We don’t transform organizations. We evolve them, together.

We believe culture change isn’t a mandate or a one-off initiative — it’s an ongoing process that requires alignment, accountability, and meaningful participation.

We work with forward-thinking leaders committed to creating cultures where strategy and humanity reinforce each other. Our approach combines narrative, data, and systems design to align purpose, performance, and people, evolving how organizations work, lead, and grow from the inside out.

OUR MISSION

We help organizations evolve into essential, lovable cultures—where emotional intelligence is practiced daily, psychological safety is the norm, and systems are designed to restore, not deplete.

Because culture change isn’t a checklist.

It’s a shared journey.

OUR VISION

We believe:

Emotional intelligence is strategy
Unlearning is a core leadership skill
Psychological safety is essential for growth

Culture lives in how we work, decide, and relate every day. We build culture with—not for—teams, aligning values with action through shared power, mutual care, and daily practice.

We listen deeply.

We surface what’s unsaid through story, strategy, and systems insight, making the invisible visible across your organization.

We co-create with care.

Our process is participatory, trauma-informed, and human-centered, designed to build trust while solving real challenges.

We build what lasts.

Instead of one-off solutions, we embed new habits, rituals, and mindsets that support long-term cultural evolution.

OUr Belief

Small shifts create lasting change.

Culture evolves when people are empowered to shape it.

Trust is the Foundation

We believe culture change only happens at the speed of trust. We build relationships through honesty, consistency, and care because without trust, nothing meaningful can grow.

We Design for Humanity

People aren’t assets or resources, they’re humans. We center emotional intelligence, trauma-awareness, and psychological safety in all our work, honoring the full experience of being human at work.

Change is Co-Created

We don’t drop in with the answers. We partner with people to design solutions with them, not for them. Change sticks when it’s built from within.

Culture is a Practice, Not a Policy

We don’t do performative change. We help leaders embed values into behaviors, rituals, systems, and daily decisions so culture becomes a living practice, not a slide deck.

Reflection Before Reaction

Start Where You Are, Grow From There

We believe in slowing down to notice, reflect, and ask better questions so we can respond with clarity instead of reacting from urgency or fear. Insight leads to impact.

We meet people and organizations where they are—without shame, blame, or jargon. We make the work accessible, sustainable, and rooted in progress over perfection.

Evolving Work, Together.

We believe the future of work must be co-designed, inclusive, and emotionally sustainable. Our job is to help you build a workplace that feels more human, resilient, and aligned with your purpose.

Core Values

Meet Amy J. Wilson

Founder, Chief Culture Futurist

Amy brings 20+ years of experience across government, tech, and social impact sectors. A former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow and author of Empathy for Change, she helps teams unlearn inherited norms, build emotional intelligence, and co-create lovable cultures rooted in purpose and clarity.

Learn more about Amy’s background and body of work here.

Our Network

We collaborate with a curated team of facilitators, strategists, and practitioners with expertise across emotional intelligence, innovation, systems change, and organizational development.

The Culture Shift Studio was born out of lived experience. after years of working inside systems that valued productivity over people, I hit a wall. I saw firsthand how cultures rooted in fear, burnout, and misalignment erode not just performance, but our sense of purpose and well-being.

In 2018, I took a sabbatical to step back, unlearn, and reconnect to the work I was meant to do. What began as a personal reckoning evolved into a larger vision: to help organizations reimagine how they work, lead, and relate—through empathy, emotional intelligence, and intentional design.

Since then, Culture Shift Studio has helped mission-driven teams uncover hidden patterns, rebuild trust, and co-create cultures that feel not just productive, but deeply human. Cultures people want to grow in, stay in, and believe in.

We exist to guide that shift—from inherited dysfunction to Essential Lovable Culture™.

Would you like a timeline version of this with milestone years like:

2017: Launched Innovation.gov and the Better Government Movement at GSA/The White House
2018: Sabbatical & solo travel after burnout
2021: Published Empathy for Change
2022: Founded Culture Shift Studio
2023–2025: Launch of Thriving Together Framework™, Culture Risk Signals™, and Steps to Unlearning™