Every organization has a culture—whether it’s intentional or not. Yet too often, culture is treated as intangible, anecdotal, or immeasurable. That’s where Deltabase’s Culture Framework comes in.

Built in collaboration with organizational psychologists, data scientists, and senior HR leaders, our 12-pillar Culture Framework is a robust, research-grounded model that helps culture advisors and their clients move from intuition to insight.

A Common Language for Culture

The Framework provides a common language to describe and diagnose culture across organizations, functions, and leadership levels. Each of the 12 pillars represents a critical dimension of employee experience and organizational performance—from leadership and collaboration to empowerment, inclusion, agility, and beyond.

Rather than rely on vague sentiment or broad engagement scores, the Framework breaks culture down into specific, observable factors that can be measured, benchmarked, and improved.

Designed for Culture Advisors

As a culture advisor, you bring deep qualitative expertise to your clients—through workshops, coaching, facilitation, and storytelling. The Culture Framework complements your work by offering:

• Clarity: A structured model to anchor your assessments and conversations

• Credibility: Backed by data from thousands of employee responses and validated question banks

• Comparability: Benchmark clients against industry, geography, and high-performing peers

• Change-readiness: Identify not just what’s wrong, but where clients are ready to act

Whether you’re conducting a culture audit, advising on post-merger integration, or coaching executive teams, the Framework helps you cut through assumptions and guide leaders toward evidence-based action.

How the Framework Works

Each pillar in the model is linked to a focused employee question set—often 3 to 5 items per pillar—that capture perceptions, behaviors, and systemic enablers. These are deployed via survey or pulse tools, or layered on top of existing engagement platforms. The results are visualized in a Culture Wheel, highlighting strengths, gaps, and alignment with strategic goals.

Importantly, the Framework is not just diagnostic—it’s directional. It points clients to specific interventions, from leadership development to reward redesign to agile team enablement.