About the Culture Shift Studio

Evolving work, together.

The Culture Shift Studio helps leaders build the clarity, emotional intelligence, and shared capacity needed to create what we call an essential lovable culture — a culture where people can do meaningful work with more honesty, intention, and care.

We believe every organization can evolve. And that evolution always starts with people.

The Culture Shift Studio wasn’t something I planned — it grew out of twenty years of learning, breaking patterns, and watching organizations try to do the same.

I spent the early part of my career in civic innovation. As a Presidential Innovation Fellow, I helped create Innovation.gov and the Better Government Movement. I worked with agencies across the federal government, and I saw up close how culture — not strategy, not technology — was the biggest influence on whether anything changed.

Then, in 2018, my life unraveled. A role ended. A beloved project dissolved. A personal plan fell apart. And in the middle of all of it, my dad died unexpectedly.

How the Culture Shift Studio Came to Be

I went halfway around the world on what I affectionately call my "Eat, Pray, Self-Love" tour, because I didn’t know what else to do. That time opened me up to ideas I’d never let myself consider: groundlessness, grief, compassion, old survival patterns, and the invisible scripts we carry into every room we walk into.

When I came back, I saw workplaces differently.

I could see the patterns underneath the conflicts. The habits underneath the burnout. The fears underneath the decision-making. The conditioning underneath the “this is just how we do things.”

And I realized:

Culture doesn’t change because we create new strategies. Culture changes because people do.

That insight led to the Culture Shift Studio.

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.

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.

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.