Culture Renovation

Outline

Culture Renovation (2021) offers a practical plan for changing an organisation’s culture. Based on research with hundreds of companies, Kevin Oakes presents eighteen leadership actions organised into three phases: planning the renovation, making the changes, and making them last. He shows that culture can be deliberately shaped, like renovating a house, rather than left to chance.

• An organisation's culture can be shaped on purpose, much like renovating a house, instead of being left to chance.
• Kevin Oakes builds his plan on research with hundreds of companies rather than on theory alone.
• The book lays out eighteen leadership actions that give a practical path for changing culture.
• Those actions fall into three phases: planning the renovation, making the changes, and making them last.
• Lasting culture change builds trust and strengthens engagement, which supports long-term organisational success.

Kevin Oakes is an American business leader and author who founded and leads the Institute for Corporate Productivity, a research organisation that studies high-performance workplaces. He has advised many large companies on culture, talent, and leadership. Culture Renovation is his first book.