Our Consulting Offer
Bringing the leading knowledge, tools and approaches to support the cultural evolution of the organization or system you lead. Project Light Advisory offers the following services:
SmartLab Culture combines Project Light Advisory’s proven culture transformation methodology with SmartLab’s AI-enabled digital platform to help organisations align culture with strategy and turn transformation into measurable results.
Organisations have long invested in systems for finance, sales, operations, and HR. Yet culture transformation has often remained fragmented across disconnected initiatives. SmartLab Culture provides the orchestration layer that brings leadership, culture, communication, engagement, and behavioural change into one integrated journey.
The journey is built around four core complementary elements:
What Shift – Define the Future
- Clarify the culture required to deliver your strategy
- Assess your current culture and identify priority behaviours
- Create a shared aspiration for the future
Inner Shift – Transform from Within
- Develop leaders, champions, and influencers
- Build role models who embody the desired culture
- Create leadership alignment around change
Outer Shift – Activate Change
- Launch high-impact initiatives
- Embed new behaviours into daily ways of working
- Drive adoption across teams and functions
Backbone – Sustain Momentum
- Establish a Culture Operating Model
- Align systems, communication, and governance
- Measure progress and sustain long-term change
SmartLab Culture combines deep culture transformation expertise with a scalable digital platform that makes culture change practical, measurable, and sustainable.
- Project Light Advisory’s proven culture transformation methodology
- SmartLab’s AI-enabled employee experience platform
- Tailored journeys for leaders, teams, and employees
- Real-time insights and behavioural feedback
- Scalable delivery across locations and functions
- Built-in communication, collaboration, and learning tools
This gives leadership teams a single platform to orchestrate culture transformation while enabling employees to actively participate in shaping the future culture.
SmartLab Culture transforms mindsets, shifts behaviours, and delivers measurable business outcomes.
By combining leadership transformation, employee engagement, and a digital culture platform, organisations create sustainable culture change that supports performance, innovation, and long-term success.
- Proven culture transformation methodology
- Leadership and behavioural change expertise
- Global consulting and implementation experience
- Culture transformation architects
- AI-enabled digital employee experience platform
- Real-time insights and analytics
- Enterprise-scale deployment
- Communication, engagement, and learning tools
Together, they create a complete culture transformation ecosystem that combines human transformation with digital scale.
Organizational transformation succeeds when leaders embody the behaviours they want others to adopt. The Inner Shift Program develops influential leaders who become authentic role models, creating lasting behavioural and cultural change across the organization.
Identify
- Discover the leaders who influence culture the most
- Clarify the behaviours that matter most
- Prioritise high-impact role models
Develop
- Deep transformational workshops
- Values and purpose alignment
- Mindset and behaviour change
Embed
- Coaching and reinforcement
- Practical behavioural commitments
- Culture role models influencing others
Research consistently shows that culture transformation succeeds when leaders become visible role models for change.
- Role modelling is the strongest predictor of successful transformation
- Leaders influence beliefs through daily behaviour
- New behaviours spread through trusted peers rather than communication alone
- Coaching and reinforcement sustain long-term change
Organizations develop leaders who:
- embody desired values
- inspire behavioural change
- influence teams through example
- strengthen culture from within
- accelerate transformation adoption
Identify influential role models
Clarify values and priority behaviours
Develop self-awareness and leadership mindset
Practice new behaviours
Embed habits through coaching
Create a network of culture champions
Long and thin multi-year partnership, lasting 4-7 years, where we provide reducing levels of support to clients as they build their in-house culture transformation capabilities, applying our full approach (10 modules). Requires a CEO who both understands the importance of this work and has a long-term perspective.
A long and thin multi-year partnership, typically lasting 2-3 years, and focusing less on long term capability building but more on delivering shorter term transformation goals (often revenue or profit based), applying a subset of our approach (typically all the modules, however to varying anf depth). Requires a strong, well established Culture unit and Executive Team sponsorship
Classic consulting 3-6 months projects, often done when clients initially prioritize this work in order to establish a strong foundation for their culture transformation journey, applying a subset of our approach (typically the first 2 phases – diagnostic and delivery). Requires a commitment and sponsorship from the Executive Team and a dedicated Culture team with capacity to drive the culture transformation
Our approach is grounded in leading academic research and refined through experience in over 200 organizations—going beyond just learning a single tool.
This program is designed to help you apply our proven culture transformation framework directly within your organization over a full 12-month cycle.
Engage with a cohort of senior business leaders who are passionate about cultural transformation, identifying challenges and discovering practical solutions together.
Combine global consulting expertise (McKinsey), academic research (Harvard), and hands-on experience from a 100,000+ person organization.
Enhance your mental well-being, presence, and resilience by participating in our transformative silent retreats.