Cultivate designs powerful experiences to upskill your people.
Changing mindsets, skill sets, and behaviors across an organization requires action-oriented experiences.
Great experiences don’t happen by accident. They’re designed to move people — and the business.
We help you create the kind of experiences people remember — and act on.
Experiences that Shape Culture
Designed with Intention. Delivered with Impact.
At Cultivate, we help leaders create powerful experiences that move people — emotionally, behaviorally, and strategically.
Whether you're hosting a leadership offsite, launching a culture initiative, or delivering a company-wide learning moment, we design experiences that do more than engage. They shift mindsets, deepen connection, and accelerate momentum.
Because the right experience — at the right moment — can change everything.
What We Deliver:
Signature Leadership & Culture Experiences
We design and facilitate events and activations that align senior teams, reinforce values, and spark the kind of conversation that creates real commitment — not just attendance.Enterprise Learning Journeys
From immersive workshops to full-scale development programs, we create learning experiences that connect to business strategy and fuel personal and organizational growth.All-Hands & Company-Wide Events
We help you turn large-scale gatherings into high-impact experiences — with storytelling, rituals, and interactive elements that leave people energized and aligned.Experience Strategy & Design Consulting
For organizations looking to elevate how they design experiences, we serve as creative and strategic partners — helping you build a portfolio of experiences that shape culture and performance over time.
How We’re Different
We blend design thinking, behavioral science, and storytelling to create moments that stick — and scale.
Every experience is anchored to business and culture objectives — not one-off events, but deliberate inflection points.
We work with you end-to-end — from strategy and design to facilitation and follow-through — to ensure experiences translate into action.
Examples of Some of Our Experiences
Try our proven learning programs, or let us design one for you. To us, there's nothing better than the moment when something clicks and we see someone’s eyes light up with the knowledge that they can do something they never realized they could. No matter the modality, that’s what we design for.
Ready Set Team (RST)
Our Clinical Trial Team Success Solution
Ready Set Team (RST) is a comprehensive teaming support ecosystem that stays with the team every step of the way to drive business impact.
Our solution employs a systematic, proactive, and intentional approach to empowering high-stakes teams through team kickoffs and ongoing monthly check-ins, individual coaching, toolkits, reminder prompts in the flow of work, and much more.
Our Experience Design Toolkit
We’ve distilled years of experience design knowledge into a toolkit you can use to jumpstart how to think about your experience.
The Empowered Cultivator Lab
🕑 4-8 weeks
🧬 Live, online
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏻 Teams
What does it mean to actually show up as an Empowered Cultivator at work? Learn the key attributes of empowerment with interactive experiments & tools to empower yourself and your community.
Advance Your Idea
🕑 12-24 weeks
🧬 Hybrid model
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏻 Teams
Making an idea happen inside your company can be really hard. But, it’s possible. Learn proven methods for how to effectively advance an idea & take action inside your organization.
Elevate Your Voice
🕑 4 sessions or 1- to 2-day workshops
🧬 Live, Virtual, or Hybrid
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏻 Individuals or teams
🏆 1:1 Communications Coaching
Learn how to deliver your message masterfully, seizing the opportunity to make your point, spark change, or start your movement within your organization.
Bespoke Program Design
We know there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for learning, especially when we’re talking to multinational organizations with different needs in different periods of growth & development.
You may have a specific set of capabilities you’re hoping to build inside your organization. Let us help you create a remarkable learning experience.
We pride ourselves on creating unique physical artifacts, tools, and materials that help reinforce learning and keep the messaging front-of-mind for learners. Here are some examples:
Culture First-Aid Kit || These kits were assembled by repurposing old First-Aid Kits from the 1970's to transform them with a set of tools and resources to make culture change happen.
Community Personality Cards || We created this interactive deck of cards to help leaders discover and name the key qualities of their community. Community design isn’t just about goals, events, and online platforms — it’s about personality.
Permission Granted Stamp || This stamp that simply says "Permission Granted" is a great reminder to be giving out permission to colleagues to pursue their ideas.
The Science of Innovation Playbook || This playbook was published as a kind of primer to get the client organization excited about the new concepts we were building learning around. It's filled with fun stories and models.
