Stop performing culture.
Start practising it.
CxCD - Culture by Codesign helps organisations turn culture, values and strategy into the everyday behaviours, decisions and systems people actually experience.
Your organisation may not need another culture strategy.
It may need help implementing the one it already has.
CxCD is designed for organisations experiencing:
slow or unclear decisions
inconsistent leadership behaviour
role and accountability confusion
communication breakdowns
declining trust
repeated feedback without visible change
culture work that never reaches daily practice
The gap is rarely intention. It is implementation.
Your organisation may already have values, engagement data, leadership training and a strategy.
But employees experience culture through:
what leaders do under pressure
how decisions are made
whether concerns are safe to raise
who receives information and influence
what happens when commitments are not met
CxCD works on that gap.
Through our SoCo Collective consultancy agency, we bring the right people into the room.
CxCD is led by a core team of six capability consultants and supported by the wider SoCo Collective agency: a national bench of 66 expert facilitators, trainers, coaches and practitioners who can be matched to the needs of each organisation.
Our collective brings deep expertise across organisational development, HR management, leadership development, learning design, wellbeing, psychosocial safety, inclusion, event producution, community engagement, branding and strategic experience design.
Together, we have worked across corporate, government, social impact, education, health, creative industries and community settings.
This means we do not send a generic facilitator into a complex room.
We build the right team around the work.
Because bad facilitation costs you.
It costs trust.
It costs attention.
It costs safety.
It costs momentum.
It costs follow-through.
We are not here to click through slides or run another workshop people forget by Monday.
We read the room, hold the tension, create conditions for honest participation and turn the conversation into shared clarity, practical agreements and movement.
*and yes, you can call us facilitation nerds. We are proud of it!
Our clients
*
Our clients *
WATCH OUR CLIENT TESTIMONIALS.
The CxCD solution
A practical culture implementation system
We identify one high-cost culture gap, redesign the conditions shaping it and support your organisation to implement measurable changes over 90 days.
You can usually feel the problem before you can name it.
The room is polite, but the real conversation happens afterwards.
Values exist, but they are not shaping daily behaviour.
Leaders are repeating themselves.
People are unclear on roles, decisions, boundaries or expectations.
Trust is leaking through silence, side conversations or avoidance.
The team wants better communication, but the same patterns keep returning.
Everyone is busy, but follow-through is inconsistent.
Conflict is treated like a personality problem instead of a design problem.
Our CXcD methodology:
We have worked with a wide range of clients across business, social impact, government, health, education, creative industries, hospitality, community, events, leadership, youth, not-for-profit and values-led business settings.
Click on the arrow for details:
-
Culture Reality Check - a sharp diagnostic conversation to surface what is really happening beneath the visible culture issues.
Staff insights and leadership interviews
Culture pulse survey or narrative intake
Safety and friction mapping
-
High impact, high vibe workshop
Where team building meets strategic culture day
Live values-mapping with team
Behavioural rituals re-designed by your staff
Shared language for strategy alignment
Templates, handouts and follow through implementation toolkit
-
coDesigned in the workshop
Optional follow-up sessions
Micro to Macro behaviour experiments
Culture Reset Map with practical implementation tools
-
Final Culture Map
Leadership toolkit
Optional 45min Team momentum 30/60/90-day check-ins online
-
Vision-to-Values-to-Behaviours Alignment
Turn the big words on the wall into behaviours people can actually practise.
Leading Through Change & Nervous System Awareness
Help leaders understand why people react under pressure, and how to lead without adding more noise to the system.
Psychological Safety & reMapping Our Systems
Move safety from a nice idea into the everyday behaviours, boundaries and repair practices that build trust.
Leadership Vision & Comms Strategy Workshop
Get leaders aligned on the message, the moment and how to communicate change without creating confusion.
Board + Exec Alignment Sessions
Create the shared language, behavioural expectations and decision clarity needed at the top before pressure travels through the whole organisation.
Team Building, Leadership Labs and Culture Implementation Programs
Choose the level of support you need:
One-off - a focused workshop, experience or activation
Customised - a program designed around your people and priorities
End-to-end - from diagnosis and design through to delivery, implementation and evaluation
Our clients come to us for team development, psychosocial safety, leadership and culture support. We turn those needs into practical, immersive experiences that build capability, strengthen social connection and are genuinely enjoyable to take part in.
Click + to read more.
-
For teams who need to understand what is really going on before choosing the solution. A sharp diagnostic conversation to surface what is really happening beneath the visible culture issues.
Best for: early diagnosis, repeated tension, leadership clarity, trust leaks and change fatigue.
