Rooted Culture

The Foundation for Lasting Alignment

Bring Your Values to Life

Many mission-driven organizations know what they stand for.

Fewer see those values consistently reflected in daily decisions, expectations, and systems.

When values drift from practice, people feel it. Confusion grows. Burnout rises. Accountability becomes personal instead of shared.

Rooted Culture helps organizations close that gap by translating values into observable behaviors and aligning the systems that sustain them. This work creates clarity, consistency, and a foundation strong enough to support growth and change.

When Rooted Culture is the Right Place to Start

Most organizations begin here.

Rooted Culture is especially helpful when:

  • Values feel clear, but culture feels inconsistent

  • Leaders interpret values differently

  • Decision-making depends on a few individuals

  • Expectations feel uneven across teams

  • Growth or change has exposed cracks beneath the surface

This work is not about redefining your values. It is about ensuring they show up in daily work in ways people can see, trust, and rely on.

What This Work Creates

Clarity

Shared understanding of what your values look like in action, across roles and contexts.

Alignment

Systems, routines, and decision-making that reinforce what matters most.

Sustainability

Structures that support culture over time, reducing reliance on individual personalities or constant reinforcement.

  • Description text goWe clarify core values and translate them into specific, observable behaviors that reflect your mission and strategy.

  • Together, we examine where systems, routines, and practices support those behaviors—and where they unintentionally undermine them.

  • We help redesign and reinforce key systems so alignment is maintained through daily work, leadership decisions, and organizational rhythms.

Our Process

Rooted Culture follows a structured, collaborative process designed to uncover root causes and build alignment that lasts. Our three step process provides both insight and direction, allowing organizations to move foward with confidence rather than guesswork.

How We Work Together

We work with you virtually, in person, or in a hybrid format, depending on your needs.

Engagements may include:

  • Values-to-behavior mapping

  • Organizational alignment assessments

  • System and process redesign

  • Leadership and team working sessions

  • Implementation and follow-through support

Typical Engagement Timeline

Rooted Culture engagements are designed to be focused and contained.

Most organizations work with Rooted Aspen over 3-6 months, allowing enough time to clarify values, assess alignment, and reinforce changes in systems and daily practices.

The goal is not long-term dependency, but internal clarity and capability that continues well after the engagement ends.

Investment

Rooted Culture engagements typically start at:

  • $4,000 for small organizations

  • $7,000 for mid-sized organizations

Final investment depends on scope, context, and depth of engagement.

Where This Leads

Rooted Culture establishes the foundation for everything that follows.

From here, organizations often layer:

But it starts here, with clarity.

If your values feel right but your culture doesn’t reflect them, this is the place to begin.

Let’s start with a conversation to uncover what’s happening beneath the surface and identify a clear path forward.