Shaping and framing strategies
We need to create strategies that give colleagues freedom within a framework. But, as uncertainty is continuous, strategic frameworks need to continually adapt. The idea of revisiting strategy once every three or five years is dead in the water.
We can help with
Articulating business purpose, vision and mission
We help clients define or refine their reason for being and their preferred future.
Futureproof context reviews
We help clients remain resilient by conducting strategic context reviews to crystallise opportunities and risks.
ESG prioritisation and alignment
We work with clients to help them prioritise the ESG areas that are critical for their organisation to achieve long-term success and align those with their strategy.
Bringing strategies to life
Strategy is meaningless if it isn’t activated. We help create momentum, human-centred transformational programmes, cultures that encourage innovation, and behaviour-change programmes that achieve impact.
We can help with
Strategic behavioural frameworks
We help clients identify the key corporate and individual behaviours needed to turn strategy into action.
Human-centred transformation projects
We help clients identify and shape the key people-focused transformational projects to accelerate organisational change.
Cultures of innovation and belonging
We can help transform mindsets and skillsets to create open, collaborative cultures.
ESG into action
We work with clients to engage customers, citizens and communities to bring ESG priorities to life and create stronger more resilient markets for their products and services.
Creating compelling narratives, dialogue and communications
One of the key findings of both the 2024 World Economic Forum Global Risks Report and the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer is the critical importance of trusted, accurate, balanced communications. The Post Office scandal of 1999 – 2024 is, on its own, a compelling case of how not to act.
We can help with
Strategic narratives
We help clients create a compelling overall narrative that articulates story and direction of travel.
Visualising strategy
We help clients create powerful visual strategic frameworks that help communicate their direction and priorities.
Storytelling
We help clients bring their strategy to life through authentic stories told by colleagues, customers and citizens.
Strategy engagement plans
We help clients pin down their key audiences, channels and engagement plan to share their strategy.
ESG truth well told
We help clients turn their ESG performance into vibrant, inspirational communications that resonate across all stakeholders.
The Culture Diagnostic tool
Our easy-to-use, digital platform that helps you understand your current culture and create your preferred culture.
Product
A world of challenge and opportunity
The majority of CEOs are facing 10 or more global contextual challenges
40% of CEOs think their organisation won’t be economically viable in ten years time
CEOs want to spend as much time reinventing their business as improving current performance
24% of CEOs believe, over the next three years, ESG will have the greatest impact on their customer relationships.
Our work
WWF
A strategic planning toolkit to drive global stakeholder engagement
Redrow
Building a communications strategy for sustainable business
WRAP
Engaging millions of citizens in sustainable behaviour change
Anglian Water
Strategy and brand to drive sustainable behaviour at scale
Network Rail (North West)
Improving safety with behavioural diagnostics
Southern Water
An ambitious behaviour-led brand to drive future resilience
ASDA
A strategy and sustainable brand to inspire colleagues and customers
Lake District National Park
A brand framework and language to capture a vibrant user journey
Quilter
Embedding a focus on responsible business and sustainable value
Anglian Water
Keep it Clear
Barratt Developments
Strategic sustainability
CISL
Rewiring leadership
CISL
Rewiring the Economy
Royal Mail
Putting sustainability at the heart of internal communications
Water UK
An agile digital marketing strategy to engage small businesses
Microsoft
Brand and design to inspire people to unlock their potential
Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi
Design to turn the tide
The Crown Estate
Connect 365
The Crown Estate
One Team
WRAP
A national strategy for sustainable behaviour change
Clancy Group
A contemporary rebrand
Ofwat
A new strategy to help drive active customer participation
Resource Efficient Scotland
Insight-based, sustainable brand design and campaigning
National Grid
Aligning sustainability responsibilities with core business strategy
Our clients say
“I really value Corporate Culture’s ability to make you think. I also really liked their openness, transparency and their understanding of the subject matter. The team was very consistent, and also has a good sense of fun!”
Louise FurnessChief People & ESG Officer, Marshalls
“I really rate Corporate Culture. They understand and deliver good communications, both from a strategic and implementation perspective. They are seen by my team as a part of the team.”
David GinivanGlobal Brand Communications Director, AstraZeneca
“I have worked with many agencies and can say that this has been the best experience I have had in terms of service and quality of delivery. What has stood out has been the added value we have received from working with a talented team.”
Carole HillHead of Communications, Liverpool CCG
“Thank you again for your creativity, flexibility, support and client-focus. You’ve really listened to our needs and understood who we are. We literally could not have done this without you!”
Diane MoodyDSM Global Lead Organization Development
“We were delighted with the multi-phased campaign that Corporate Culture devised and ran for us over a nine-month period. It was a tough brief for them to hit the right mix of being instructive and engaging without being patronising and they achieved it perfectly.”
Nick HughesDirector of Marketing and Communications, SEGRO
“When we needed to create and implement an employee change programme to a very tight timeline, Corporate Culture rose to the challenge, producing solutions that were both creative and realistic, with the tools to roll out and keep the message alive.”
Miles WatkinsDirector of Sustainable Construction, Aggregate Industries Europe
“The benefit of working with Corporate Culture is their ability to shape the ‘big picture’, and then come up with great creative ideas and pragmatic campaign plans that enable that to become reality.”
Mark PendlingtonFormer Group Director of Corporate Affairs, Anglian Water
“Working with Corporate Culture was a great experience from beginning to end. The project met all of my expectations 'a thousand times over‘, and is one of our key successes, not just of the year, but even three years on.”
Shaun DavisFormer Group Health & Safety Director, Biffa
“Amazing what can be done in very little time when everyone gets in the trenches together. The moment I knew we might just deliver this was sitting in the project room when your first version of the BCOP workbook was tabled – finally we saw a glimmer of hope that we could do something great.”
Ian SpenceProgramme Lead, Co-op
Hot Topics
The human organisation
We are in the middle of the biggest shake up in the world of work for 100 years. And it’s increasingly evident that typical business models do not reflect these transitional times or our individual or social natures. We believe this is our collective opportunity to reimagine the world of work, and to reinvent the workplace as the Human Organisation.
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Transport sector organisations face an array of business-critical challenges, from improving business performance and prioritising the passenger experience, to engaging employees in purpose, and achieving safe working practices and sustainability impacts.
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The evidence is overwhelming: we must take urgent action now to tackle climate change and mitigate its catastrophic impacts. As citizens, as colleagues and as companies, we need to embrace more sustainable, low-carbon behaviours. From the water, food and energy we consume, to the waste we generate, we need change at scale while there’s still time.
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Reports
Reinventing the world of work: Is your organisation fit for the future?
It’s an extremely challenging time to be in business. The World Economic Forum coined the term ‘polycrisis’ to articulate the scale of the problems we face today. With recession, record inflation, the cost of living crisis, the climate emergency, social instability, technology disruption, and post-pandemic changes to working practices,...
Thought leadership
6 ways to help your employees thrive during business change
Global economists continue to predict slow growth for 2023, as organisations worldwide battle the persistent impacts of the ‘polycrisis’ of record inflation, the cost of living, the climate emergency, evolving working practices and much more. The bottom line is that every organisation is exposed daily to enormous risk. There...
Thought leadership
Organisational resilience is the key to business success
There’s never been a better time to act. New research from Deloitte highlights a general expectation amongst global CEOs that market disruptions will continue, and at scale. And in the words of the WEF “the capacity to anticipate and adapt will increasingly be a competitive advantage in a future...
Thought leadership
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