Assessments for Transforming Culture

You can transform a culture by understanding and shifting the underlying patterns that drive it. 

Many traditional assessments tell you what people are experiencing. PEC assessments dive deeper to investigate and understand cultural patterns, why those patterns are occurring, where they are showing up, and how ready the organization is to change them.  

PEC's assessments are designed as a baseline for cultural transformation. PEC uses a series of strategic assessments to gauge individual and company-wide levels of stress, engagement, communication, collaboration, adaptability, and solution-based thinking. We identify where pressure is creating damaging patterns as well as where leaders, emerging champions, and strong partnerships already have the capacity to anchor change. These assessments provide an internal view of the organization’s strengths, vulnerabilities, opportunities for evolution, and threats to cultural progress. Instead of applying the same training everywhere, we can then target development where it is needed most, strengthen the leaders who can help carry the change, and build a Strategic Cultural Plan based on the specific needs of each organization. 

Assess the patterns. Identify the capacity. Target the change.

The ALIGN™ Assessment typically begins at the executive level. It is designed to provide a clear picture of the leadership system before change is expanded across the organization. It identifies cultural champions and emerging partnerships that have the capacity to anchor transformation while also revealing where deeper engagement, development, or support is needed. 

Using our Eight Levels of Engagement, PEC assesses the capacity of leaders to move beyond stress-driven, reactive leadership into greater awareness, communication, collaboration, solution-based thinking, and shared vision. 

In many ways, it functions as an internal cultural SWOT, helping us uncover: 

• Strengths:  leaders, relationships, and behaviors that can anchor change
• Weaknesses:  stress patterns, leadership gaps, silos, and breakdowns limiting performance
• Opportunities:  emerging leaders, partnerships, and areas ready for greater collaboration and development
• Threats: resistance, disengagement, mistrust, communication breakdowns, and structural patterns that can undermine cultural change

Next, PEC evaluates where the organization is ready to evolve. We then translate the findings into a Strategic Cultural Plan, targeted training, leadership development, and customized programming designed around the actual needs of the organization. 

The ALIGN Assessment can be delivered as a group experience, often integrated directly into leadership training, executive retreats, or deeper cultural development work. PEC provides a Strategic Summary and Cultural Plan Session to translate those insights into clear priorities, targeted training, and next-step recommendations. 

From there, the work can be deepened through one-on-one assessment, training and coaching, either as the starting point for key executive leaders or as a follow-up for leaders identified as champions, emerging leaders, or those needing additional support. This creates a layered process: assess the system, define the strategy, then strengthen the individuals who will help carry the change.

Cultural Perspectives™ is a neurologically based, interactive assessment that brings executive and middle-management leaders together to examine how they experience the organization across PEC’s Five Cultural Indicators: Connection, Collaboration, Contribution, Cohesiveness, and Celebration. 

Cultural Perspectives™ is an integrative development tool. The "5 Cs" process identifies cultural strengths, cross-departmental barriers, perception gaps, and flexible and emerging leaders who can help move change across the organization. Through facilitated dialogue, leaders hear perspectives beyond their own roles and departments, building empathy, awareness, and understanding. 

The Cultural Perspectives™ assessment and analytics establishes key points where relationships can be strengthened, departments need greater connectivity, and leadership partnerships can be developed to support change. 

The Cultural Perspectives™ assessment findings inform targeted Cross-Collaboration Training, leadership development, and creation of a Strategic Cultural Plan.  

The Stress Personality Assessment is a powerful entry point into PEC’s work. It creates immediate awareness, opens conversation, and gives teams a shared language for recognizing patterns without blame. Through stress personality typing, participants begin to identify what type of stress is driving their behavior, how those responses have become habitual, and how they may be embedded in subconscious patterns across the organization. 

Stress Personality Typing is ultimately an awareness tool for pattern interruption, helping people recognize when they are reacting automatically so they can begin choosing more intentional, regulated, and solution-focused responses. 

Name the pattern. Understand the trigger. Interrupt the response. Create a new way forward. 

Name the pattern. Understand the trigger. Interrupt the response. Create a new way forward.