Your real culture isn’t the values on the wall — it’s the conversations you’re willing to have. This reads which ones you allow. Six questions.
Answer for your culture as it actually is, not as it’s described. The questions look at whether the conversations your culture most needs are genuinely possible here.
The Culture Diagnostic is a free organisational culture assessment from Impact Thinking — 6 statements, about three minutes, built directly on the frameworks published on our research desk. It reads culture as the set of conversations your organisation allows and forbids — what can be said, what it costs to challenge, and whose version of reality counts.
It’s built for executives and HR leaders who suspect the real culture diverges from the stated one. The free read returns your band and profile immediately, with an interpretation of what the result means and the one thing it suggests you can’t currently see. It pairs with Systems & Conversations, the programme built on the same ground.
It reads culture as the set of conversations your organisation allows and forbids — what can be said, what it costs to challenge, and whose version of reality counts. It reads 6 statements and returns a banded profile with a deep interpretation.
About three minutes — 6 statements on a five-point scale. The read is free and immediate: your band, your profile, and the blind spot it points to. A full personalised report, benchmarked against other leaders, is £95; a whole-team report is £495.
It’s a structured self-assessment built on the frameworks published on our research desk — designed for development, team performance and measurement, not for hiring decisions. For selection contexts we run structured engagements where instruments inform, and never replace, human judgment.
Not the values on the wall — the conversations you allow. What can be said here, what’s unsayable, what challenging the way things are done costs. The diagnostic reads which conversations your culture is currently forbidding.