Conscious Culture

Work culture built on purpose.

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How We Can Be More Digitally Inclusive to Narrow the Digital Divide

By Rebecca A Mendoza In late 2015, I was job hunting when I came across a Digital Inclusion Officer job at a well-known social change charity in the UK. I had spent the previous few years working in digital marketing and desperately needed a change. I read through the job

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What Does Diversity Look Like in the Workplace?

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Four-Day Workweek: Where to Start

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Women on Work

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How to Build a Conscious Culture Across a Remote Team

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Conscious Culture: A World Changing Idea

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How To Use Design Thinking to Build Conscious Culture

How do we build culture on purpose?

A Conscious Culture is one that prioritizes tangible commitments to its people based on these foundational principles:

Wellness

Putting the team’s health and well-being first.

Diversity

Welcoming people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and philosophies.

Trust

Cultivating trust through transparency and candid collaboration.

Good

Committing to ethical practices in actions with team, value chain, customers, and the world.

Standards

Implementing high but fair standards with a practice of accountability.

Results

Prioritizing the right business outcomes.

Playbook

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Bolt’s Conscious Culture: Culture Playbook

What is a Conscious Culture? Introduction When building something great, team and culture are just as important as strategy and product. Every company will say they have a great culture and point to their values listed on a wall. But culture is not simply a list of values. Culture is

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Managing our team

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Manager’s Guide To Compensation & Promotion

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Performance Reviews

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Setting Goals and Tracking Performance

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Making Decisions

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Remote Work Best Practices

Better Work Summit

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Redesigning for Better Work Summit 2022

Conscious Culture hosted this gathering to explore the ways companies can redesign critical work structures of time and space and why these changes are part of the larger commitment to making work better for everyone. You’ll hear business leaders, researchers, and practitioners share stories that will inspire and frameworks

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Workshop: Designing time to make work less hectic and more fulfilling

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Panel: Getting unstuck: how to make work work beyond place and time

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Panel: Out of time: rethinking the work day

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Workshop: Creating empathy in the workspace

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Workshop: Starting Culture Work

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Workshop: This could have been an email

DEI

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How We Can Be More Digitally Inclusive to Narrow the Digital Divide

By Rebecca A Mendoza In late 2015, I was job hunting when I came across a Digital Inclusion Officer job at a well-known social change charity in the UK. I had spent the previous few years working in digital marketing and desperately needed a change. I read through the job

Four people in an office around a desk, watching a screen with a virtual meeting. There are three coworkers on the screen.

What Does Diversity Look Like in the Workplace?

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Then and Now: Sex and Gender Representation in Technical Specifications

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An Infusion of Inclusion: A Q&A with We Are Rosie

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The Advantages and Challenges of Bias in Tech

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How to Build an Inclusive Workplace

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Accessibility is More Than Wheelchair Ramps

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