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Case study: Strengthening Senior Hiring & Culture Fit at Nest Invest
Client: Nest Invest Sector: Public Sector Investment / Pension Asset Management Project: Executive Selection Assessment & Recruitment Process Improvement The Challenge Nest Invest is undergoing rapid organisational growth as it scales its investment function, moving toward £100bn in assets under management. This expansion created a pressing need for a more structured and robust approach to senior hiring, one that could overcome internal capability gaps, public‑sector const
Mar 303 min read
Steps to leading a culture change successfully
Discover effective steps for leading a culture change successfully. Learn how to navigate challenges and implement change in your organisation today.
Jan 63 min read
The Steps to Systemically Solve Your Internal Challenges
Organisational culture is often described as “the way things are done around here.” But what if that definition is holding your business back from real, lasting change? In a recent webinar with Summit Events, John Crossan, COO at Culture Impact, shared our practical framework for understanding and transforming workplace culture so that engagement survey insights lead to meaningful, sustainable improvements. Why do some organisations struggle to turn insights into action? Many
Nov 26, 20253 min read
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The five conditions for change readiness
Most organisations underestimate how much preparation meaningful change requires. Executive teams often move quickly from strategic ambition into programme activity without stopping to ask 'is the organisation genuinely ready for the scale of change we're demanding?' Transformation begins with energy and optimism, but momentum fades as resistance, confusion, and inconsistency emerge across the organisation – even though these are completely predictable and natural. Leadersh
7 days ago
7 steps to lead employees through workplace change
Organisational change is often unintentionally set up to fail. In fact, Gartner finds that only 32% of leaders globally actually get employees to adopt changes healthily. This is rarely due to the change plan, but rather an unawareness of the people skills required of leaders to bring their teams along on a change journey. You could have the best intentions for change and a brilliant strategy, yet people will still resist it. This could be for several reasons (which we explor
Apr 14
Why teams resist change (and how to stop the struggle)
This post explores why resistance is natural, why it happens, and the steps organisations can take to resolve resistance to bring employees on the change journey.
Mar 27
Changing company values from words on the wall to strategic results
Explore how to transform company values from mere words into strategic results. Learn practical steps to align values with behaviours and drive success.
Feb 24
Steps to leading a culture change successfully
Discover effective steps for leading a culture change successfully. Learn how to navigate challenges and implement change in your organisation today.
Jan 6
Beyond employee engagement: creating a culture that powers your strategy
Too often, organisations are confusing culture with employee engagement. While employee engagement is important to monitor and can be an indicator of underlying cultural friction in a workplace, it can't tell you why employees are answering an engagement survey in the way they are. Measuring your culture helps you uncover the patterns of behaviour that are being encouraged, discouraged, and tolerated within an organisation. These behaviours are what drive your business forwar
Nov 24, 2025
Launching The State of Culture Strategy Alignment Report 2025
Is workplace culture aligned with strategy? Understand culture trends across sectors, and gain actionable insights to align your business for success with our report.
Nov 19, 2025
Why cultural fit matters in mergers and acquisitions
When mergers and acquisitions succeed, they create momentum, value, and opportunity. When they fail, they can stall growth, erode trust, and destroy value. One of the most consistent reasons for failure is not strategy, market logic, or financial modelling - it is culture. All too often, cultural fit is considered too late, or not at all, when assessing acquisition targets. Yet it is culture that determines how well two organisations, and the people that make them up, wil
Sep 26, 2025
Nine dimensions of culture: Understanding the state of your culture
If you’re not measuring culture, you’re not managing it. Despite its influence on everything from performance to retention, most organisations are still flying blind when it comes to culture. They measure what’s easy: sales, turnover, engagement, but not the complex web of behaviours, social norms, and unspoken rules that shape how the work gets done, and that’s a problem. Why? Because culture is either accelerating your strategy or quietly undermining it. Yet it’s often th
Aug 13, 2025
Is bureaucracy stifling your growth?
Strategy without momentum is just a document. Yet far too many organisations are still shackled by a force that has outlived its usefulness: bureaucracy . Back in 2017, our research on the relationship between culture and strategy found that 1 in 3 business leaders identified bureaucracy as the number one cultural barrier to strategic growth . A staggering statistic. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: eight years on, many organisations haven’t moved forward: i t is still th
Aug 13, 2025
Uniting your teams: Moving from competition to collaboration
Uncover how you could unintentionally be promoting a damaging competitive culture and how to shift your culture to empower collaboration.
Jul 16, 2025
Culture is what you allow: are you tolerating wrong behaviours?
Discover how tolerating wrong behaviours can undermine your workplace culture, and how to change it to build an intentional culture that attracts, retains & empowers talent.
Jul 16, 2025
How coaching can change your culture – not just your people!
Culture change is one of the biggest challenges organisations face – and often, one of the hardest to get right. Whether it's embedding new values, improving accountability, increasing agility, or improving employee engagement, change often stalls when old habits and behaviours remain deeply rooted. That’s where workplace coaching can become a game-changer. And it’s not just a nice-to-have anymore. The CIPD – (2021 update) report advocates for coaching to be used to gather an
Jul 4, 2025
Is job insecurity holding your culture and strategy back?
Job insecurity is on the rise. In the UK, insecure employment has steadily increased. Health Foundation data shows a rise from 3.1 million workers in 2014 to 3.5 million in 2023. An increasing reality in many organisations, job insecurity is no longer a feature of low-wage and temporary contracts; it’s systemic. High-performing teams, talented leaders, and even executive roles are being impacted by uncertainty. In 2017, when we conducted a research study, ‘Does your cultur
Jun 13, 2025
Why align culture and strategy? What is the point?
Leaders often put all their efforts into delivering the strategy for an organisation, hoping that it will generate results, but make the mistake of forgetting to prioritise the culture needed to drive a strategy to success. It’s important to remember that strategy defines where you’re going, while culture will determine how , or if , you’ll get there. One without the other? Misfires, drift, and missed targets. Without a clear standard of expectations and defined patterns
May 27, 2025
Are you reacting fast enough to external change?
Resisting cultural change will set you up for failure in a rapidly changing world. Discover how you can lead with confidence in times of uncertainty.
May 19, 2025
The Agile Mindset: From Knower to Learner
Agility isn’t about speed; it’s the ability to adapt effectively to change. It means replacing rigid, fixed approaches with openness to exploration and uncertainty. Recently, we partnered with a client to deliver practical masterclasses on Agile Principles, vividly bringing real-world change to life.
Apr 30, 2025
Leading Above the Line: A Transformational Leadership Mindset
Discover how to lead 'above the line', why it matters, and how to recover when you inevitably do dip below the line in times of stress, challenge, or confrontation.
Apr 16, 2025
Why Are Your Culture Change Initiatives Failing?
Culture change isn’t just about new policies or leadership workshops. It’s about shifting the deeply ingrained mindsets that shape behaviour
Apr 7, 2025
Leading in an unstable world: asking the uncomfortable questions
For leaders in any domain, the ability to challenge long-held assumptions has always been important. But in today’s world, it’s essential.
Apr 3, 2025
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