback was incredible and that positive energy continues as we embed the new culture.
Group Head of Marketing, OSB Group
Our Team
DIRECTOR
Jo Geraghty
Ex-head of HR for Goldman Sachs, speaker, and author on the topics of high-performance leadership, culture and employee experience.
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Natalie Saunders
A senior people leader and employment lawyer with board-level experience, specialising in culture change and HR transformation.
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Paul Longshaw
With two decades’ experience and a background in BP’s global social investment, Paul helps organisations unlock performance through people.
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Gillian Mason
Gillian is a leadership coach and facilitator with 25+ years’ experience helping organisations thrive, leaders grow, and people excel.
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Andrew Deller
A highly qualified ‘development’ consultant who works with individuals, leaders and teams to enable them to operate at their best.
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David Liversage
ILM-accredited coach and mindfulness practitioner helping leaders design culture solutions to create human-focused workplaces.
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Ed Beard
An organisational psychologist with more than 15 years experience working with clients like the BBC, HSBC, and Expedia.
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Emma Rose Hurst
Experienced brand design, cultural transformation and employee experience strategist, with clients across the globe and sectors.
Let’s talk about your culture and what’s next
You’ll be speaking with Jo Geraghty, our founder and culture expert. She’ll personally guide you through your next steps
Frequently asked questions
An EVP is a critical anchor in any cultural change initiative. When shaped through evidence-based insights and grounded in authentic company values, it translates abstract cultural ambitions into tangible employee experiences. While pay remains an important hygiene factor, engagement and retention are more profoundly influenced by the alignment between individual values and organisational culture; a robust EVP addresses this alignment by articulating the ‘why’ – a shared sense of purpose – and the ‘how’ – the lived experience of working within the business. By embedding EVP-aligned behaviours across leadership, systems, and rituals, organisations create consistency across the employee lifecycle—from onboarding to alumni engagement—ultimately fostering alignment between stated values and lived experience.
Measurement requires a combination of qualitative and quantitative insight. Cultural diagnostics, engagement pulse surveys, behavioural data, and employee lifecycle mapping provide a multi-dimensional view of EVP effectiveness. We support clients in creating evaluation frameworks that track key indicators—such as talent attraction metrics, internal mobility, discretionary effort, and psychological safety—while also uncovering friction points and gaps in experience equity.
EVP design and leadership development should be intrinsically linked. The most successful organisations operationalise their EVP through clearly defined leadership behaviours and competency models that shape how decisions are made, how people are led, and how accountability is shared.
We help clients translate EVP principles into behavioural expectations, integrated within talent processes such as promotion, feedback, and succession planning.
Static EVPs fail to keep pace with evolving employee expectations, external market forces, and organisational change. An adaptive EVP is a living, breathing framework—reviewed and evolved regularly to remain relevant. It is embedded into feedback sessions, experience audits, and leadership behaviours, ensuring continuous alignment between people, performance, and purpose.
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