Cultural Strategies

What Cultural Strategies does

Cultural Strategies, LLC is a privately held, founder-led professional services firm headquartered in Oakdale, Minnesota (Twin Cities area). Founded in 2017, the company specializes in team behavioral development and organizational transformation consulting. Its core proposition centers on developing 'Teaming Behaviors' — a methodology positioned in contrast to traditional team building — that addresses underlying causes of team dysfunction such as psychological safety deficits, conversational trust gaps, and family-of-origin influences on workplace behavior.

The firm's service portfolio is anchored by the proprietary TeamingAcumen™ Framework, delivered through a strategic partnership with the Global Builders Consortium, and augmented by licensed methodologies including Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team (delivered strengths-based), Gallup CliftonStrengths® and Builder Profile 10™ assessments, and Judith Glaser's Conversational Intelligence® (C-IQ). A Teal Organizational Paradigm advisory line extends the firm into self-management and evolutionary purpose consulting. Services are delivered via workshops, team coaching, executive facilitation, and consulting engagements targeted at leadership teams, mid-level managers, and organizations experiencing team dysfunction or seeking to elevate good teams to exceptional performance.

The business model is fee-for-service professional services delivered on a sales-led, direct-engagement basis to enterprise, nonprofit, and individual executive clients (named examples include PiSA Ventures, Woodbury Community Foundation, and individual coaching clients). Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The firm operates with 1-10 employees and is wholly dependent on founder Margaret Ricci for delivery; marketing is content-led via the firm's blog, LinkedIn presence, and the founder's Substack newsletter, supplemented by testimonials, case studies, and speaking engagements. There is no external funding, no patents or proprietary technology beyond licensed frameworks, and the company has no subsidiaries, M&A activity, or public-market positioning.

Name

Cultural Strategies

Legal name

Cultural Strategies, LLC

Website

https://culturalstrategiesllc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cultural Strategies, LLC is a founder-led Minnesota consulting firm that develops 'Teaming Behaviors' and delivers team coaching, leadership workshops, and organizational transformation services — including the proprietary TeamingAcumen™ Framework — to enterprise teams, nonprofits, and executives seeking high-performing team dynamics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Organizational Development Consulting

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Organizational Change & Transformation Coaching (EDABANAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Talent Management & Leadership Advisory (Succession, Performance, Culture) (BPACAJAH), Organizational Culture & Values-Based Leadership (EDABAAAE)

Keywords

• Team development consulting
• Organizational development services
• Leadership coaching
• Team transformation workshops
• Executive team facilitation

Headquarters

HQ city

North Saint Paul

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Consulting and Coaching Services: Fee-for-service consulting engagements including workshops, team coaching, and facilitation services for organizations seeking to improve team performance and maturity.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Cultural Strategies is a team development and organizational transformation consulting firm that helps organizations build and develop robust, resilient teams. The firm delivers Teaming Behaviors development through workshops, team coaching, and facilitation services, anchored by its proprietary TeamingAcumen™ Framework and supplemented with established methodologies including Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions, Gallup CliftonStrengths®, Gallup Builder Profile 10, and Conversational Intelligence® (C-IQ).

Product overview

Cultural Strategies is a consulting firm specializing in team development and organizational transformation. The company offers a portfolio of services including the proprietary TeamingAcumen™ Framework (a Global Builders Consortium methodology), workshops based on Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions model, Gallup assessment-based coaching (Builder Profile 10 and CliftonStrengths), and Conversational Intelligence® (C-IQ) training. These services are delivered through workshops, coaching, and consulting engagements to help organizations build robust, resilient teams that achieve high performance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TeamingAcumen™ Framework: A proprietary framework for developing team collaboration and maturity.
• Margaret's Substack

Products and services

• TeamingAcumen™ Framework A proprietary team development methodology from the Global Builders Consortium that helps organizations build and develop robust, resilient teams through systematic Teaming Behaviors development. Offered by Cultural Strategies through its strategic partnership with the Global Builders Consortium.
• Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop
• Gallup Builder Profile 10 (BP10) Strengths-based Team Coaching
• Gallup CliftonStrengths®
• Conversational Intelligence® (C-IQ)
• Process & Plans

Quantifiable outcome

• Clients experience 'Oneness' they've never felt before

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Global Builders ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCultural Strategies offers the TeamingAcumen Framework through the Global Builders Consortium partnership. This proprietary framework is a core component of their team development methodology, indicating a strategic co-development relationship for delivering team maturity solutions.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• VitalSmarts (Crucial Learning): Research-based training company offering Crucial Conversations, Crucial Influence, and Change Anything courses that overlap with Cultural Strategies' conversation and team-coaching offerings. A direct methodology peer in the conversational intelligence / team dynamics space.
• BetterUp: Digital coaching and leadership development platform serving enterprise teams with on-demand coaching, assessments, and team transformation tooling. Competes for the same organizational team-development budget with a tech-enabled delivery model versus Cultural Strategies' in-person workshop approach.
• The Table Group: Patrick Lencioni's consulting firm and direct licensor of the Five Dysfunctions of a Team framework. Cultural Strategies' flagship workshop ("Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team") is built directly on The Table Group's IP, making them the most direct functional peer in team development consulting.

Broad incumbents

• DDI (Development Dimensions International): Established leadership development and team performance consulting firm offering assessments, workshops, and coaching for mid-level and executive leaders. Directly comparable in team and leadership development service offering at larger organizational scale.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with substantial leadership development, talent management, and culture advisory practices. Competes for the same enterprise leadership and team transformation mandate as Cultural Strategies, but at much larger scale.
• Center for Creative Leadership: Globally recognized leadership development research and consulting organization offering executive coaching, team workshops, and organizational development. A comparable boutique-to-incumbent player for executive coaching and leadership team transformation engagements.
• Gallup: Creator of the CliftonStrengths and Builder Profile 10 assessments that Cultural Strategies administers and coaches against. Gallup itself delivers enterprise-strengths-based coaching and management consulting at scale, representing both a licensor and a much larger potential competitor.
• FranklinCovey: Large-scale leadership and team effectiveness consulting firm offering organizational transformation and training programs (e.g., The 7 Habits, Leading at the Speed of Trust) to enterprise clients. Overlaps with Cultural Strategies in the leadership and team-development budget category.

Emerging players

• 15Five: Continuous performance management and employee engagement platform that includes team-effectiveness tooling and OKR/feedback workflows. Adjacent rather than directly competitive, but represents how software-enabled team development is scaling against traditional consulting engagements.

Regional players

• Guthrie-Jensen Consultants: Cooperative and credit-union-focused consulting firm; a more specialized peer but illustrative of the niche organizational consulting model Cultural Strategies operates in - small, founder-led, methodology-driven practices delivering team and leadership transformation. Comparable in scale and go-to-market structure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/culturalstrategiesllc/about

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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