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10 culture consultants
These ten culture consultants advise organizations on workplace culture, either through culture consulting practices they lead or at firms such as Accenture and Denison Consulting. Readers can learn how a culture consultant diagnoses what is really driving behavior in an organization, shapes culture change and ties culture to engagement and performance.
Professionals to explore
01—10Dr. Cheryl Hall-Russell
LinkedInExperience: President and Chief Cultural Consultant · BW3 Culture
President and Chief Cultural Consultant at BW3 Culture since 2017. Her profile describes her as a culture and organizational management consultant, facilitator and trainer, says her team helps organizations whose culture feels off, and lists her book The Inner Work of Leadership. She was President and CEO of Hill House Association (2011–2017).
Dr. Kevin Sansberry II
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Principal Consultant, Executive Coach · KEVRA: The Culture Company
Founder & Principal Consultant, Executive Coach at KEVRA: The Culture Company since 2020, and former Organizational Consultant at KEVRA: The Culture Company (2017–2020). His profile describes him as a behavioral scientist and consultant who helps organizations understand why their culture behaves the way it does and build conditions for something different.
Drew Jones
LinkedInExperience: Culture Consultant, Author, Speaker · Drew Jones Studio
Culture Consultant, Author, Speaker at Drew Jones Studio since 2022 and Consultant at Culture Consultancy since 2025, and former Founding Partner of OpenWork Agency (2013–2024). His profile describes him as a PhD anthropologist, former business school professor and longtime culture and workplace consultant who has written three books and co-written one.
Flip Brown
LinkedInExperience: Founder Chief Effectiveness Officer Business Culture Consultant B Corp Expert · Business Culture Consultants
Founder Chief Effectiveness Officer Business Culture Consultant B Corp Expert at Business Culture Consultants since 2000, and Fractional Culture Change Facilitator at Business Culture Consultants since 2024. His profile describes working at the intersection of personal growth, professional development, optimal workplace cultures and systemic change, including with teams that have not reached an aligned sense of working together and clear results.
James Conley
LinkedInExperience: Consultant Organizational Health, Culture & Leadership Analytics · Denison Consulting
Consultant Organizational Health, Culture & Leadership Analytics at Denison Consulting since 2023. His profile says he helps organizations strengthen performance by improving their organizational health, meaning the alignment of culture, leadership, strategy and ways of working, and describes his work as using AI-driven analytics.
Janet Lee
LinkedInExperience: CEO & Culture Consultant · 95% The Business Culture Consultancy
CEO & Culture Consultant at 95% The Business Culture Consultancy since 2015, and CEO, Founder & Trainer at 95% The Advertising Academy since 2004. Her profile says she helps leaders design, install and sustain a joyful winning culture, and that the firm runs custom-designed business culture programmes. She was Executive Creative Director at Spider Network Malaysia (1992–1996).
Mimi Mazarei SPHR SHRM SCP
LinkedInExperience: Principal · Merzad Culture Consulting
Principal at Merzad Culture Consulting since 2014. Her profile describes her as a workplace culture consultant, trainer and coach whose firm helps small businesses and non-profit leaders elevate individual, team and organizational performance, and lists executive narrative coaching and leadership team training. She was Account Director at Taproot Foundation (2011–2014).
Nancy A. Harris
LinkedInExperience: Global Leadership & Culture Strategy Consulting Senior Manager · Accenture
Global Leadership & Culture Strategy Consulting Senior Manager at Accenture since 2025, and Founder & CEO of Restart Consulting & The Intersection Podcast since 2016. Her profile says she helps executives make enterprise and technology transformations stick by changing the leadership behaviors that drive adoption and results. She has been Executive Coach and Facilitator at CoachSource LLC since 2017.
Sheila Margolis
LinkedInExperience: President · Sheila Margolis - Workplace Culture Institute
President of Sheila Margolis - Workplace Culture Institute since 2007, and former Founder and Principal of CORE InSites Inc. (1998–2007). Her profile describes her as a consultant, speaker and author who helps leaders define their distinctive core culture, increase employee engagement and lead culture change, using her Five Ps model to guide companies.
Sheryl A. Lyons, MBA, ACC
LinkedInExperience: Founder & President · Culture Spark
Founder & President at Culture Spark since 2015. Her profile describes her as a company culture consultant and ICF Associate Certified Coach who helps leaders build business environments their people love by combining coaching and consulting. She was Business Culture Development Specialist at ABC Home & Commercial Services - Texas (2014–2015) and Chief Executive Officer of Achilles Group (2012–2014).
Choose the right perspective
Match the consultant's method to your situation, for example culture diagnostics and analytics, leadership behavior change during a transformation, or culture work for small businesses and non-profits. Ask how they measure culture before and after an engagement and who inside your organization they need to involve.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you diagnose what is actually driving an organization's culture before recommending changes?
- 02What does a realistic culture change engagement look like in its first six months?
- 03How do you measure whether culture work is improving engagement and performance?
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