A healthy culture enables your people to perform, thrive, and act with integrity.
We help you uncover root causes undermining cultural health and build leadership habits that strengthen trust, reduce risk, and achieve lasting results.
Ignoring cultural health is costly — and only gets worse over time
Creates costly risk.
When employees stay silent on quality or ethical issues, companies risk sanctions, liability, and lost trust. Regulators now see culture as central to compliance.
An Analysis of FDA Warning Letter Citations
Drives away talent.
One in five employees left a job in the past five years due to bad culture — costing organisations billions.
SHRM, 2019
Erodes trust.
91% of executives say trust drives results, yet half of consumers and employees have faced broken trust — most walked away, costing loyalty and revenue.
Harvard Law School Trust Survey, 2023
When culture change is mission-critical
In high-stakes industries, culture isn't a "soft" issue — it is the difference between delivering on your mission and falling short of stakeholder expectations.
Organizations that prioritize culture significantly outperform competitors—achieving 234% share price increases over five years compared to 62% for the S&P 500, according to MIT Sloan Research.
And in today's fast-paced change and technological advances, empowering people to navigate the grey zone with integrity becomes even more critical.
Yet 85% of culture initiatives fail.
Companies come to us needing to get to the root causes and drive measurable, lasting change — frustrated by insufficient "tick-the-box" initiatives, low buy-in, and cultural complexity. They tell us:
"We're experiencing operational and compliance failures that could have been prevented if employees felt safe to speak up."
"We're struggling with patterns of toxic or non-compliant behaviors and we don’t know the root cause."
“We want to align our organization around shared values and critical behaviors, but previous change initiatives created cynicism.”
They seek an approach that is both impactful and sustainable.
Privileged to serve leading organizations in high-stakes industries
A transformative and evidence based approach
Having witnessed firsthand the damage of destructive cultures — and examined some of the world’s most infamous corporate failures with researchers and insiders — we made it our mission to help people and companies avoid the same pitfalls.
Through seven years of research and work with hundreds of leaders, we discovered a simple truth: just as going to the gym twice a year will not make you fit, building a healthy culture requires consistent changes in leadership habits.
Culture is shaped by what leaders encourage, reward, tolerate, or ignore. These signals come not just from the top, but from leaders at every level. For example, the CEO's encouragement to speak up matters, but so does the listening practices of a country manager 10,000 kilometers away.
Our methodology uncovers root causes through deep dialogue, designs targeted interventions grounded in behavioural science, and embeds leadership habits through practice and peer learning.
Detailed in the international bestseller You Can Culture and endorsed by leading academics and Fortune 500 executives, this approach builds lasting cultural health that drives results and strengthens trust.
Watch co-founder, Tobias Sturesson, tell the captivating story that inspired our approach and the bestseller You Can Culture.
The four transformative leadership habits
Download your free copy of the introduction to You can culture and explore our habits-based approach to culture change.
How we help you diagnose and transform culture
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Spark essential conversations about culture and challenge participants to take concrete steps towards sustainable change through our keynotes, workshops, and training.
Grounded in Tobias Sturesson’s internationally recognised book You Can Culture and our work with multinational organisations in high-stakes industries, these sessions blend genuine vulnerability and conviction with practical tools. Each one is tailored to your audience’s specific needs and challenges.
Trusted by global executive, Ethics & Compliance and HR teams, we create moments that drive lasting impact.
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Identify the root causes of cultural challenges and behavioural risks that threaten compliance, performance, and trust.
Our research-based, dialogue-driven approach builds openness with stakeholders, reveals hidden patterns, and provides a clear roadmap for sustainable change. You get actionable insights, not generic surveys.
This diagnostic process doesn't just measure culture—it earns the trust needed to change it.
Trusted by Fortune Global 500 companies.
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Develop the four leadership habits that drive lasting culture change through a systematic, organisation-specific journey that embeds new behaviours across your leadership.
Where 85% of culture initiatives fail, our methodology succeeds by embedding habits over time in the business environment—reshaping the signals that define culture.
This comprehensive programme combines individual development, peer learning groups, and team activation. It is guided by the proven You Can Culture framework and refined through our work with multinational organisations.
From a regional executive team of 10 to 500 managers across multiple continents, we scale the approach to your organisational reality while maintaining programme integrity and impact.
This isn’t typical training—it’s culture change through practice, building your leaders’ cultural and ethical muscle. Proven to deliver measurable impact.
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Tackle deep-rooted cultural challenges and behavioural risks with targeted interventions designed for your organisation’s unique needs.
Once issues are diagnosed, you need solutions that deliver lasting change. When standard approaches fall short, we co-create and integrate evidence-based interventions that address the root causes of destructive behavioural patterns, compliance failures, or leadership dysfunction.
Each intervention is tailored to your context, organisational culture, and strategic objectives—ensuring change is measurable, practical, and sustainable.
This process doesn’t just resolve immediate issues—it builds the internal capability to sustain cultural health.
Anna Romberg, Executive Vice President, Getinge
“Heart Management has been an instrumental part of building our global, award winning Responsible Leadership program. Their knowledge of leadership and culture is truly impressive.”
Asa Stal, CHRO, Government Agency
“Heart Management has been an invaluable partner. Their work goes beyond surface-level observations, providing us with tools and insights to drive long-term cultural transformation.”
