Every organisation has a unique fingerprint waiting to be unearthed.Its culture.
About Us
Culture is one of the most powerful differentiators an organisation has when it comes to attracting talent, developing customer-centric products and services and innovating.
Company culture takes its own shape when left unattended, so it’s essential for any workplace to be intentional about it.
The Culture Equation is a team of diverse professionals dedicated to unlocking your unique workplace culture fingerprint. With such distinct backgrounds, different social consciences and empathy levels, we surely are a very assorted bunch.
Each of us comes with a specific skillset, that’s the superpower that amplifies the moment we join together as a team. Our areas of expertise range from Diversity & Inclusion, to CSR, to Positive Psychology, amongst others.
Drawing on such diversity, we guide organisations to develop empowered and engaged workforces.
We work with …
Featured Case Study
Going dry and flying high with the Team ReForm Program
The Culture Equation strengthens the Dry July Foundation’s team during their busiest time of the year.
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The Team
“Culture is unique for each and every organisation. It lives through every interaction, every decision, every ritual and every passing comment in the halls.”
Hiam Sakakini, CEO & Founder
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Like many of us, Hiam’s career itself has been an interesting journey with twists and turns, leading her to Head of Leadership Development at Google Asia. Along the way, she lived and breathed the unique experience of technological disruption and now helps others navigate that change successfully through their people.
As a Sociology Major and Culture Change Expert, her drive is to create environments dominated by trust and psychological safety where teams can be empowered and thrive in times of ambiguity.
Hiam has been keynote speaker at high profile industry events and can be contacted for speaking engagements.
Our team of contributors
We Stand For
Courage
Jumping on new ventures, taking calculated risks and always trusting in the strength of our team.
Collaboration
We believe the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We create synergies with people, teams, organisations and communities striving for better outcomes.
Collaboration
We believe the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We create synergies with people, teams, organisations and communities striving for better outcomes.
Ownership
What we do, we own it. We own the outcome. We own the process. We own the mistakes. We are empowered and creative humans delivering our best work in a safe environment founded on trust.
Purposeful Honesty
We practice what we preach. Threaded through our day-to-day is the intention to be truthful to one another to grow as a stronger team heading in the same direction.
Purposeful Honesty
We practice what we preach. Threaded through our day-to-day is the intention to be truthful to one another to grow as a stronger team heading in the same direction.
Our Partners
Partnerships that work wonders. We have vetted an A-Team of Partners who know their stuff.
Backed by their IP, technology and data analytics expertise, our work is next level.
Education Partner
DeakinCo support businesses to master the shift from knowledge to capability and credentialise the skills uplift of your team partictipating in The Culture Equation programs.
We are proud to partner with such prestigious, innovative and collaborative learning experts, supported by the stability and integrity of Deakin University.
Skills Data Partner
Think of Lumaway as a Google Maps for skills, they remove confusion on what skills people have and how it correlates to job criteria and career opportunities.
We love their vision of a future where anyone can receive personalised, unbiased skill appraisals and paid jobs data.
Their tools and data provide you with a real-time diversified talent pipeline.
Accredited Practitioner
Insights Discovery provides a proven system for people development that is easy to learn, understand, remember and apply. It provides a common language of understanding, builds emotional intelligence and improves employee engagement, collaboration and retention.
We find this tool is unlike other traditional assessments as it provides highly unique and personalised reports that are fun, engaging and do not pigeon hole, label or alienate colleagues.
Experience Management Partner
Qualtrics consistently build products that people love, create more loyal customers, develop a phenomenal employee culture, and build iconic brands as a technology platform.
We admire their dedication to bring the best technology to everyone in making lives easier. Their platform speaks volume of their desire to understand and give positive changes to organizations.