Clear, Robust & Scalable
Culture
WHAT?
We work with Leadership Teams to clarify, cultivate and embed a culture that equips Organisations with the structure they need to climb their Mountains.
Aligned teams work efficiently as one cohesive unit, with clear structures for workflow, collaboration, and decision-making. They respond effectively to challenges and adapt quickly to changing circumstances. Confidence grows from this foundation, empowering team members to take ownership, work autonomously, and embrace new opportunities. Over time, this confidence enhances the team’s ability to acquire and refine skills, driving long-term performance and business success.
Next Level partners with Organisations to build the cultural foundations that are aligned, efficient, agile, confident, and skilled. We focus on creating alignment by clarifying goals, priorities, roles, and responsibilities, enabling teams to achieve their full potential. This clarity fosters ownership, proactive decision-making, and unity, which are essential for confidence, efficiency, and agility.
WHY?
Culture provides its people with a sense of belonging. This sense of togetherness is the foundation of and springboard for confident and consistent high performance.
An organisation’s culture is the foundation for clarity, alignment, and trust across the entire team.
A strong culture provides clear direction and accessible frameworks, allowing everyone to focus on what truly matters. By connecting individuals to a shared purpose, it drives motivation, sharpens priorities, and ensures roles and responsibilities are well-defined. This alignment fosters greater ownership and decision-making, enabling teams to work more autonomously and confidently.
An effective culture also enhances team unity, efficiency, and adaptability. With clear structures for workflow and collaboration, teams become more creative and productive, equipped to respond to challenges with agility. Trust and resilience grow naturally in such an environment, empowering confident individuals who contribute to the strength of the team.
HOW?
We blend methodology and tools to help Leadership craft the Culture they need for the results they want.
Frameworks + Intelligence
Our culture-building process is built on a principles-based approach, equipping leaders with resilient frameworks that provide clarity and structure. At the core of this approach are three foundational pillars: Purpose, Values & Values Activities, and Priorities & Decision Making. These elements serve as a compass for leaders, helping them navigate complexity and lead with confidence. Each session is a collaborative effort, ensuring alignment, understanding, and engagement that not only strengthens individual leaders but also fosters team cohesion.
Where needed, we integrate Motivex to deepen the impact. Motivex maps intrinsic motivation across the organisation, highlighting gaps between what truly drives employees and how they currently feel. This allows us to address talent engagement challenges with precision, using clear data to identify which motivators yield the highest returns in productivity and retention. The result is a leadership approach that is not only aligned with organisational goals but also deeply connected to the people driving them.
We integrate Motivex to address talent engagement challenges with precision and support a leadership approach that is not only aligned with organisational goals but also deeply connected to the people driving them.
WHO?
We help Founders and C-Suite to create, refine and embed a clear, robust and scalable Culture
“Next Level has been an amazing partner in supporting me to develop a positive, high-performance culture for a newly created team. In doing so, we have established an identity and a set of behavioural values and have instilled them in the team's day to day work practices. We have also implemented a training programme to align the outcomes of the team with the objectives of the organisation. The sessions crafted by James have been amongst the team's highlights from the last year.
In addition to this fantastic team-level programme, I have also benefited from an individual Leadership coaching programme delivered by Ryan and James. These have helped in my own development, covering topics such as scaling, executive relationships and time management. I would highly recommend that anyone in a position of responsibility who believes in the value of high-performing teams engage with James to challenge themselves and level up their approach to leadership.”
Simon Jaffery-Reed, Chief Product Officer
Chambers & Partners
“I had the pleasure to be part of different working groups where James was a facilitator and coach.
He understood and helped us prioritise challenges and work through realistic solutions and feasible actions even when we were discussing highly technical topics that were obviously out of his scope of expertise. Sessions with James are always interesting and engaging because he is willing to put in additional effort to get the group moving in the right direction.
In short,
James is highly professional and a brilliant coach and I would highly recommend his services”
Nikola Jevtović, Head of Engineering
Arbor Education
“Having engaged James’ service over a number of years and across a wide scope of work, I can confirm he has invariably proved invaluable to our cause. He does what he says he’ll do, is always meticulously prepared and has a passionate and engaging style of delivery that appeals across the spectrum of our organisation. A pleasure to work with and extremely popular with the whole team.”
Tim Ross, Director
Advantage Utilities