THE  STARTING POINT INTO

THE  IRIE™ CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM. 

BEFORE YOU INVEST

It’s important to be clear about what this assessment does, and what it may surface.

This is NOT a values exercise or a leadership style quiz, nor a cultural index.

Cultural indices measure how people feel. This examines what is actually producing those feelings: the decisions, behaviours, and systems shaping culture whether you can see them or not.

It is a structured assessment that makes your cultural impact visible ,  including where intent and lived experience may not currently align.

If you are prepared to look honestly at how your leadership shapes day-to-day culture, this assessment will give you a clear starting point.

WHAT THIS ASSESSMENT REVEALS

The IRIE™ Leader Cultural Assessment is the entry point into the Living IRIE™ Cultural Transformation System.


It establishes a leadership baseline by examining how decisions, behaviours, and systems currently shape culture — whether consciously or not.

This assessment does not assume success, readiness, or alignment.

It starts from current reality.

WHAT THE ASSESSMENT MAKES VISIBLE

YOUR LEADERSHIP BASELINE:

How your current leadership patterns show up across the four IRIE™ Pillars: Innovation, Responsibility, Inclusion, and Equity

CULTURAL IMPACT, NOT INTENTION:

Where your understanding of your leadership may differ from how culture is likely being experienced day-to-day.

AREAS OF ALIGNMENT AND STRAIN:

Patterns that support healthy collaboration — and those that quietly undermine it.

YOUR IRIE STARTING POINT PLACEMENT :

A developmental placement (Builder → Explorer → Collaborator → Pioneer) that shows where you are starting from, not how “good” you are.

THIS IS DESCRIPTIVE, NOT JUDGEMENTAL... BUT IT IS  DIRECT.

WHO THIS ASSESSMENT IS FOR

This assessment is designed for leaders in the built environment whose decisions materially shape how work is done and how people experience it.
 
You may be a:
  • Practice principal, director, studio lead, or department head
  • Architect, architectural technologist, or design leader
  • Engineer (structural, MEP, civil, fire safety)
  • Project manager, contract administrator, or delivery lead
  • Quantity surveyor, cost consultant, or commercial manager
  • Contractor, site leader, or construction director
  • Landscape architect, urban designer, or placemaking lead
  • Client-side programme director or asset manager

If you influence priorities, set expectations, allocate work, or model behaviour,  your leadership creates culture, whether you can see it or not.

THIS ASSESSMENT MAKES THOSE EFFECTS VISIBLE.

WHAT LEADERS SAY

"After years of regular EDI training covering the same topics, we needed to probe more deeply into our studio culture.

The format of the work we did with Dian was extremely effective, with all staff giving positive feedback on the detail of the staff survey and many saying that it caused them to really consider issues in more depth.

The workshop with the senior management was insightful and enlightening and has provided us with a baseline for some meaningful changes."

India James

Director, Bell Phillips Architects

"THIS FRAMEWORK SHOULD BE VERY WELCOME IN OUR INDUSTRY... 

Culture is inherently complex and notoriously difficult to measure meaningfully. 

This assessment has given us a strong baseline for internal discussions and several clear directions we can move on immediately."

Alasdair Ben Dixon

Founder of Collective Works

"EYE-OPENING...

We've matured as a practice and can now address cultural tensions directly"

Wilf Meynell

Founder of Studio Bark