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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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The hunt for purpose: Does your work feel meaningful?
'Retention'. It's the current buzzword in the HR world, as organisations compete to hire and retain the best talent to improve competitiveness in the market. However, with a rise in employee burnout, employee engagement is spiralling, and motivation is dropping. Last month, at CIPD Scotland, I attended a keynote by Jess Payne, Director of Social Value at Compass One, who offered an agreeable exploration about how 'Leading with Purpose' is a successful retention strategy. I fo
Apr 27
Are you addressing poor performance correctly?
In our Culture Strategy Alignment 2025 Report, one finding landed with uncomfortable clarity: Managing poor performance is not being addressed in a timely or appropriate manner, making it the third highest culture blocker to success across organisations. This is backed up by our Hogan psychometric data, where globally, challenging poor performance is the second highest area leaders need to improve. Leaders are not skilled enough to be able to successfully navigate these di
Apr 24
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
Managing employee reactions to change
When change happens, people will react. However, managers can impact the speed and impact of change by helping people to manage their personal change journey, empowering them to be as productive as possible and to get behind the new ways of working. Our ability to deal with change is impacted by several factors; including... our personality make-up our life experiences of change so far our involvement in the decision and design of the change. This means that everyone
Mar 31
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
Top Strategies to Strengthen and Align Your Leadership Team
Unlock your leadership potential with proven strategies to strengthen and align your team. Discover how to build collaboration and drive success together.
Feb 16
Why leaders find accountability difficult (and steps to improve)
Uncover the personal and systemic reasons why leaders find accountability difficult, and gain actionable insights to lead accountability with real-life case studies.
Feb 13
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
Building an effective leadership team: what makes a good leader?
In any organisation, strategy only becomes real through people and what they do each day. And people take most of their cues from their leadership team. Because of this, when leaders are clear and aligned on the culture they need in order to support delivery of strategy, and when they act with self-awareness and intention, they create the culture they want. When they are fragmented or reactive, even the strongest plans struggle. This is because culture is the result of th
Jan 6
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, 2025
The key to leading under pressure: lessons learnt from CIPD 2025
Discover Dr Kevin Fong’s insights on effective, resilient leadership and the power of contextualised data.
Nov 26, 2025
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
The Top Five Leadership Challenges in 2026
Leadership in 2026 requires more than resilience. It requires clarity of purpose, cultural accountability, and the discipline to balance immediate pressures with long-term stewardship. The context is shifting, attention spans are shrinking, digital tools are accelerating at pace, and the expectations placed on leaders have never been higher. From our consulting work with leaders and boards navigating these realities, here are the five critical challenges shaping leadership t
Oct 30, 2025
Resolving Tensions Within Board Meetings
Never underestimate the power of a good Chair Board meetings are where strategy meets scrutiny. They are essential for governance, accountability, and oversight. But they are also places where tensions rise between executives and non-executives, the chair and the CEO, and even among board members themselves. Handled well, those tensions sharpen thinking and drive better decisions. However, when mishandled, they stifle progress, fracture relationships, and cripple performance.
Oct 30, 2025
Leading in a world of change: insights from The Talent Gathering 2025
This week, I was lucky enough to attend The Talent Gathering at Murrayfield in Edinburgh. It’s the second time I’ve been and, once again, I left full of ideas. Three talks in particular have stayed with me. Very different speakers, very different stories, but all offering perspectives on how we can adapt, lead, and perform in a world where both human and technological change are accelerating and where we never quite know what’s around the corner. John Crossan, Culture Impa
Oct 13, 2025
The Power of Associates: Building Culture, Connection, and Capability
This September, Culture Impact marked a milestone. For the first time in years, we gathered our associate community for a day of shared learning, reflection, and connection. What unfolded went far beyond training - it was a powerful reminder of why associates are not just part of our delivery model, but central to who we are. Since 2014, we’ve grown from two founders to a core team of six employees. But our strength also comes from our fantastic team of associates . Our asso
Oct 6, 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
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
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