Award Ribbons || These ribbons allowed recognizing and celebrating desired behaviors to be succinctly introduced as a key part of a thriving community.
Buzzword Toilet Paper || For a client that wanted to get team members to stop using certain buzzwords, we created toilet paper that was replaced at all their offices.
Community Campfire || This activity allows for participants in a virtual community program to feel a little bit of magic and wonder when an in-person connection isn't possible.
100 Hours of Content Post-It Pad || This custom Post-It Pad has different prompts on each sheet that help guide a learner through an expansive thinking phase for coming up with the right content for presentations.
"I see you" Cards || With access comes opportunity. These cards allowed participants to "tap" a colleague to acknowledge their work and recommend they invest in their professional development to further their growth.
What's something you want to reinforce for your learners? We'd love to help you bring that to life in a sticky way to make sure you're driving effective change.
Experiences in Action
Explore how we design high-impact experiences that spark mindset shifts, foster connection, and fuel lasting change. These case studies illustrate how our Experiences help organizations bring strategy to life and accelerate transformation from within.
Empowering 50 VPs to shape and strengthen culture
Client: Fortune 500 Company
Industry: Biotechnology
Challenge
Company leaders didn't feel connected to the culture, as it was defined by a few at the top. Functional silos and global expansion created subcultures and an inconsistent enterprise-wide cultural identity.
HR management wanted all leaders to recognize culture as a core driver of business success—embedded in everyday actions and decisions—and to take ownership for shaping and upholding it.
Solution
Cultivate partnered with leaders to craft an empowering culture for cross-functional Vice Presidents. This included a custom immersive experience to explore the key tension points, decision-making trade-offs, and actionable insight on how leaders can manage them.
A key component of the experience was a recognition of "organizational sub-cultures" - identifying how functions across the organizations are interdependent and how leaders play a critical role in shaping and aligning culture through day-to-day experiences.
Results
VPs took several lessons from the experience, including a recognition that their actions and behaviors "are culture" - developing personalized action strategies to commit to positively impacting the organizational culture and the cultural attributes on their teams.
Cultivate partnered to roll this experience to multiple cohorts of Vice Presidents and cascaded the experience to the Director-level as well.
Empowering leaders to bring teamwork principles to life
Client: Major Medical Device Company
Industry: Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device
Challenge
The company had developed a new set of principles in conjunction with a business school that were words on a page and people didn’t feel in their hearts. There were varying levels of familiarity with the new team principles, and management wanted more awareness as well as more real connection to the principles, the mindset behind them, and their application to daily work.
Solution
We crafted a learning experience that immersed teams in a real-life case study – a patient with an ostomy who wants to do a Tough Mudder run. By considering a complex scenario and assigning roles to play, leaders applied the team principles to collaboratively decide how to advise the patient.
We then trained the leaders to take their teams through the same experience.
Results
The top 100 leaders in the company went through the scenario-based learning experience, including the executive team themselves. They then cascaded the experience within their organizations to the top 1,000 leaders in the company. One leader said, “it made me really think about the team principles and how I will apply them.”
We were invited back to deliver a new experience to the top 100 at their global leadership offsite to further embed and catalyze the principles.
Facilitating a strategic corporate-university partnership and empowering 220+ future bioscience leaders
Client: Fortune 500 Company
Industry: Biotechnology
Challenge
As a cutting-edge biotech business, leadership recognized the importance of sharing its innovation approach and forming a purpose-driven partnership with a leading academic institution.
The aim was to create mutually beneficial opportunities to nurture biotech talent and empower students of diverse backgrounds to pursue impactful careers.
Solution
Cultivate partnered with Harvard Medical School to develop a custom experience designed to bring the company's innovation model to life for students. The experience brought to life examples from the company's history to showcase how bold ideas, inclusive thinking, and creative problem-solving can drive scientific progress.
The interactive experience challenged students to utilize these principles to form new experiments, question their assumptions, and explore novel solutions to meet the world's toughest challenges.
Results
The Innovation workshop was a transformative experience for students (65 NPS) and empowered future bioscience leaders to embed innovation into their research and work.
The long-term impact of this work was to strengthen the strategic partnership with this Ivy League Institution around shared goals of access, potential and impact – serving as the foundation of ongoing collaboration.
