Our people make the difference
We are a vibrant bunch of journalists, marketeers, environmentalists, physicists, designers and behavioural scientists. That diversity of backgrounds, expertise and perspectives helps us to develop strong, trusted and collaborative working relationships with each other and with our clients. It also makes this an exciting and unique place to work.
Ann
Company Secretary/DirectorIan
Creative DirectorAmy
Client DirectorJohn
ChairIan Birkett
Creative DirectorIan’s passion is turning what often seem to be incredibly complex problems into simple, bold and visually engaging solutions. In his 20 years as a graphic designer, he has worked with a huge range of clients, all of which presented unique challenges and required bespoke solutions. Ian’s approach to design is underpinned by the watchwords ‘cohesive not consistent’, where cohesive design embraces personality, flexibility and longevity, yet retains a strong, recognisable theme at its core.
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Amy Burgess
Client DirectorAmy is a talented and experienced client director, responsible for delivering projects from inception to campaign deliverables, and with a keen interest in the application of behavioural-design principles to achieve positive customer and colleague outcomes. Highlights include her work with Redrow to engage employees around the organisation’s vision and sustainability strategy, with the RSPB to promote nature-friendly eating, and with Network Rail on its suite of projects to improve passenger and worker safety on track and at stations.
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John Drummond
ChairJohn Drummond is Chair of Corporate Culture. He has been a consultant to dozens of organisations over 20 years. Clients have included water companies, regulators (Ofwat), telecoms (O2, BT), energy (EDF Energy), government organisations (NHS, WRAP), retail (ASDA, M&S), banking (Bank of America, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group), FMCG (Unilever) and many others. He is the architect with WRAP of the RecycleNow campaign and Love Food Hate Waste campaigns. His expertise includes long-term strategies, culture change and behaviour change at scale. He was recognised by HR magazine as one of the most influential thinkers in HR 2021. He is the author of several reports including: Future proof (2022), The Human Organisation (2021), Innovation for Everyone (2021), Transformation, Reason and Human. John started life as an award-winning journalist. He worked with IBM for seven years and was group director of communications with United Utilities in the 1990’s. He flirts with photography and song-writing.
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Ann
Company Secretary/DirectorIan
Creative DirectorAnn Fillis
Company Secretary/DirectorAnn drives the organisational side of the business, working across human resources, accounts, corporate governance and the working environment. She provides direct support to the creative and client teams, which enables them to better focus on delivering successful results for our clients. Over her 35-year career, Ann has consistently helped to create workplaces that ensure employees can do their best work and enjoy the journey.
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Ian Birkett
Creative DirectorIan’s passion is turning what often seem to be incredibly complex problems into simple, bold and visually engaging solutions. In his 20 years as a graphic designer, he has worked with a huge range of clients, all of which presented unique challenges and required bespoke solutions. Ian’s approach to design is underpinned by the watchwords ‘cohesive not consistent’, where cohesive design embraces personality, flexibility and longevity, yet retains a strong, recognisable theme at its core.
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Amy
Client DirectorJohn
ChairAmy Burgess
Client DirectorAmy is a talented and experienced client director, responsible for delivering projects from inception to campaign deliverables, and with a keen interest in the application of behavioural-design principles to achieve positive customer and colleague outcomes. Highlights include her work with Redrow to engage employees around the organisation’s vision and sustainability strategy, with the RSPB to promote nature-friendly eating, and with Network Rail on its suite of projects to improve passenger and worker safety on track and at stations.
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John Drummond
ChairJohn Drummond is Chair of Corporate Culture. He has been a consultant to dozens of organisations over 20 years. Clients have included water companies, regulators (Ofwat), telecoms (O2, BT), energy (EDF Energy), government organisations (NHS, WRAP), retail (ASDA, M&S), banking (Bank of America, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group), FMCG (Unilever) and many others. He is the architect with WRAP of the RecycleNow campaign and Love Food Hate Waste campaigns. His expertise includes long-term strategies, culture change and behaviour change at scale. He was recognised by HR magazine as one of the most influential thinkers in HR 2021. He is the author of several reports including: Future proof (2022), The Human Organisation (2021), Innovation for Everyone (2021), Transformation, Reason and Human. John started life as an award-winning journalist. He worked with IBM for seven years and was group director of communications with United Utilities in the 1990’s. He flirts with photography and song-writing.