-
For organisations with strong values that are not yet visible in everyday behaviour.
Builds behavioural clarity, team rituals, accountability and shared expectations. -
For teams who need clearer expectations, decisions, communication rhythms and follow-through. Clarifies communication, decision-making, meetings, handovers, accountability and stronger systems.
Best for: growing teams, operational friction, unclear roles and repeated confusion.
-
For organisations that need to support people to regulate before they can reflect, respond or take responsibility. Helps teams understand pressure, practise boundaries, repair tension, debrief well and stay human when work gets hard.
Best for: high-pressure environments, emotional overload, reactive behaviours, conflict escalation, and teams struggling to stay grounded under stress.
-
For senior groups who need clearer behavioural governance, boundaries, trust and accountability. Gets leaders honest, aligned and practical about the culture they are shaping through behaviour, decisions and rhythm.
Best for: boards, founders, executive teams, shareholder groups and complex leadership dynamics.
-
For organisations ready to move from diagnosis to behaviour change. A structured implementation cycle that turns workshop insight into practical culture change, team rituals and follow-through.
Best for: teams that need practical implementation, not another conversation about the conversation.
CxCD - Culture programs
Ask about our client case studies.
Our client data has been gathered across from one-off workshops to three-year program design and implementation. We can co-design the right pathway with you, share relevant case study patterns, and show the evidence behind what has worked across trust, leadership, communication, culture, behaviour change and practical follow-through.
Need Leadership - Human Skills training?
-
For teams who are busy, stretched or disconnected from why the work matters.
Builds purpose, role clarity, motivation and shared direction. -
Human Skills in an AI Age helps teams identify the human capabilities that become more important as work becomes faster, more automated and more complex.
The workshop supports teams to build shared language around critical thinking, communication, trust, adaptability, ethical judgement, emotional intelligence and values-led decision-making.
-
For teams where people are polite, quiet or avoiding the real conversation.
Builds psychological safety, honest communication, trust and participation. -
For high-pressure teams who need resilience without glorifying burnout.
Builds regulation, boundaries, recovery, sustainable performance and agency. -
For leaders and teams who need to give, receive and repair feedback better.
Builds conflict confidence, emotional steadiness, listening and accountability. -
For courageous leadership teams ready to work with story, identity and purpose in a structured way.
Builds presence, empathy, listening, narrative leadership and deeper team understanding.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
-
Built for people-intensive organisations navigating growth or change.
CxCD works best with organisations of approximately 20 to 200 people, particularly:
healthcare and allied health
purpose-led professional services
community and social-impact organisations
creative and cultural organisations
founder-led businesses becoming more structured
-
No.
A workshop may be part of the work, but the workshop is not the whole product.
The work may include interviews, diagnostics, synthesis, culture mapping, facilitated sessions, behavioural agreements and 90-day implementation planning.
Our topics/themes are modular. We cater our program to suit your needs.
-
Absolutey, yes.
A lot of organisations are trying to respond to psychosocial risk with policies, wellbeing programs or compliance checklists. Those things matter, but they do not change the day-to-day behaviours creating pressure.
CxCD helps teams identify where trust, workload, role clarity, communication and emotional labour are breaking down, then co-design practical ways of working that leaders and teams can actually use. We sit between culture, wellbeing, OD and implementation.
-
It can support leadership development, but it is not generic leadership training.
We focus on how culture behaves under pressure, and what leaders, teams or boards need to practise differently.
-
Sometimes.
But we do not treat conflict as the only issue. Often conflict is a signal that roles, expectations, power, communication or decision-making need to be redesigned.
-
Culture by Co-Design is intersectional, but it is not performative inclusion work.
We look at how power, identity, communication, safety, trust and belonging actually show up in the room and in the system.
-
CxCD can support small leadership teams, boards, growing organisations, program teams, social impact organisations, creative teams and complex stakeholder groups.
The right question is not size.
The right question is whether the culture pattern is costing you trust, time, energy or progress.
-
We start with a conversation about what is happening, what you have already tried, what keeps repeating and what kind of support would be useful.
From there, we recommend a practical next step.
STOP PERFORMING CULTURE.
START PRACTISING IT.
Our work is often called in when people are navigating complexity: growing teams, shifting values into behaviour, repairing trust, strengthening communication, aligning leaders, designing better ways of working, or creating spaces where people can tell the truth safely and move forward practically.
From boards and executive teams to frontline staff, founders, facilitators, community leaders and emerging talent, we help people turn culture from something they talk about into something they can actually practise.