​See Your Culture Clearly—So You Can Change It Strategically

Most leaders know culture matters.
Few can see it clearly enough to change it effectively.

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The Culture Intelligence Audit™ is a research-backed diagnostic designed to reveal how work actually feels, functions, and motivates inside your organization. It identifies where trust breaks down, how incentives shape behavior, and why engagement rises or falls—so leaders can act with confidence instead of guesswork.

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This is not a generic engagement survey -- It is a behavioral system analysis.

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Why Culture Problems Are So Hard to Fix

 

Culture issues rarely announce themselves directly. Instead, they show up as disengagement, burnout, inconsistent performance, or rising turnover. Leaders respond with meetings, wellness programs, training initiatives, or new values statements. Some improvements may follow—but the underlying problems persist.

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That’s because most organizations are trying to fix culture without understanding the systems driving behavior. People respond to incentives, signals, and constraints. When those are misaligned—when trust is fragile, autonomy is limited, or effort isn’t rewarded—motivation erodes regardless of intent.

The Culture Intelligence Audit™ exists to make those invisible dynamics visible.

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What the Culture Intelligence Audit™ Actually Does

 

The audit is designed to help leaders understand how employees experience work—not in theory, but in practice.

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Using research-based survey instruments and behavioral economics frameworks, the audit examines how trust, autonomy, motivation, and alignment operate across your organization. It reveals where employees feel supported and where friction quietly undermines performance.

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Rather than producing a single engagement score, the audit provides a structured interpretation of cultural drivers—showing leaders why people behave the way they do at work, and which systems are shaping those outcomes.

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The result is clarity. Not more data—better insight.

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What Leaders Learn From the Audit

 

Organizations that complete the Culture Intelligence Audit™ gain a shared, evidence-based understanding of their culture. Leaders are able to see where trust is strong or fragile, how autonomy is experienced across roles or teams, and whether incentives encourage meaningful effort or quiet disengagement. The audit highlights where cultural signals align with stated values—and where they conflict. Most importantly, it identifies where to act first. Instead of broad initiatives or symbolic fixes, leaders receive focused guidance on which changes will produce the greatest impact.

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What Makes This Audit Different

 

Most culture assessments measure sentiment.
The Culture Intelligence Audit™ measures behavioral drivers.

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It is built on labor economics and behavioral science—fields that study how people respond to incentives, uncertainty, fairness, and control. This perspective allows us to move beyond opinions and surface-level metrics to identify causal mechanisms inside the workplace.

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The audit is designed for real organizations, not idealized models. Recommendations are practical, scalable, and grounded in how work actually operates day to day. This is culture work for leaders who want understanding—not slogans.

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What You Receive

 

The Culture Intelligence Audit™ includes a customized, research-based culture assessment, an executive-level interpretation of findings, and a clear diagnostic narrative that explains what is happening inside your organization and why.

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Rather than overwhelming teams with dashboards or generic benchmarks, we focus on translating insights into meaning. Leaders walk away with a coherent picture of their culture and a practical foundation for informed decision-making.

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Many clients use the audit as a starting point for broader culture strategy, leadership alignment, or targeted interventions.

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Who the Audit Is For

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The Culture Intelligence Audit™ is designed for organizations that take culture seriously—but want evidence instead of assumptions.

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It is especially valuable for leadership teams navigating growth, retention challenges, morale concerns, or cultural misalignment. HR leaders use it to support strategic planning, while executives use it to gain visibility into how work is actually experienced across the organization.

If you believe culture should be managed with the same rigor as finances or operations, this audit is built for you.

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Founded on Research, Applied With Care

The Culture Intelligence Audit™ was developed by Dr. Rebecca Johannsen, a labor economist and professor specializing in organizational culture, motivation, and productivity.

After years of studying how incentives, trust, and autonomy shape workplace behavior, Dr. Johannsen created this audit to bridge the gap between academic research and real organizational decision-making.

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The goal is not to diagnose for diagnosis’s sake—but to give leaders a reliable way to understand culture and act on it responsibly.

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What Changes After the Audit

 

Organizations that understand their culture at a systems level make better decisions.

They invest in fewer—but more effective—initiatives.
They reduce guesswork and reactive management.
They build trust by aligning signals with values.

Culture becomes something leaders can see, discuss, and design—not something they hope improves on its own.