Culture Matters

Workplace Dynamics

Who’s Really in Charge of Workplace Culture Change?

MarYam Hamedani Ph.D. on November 4, 2025

Engaging both top-down and bottom-up culture change requires savvy because people have different interests, stakes, and levels of formal and informal power.

Engaging both top-down and bottom-up culture change requires savvy because people have different interests, stakes, and levels of formal and informal power.

Politics

Remaking the Culture of American Politics

MarYam Hamedani Ph.D. on September 29, 2025

The Culture Cycle shows how people can make, unmake, and remake culture with a shared blueprint and use key social and psychological levers for change.

The Culture Cycle shows how people can make, unmake, and remake culture with a shared blueprint and use key social and psychological levers for change.

Sport and Competition

You, Me, and Caitlin Clark: We Are All Culture Makers

MarYam Hamedani Ph.D. on August 8, 2025

Since people build their cultures, together over time, people also have the power to change those same cultures. You have more power than you think.

Since people build their cultures, together over time, people also have the power to change those same cultures. You have more power than you think.

Leadership

Want Culture Change? Use These 7 Principles

MarYam Hamedani Ph.D. on June 28, 2025

Culture change is hard, but not impossible. It requires navigating hidden social and psychological dynamics—and using levers of culture to influence those dynamics for good.

Culture change is hard, but not impossible. It requires navigating hidden social and psychological dynamics—and using levers of culture to influence those dynamics for good.