Culture consulting
Culture is not what you say it is. It is what your people experience every day. The gap between those two things is where Meridian works.
Culture consulting engagements help organizations understand what their culture actually is, why it exists, and what it would take to align it with where they want to go.
What we do
Assess, listen, design, measure
Every culture consulting engagement is scoped individually because no two organizations have the same gap. The work moves through four stages, and the last one is measurement.
Assess
We start by measuring the gap between the stated culture and the lived experience. We use a confidential survey built from published research scales, listening sessions, and a review of what your hiring, recognition, and promotion systems actually reward. Together they give an honest picture of where things stand, team by team.
Listen
Culture gaps are rarely mysteries to the people living inside them. They are mysteries to leadership. Our listening process surfaces what people already know but have not been asked, in a way that creates trust rather than anxiety.
Design
We work with the leadership team first, then with managers, in a short series of working sessions. Every session ends with a specific team plan, and every priority comes with a change to a real system (how people are hired, recognized, or promoted) owned by a named leader. Not slogans. Not off-sites.
Measure
We repeat the same survey when the work ends and again six months later. You see what changed and what did not, reported plainly.
Who this is for
Culture consulting engagements are right for organizations where:
- Leadership senses a gap between the culture they are describing and the culture people are experiencing
- A recent transition, merger, or leadership change has created cultural uncertainty
- Engagement scores or retention data suggest a people problem that training alone will not solve
- The organization is scaling quickly and wants to be intentional about the culture that grows with it
Investment
Culture consulting engagements are scoped and priced based on organizational size, the number of teams and managers involved, and the depth of the work required. For organizations of 100 to 1,000 people, an engagement is designed to run about eight months, with a follow-up measurement six months later. Every engagement begins with a discovery conversation at no cost.
Ready to close the gap?
Every engagement starts with a free discovery conversation.