Service Area: Culture
Transforming Organizational Culture
Culture forms the foundation of every organization, shaping identity and driving how work gets done. While it might seem abstract at first glance, culture is both definable and measurable, with a profound impact on business performance. Whether actively managed or left to chance, your organization's culture influences every outcome—making it a powerful lever for transformation and success.
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Boost Productivity
Organizational culture is a critical predictor of organizational success. When companies quantify, clarify, and align their organizational culture, they experience a significant increase in productivity and overall organizational performance.
Keep Your People
A strong culture fosters connection and belonging, attracting top talent while driving retention and engagement. It sets your organization apart, making it a place where people want to work and thrive.
Culture Audit
The Culture Audit provides a focused review of your organization’s culture and values, leveraging multiple datapoints to uncover risks, opportunities, and actionable insights.
- Pinpoint critical culture risks and areas for improvement.
- Assess the alignment and strength of your organization’s core values.
- Deliver a concise Culture Audit Report with prioritized recommendations to strengthen culture, enhance employee engagement, and drive business performance.
Culture Alignment Playbook
Bring their values to life by embedding them into everyday ways of working. Using data-based approach, we analyze key HR and business processes to identify gaps and provide a clear, actionable playbook for aligning processes with organizational values—strengthening culture and driving performance.
- Pinpoint areas of strength and gaps in culture alignment to unlock your organization’s full potential.
- Develop actionable strategies to ensure employees consistently experience a cohesive and empowering culture that drives engagement and business success.
Culture Refresh
The Culture Refresh is a proven approach that helps organizations create a strategic plan to ensure alignment with business processes.
- Understand existing gaps between actual and aspirational values.
- Confirm a data-driven set of core values against which employees and HR business processes can be aligned to.
- Define behavioral norms that support refreshed core values.
- Deliver an action plan to drive alignment between core values and business processes – increasing engagement, productivity and retention.
Belonging Blueprint
Build a culture where everyone feels valued, connected, and empowered to thrive. By designing strategies that enhance inclusion and belonging, we create an environment that attracts top talent, drives engagement, and improves retention—ensuring your organization stands out as a destination for diverse, high-performing talent.
- Harness diverse perspectives and ideas to fuel creativity and problem-solving across your organization.
- Create a foundation of trust and belonging that supports adaptability and cohesion in times of change.
Culture MergeMap
Most mergers and acquisitions fall short of their potential, often due to overlooked cultural misalignment. CLA’s Culture Merge Map uses a data-driven approach to proactively understand, align, and integrate cultures before, during, and after a transaction—unlocking the full value of your merger and creating a cohesive foundation for long-term success.
- Establish shared values and behaviors that drive strategic alignment and measurable success.
- Identify and address cultural conflicts that could hinder integration or performance.
- Uncover cultural strengths and opportunities to amplify value creation.
Culture Carrier Leadership Workshop
Great leaders shape and sustain culture. CLA’s Culture Carrier Workshop equips people leaders with the skills and strategies to embody and deliver a consistent, values-driven culture across in-person, remote, and hybrid teams—helping them inspire connection, alignment, and engagement in today’s evolving workplace.
- Empower leaders to model behaviors that reinforce and sustain organizational values.
- Ensure team members experience a cohesive culture, regardless of location or work style.
- Equip leaders with tools to foster engagement, collaboration, and trust within their teams.
Our Approach to Culture
Our approach to culture is grounded in a proven, data-driven methodology that transforms organizations from within. Our Connected Culture Model emphasizes the alignment of values, behaviors, and business processes to create cultures that drive best-in-class employee and business outcomes. By fostering a deep sense of connection and belonging, we help leaders build thriving organizations where individuals are empowered to do their best work—ultimately keeping your people engaged, committed, and contributing to sustainable growth and performance.
Data-Driven Insights
Our approach is grounded in data. We use multiple data sources—surveys, focus groups, interviews, and engagement data—to provide actionable insights that address your culture challenges.
Quick Wins & Strategic Solutions
Our recommendations deliver immediate impact and long-term strategies, ensuring our recommendations are both practical and impactful and that your culture evolves to meet business goals.
Employee-Centered Approach
We keep your people at the center of everything we do. By gathering direct input from employees, we ensure our solutions are informed by those who live and breathe your organizational culture every day.
Alignment at Every Level
We integrate culture into all aspects of your business processes, ensuring that every employee—from leaders to frontline workers—embodies and advances your unique culture.
Our Clients Get Results
Organizations with cultures that are data-informed, rigorously aligned with business processes, and foster an experience of belonging benefit from:
72%
Higher employee engagement
27%
Higher retention
22%
Greater employee productivity
6X
Greater profitability than their competitors
Download Our Culture Alignment Whitepaper
Curious why most culture initiatives fail and how our approach succeeds? Our whitepaper explains why shifting from culture change to culture alignment is the key.
Meet a Few of our Experts
Natalie Baumgartner
Alessa Natale
Chelsea Mitamura
“Collaborating with the dynamic team at Contemporary Leadership Advisors was a game-changer for our organization. CLA’s unparalleled expertise in the culture space, combined with their infectious energy and enthusiasm, made the process of refreshing our company values incredibly engaging. Their clear and meticulously data-driven approach revealed critical insights into our team’s genuine values, fostering a renewed sense of purpose and pride within our organization.”
Carla Dawson
CHRO, OCC
Who We Are
We’re a leadership and organizational effectiveness management consulting firm that integrates business expertise and behavioral science to help leaders overcome the challenges of managing business and people amidst constant change. Down-to-earth and highly experienced, we’re flexible enough to meet you where you are and handle whatever you throw at us. Unlike firms that specialize narrowly or push one-size-fits-all solutions, we offer a comprehensive suite of services that can be seamlessly integrated and customized to tackle your organization’s most complex challenges.
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