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Ann
Company Secretary/DirectorAnn Fillis
Company Secretary/DirectorAnn drives the organisational side of the business, working across human resources, accounts, corporate governance and the working environment. She provides direct support to the creative and client teams, which enables them to better focus on delivering successful results for our clients. Over her 35-year career, Ann has consistently helped to create workplaces that ensure employees can do their best work and enjoy the journey.
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Ian
Creative DirectorIan Birkett
Creative DirectorIan’s passion is turning what often seem to be incredibly complex problems into simple, bold and visually engaging solutions. In his 20 years as a graphic designer, he has worked with a huge range of clients, all of which presented unique challenges and required bespoke solutions. Ian’s approach to design is underpinned by the watchwords ‘cohesive not consistent’, where cohesive design embraces personality, flexibility and longevity, yet retains a strong, recognisable theme at its core.
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Amy
Client DirectorAmy Burgess
Client DirectorAmy is a talented and experienced client director, responsible for delivering projects from inception to campaign deliverables, and with a keen interest in the application of behavioural-design principles to achieve positive customer and colleague outcomes. Highlights include her work with Redrow to engage employees around the organisation’s vision and sustainability strategy, with the RSPB to promote nature-friendly eating, and with Network Rail on its suite of projects to improve passenger and worker safety on track and at stations.
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John
ChairJohn Drummond
ChairJohn Drummond is Chair of Corporate Culture. He has been a consultant to dozens of organisations over 20 years. Clients have included water companies, regulators (Ofwat), telecoms (O2, BT), energy (EDF Energy), government organisations (NHS, WRAP), retail (ASDA, M&S), banking (Bank of America, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group), FMCG (Unilever) and many others. He is the architect with WRAP of the RecycleNow campaign and Love Food Hate Waste campaigns. His expertise includes long-term strategies, culture change and behaviour change at scale. He was recognised by HR magazine as one of the most influential thinkers in HR 2021. He is the author of several reports including: Future proof (2022), The Human Organisation (2021), Innovation for Everyone (2021), Transformation, Reason and Human. John started life as an award-winning journalist. He worked with IBM for seven years and was group director of communications with United Utilities in the 1990’s. He flirts with photography and song-writing.
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Tim
Development DirectorElaine
Business DevelopmentPeter
Senior CopywriterChris
Consultant DirectorTim Parr
Development DirectorTim is often to be found sketching a diagram or process that helps companies and organisations bring their strategy to life. He started out as a graphic designer, and this grounding in simplification, interpretation and visualisation has underpinned everything he has done since. With more than 25 years’ experience delivering creative campaigns and corporate and strategic communications, Tim is enthusiastic about the role that imaginative programmes can play for businesses and organisations undergoing transformation.
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Elaine Smith
Business DevelopmentElaine is a talented business development professional with a wealth of marketing and communications experience. She focuses on client liaison to help generate new business and also manages all of the many external conferences and events that we host for our clients. Her business development work builds on her previous project management role, where she supported a range of our clients including Anglian Water, Liverpool Primary Care Trust and Energy Saving Trust.
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Peter Venables
Senior CopywriterPeter is a highly-accomplished copywriter and journalist, with a passion for capturing the very essence of a client’s story in a way that gives campaigns clarity, focus and renewed energy. He combines his writing skills with a strong strategic and commercial understanding, acquired during many years as an Account Director at Corporate Culture. Peter has written employee engagement, behaviour change and sustainability campaigns for many clients including WRAP, United Utilities, FCC Environment and Anglian Water.
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Professor Chris Harrop OBE
Consultant DirectorProfessor Chris Harrop OBE is Visiting Professor in Sustainable Business at the University of Huddersfield and former ESG Strategy Director at Marshalls plc. He is also Chair of Made in Britain and a Non Exec Director of the FairTax Foundation. Chris started his career in marketing and now has over 20 years’ experience in sustainability and sustainable product development, taking a holistic view of sustainability and a practical approach to business strategy. In 2017 Chris made the trek to the North Pole to see for himself the impact of climate change and become a better advocate for business action. In 2018 Chris was named BtB Marketing Director of the Year and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to the Prevention of Modern Slavery and Exploitation.
Tim
Development DirectorElaine
Business DevelopmentTim Parr
Development DirectorTim is often to be found sketching a diagram or process that helps companies and organisations bring their strategy to life. He started out as a graphic designer, and this grounding in simplification, interpretation and visualisation has underpinned everything he has done since. With more than 25 years’ experience delivering creative campaigns and corporate and strategic communications, Tim is enthusiastic about the role that imaginative programmes can play for businesses and organisations undergoing transformation.
