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Consulting Services

If you're interested in shifting cultural norms, attracting and retaining diverse talent, or enhancing student or employee experiences to achieve better outcomes, we partner with you to drive measurable change. Our evidence-based approach leverages behavioral science to build sustainable Cultures of Growth, offering practical, high-impact strategies that integrate with your existing systems.

Trusted by universities, Fortune 500 corporations, nonprofits, and organizations in myriad industries, our interdisciplinary team adapts evidence-based methodologies to your unique goals—delivering flexible solutions for meaningful, lasting impact.

Why is your organization's culture important?

64% of organizations who adopt a growth mindset culture report higher productivity and performance, and 58% cite improved employee engagement as a benefit (Gallup)
Instructors using growth-minded practices saw a 10.5% increase in students reporting positive learning experiences, with some seeing more than double that gain (Student Experience Project)
While 96% of executives believe they have a growth mindset, only 45% of employees think that their executives demonstrate a growth mindset (TalentLMS)

Our Clients & Partners

Our Consulting Lifecycle

1. Discover

Discover insights and develop a deeper understanding of your organization’s current state. This could be your entire organization, groups and departments, a specific program or process, or as an individual.

2. Build

Design strategies to build towards your desired future state while aligning with leaders and other culture creators in your context.

3. Implement

Implement the agreed-upon strategies, identify ways to continuously improve, and develop mechanisms to support sustainability.

Our Consulting Services

CULTURE BENCHMARKING AND ANALYSIS

What is your organization’s mindset culture? We help you understand the impact of your practices, policies, norms, and mindset beliefs on your culture through qualitative and quantitative benchmarking and analysis. Our analysis can be applied to different levels of your organization, such as the entire system, a particular department, or even individual classrooms.

Mindset Culture Climate Assessment - this quantitative assessment helps you better understand your current work environment and gain insights on how to improve aspects of your organization’s mindset culture.
Cues Audit - assess your current policies, practices, and norms, through this qualitative discovery process and understand whether they’re pushing your organization more towards a fixed or growth mindset.
Survey Design, Implementation, and Analysis - develop targeted surveys to assess how a particular program or process is impacting your organization’s mindset culture.

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LEADERSHIP ALIGNMENT

Leaders and other culture creators have a disproportionate impact on your organization's culture. Whether the culture creators in your context are senior leaders, people managers, or faculty members, it’s important to align on your organization’s goals. We create customized strategies that support teams in fostering alignment on your desired culture to achieve your goals.

Strategic Alignment Facilitation - help culture creators align on desired organization goals, values, culture, and associated strategies to help with cohesive decision making and effective direction-setting.
Team Building Retreats - launch an immersive in-person, hybrid or virtual session that aims to improve team dynamics, collaboration, and communication through structured activities and shared experiences.

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CULTURE CHANGE IMPLEMENTATION

Culture change can be complex and dynamic. We help organizations with all elements of culture transformation to create growth mindset cultures that inspire collaboration, innovation, adaptability, and integrity. Once your leadership is aligned on the most impactful focus areas, EA can support you in bringing that vision to life. We collaborate with you to develop tailored communications and change management approaches to support comprehensive alignment and adoption in your context.

Change Management - implement strategies to support your workforce with understanding and contributing to your desired culture change.
Strategic Communications - execute communication strategies that effectively convey key messages, align stakeholders, and support your goals.
Initiatives - launch new or update existing initiatives that support shifting your Cultures of Growth mindset, which could include process improvement, policy re-design, and piloting new approaches.
Advisory Services - gain expert guidance on Cultures of Growth, aimed at improving performance and achieving goals.

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LEARNING AND COMMUNITY BUILDING

Effective culture change must happen at all levels of an organization. We identify and deploy highly interactive tailored services, often including workshops and training sessions, to deepen skills and behaviors. Our services are delivered, both in-person and virtually, in an engaging style that inspires, empowers, and equips the team to commit to action and move toward your desired goals. Remember, lasting culture change doesn’t just happen from the top down, it must also happen from the bottom up.

Keynote Speaking - bring on a Cultures of Growth expert to help inspire, educate, and empower teams to collectively work towards creating your desired culture.
Workshops - launch interactive skill-building sessions that focus on specific topics to enhance participants' knowledge, competencies, and capabilities in supporting a Culture of Growth.
Leadership Development Programs - deploy structured learning programs designed to build and enhance the leadership skills of current and future leaders to drive organization performance.
Cultures of Growth Coaching - offer personalized guidance and support to help individuals move towards a growth mindset, better understand their triggers, and gain skills and strategies to navigate the workplace and improve performance.
Communities of Practice - build or participate in a community within and across organizational boundaries of members who are interested, knowledgeable, and passionate about improving the growth mindset or experiences with your organization or program.

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Our Values

DRIVE OUR APPROACH

Equity-Centered

We are committed to applying an equity lens to all aspects of our work, addressing historical and ongoing inequalities across lines of difference. We strive to create Cultures of Growth where individuals from all backgrounds are valued, respected, and thrive.

Continuous Learning

As the first focused research organization (FRO) in the nation to apply social and behavioral science to the challenge of creating–and sustaining–equitable learning and working environments, we are able to harness empirical evidence and apply it to real world problems, then apply that data to contribute to scientific understanding.

Collaboration

We believe in the power of inclusive and cross-disciplinary teams. We recognize that sustainable, impactful change arises from diverse perspectives and expertise. We actively partner with other organizations and value and respect their local expertise. By building partnerships, we all amplify our impact.