Is your culture capable of achieving your strategic goals?
Most culture work centers on how people feel. We design and evolve culture to deliver strategic outcomes. We assess where cultural vulnerabilities exist, then work with you to close the gaps that put your strategy at risk.
Your strategy does not fail on the slide. It fails in the culture that has to carry it.
Every new strategy, every technology bet, every push for growth lands on the same foundation: how your organization actually thinks, decides, and behaves. When that foundation is strong, the strategy moves. When it is not, the plan stalls, and the postmortem blames execution. Culture is not the soft part of the work. It is the part that determines success or failure.
The trouble is that most cultural assessments stop at sentiment. Engagement scores tell you people are frustrated. They do not tell you which part of the culture is putting your strategy at risk, or what to do about it. That is the gap we close.
Six dimensions decide whether your culture can carry what you are about to ask of it.
Our Cultural Maturity Assessment evaluates culture across six key dimensions. Together they describe whether your organization can turn intention into outcome. Strength in all six is rare. Knowing exactly where you are strong and where you are vulnerable is the starting point.
- 01
Common Purpose
Do people share a reason the work matters, and does it drive real decisions?
- 02
Psychological Safety
Can people speak up, challenge, and experiment without fear?
- 03
Stakeholder Commitment
Do leaders and employees invest in the culture and the strategy it serves?
- 04
Individual Agency
Are people empowered, included, and free to contribute their best?
- 05
Organizational Actualization
Does the organization execute, collaborate, and deliver on its mission across functions?
- 06
Cultural Sustainability
Can the culture adapt, absorb change, and hold its strengths over time?
Diagnose it. Design it. Roll it out. Keep it evolving.
Culture is your organizational operating system, which requires a systemic design approach. Every engagement runs through four stages. You can start at any one of them, and you keep ownership of the work at every step. We bring the diagnostics, the frameworks, and the facilitation. You bring the organization only you can lead.
- 01 · DISCOVER
Discover
See the culture you actually have. We assess the six dimensions, surface the root drivers behind the numbers, and locate the gaps between the culture you have and the strategy you are running.
- 02 · DESIGN
Design
Blueprint the culture your strategy needs. We translate the diagnosis into a target operating culture, the values and behaviors that support it, and the decisions that will get you there.
- 03 · DIFFUSE
Diffuse
Roll it out without losing fidelity. We help you cascade the change through leaders and teams, so the design survives contact with the day-to-day.
- 04 · DEVELOP
Develop
Keep it evolving. We reassess, track how culture is evolving, and course-correct, so culture becomes something you steer rather than something that happens to you.
Start where the pressure is.
Four ways to bring the practice in, scoped to the problem in front of you.
Advisory engagements
A partnership across the full arc of a culture transformation, from diagnosis through design, rollout, and sustained evolution. For leaders who want a practitioner beside them for the whole journey, not just a report.
Culture diagnostics
A rigorous read of your current state culture across the six dimensions, with the root drivers, strengths, and vulnerabilities interpreted for your context and turned into a prioritized path forward. The fastest way to replace opinion with evidence.
Facilitated workshops
Working sessions led in the room, in person or virtual, that move a leadership team or department from insight to alignment to action, on purpose, principles, decision rights, or the rollout of a change.
Strategy sessions
A focused working session on one real challenge, structured to leave you with a clearer diagnosis and a recommended direction.
Whoever owns the culture your strategy depends on.
Culture Design is built for people accountable for strategy execution and outcomes. It has been applied inside organizations across industries and scale, from global enterprises to mission-driven mid-market teams.
CEOs & Executives who require organizational change to execute their strategy.
Transformation & Change Leaders who need evidence, not anecdote, to guide sustainable change.
HR & Culture Leaders ready to move from measuring sentiment to designing capability and competency.
Founders & Startups who need to design or develop a culture fit for scale.
Boards & Investors who want a read on whether the organization can achieve its strategic goals.
Behind the methodology are practitioners. Culture Design was founded by Jason Burnham, who has spent 25 years helping leaders turn culture into strategic capability. Meet the person you would be working with →
Find out whether your culture can deliver your strategy.
Book a session and let's work together to solve your greatest cultural challenges.