About Culturgen
Built from over a decade of helping create thriving workplaces
Our Mission
Culturgen started in 2023 with a narrow argument: most culture work fails because it targets what people say they believe rather than what they actually do. Values sessions don't change a promotion decision, and no poster has ever changed what a senior leader lets pass in a meeting.
So we work on behaviour. That means measuring what happens in your organisation rather than how people rate it, naming the behaviours driving performance alongside the ones quietly costing you, and leaving leaders with something specific to do differently. The methods come from behavioural science and organisational psychology. The work runs from board and C-suite advisory through to team-level workshops.
Behaviour cascades. What one level of leaders tolerates is what the next level learns, which is where our name comes from and why we start at the top.
OUR PEOPLE
CHRIS GARRISON - FOUNDER
Chris' career hasn't run in a straight line. She's worked across sectors and in organisations where her own experience of the culture left her with more questions than answers, and those questions are what she's spent her working life on since.
She's a practitioner rather than a commentator. The approach holds wherever she's brought in: identify the behaviours affecting performance, then design interventions that use contemporary behavioural science rather than whatever was fashionable a decade ago. She starts from the evidence, and when the evidence is thin she says so (which occasionally disappoints a client who wanted certainty).
Chris leads Culturgen's diagnostic work and coaches senior and emerging leaders as a qualified executive coach. She's currently studying for the MSc Behavioural Science at The London School of Economics and Political Science.
JANE GIBBON - Senior advisor, people & transformation
Jane Gibbon is an executive coach with an extensive track record in senior HR leadership, having delivered business-focused HR practice across over 50 geographies, including the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Jane's career has spanned AOL Time Warner, Netscape, Yahoo, McDonald's, Tesco, Starbucks, Just Eat and, most recently, Chief People Officer at London Business School.
A Henley-accredited executive coach, she now draws on that global experience to help leaders build cultural bridges and create workplaces where people can be authentically themselves.