Consulting for culture development and cultural change
Culture work is meant to advance business goals such as establishing a performance culture, greater employee engagement, stronger customer focus, an agile culture or open feedback. Yet these goals often go unmet. The reason lies in hidden problems such as unresolved conflicts, a lack of appreciation and unclear performance criteria that considerably hold back progress. Our corporate culture consulting makes it possible to overcome these blockers.
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Culture work for lasting effects
Why does cultural change in companies often fail to move forward? This is easy to explain when you divide organizational culture into three levels:
- The visible: Structures, processes and behaviors.
- The spoken: Values, goals and rules of conduct.
- The thought: Beliefs, attitudes and assumptions.
Culture work often remains ineffective because only one level is changed. Companies change rules or define new values. But that alone is not enough, and employees feel unsettled. They notice that words and actions do not match. That prevents genuine change.
Lasting cultural change in a company requires coordinated development across all three levels. We adapt not only rules and values, but also question deeply held mindsets. With our iterative consulting approach in three phases, we overcome typical blockers and achieve lasting effects in culture development. Applying it directly within your organization creates focus and makes it possible to produce results quickly.
1. Thinking Culture
Effective change needs clarity: which problem are we solving, and which goal are we pursuing?
1. Thinking Culture
In the Clarity Check we work out the following with selected leaders:
- Strategic picture
- Reason and goal of the change
- Initiatives already underway
- Vision and guiding principles
2. Analyzing Culture
Analysis of the current situation and identification of the cultural factors on all 3 levels that are relevant to the change.
2. Analyzing Culture
Together with diverse groups of leaders and employees, we make the culture visible (Culture Check):
- Visible culture
- Non-visible culture
- Basic assumptions
- Externally acting factors
3. Working on Culture
Defining the framework conditions, planning measures and implementing them step by step in your organisation.
3. Working on Culture
Together with the relevant leaders and organizational units, we implement cultural change in the company while keeping the following in mind:
- Hypotheses
- Framework conditions
- Preparatory tasks
We rely on an iterative approach to achieve meaningful progress quickly.
Iteration cycles
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“Together we analyze the current situation and develop measurable goals and measures for tangible culture development in the company.”
Elias Okrent, Senior Consultant at CPC
Your benefits from working with us
1. Clear goals
We help you define clear, solution-oriented goals so you can address the challenges of your cultural change in a focused way.
2. A holistic perspective
With us you gain a holistic perspective on culture development in the company that positively shapes your entire organization.
3. Transparent effects
We make the effects of cultural change on leaders and employees visible and easy to understand.
4. Effective measures
With a clear understanding of your corporate culture, we develop fitting and effective measures.
5. Holistic culture work
We shape culture work inclusively by involving relevant departments and levels and taking the diversity of perspectives into account.
6. Quick wins
Our iterative approach delivers measurable results, enables fast adjustments and makes progress immediately visible.
“If you want to foster an agile culture, teams should try out new ways of working and solve concrete problems. This creates a foundation for lasting change.”
Carina Throne, Senior Manager at CPC
Voices of our clients
“CPC quickly understood our challenges, provided many new impulses and rapidly translated them into experiments. More than 90% of respondents now understand our new vision and strategy.”
The check for your corporate culture
Together with our partner Big Pictury, we brought our experience in corporate culture consulting into a Culture Check and represented it as a Big Picture. The Big Picture visualizes the visible and invisible aspects of a corporate culture. Using illustrative scenes, it guides you in looking at and analyzing your own culture in a new way.
Download the Big Picture as a PDF here!
In change initiatives, corporate culture can both contribute to success and act as an obstacle. The Big Picture, with its reflection questions, helps you understand your corporate culture. This way you recognize early on which pitfalls you need to work on so that your "culture doesn't eat your strategy for breakfast".
What working with us looks like
The AMPlifiers are the team within CPC who have dedicated themselves fully to culture development and agile consulting for many years. Our identity as AMPlifiers is shaped by our guiding principles of Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. We act self-directedly, keep developing ourselves and strive to do something meaningful. These principles describe how we work with clients and what we want to achieve together.
We AMPlifiers are passionate about wholehearted collaboration
We AMPlifiers are passionate about wholehearted collaboration
Together with you, we realize the advantages of agile principles, shape organizational framework conditions, empower employees and purposefully break through behavioral patterns — for lasting success in culture development.
We put our clients into the wind
We put our clients into the wind
Through honest questions and impulses, we revive stuck behavioral patterns. As AMPlifiers we recognize and develop existing talents and help you deploy them in a targeted, effective way — always following the principle of "strengthening strengths."
We shape your corporate culture
We shape your corporate culture
Building on what already exists, we establish a performance culture, a stronger customer focus or an agile culture together with you. In doing so, we build trust and, as coaches, develop a sustainable game plan — before, during and after the game.
We create impact through targeted course-setting
We create impact through targeted course-setting
We observe, develop hypotheses, implement solutions and measure success. With focused interventions at the individual, team and organizational level, we overcome blockers and solve even complex problems where it matters.
We move our clients and ourselves into flow together.
We move our clients and ourselves into flow together.
By "flow" we mean a state of focused, effortless goal pursuit. We achieve it through transparency, respectful communication, a focus on strengths and clear ownership — for intrinsic motivation and effective teamwork.
Experience + hypotheses + experiments = valid results.
Experience + hypotheses + experiments = valid results.
We make assumptions based on observations and experience, validate them through experiments and question existing beliefs. In short cycles we make results measurable and iteratively adapt the system together with our clients.
The AMPlifiers at a glance
103 projects since the AMPlifier team was founded, across various industries
12 different certifications in the fields of Agile and Change
12,847 Lego bricks assembled during client workshops
3 collaborations with strategic partners
More than 80% of our clients are repeat customers
10+ years of experience in culture development in companies
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We're grateful for these awards
- CPC is a five-time No. 1 Hidden Champion for change management
- Year after year, brandeins/thema names us Germany's best management consultancy for change management
- We have been a Focus Top Consultant for many years
- Winner of the HR Excellence Award and the European Training Prize together with Deutsche Telekom and Lufthansa Technik
- We are No. 1 Great Place to Work in the 51–100 employees category and a Kununu Top Company.
Let's discuss
your project with us!
The first step is easy — and don't worry: we won't send you dull newsletters or annoying promotional emails. Instead, we focus on what matters: your change goals and how we can move your business forward.
Step 1
Call back or email.
Within 24 hours we get in touch with you, capture your requirements and arrange an appointment with one of our experts.
Step 2
Free initial consultation.
In a video call you explain your project and discuss possible solution scenarios together with our expert.
Step 3
You decide how to proceed.
Proposal, pitch or project kickoff? You set the next steps.
Questions and answers
We are the leading change management consultancy in Germany. For more than 30 years we have supported international corporations and large mid-sized companies in a wide range of projects on cultural change and agile culture.
We have relevant experience in culture work. We are happy to give you insights into references and example solutions to convince you. Just get in touch.
Yes, it takes time, money and commitment on your part. But our experience shows that investments in developing your culture pay off many times over in the medium to long term.
Right at the start we jointly define meaningful metrics that show you when you have reached your goals and what added value our collaboration creates for your company.
Every company is unique. With our corporate culture consulting, we develop a shared understanding of your culture in "Thinking Culture" and set a clearly defined change goal. Our consulting is tailored precisely to your individual needs. At the same time, you benefit from our proven, standardized approach, developed through numerous transformations — saving you time and money.