Peter Shearer & Associates
Cultural Transformation
​​​We help organisations unlock high performance and build healthy, values-aligned cultures through structured, insight-driven transformation programs. Our work spans entire organisational systems - from senior leadership teams to frontline staff - and is grounded in real-world business needs and behavioural change.
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Whether you’re addressing performance challenges, aligning around a new strategic direction, or seeking to strengthen cultural cohesion, we partner with you to design and deliver interventions that create meaningful and lasting change.
Why Culture Work Matters
A strong, intentional culture is one of the most powerful levers for business success. It drives engagement, alignment, performance, and resilience - especially during times of uncertainty and change.
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Our role is to help you shape a culture where people thrive, strategy sticks, and leadership grows from the inside out. We have led long-term culture transformation initiatives with a number of high-profile Australian organisations, supporting them through the full journey of change - from diagnostic and design through to scalable delivery and embedded capability.
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Our culture and leadership work frequently addresses:
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Strategic alignment and planning
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Organisation-wide transformation
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Leadership development and behavioural change
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Team cohesion and performance uplift
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Inclusive leadership and psychological safety
Our Approach
We partner with organisations to design and deliver culture transformation programs that unlock performance, alignment, and meaningful engagement at all levels. Our work is grounded in behavioural science, systems thinking, and deep facilitation expertise, and is tailored to suit the strategic context and challenges of each client.
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Each cultural transformation project typically includes:
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Diagnostic Phase - Discovering What Matters Most: Engaging with stakeholders to uncover the current culture, identifying both enablers and blockers to high performance.
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Design Phase - Co-Creating the Path Forward: Co-creating a strategic roadmap of interventions - aligned with your values, objectives, and business priorities.
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Delivery Phase - Embedding Cultural Change: Rolling out tailored workshops, coaching programs, and leadership experiences to embed new mindsets, behaviours, and ways of working.
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Sustainability Phase: Building internal capability and structures to ensure cultural momentum is maintained over time.
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Our facilitation and consulting can scale from targeted team engagements to organisation-wide programs that cascade across multiple levels and geographies.
Our Facilitation Model
Phase 1: Diagnosis
This phase is about surfacing insight. We work collaboratively to identify what’s working well and where change is needed—clarifying the cultural patterns, leadership behaviours, and systemic factors that shape performance and engagement. This may involve:
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Stakeholder interviews and small group conversations
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Focus groups or leadership dialogues
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Use of diagnostic tools such as the Life Styles Inventory (LSI), Barrett’s Cultural Values Assessment, or customised cultural health audits
The outcome is a clear and compelling set of themes, priorities, and desired outcomes that provide the strategic direction for the work ahead.
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Phase 2: Design
Building on the insights gathered, we co-design a roadmap tailored to your organisation’s goals, values, and capacity for change. This might include one-off team workshops, executive offsites, or a cascading program of interventions delivered organisation-wide. Our content and process design draws from a broad suite of proven, research-based methodologies, including:
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Appreciative Inquiry – amplifying what already works well
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Martin Seligman’s Positive Psychology – enabling thriving cultures
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Robert Cialdini’s Principles of Influence – enhancing engagement and uptake
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Systems Thinking – for navigating complexity and interdependencies
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Designs are practical, flexible, and always linked to measurable outcomes.
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3. Delivery Phase: Embedding Cultural Change
This is where the transformation becomes lived experience. We facilitate workshops, offsites, leadership forums, and coaching sessions designed to bring the intended cultural shift to life—experientially and behaviourally.
Our delivery may range from a single half-day team session to multi-year engagement programs supported by a team of facilitators and executive coaches. We focus not only on impact in the moment, but on embedding new mindsets and behaviours into everyday practices, conversations, and decisions.
Post-program follow-up often includes:
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Leadership coaching
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Pulse check-ins
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Internal capability-building
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Sustainability plans to reinforce change
Creative & Experiential Learning
Beyond conventional leadership and team development programs, we offer a suite of creative, immersive methodologies that engage participants on intellectual, emotional, and behavioural levels. These approaches deepen insight, build connection, and make complex concepts tangible through metaphor and lived experience.
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The Hero’s Journey
A Transformational Framework for Growth. Rooted in great stories, mythology, and film, The Hero’s Journey offers a compelling and adaptable framework for navigating change. It represents the universal path of transformation - where an individual or group answers a call to step beyond the familiar, overcomes trials, and returns with new insight, capability, and purpose.​
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Martial Arts as a Leadership Lens
Drawing from the philosophies and practices of martial arts, this methodology introduces principles of centredness, flow, mindfulness, adaptability, and embodied presence. Leaders explore how to stay grounded under pressure, move with clarity, and lead with intentionality. Teams benefit from enhanced responsiveness, balance, and resilience.
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Storytelling for Influence
Story is a fundamental tool of leadership. We help leaders harness storytelling as a strategic asset—to inspire action, build trust, and create shared meaning. Participants learn to craft authentic, purposeful narratives that connect across teams and stakeholder groups.
What our clients say
Creating a Business Vision and "The Hero's Journey"
I invited Peter to design and facilitate Discovery EMEA's annual senior management offsite, with a view to:
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agreeing a new business vision,
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inducting a new team and
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celebrating success.
Peter's suggestion of 'The Hero's Journey' as a framework for discussion was fantastic and his facilitation was instrumental in helping us achieve results. Everyone left feeling inspired, motivated and clear on a new direction.
Arthur Bastings, Managing Director, Discovery Networks EMEA
Get in touch
Whether you're seeking to develop courageous, purpose-driven leaders or you're inspired by Peter’s writing and want to learn more, contact us to learn more about how this work can support your team or organisation.
