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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? Man
Nov 26, 20253 min read
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Pair coaching: Strengthening critical relationships
When leadership teams hit bottlenecks, the problem often isn’t lack of talent or ambition, but the space between people . How well...
Aug 29, 2025
Coaching for culture change: Culture starts with leadership behaviour
If you're trying to shift culture in your organisation, the critical success factor is not the quality of your comms plan, the strength of your engagement strategy, or the number of culture workshops you have lined up. It’s not the values statement, the away day, or the shiny new initiatives. The real lever that determines whether your culture change efforts gain traction or stall out is the day-to-day behaviour of your leaders. This is where most culture change efforts s
Aug 18, 2025
Is a lack of employee empowerment impacting innovation in your business?
As markets continue to move at speed, employee empowerment is imperative. Yet our culture survey revealed that a lack of employee empowerment is the fifth greatest culture barrier to strategic success . This is a clear signal that many organisations are stuck in patterns that suffocate performance and creativity. When employees aren’t empowered to make decisions or take ownership of their work, organisations often see a drop in innovation, engagement, and productivity. The w
Aug 14, 2025
Leadership coaching: types, benefits & impact
Effective leadership isn’t a happy accident. It’s developed through intention, reflection, and support. Competition across the market...
Aug 13, 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 cultu Nine dimensions of culture: Understanding the state of your culture re is either ac
Aug 13, 2025
3 culture challenges companies face every year
In the last year, we have witnessed a huge shift in the business landscape – again. Markets have felt the impact of warfare and tariffs, tech has accelerated, and customer expectations have evolved. Yet, for many organisations, particular cultural challenges continue to hold them back. If strategy is your engine, culture is your traction. And some companies are still spinning their wheels in the same old ruts. At Culture Impact, we’ve spent years tracking the biggest cultura
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
The essential role of executive coaching in driving business success
Discover how executive coaching transforms business success. Learn how executive coaching can enhance leadership, boost performance, and drive growth.
Jul 23, 2025
How psychometrics can help you gain a higher ROI from coaching
Coaching is one of the most powerful tools for personal and leadership development, but finding the most effective goals of coaching can be tricky . However, when you don’t have any specific development areas to work on, coaching won't offer the personal or commercial value that it could. Some business leaders may think they don't have any areas to work on, but still go along with coaching because they think it looks like a great leadership initiative. But, the truth is
Jul 18, 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
Team coaching: Unlocking the potential of high performing teams
It’s a pattern we see a lot: leaders set out a well-thought-out and sound strategy, yet a year down the line, they’re chasing their tails trying to work out why they’ve moved no closer to their goals. What they don’t realise is that the problem is usually invisible . A failed attempt to execute a strategy is likely due to a gap between the strategy that's been set out and the culture that drives the beliefs , interactions, and decisions the people in the company make. If the
Jun 26, 2025
What the Premier League Table can teach us about culture
There’s a story unfolding in Premier League football that isn’t about transfers, tactics, or trophies. It’s about culture. And it’s not being told by managers, players, or the press, but by sentiment data. This puts evidence behind a topic that we usually have to guess at. One that media coverage can easily skew our views in favour of or against, a club… What is the culture of a given club really like? And if you’re into culture, as we are, is there a link between their int
Jun 17, 2025
Does your company’s culture support its strategy? Have your say!
It’s a pattern we see a lot: leaders set out a well-thought-out and sound strategy, yet a year down the line, they’re chasing their tails trying to work out why they’ve moved no closer to their goals. What they don’t realise is that the problem is usually invisible . A failed attempt to execute a strategy is likely due to a gap between the strategy that's been set out and the culture that drives the beliefs , interactions, and decisions the people in the company make. If the
Jun 16, 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
Driving culture transformation through behavioural change
When Kim Scott introduced her Radical Candor model, the intention was clear: to help leaders deliver direct, timely feedback with equal measures of courage and compassion. The idea was simple yet powerful: challenge directly while caring personally. Get the balance right, and you create a high-trust, high-performance environment where people grow and thrive. But that’s not what happened in many organisations. Instead, the term Radical Candor became a justification for
Jun 10, 2025
Leading with Emotional Intelligence and Self-Regulation
Discover how emotional intelligence and self-regulation can transform your leadership mindset. Learn to manage emotions for optimal success.
Jun 4, 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
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