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Elaine Smith
Business DevelopmentElaine is a talented business development professional with a wealth of marketing and communications experience. She focuses on client liaison to help generate new business and also manages all of the many external conferences and events that we host for our clients. Her business development work builds on her previous project management role, where she supported a range of our clients including Anglian Water, Liverpool Primary Care Trust and Energy Saving Trust.
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Peter
Senior CopywriterChris
Consultant DirectorPeter Venables
Senior CopywriterPeter is a highly-accomplished copywriter and journalist, with a passion for capturing the very essence of a client’s story in a way that gives campaigns clarity, focus and renewed energy. He combines his writing skills with a strong strategic and commercial understanding, acquired during many years as an Account Director at Corporate Culture. Peter has written employee engagement, behaviour change and sustainability campaigns for many clients including WRAP, United Utilities, FCC Environment and Anglian Water.
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Professor Chris Harrop OBE
Consultant DirectorProfessor Chris Harrop OBE is Visiting Professor in Sustainable Business at the University of Huddersfield and former ESG Strategy Director at Marshalls plc. He is also Chair of Made in Britain and a Non Exec Director of the FairTax Foundation. Chris started his career in marketing and now has over 20 years’ experience in sustainability and sustainable product development, taking a holistic view of sustainability and a practical approach to business strategy. In 2017 Chris made the trek to the North Pole to see for himself the impact of climate change and become a better advocate for business action. In 2018 Chris was named BtB Marketing Director of the Year and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to the Prevention of Modern Slavery and Exploitation.
Tim
Development DirectorTim Parr
Development DirectorTim is often to be found sketching a diagram or process that helps companies and organisations bring their strategy to life. He started out as a graphic designer, and this grounding in simplification, interpretation and visualisation has underpinned everything he has done since. With more than 25 years’ experience delivering creative campaigns and corporate and strategic communications, Tim is enthusiastic about the role that imaginative programmes can play for businesses and organisations undergoing transformation.
- Get in touch
Elaine
Business DevelopmentElaine Smith
Business DevelopmentElaine is a talented business development professional with a wealth of marketing and communications experience. She focuses on client liaison to help generate new business and also manages all of the many external conferences and events that we host for our clients. Her business development work builds on her previous project management role, where she supported a range of our clients including Anglian Water, Liverpool Primary Care Trust and Energy Saving Trust.
- Get in touch
Peter
Senior CopywriterPeter Venables
Senior CopywriterPeter is a highly-accomplished copywriter and journalist, with a passion for capturing the very essence of a client’s story in a way that gives campaigns clarity, focus and renewed energy. He combines his writing skills with a strong strategic and commercial understanding, acquired during many years as an Account Director at Corporate Culture. Peter has written employee engagement, behaviour change and sustainability campaigns for many clients including WRAP, United Utilities, FCC Environment and Anglian Water.
- Get in touch
Chris
Consultant DirectorProfessor Chris Harrop OBE
Consultant DirectorProfessor Chris Harrop OBE is Visiting Professor in Sustainable Business at the University of Huddersfield and former ESG Strategy Director at Marshalls plc. He is also Chair of Made in Britain and a Non Exec Director of the FairTax Foundation. Chris started his career in marketing and now has over 20 years’ experience in sustainability and sustainable product development, taking a holistic view of sustainability and a practical approach to business strategy. In 2017 Chris made the trek to the North Pole to see for himself the impact of climate change and become a better advocate for business action. In 2018 Chris was named BtB Marketing Director of the Year and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to the Prevention of Modern Slavery and Exploitation.
Aakanksha
Behavioural Insights SpecialistDave
IT ManagerAlan
Senior CopywriterAlex
Digital Support ExecutiveAakanksha Ramkumar
Behavioural Insights SpecialistAakanksha is a multidisciplinary behavioural scientist, with MScs in Applied Behaviour Analysis and Behavioural Science for Management. She incorporates the latest research, insights, and thinking on behavioural science into a wide range of work, and has recently developed behavioural design solutions with Hitachi, HSBC, United Utilities, Network Rail, Barclaycard and Essex County Council. She is especially passionate about projects that tackle misinformation and discrimination and encourage diversity and inclusion, impactful environmental behaviours, and effective and inclusive policy-making.
