Unlock Potential is a Norwegian leadership and organisational development consultancy. They work strategically, holistically and systematically to help their clients reach their goals — combining leadership experience, business understanding and human insight.
For over four years they have used Culture Intelligence as a core tool across their client engagements.
The reason we chose to work with Culture Intelligence is the connection between culture and strategy. It ensures a strategic approach to developing people and organisations — and the methodological rigour fits our business model and our beliefs perfectly.
The clients Unlock Potential works with often face the same core problem — they don't have a clear picture of their actual culture. Leaders struggle to understand the values really driving behaviour in their organisation, which makes it hard to know what to build on and what needs to change.
This is especially true during mergers and integrations, where cultural differences between teams or organisations can quietly undermine progress. The starting point for any meaningful development work has to be understanding what is actually going on in the culture — and that requires data, not assumptions.
When Unlock Potential begins a new client engagement, the first step is always understanding the actual culture — not what leaders assume it to be, but what the data reveals.
Culture Intelligence makes that possible from day one, giving a precise, structured picture of the values and mindsets driving behaviour across the organisation.
Unlock Potential used Culture Intelligence to analyse culture data at every level — individual, team, leadership group and total organisation — and benchmarked against norm groups and industry data.
Over four years, this approach has helped Unlock Potential's clients establish clear value sets, strengthen cohesion after integrations, and build leadership platforms with defined, culture-backed behaviours — across every type of engagement they run.
The platform provides a solid foundation for systematic and structured work based on actual data. Our favourite features are the insight into top priority values, mindsets, the culture map and the flexibility around building culture codes.