Culture Science
Culture Science is a podcast about how team culture really works—and how to change it.
Hosted by Anna, a behavioural science and culture consultant, and Andy, a strategist focused on systems and operations, each episode tackles a key question about team dynamics, norms, and behaviour.
Grounded in real-world consulting experience and behavioural science, we go beyond theory to give you practical tools to understand, influence, and evolve your team’s culture—intentionally.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 16
- Years Active
- 2025
Productive vs busy work
In this episode we are going to be discussing the difference between productive work and busy work, and how you can approach your work with outcomes in mind.
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The Netflix Culture Deck
Check out our Substack, the home of the podcast and more - https://culturescience.substack.com/
What makes a moment memorable?
In this episode we dive into what makes moments memorable and how to engineer these moments.
This idea comes from the excellent book The Power of Moments by the Heath brothers. If you haven’t read it…
Hiring for culture
To see more go to our substack at https://culturescience.substack.com/.
How to do events that are meaningful
Get your comprehensive guide to hosting meaningful gatherings here - .https://meaningfulgatherings.substack.com/p/how-to-host-meaningful-gatherings
Deep work
For show notes, takeaways from the episode and more from us go to https://culturescience.substack.com/.
What do values, norms, mission and all that stuff mean?
The definitions are written out on our Substack - https://culturescience.substack.com/podcast. You can also reach us there if you have anything to share or comment on.
The Truth About Linklaters Culture: An Insider Tells All
This one is a bit of an experiment. I spoke to an employee at Linklaters, the ‘Magic Circle’ law firm headquartered in London about what the culture is really like.
To enable the interviewee to be fra…
Who is responsible for culture?
To get the takeaways from this episode and all our culture-related content, head over to our Substack on https://culturescience.substack.com/p/episode-8-who-is-responsible-for.
If you have anything t…
What makes for a good culture?
We look at the top 5 things that make for a good culture for Anna and Andy, so 10 total.
You can find the episode handout as well as all of our other content on our substack - https://culturescience.…
How to build good culture in remote teams
In this episode of Culture Science we talk about how to build a good team culture in remote settings.
Get the key takeaways from this episode at - https://culturescience.substack.com/.
How Amazon Shapes and Sustains Its Culture
In this episode we look at Andy's favourite example of intentional culture design: Amazon. We look at how they design and sustain their culture.
Get the handout and more about culture change on our S…
Leaders: How to change your behaviour to change your team’s culture?
In this episode, we unpack how a leader’s behaviour shapes team culture and we discuss a simple model for behaviour change you can use. We go through examples of how to apply the model, so you get to…
Continuous improvement culture: how do you build it?
In this episode, we explore how to embed continuous improvement into your team's culture.
We define what continuous improvement really means (it’s more than just training), why it matters, and how to…
Top levers for changing team culture
In this episode, we look at the most powerful and practical levers you can use to change a team’s culture.
We cover how leadership, strategy, incentives and processes shape culture over time, and shar…
What is culture?
In this episode, we dig into what team culture actually is. The Harvard Business Review may explain culture to be something ‘like the wind’ but we think a more practical definition can help you shift…