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Culture Due Diligence
invest with clarity

Turn culture into a visible, assessable asset.

Culture Due Diligence helps investors make better decisions by assessing leadership, teamwork, and cultural health before an investment or acquisition. Through interviews, surveys, and benchmarking, we uncover strengths, risks, and cultural red flags that influence performance, retention, and scalability.

01

Request for information

We request value and culture-related documents, look for HR-related KPIs and require a DD questionnaire to be answered.

02

Preparation for interviews

We assess the information provided, conduct research, create a hypothesis, and prepare thought provoking questions to validate written answers.

03

Conduct Interviews

We conduct standardised video-interviews with the management, departmental leaders or frontline managers.

04

Create DD Report

We report red flags, analyze company values, day-to-day behaviors, highlight cultural voids and deliver a roadmap to cultural excellence.

Why choose us

Culture is our mission.
Excellence is our standard.
Impact is our promise.
Culture drives up to 30% of performance differences. Cultural Due Diligence surfaces misalignment causing 50-75% of underperforming post-merger integrations.

Timeline

The process is intentionally low-effort for the startup, with only essential information required, while investors receive a sharp diagnosis of cultural strengths and weaknesses, along with concrete actions for investment and integration success.

Week 1

Request for information

Week 2

Preparation for interviews

Week 3-4

Conduct Interviews

Week 5

Create DD Report

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Happiness assurance
No lock-in: Because we truly believe in our performance, we offer a full cancellation right after each important phase of work if you are not satisfied with the results.
Transparent pricing: Our offers come with all-inclusive, milestone based fees, with no hidden costs.
Anna Klöcker, Human Resources
Effective Leadership

“I expected another generic leadership training - and got the opposite. Effective Leadership pushed our leaders into real practice: hard conversations, clearer decisions, better structure. My colleagues noticed the difference within days and mentioned to me how much it helped them to address team issues. One of my colleagues said this was the best workshop that they attended this year and another managed to solve a high-stakes team situation in a completely new way after attending the very first workshop.”

Moritz Maier, CEO
Competitive Edge

“Competitive Edge helped us in a situation of change to articulate who we are and how we want to grow - not in abstracts, but in behaviors we now see every day. Our culture went from wish-to-be to be truly implemented and a differentiator to before. This program didn’t just make our culture visible; it made it usable”

Dr. Thomas List, CFO
Leadership Compass

“Working with Erik and Paulina made the value of cultural work unmistakably clear. They brought structure, precision, and a sharp understanding of how culture drives performance. The Culture Code Foundation gave us a foundation that reduces friction, speeds up decisions, and aligns teams with our strategy. Nothing was fluffy - every step was data-driven, participatory, and tangible.”

Flora Geske, CEO
Culture Core

“The culture assessment done by CCF was eye opening and they worked relentlessly to help us adjust our culture during a time of pivotal change. Their expertise and experience in all aspects of culture and leadership became crystal clear during the process! With clarity and candour, Paulina and Erik supported us not only with bringing our culture to the next level but even inspired strategic refocus.”

Diana Meyel, Managing Partner
Culture Due Diligence

“CCF’s Cultural Due Diligence provides a depth of additional insight we’ve never gained in a standard due diligence process. It highlights risks we might miss and validates strengths we sense but couldn’t quantify. The clarity we gain influences our investment decision and the concrete actions we define going forward - a crucial advantage in what is ultimately a people’s business.”

Dr. Lis Hannemann-Strenger, Managing Director
Efficiency Boost

“From what I have seen so far in working with CCF, I am fully convinced that this program helps us. It teaches the untaught topics that no one ever talks about - but should talk about. I can tell that the content that CCF will teach our employees is extremely valuable and actionable.”

Turn culture into a visible, assessable asset

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