The Culture Economy

Understanding the forces
shaping organisational performance

Executive intelligence examining leadership, governance and culture, grounded in conversations with boards, executive teams and senior leaders.

Culture has become one of the most discussed topics in leadership. The conversation has changed.


The challenge is no longer convincing organisations that culture matters. It's understanding what effective leadership of culture looks like in practice.

Most organisations no longer need convincing that culture matters. The questions are now about implementation. How is culture governed? Where does accountability sit? How does culture become part of leadership, decision-making and organisational performance rather than sitting alongside it?

The Culture Economy exists to explore those questions.

Rather than commenting from a distance, we connect what we're seeing inside organisations with the wider shifts shaping leadership, governance and organisational performance. Everything we publish is grounded in the conversations we're already having with boards, executive teams and senior leaders.

Our aim is not simply to comment on change, but to help leaders make sense of it β€” and understand what it means for the decisions they make next.

Why Talented Employees Underperform: The Unwritten Rules of Workplace Success Jun 19, 2026

Three mentoring sessions in, and I could tell.. It...

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The Maternity Penalty is a Governance Failure Mar 17, 2026

I had my first son at 19.Β 

I was working in the b...

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When Inclusion is an Afterthought, Culture Pays the Price Feb 23, 2026

Well, I’m tired of Inclusion being an afterthought...

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Call It What You Want β€” Ten Steps to Repositioning DEI in 2026 Dec 09, 2025

DEI is having an identity crisis (much like I have...

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Aren’t We All Just Humans At The End Of The Day? Nov 04, 2025

We are! We are all humans, and, believe it or not,...

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There's Culture... and Then There's Culture Sep 22, 2025

I grew up in South London, raised in a Nigerian ho...

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The Future of Gender Equality Aug 19, 2025

You can't be what you can't see!Β 

Myth or truth...

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The Bad Ally - Why we all get it wrong! Aug 18, 2025

Allyship is a choice.

A concerted effort, an in...

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Culture Is Not Inclusion Jan 06, 2025

But inclusion might just be what keeps your cultur...

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