Why Culture Matters
Culture is the operating system of an organization. You know when your system needs maintenance, the system slows, engagement is down, turnover is high, sick days are constant, results are inconsistent. It's time for a reset, it's time to embed culture as a success strategy so that you can achieve more together.
What is Culture?
Why it matters?
Where to now?
Why Now?
Today, organizations are under increasing pressure to drive productivity and profitability amid declining workforce engagement. Gallup’s 2026 Workforce Report found that global employee engagement has fallen to 20%, with manager engagement identified as a key contributing factor. Closely connected to this trend is a broader erosion of trust worldwide. As highlighted by the Edelman Trust Barometer, trust in institutions, leaders, and society has reached unprecedented levels of fragility, creating additional challenges for organizations seeking to engage, retain, and inspire their people.
Why does this matter? Gallup's Workforce report highlights the economic cost of low engagement, estimating that "$10 trillion in productivity could be added to the economy if the global workforce was fully engaged.". We believe you can have a piece of that pie with Culture as a Success Strategy.
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How do we combat low engagement? As Edgar Schein, psychologist, suggested, "Engagement is not driven by what organizations say—but by what employees unconsciously learn is safe, valued, and meaningful.". This is where Rivulets comes in to support you in co-creating organizational culture as a strategy so that organizations can navigate to results that matter.
Our team brings a global, cross-industry perspective to every engagement. Our approach combines coaching, advisory, culture and change practices, bringing assessments, and systems thinking to drive meaningful outcomes. With lived experience, certification with CoCreate Work®, continuing education and demonstrated results infused into every engagement, we bring the confidence that organizations need to embrace culture as a success strategy. Our engagement will support you to achieve results that matter by aligning your people with the soul of their organization, supported by artifacts and leadership driving intentional actions that translate into measurable outcomes.
Guided by a data-driven, results-oriented mindset, we prioritize requirements management and collaborative co-creation to deliver meaningful outcomes. Culture matters, it is the operating system of an organization, like all systems culture requires maintenance and service. That's where Rivulets can help.
Let's connect, co-create and construct to make an impact together.
How We Deliver
Our engagement is built on a foundation of shared understanding which enables us to meet you where you are and co-create solutions based on your needs and desired outcomes. Our Vision, Mission and Values provide the lens to which we view our work. Viewing our work through this lens ensures coherence and intentional action so that we together we achieve results that matter.
Vision
We co-create a future where purpose and contribution converge, empowering culture-first organizations to unleash possibility — enabling people and businesses to thrive so that together they achieve extraordinary outcomes.
Mission
We work with leaders
struggling with disruption, productivity and profitability to achieve results that matter
by using
culture as a success strategy.
Principles
Through connection, curiosity, collaboration & calibration we
co-create culture that delivers on vision and mission
for sustainable change and
results that matter.
What We Deliver
Together, we utilize established frameworks to achieve your desired outcomes. Choosing from a suite of offerings we co-create solutions to embed culture as a success strategy to achieve the results you seek.
Connect
With appreciative inquiry by our side, we unlock hidden potential, providing you a third-party view to open doors to new perspectives. Whether short or long term, we will connect to uncover what is possible to achieve your desired state, revealing the information and mindset you need to understand where to navigate next.
Co-Create
Our assessments will reveal the culture you have and the culture you desire, then we bridge the differences through our five-phase framework to achieve more together. Assessment results will inform our dialogue to
co-create a solution that achieves the outcomes you seek. Let's take the journey together to make work better for everyone.
Construct
Custom off sites in the south-west France combine connection and strategy for rejuvenation and co-creation. We enable team connection through purpose driven sessions to learn and grow and offer unique local experiences. A safe place is created to convene around clear intention so that desired outcomes unfold through a curated experience.
About Rivulets
My name is Louise Demers, Founder of Rivulets Consultancy
A rivulet is a small stream, small yet mighty and Rivulets Consultancy is mighty. With over a thirty years of lived global experience, certification with CoCreate Work®, continuing education, demonstrated results and trusted partnerships we bring skills and know how to every engagement, so that the organizations we serve can embrace culture as a success strategy. Through co-creation we achieve results that matter by aligning people around what matters most - the soul of your organization, supported by artifacts and leadership we unleash intentional actions to achieve measurable outcomes.
As a passionately curious professional, mission driven to deliver culture as a success strategy to make work better, I am confident that together we will achieve results that matter with culture as a success strategy.
Read our story, meet our Partners and embrace the possibility, then join us to co-create solutions to make work better today for a better tomorrow for organizations, their people and the communities they live in.
Ready to find out more?
Rivulets Consultancy brings knowledge and experience from a diverse background in international development, technology and management systems to enable organizations to create intentional workplaces with culture as a success strategy allowing desired impacts to be realized. Together we will utilize flexible frameworks to co-create solutions that allow your organization to fully align vision with mission driven actions and thrive with intention.