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Dave Matthews
IT ManagerDave’s passionate about organising our wealth of information into an easily understandable, highly navigable, creative hierarchy. This pursuit aligns perfectly with his general fascination with technology and its essential role in modern living. And combined with his skills and experience in graphic design and print, this focus enables Dave to perform a unique role within the business – providing creative design solutions for our clients while maintaining a secure and robust digital infrastructure.
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Alan Mockler
Senior CopywriterThroughout more than a decade of strategic and creative copywriting, Alan’s always at his happiest when leveraging language, wrangling words, and tweaking tone to convince people to embrace new thinking. Whether he’s creating a single strapline, an inspiring narrative, or a full messaging framework, his approach is built on understanding the audience and simplifying the complex, until he finds the perfect mix of words and concept to drive the desired transformation.
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Alex Drummond
Digital Support ExecutiveAlex has recently graduated with a degree in CGI and VFX. He has delivered a range of dynamic visual work, including online adverts for Bloomsbury Professional, and an immersive 3D animation for the Human Traffic exhibition at Printworks London. At Corporate Culture he will be helping to research new digital solutions for smoother commercial processes, and technologies for motivating behaviour change.
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Aakanksha
Behavioural Insights SpecialistDave
IT ManagerAakanksha Ramkumar
Behavioural Insights SpecialistAakanksha is a multidisciplinary behavioural scientist, with MScs in Applied Behaviour Analysis and Behavioural Science for Management. She incorporates the latest research, insights, and thinking on behavioural science into a wide range of work, and has recently developed behavioural design solutions with Hitachi, HSBC, United Utilities, Network Rail, Barclaycard and Essex County Council. She is especially passionate about projects that tackle misinformation and discrimination and encourage diversity and inclusion, impactful environmental behaviours, and effective and inclusive policy-making.
- Get in touch
Dave Matthews
IT ManagerDave’s passionate about organising our wealth of information into an easily understandable, highly navigable, creative hierarchy. This pursuit aligns perfectly with his general fascination with technology and its essential role in modern living. And combined with his skills and experience in graphic design and print, this focus enables Dave to perform a unique role within the business – providing creative design solutions for our clients while maintaining a secure and robust digital infrastructure.
- Get in touch
Alan
Senior CopywriterAlex
Digital Support ExecutiveAlan Mockler
Senior CopywriterThroughout more than a decade of strategic and creative copywriting, Alan’s always at his happiest when leveraging language, wrangling words, and tweaking tone to convince people to embrace new thinking. Whether he’s creating a single strapline, an inspiring narrative, or a full messaging framework, his approach is built on understanding the audience and simplifying the complex, until he finds the perfect mix of words and concept to drive the desired transformation.
- Get in touch
Alex Drummond
Digital Support ExecutiveAlex has recently graduated with a degree in CGI and VFX. He has delivered a range of dynamic visual work, including online adverts for Bloomsbury Professional, and an immersive 3D animation for the Human Traffic exhibition at Printworks London. At Corporate Culture he will be helping to research new digital solutions for smoother commercial processes, and technologies for motivating behaviour change.
- Get in touch
Aakanksha
Behavioural Insights SpecialistAakanksha Ramkumar
Behavioural Insights SpecialistAakanksha is a multidisciplinary behavioural scientist, with MScs in Applied Behaviour Analysis and Behavioural Science for Management. She incorporates the latest research, insights, and thinking on behavioural science into a wide range of work, and has recently developed behavioural design solutions with Hitachi, HSBC, United Utilities, Network Rail, Barclaycard and Essex County Council. She is especially passionate about projects that tackle misinformation and discrimination and encourage diversity and inclusion, impactful environmental behaviours, and effective and inclusive policy-making.
- Get in touch
Dave
IT ManagerDave Matthews
IT ManagerDave’s passionate about organising our wealth of information into an easily understandable, highly navigable, creative hierarchy. This pursuit aligns perfectly with his general fascination with technology and its essential role in modern living. And combined with his skills and experience in graphic design and print, this focus enables Dave to perform a unique role within the business – providing creative design solutions for our clients while maintaining a secure and robust digital infrastructure.
- Get in touch
Alan
Senior CopywriterAlan Mockler
Senior CopywriterThroughout more than a decade of strategic and creative copywriting, Alan’s always at his happiest when leveraging language, wrangling words, and tweaking tone to convince people to embrace new thinking. Whether he’s creating a single strapline, an inspiring narrative, or a full messaging framework, his approach is built on understanding the audience and simplifying the complex, until he finds the perfect mix of words and concept to drive the desired transformation.
