Enhance leadership.
Mitigate culture risk.
We work with CEOs, Boards, and Executive teams to build the leadership capability that underpins safe, inclusive, high-performing workplaces.
The In-Q Method
Enhance leadership.
Mitigate culture risk.
We work with CEOs, Boards, and Executive teams to build the leadership capability that underpins safe, inclusive, high-performing workplaces.
The In-Q MethodWhy compliance alone falls short
In a climate of heightened regulatory scrutiny, workplace disruption and societal expectations, executives, board directors and HR teams are under increasing pressure to prevent workplace misconduct. Most have invested heavily in strengthening systems and processes, yet conduct issues, culture risk and employee disengagement persist.
Largely because compliance measures alone are insufficient to drive change. Workplace culture initiatives typically fail when they simply prescribe codes of conduct, bypassing a crucial step: understanding what informs behaviours in the first place.
At In-Q, we apply a human-centric approach permitting leaders to explore the source of suboptimal conduct from a place of curiosity over judgement. We guide leaders through a safe, structured process examining the beliefs and norms that shape behaviour, and the impact conduct can have on colleagues, teams and clients. Our work supports the self-awareness required to lead safe, cohesive, performance-driven cultures.
Understand behaviour before mandating conduct
Preventing harm
Move beyond compliance to prevent workplace misconduct before harm occurs, rather than simply respond to it.
Curiosity over judgement
A human-centric approach supporting leaders to explore the source of suboptimal conduct from a place of curiosity over blame.
Engage every leader
We bring men, women and non-binary leaders together as active owners of a respectful, high-performing culture.
“The Inclusive Cultures program was transformative — one of the best I have attended. Feedback from others, especially our male colleagues, has been excellent.”
Lisa Vasic Managing Director, Transaction Banking, ANZTrusted by
Moving beyond compliance to capability
Organisations partner with In-Q to move beyond compliance and build the leadership capability required to prevent misconduct, reduce culture risk and strengthen performance. We equip leaders to:
- Meet Positive Duty and related workplace conduct obligations with greater confidence
- Understand the behavioural and cultural conditions that allow misconduct to occur
- Engage senior leaders as active owners of prevention, rather than passive recipients of training
- Mitigate resistance, defensiveness and compliance fatigue
- Create safer, more respectful, high-performing teams
In short: we help organisations create the conditions where people — and culture — thrive.
“The conversations about gender equality, and subjects such as sexual harassment in the workplace too often exclude men or worse, name and shame inappropriate behaviours without consideration of how our culture contributes to and upholds them. Without authentically engaging men, from a place of curiosity over judgment, we run the risk that measures to overcome sexual harassment will create backlash and potentially cement traditional views.”
Coleen MacKinnonFounder & Principal, In-Q
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