Fuel Growth Through Culture Alignment
Culture is the backbone of organizational success. A strong, aligned culture fosters collaboration, innovation, and commitment, ultimately driving long-term performance and growth.
Our culture alignment solutions help align diverse cultures and turn potential culture clashes into unified strengths that enhance communication and performance. Whether you’re seeking to transform your culture or simply protect the core elements that make your organization unique, we can help you architect a high-performance culture that supports long-term success.
How We Help
Live Out the Words on the Wall
Culture is more than a poster on the wall. When there’s a disconnect between what leaders say and what they do, team members notice. This can erode trust and create confusion within the organization.
We help ensure that the words written in your mission statement or core values aren’t just nice ideas—they are lived experiences. By aligning leadership behaviors with organizational promises, we build a culture where actions speak louder than words. This alignment creates clarity, builds trust, and reinforces the authenticity of your organization’s commitments to employees, clients, and stakeholders alike.
Build a Culturally Cohesive Organization
Your organization grows and evolves, and your culture changes with it. Whether through acquisition or organic growth, diverse new subcultures often emerge. While this diversity brings fresh perspectives, it can also lead to misalignment and culture clashes.
Our culture alignment solutions help to strategically align cultures, creating a unified yet diverse environment where the strengths of each subculture are retained while overall goals are unified. By integrating values, communication styles, and operational practices, we ensure that your organization can thrive as a cohesive unit without the challenges of conflicting cultures.
Structure Your Culture for What’s Next
Sometimes the culture that got you here isn’t the culture that will take you to the next level. Culture transformation requires deliberate and strategic change, aimed at moving your organization closer to its vision of high performance.
We understand that cultural change is not a one-time effort but a sustained journey. With our approach, your team will align around core values, behaviors, and systems that reflect the future state you want to create. Our goal is to go beyond a temporary culture change and instead build a strong and lasting foundation of high performance that will help you succeed.
Protect What Makes You Unique
While culture must evolve, there are often key elements worth protecting. Over time, as new hires join the team and leaders change, the very core of what makes your company special can be diluted if not carefully maintained.
We work with you to identify and preserve the “secret sauce” that differentiates your culture. By recognizing what’s essential to retain, we can help you navigate changes without losing the essence of what makes your organization unique. This fosters a stable yet adaptable culture, ensuring that the best aspects of your identity remain intact throughout growth and change.
Achieve Sustainable Culture Change
Culture doesn’t change overnight—it takes an intentional environment to foster the behaviors and attitudes needed for success. We work with you to intentionally create the climate that will naturally grow the culture you desire. By identifying the traits, behaviors, and mindsets that drive your performance, we help you put in place the systems and structures that will reinforce those qualities.
Whether it’s enhancing innovation, improving accountability, or creating a stronger sense of ownership among employees, we can help you build a sustainable system to develop the culture needed to achieve your strategic objectives.
Bartell made the difference between my desire for Restek to function as a team versus actually becoming a team.
Thanks to the Bartell organization, Restek has become a company where every employee thinks and functions as if they are owners.
Of all the money Restek ever spent – Bartell and Leadership Flight School™ made the biggest impact on our culture and financial success.
Founder of Restek, Current Head Coach of Silcotek
Culture Change is Difficult.
It Doesn’t Have To Be.
Having a clear process and metrics to back up culture alignment and development is critical for success.
Our process for culture change can be applied no matter your situation – helping you measure, identify, develop, and support your desired culture.
Quantify Your Culture
Culture can feel intangible, but we make it measurable. Through a series of assessments and data-driven diagnostics, we help you clearly define your current organizational culture.
Whether focusing on specific teams or the entire organization, we measure key values, behaviors, and attitudes that shape your workplace. This creates a baseline that shows not just where you stand today, but also where any misalignments or challenges exist. By translating culture into concrete data points, you’ll gain a clearer picture of the traits driving your current environment, making it easier to plan and execute meaningful change.
Determine Your Desired Culture
Envisioning the culture you want can be just as challenging as understanding the culture you have. We guide you through the process of identifying what an ideal culture looks like for your organization.
Together, we’ll explore the values, behaviors, and dynamics that align with your strategic objectives and create a foundation for high performance. By honing in on a future culture that not only fits your organization but also inspires your team, we can help set the stage for a thriving, cohesive environment. This clarity empowers leadership to make informed decisions about the direction they want the culture to evolve.
Identify Alignment Catalysts
Cultural transformation can be accelerated and is more likely to succeed when it begins with specific teams or individuals. We help you identify where your organization is most ready for change and which areas will act as catalysts for alignment.
By using diagnostic tools and our cultural expertise, we pinpoint the departments or key players who can fast-track the transformation, helping the rest of the organization naturally follow suit. This strategic approach ensures that your culture change doesn’t feel overwhelming but instead starts with a focused, high-impact effort that generates momentum and results across the entire business.
Implement Transformation
Transforming culture takes time, but it doesn’t need to overwhelm your team. We partner with you to implement culture-building practices in a sustainable, integrated way. This could mean refining your selection processes to ensure new hires align with your desired culture, or equipping leaders with tools to model and reinforce key behaviors.
Our approach is strategic and gradual, designed to build your desired culture organically over time. We also facilitate team sessions and leadership development to ensure early wins in alignment, giving your transformation the traction it needs to succeed without disrupting daily operations.
Support Culture Change
Once your culture has begun to shift, sustaining that change is crucial for long-term success. We provide ongoing support to help reinforce the new behaviors and values that define your desired culture. This includes regular check-ins, coaching for leaders, and the introduction of continuous feedback loops to ensure alignment remains strong over time.
By embedding culture support into everyday practices—such as recognition programs, performance management systems, and team dynamics—we help your organization solidify the changes. Our goal is to make your new culture self-sustaining, with leaders and employees alike empowered to uphold and nurture it, keeping the momentum going long after the initial transformation.
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