You can redesign the process, structure or system. Sustainable transformation depends on whether people adopt new ways of working and the culture evolves to support them. 

A new operating model, system or strategy is only half the job. The other half is enabling people to work differently and creating the culture that sustains those behaviours. Too often, change and culture are addressed late, under-resourced or left for the business to absorb. Adoption stalls, old habits return and benefits erode. We connect practical change delivery with culture transformation, helping leaders and teams embed the behaviours, mindsets and ways of working needed to make transformation stick. 

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Zoe Bratton

Associate Director

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Most change does not fail at launch. It loses momentum when practical barriers, leadership signals or established behaviours pull people back to the old way. We combine change diagnostics with culture insight to identify where adoption is at risk and what may be reinforcing it. 

Your programme goals set the agenda from day one. We work alongside your leaders, teams and people to translate strategy into the behaviours, mindsets and ways of working required for success. Where culture transformation is needed, we assess the current culture, define the desired culture and build a practical roadmap for change.

We equip leaders to role-model the change and involve employees through co-design, change networks, communications, learning and targeted interventions. This builds understanding, ownership and advocacy rather than relying on top-down instruction. 

We help hard-wire new behaviours into leadership, people processes, governance, performance and recognition. Your organisation retains the capability, tools and confidence to lead future change, while the benefits of the current transformation continue to build. 

Why Grant Thornton

Why are we different? 

You get an integrated team combining change management rigour with culture, behaviour, leadership and sector insight. This connects programme delivery with the human and organisational conditions needed for change to succeed. 

Why would potential clients choose us? 

Clients come to us because we do not arrive with a template and ask them to fit it. We bring proven change and culture methodologies, then shape the approach around your strategy, culture, pace and people. That means less time adapting to us and more time creating change that works in practice. 

How are we going beyond for our clients? 

Your organisation keeps the capability once we have gone: leaders who can model the desired culture, managers equipped to reinforce new behaviours, and a change network able to carry the next transformation without rebuilding the approach from scratch. 

How do our international capabilities make us stand out? 

If your programme spans borders, you get consistent change delivery combined with local cultural insight from the Grant Thornton International network, helping global ambition land effectively in different organisational and market contexts. 

Embedding change across a global Oracle transformation
Case studies

Embedding change across a global Oracle transformation

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The challenge
A global Oracle implementation required employees across multiple regions, functions and sites to adopt new processes, systems and ways of working at pace.
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The solution
Our change team delivered impact assessments, readiness, communications, stakeholder engagement and tailored training to build capability and drive adoption.
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The results
Improved adoption and process compliance across sites, supporting a smoother transition and delivery of the expected business benefits.
Creating an enterprise change operating model
Case studies

Creating an enterprise change operating model

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The challenge
Change activity was fragmented, with no consistent governance, prioritisation or visibility of cumulative impact across the organisation.
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The solution
We designed a federated hub-and-spoke model, with clear roles, governance, tiering, quality gates and a phased implementation roadmap.
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The results
A board-ready operating model enabled faster decisions, clearer accountability and consistent change delivery across five business areas.