Culture & Leadership coDesign Programs.
Need a fresh angle on employee experience and engagement?
From Friction to Flow?
Re-engineer team dynamics with neuroscience-backed Culture Design programs, grounded in belonging.
From Disconnection to Reconnection in 90 Days
Targets keep slipping, inboxes read like triage lists, and the “values” poster on the wall can’t stop the quiet churn of talent walking out the door. When nervous systems are stuck in fight-or-flight, even the slickest culture initiative feels like a Band-Aid on a bullet hole—engagement flat-lines, psychological safety evaporates, and innovation stalls.
SoCo’s 90-Day Culture Design Labs, Emeli can reset the human engine of your organisation. By combining neuroscience, co-design, and trauma-informed facilitation, we surface the friction, re-map behaviours into regenerative rituals, and hard-wire psychological safety into everyday operations. The result?
Stress becomes strategic momentum, burnout flips to high-value belonging, and your people don’t just know the values—they live them.
What we do
We partner with leadership teams, boards, and frontline staff to reveal cultural friction, remap team behaviours, and embed sustainable rituals—without the jargon or fluff.
Our signature 90-day experience includes:
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Staff insights and leadership interviews
Culture pulse survey or narrative intake
Safety and friction mapping
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Live values-mapping with team
Behavioural rituals design
Shared language for strategy alignment
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1–2 follow-up sessions
Micro-behaviour testing
Culture Reset Map with practical implementation tools
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Final Culture Map
Leadership comms toolkit
Optional 30/60/90-day check-ins
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Values-to-Behaviours Alignment (deep dive session)
Leading Through Change & Nervous System Awareness
Psychological Safety & Accountability for Senior Teams
Leadership Vision & Comms Strategy Workshop
Board + Exec Alignment Sessions
DiSC or Strengths-Based Profiling & Integration
Ready to Shift Culture
in 90 Days?
Why It Works
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AU Model Code of Practice (2022) now mandates businesses to address psychosocial risk.
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Disengaged staff cost Australia $223B annually—our work directly targets the nervous system cost of poor culture.
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We’ve delivered this with hospitality groups, government agencies, festivals, and boards—tailored every time.
What is the difference?
See here for our Impact Data Report.
Supported by Dr Peggy Kern, Professor Centre for Positive Psychology, Uni of Melbourne
| Standard Culture Consulting | The SoCo Reconnection Method |
|---|---|
| ❌ Top-down delivery, often pre-set frameworks | ✅ Inside-out approach – grounded in lived experience, neuroscience, and co-design |
| ❌ One-size-fits-all slide decks | ✅ Facilitation over presentation – we create space, not just content |
| ❌ Focus on outputs (values, KPIs, surveys) | ✅ Focus on experience – how people feel, function, and belong in real time |
| ❌ Avoids the messy, emotional, or systemic pain points | ✅ We hold the complexity – transforming disconnection into purpose-led action |
| ❌ Values are performative or static | ✅ Values are embodied – mapped to everyday behaviour and aligned to strategy |
| ❌ Leaders informed by theory alone | ✅ Leaders supported with nervous system awareness – trauma literacy and relational skill building |
| ❌ Linear process from insight to output | ✅ End-to-end design thinking – reveal → remap → reconnect → return |
| ❌ Cosmetic culture change | ✅ Deep, regenerative culture shift – that lasts beyond one day or one leader |