- Get in touch
Alex
Digital Support ExecutiveAlex Drummond
Digital Support ExecutiveAlex has recently graduated with a degree in CGI and VFX. He has delivered a range of dynamic visual work, including online adverts for Bloomsbury Professional, and an immersive 3D animation for the Human Traffic exhibition at Printworks London. At Corporate Culture he will be helping to research new digital solutions for smoother commercial processes, and technologies for motivating behaviour change.
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Andrew
Head of Behaviour ChangeAndrew
Managing DirectorKathryn
Consultant DirectorAndrew Drummond
Head of Behaviour ChangeAndrew is an award-winning film maker, and has an MSc in Behavioural Science for Management. Since working for Corporate Culture Group, Andrew has worked on the strategic delivery, creative delivery, and behavioural design of projects for more than 35 different organisations - both local and global, across private, public, and charity sectors.
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Andrew Hewitt
Managing DirectorAndrew has 30 years’ experience of devising and delivering major change programmes across the private and public sectors. He uses that knowledge to help shape clients’ more complex engagement programmes, for example developing brand propositions for Diabetes UK, FCC Environment and WRAP, and employee engagement strategies for ASDA and Unilever. Before joining Corporate Culture, Andrew held senior marketing and communication roles with North West Water and United Utilities, where his work won multiple national awards.
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Kathryn Willoughby
Consultant DirectorKathryn believes passionately in the essential role communication plays in building and strengthening relationships, unlocking people’s potential and helping them develop, collaborate and succeed. Which is why for the past 20 years she’s helped a wide range of organisations use communication as a tool to create environments where people can thrive, understand and choose to contribute fully to business and operational goals, and experience the incredible impact when they do.
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Andrew
Head of Behaviour ChangeAndrew
Managing DirectorAndrew Drummond
Head of Behaviour ChangeAndrew is an award-winning film maker, and has an MSc in Behavioural Science for Management. Since working for Corporate Culture Group, Andrew has worked on the strategic delivery, creative delivery, and behavioural design of projects for more than 35 different organisations - both local and global, across private, public, and charity sectors.
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Andrew Hewitt
Managing DirectorAndrew has 30 years’ experience of devising and delivering major change programmes across the private and public sectors. He uses that knowledge to help shape clients’ more complex engagement programmes, for example developing brand propositions for Diabetes UK, FCC Environment and WRAP, and employee engagement strategies for ASDA and Unilever. Before joining Corporate Culture, Andrew held senior marketing and communication roles with North West Water and United Utilities, where his work won multiple national awards.
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Kathryn
Consultant DirectorKathryn Willoughby
Consultant DirectorKathryn believes passionately in the essential role communication plays in building and strengthening relationships, unlocking people’s potential and helping them develop, collaborate and succeed. Which is why for the past 20 years she’s helped a wide range of organisations use communication as a tool to create environments where people can thrive, understand and choose to contribute fully to business and operational goals, and experience the incredible impact when they do.
- Get in touch
Andrew
Head of Behaviour ChangeAndrew Drummond
Head of Behaviour ChangeAndrew is an award-winning film maker, and has an MSc in Behavioural Science for Management. Since working for Corporate Culture Group, Andrew has worked on the strategic delivery, creative delivery, and behavioural design of projects for more than 35 different organisations - both local and global, across private, public, and charity sectors.
- Get in touch
Andrew
Managing DirectorAndrew Hewitt
Managing DirectorAndrew has 30 years’ experience of devising and delivering major change programmes across the private and public sectors. He uses that knowledge to help shape clients’ more complex engagement programmes, for example developing brand propositions for Diabetes UK, FCC Environment and WRAP, and employee engagement strategies for ASDA and Unilever. Before joining Corporate Culture, Andrew held senior marketing and communication roles with North West Water and United Utilities, where his work won multiple national awards.
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Kathryn
Consultant DirectorKathryn Willoughby
Consultant DirectorKathryn believes passionately in the essential role communication plays in building and strengthening relationships, unlocking people’s potential and helping them develop, collaborate and succeed. Which is why for the past 20 years she’s helped a wide range of organisations use communication as a tool to create environments where people can thrive, understand and choose to contribute fully to business and operational goals, and experience the incredible impact when they do.
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Our ways of working
We put people first, work as a team and communicate openly and honestly.
We seek fresh perspectives, follow the evidence, experiment and innovate.
We welcome a challenge, simplify the complex and create powerful outcomes.