Culture doesn't transform—it evolves.

We believe change is something you nurture. At Culture Shift Studio, we design human-centered, emotionally intelligent pathways to shift culture from the inside out. Our approach bridges lived experience and leadership vision to move from insight to action.

Surveys alone won’t fix your culture. Listening and experimentation will.
Most organizations over-survey and under-respond.
We take a different approach:
  • participatory diagnostics,
  • rapid culture experiments, and
  • strategy grounded in empathy, equity, and emotional intelligence.
Our Beliefs:
  • Culture change happens through movements, not mandates.
  • Empathy is a strategic advantage, not a soft skill.

  • People support what they help shape.

  • Emotional intelligence is infrastructure.

  • Clarity, care, and collaboration lead to lasting impact.

What We Believe Shapes How We Work

Two Ways We Partner

The ACT Model (Short Term Engagements)

Clarity
Traction

Co-design actions that move the needle

Awareness

Surface what’s working and what’s not

For quick clarity, alignment, and traction.

Our ACT Model is designed for targeted engagements like workshops, diagnostics, or strategy sprints. Ideal for teams in moments of decision, transition, or stuckness.

Common formats: Culture Snapshots, Listening Labs, Burnout Workshops, Culture Co-Labs.

Align on purpose, values, or direction

  • Awareness: Understand the system you’re in

  • Aspiration: Define what “thriving” looks like

  • Acceptance: Name and release unhelpful patterns

  • Action: Co-design strategic, human-centered experiments

  • Accountability: Build rhythms and structure to sustain the change

The Thriving Together Method™ (Long-Term Transformation)

For organizations ready to evolve deeply and sustainably.

This five-stage method supports long-term culture evolution. It combines systems thinking, emotional intelligence, and co-creation to embed lasting change.

Common formats: Strategic Roadmaps, Values Alignment, Leadership Labs, Coaching, Peer Networks.

Stages Of Change

We Meet You Where You Are

Crisis, burnout, or transition
Momentum, optimization, and deepening
Alignment, repair, and realignment

Rebuild

Reset

Refine

We work with organizations across three readiness stages:

The Burnt Out Do-Gooder

A mission-driven team with strong values and big hearts: running on fumes and struggling to set boundaries

The Identity Shifter

An organization in the midst of change, redefining who they are and how they show up internally and externally.

The Exhausted Achiever

High-performing on paper, but emotionally drained and disconnected beneath the surface.

The Purpose-Drifting Team

Once aligned around a vision, now scattered and unsure what they’re really building together.

The Quiet Resistor

The Eager Adapter

A team going through the motions on the surface, while quietly questioning the status quo underneath.

Open to change, energized by new ideas, and ready to build culture more intentionally—but looking for a guide.

Culture Patterns

We’ve identified six common culture patterns that shape how people show up and systems behave. Recognizing your pattern is the first step toward change.

What It’s Like to Work With Us

Relational, Strategic, Grounded in Care
  • Trauma-informed and emotionally intelligent

  • Collaborative, not prescriptive

  • Systems-aware and action-oriented

  • Safe enough to go deep; structured enough to move forward

  • Honest, kind, and deeply human

Let’s Shift Your Culture—Intentionally

Ready to explore what’s possible?