Inquiry Culture Assessments.

Reveal your organization’s unseen habits of mind.

Through structured diagnostics and qualitative insight tools, we assess how inquiry truly functions within your organization—not just what people say, but what they signal, suppress, and sustain. We examine leadership modeling, team dynamics, psychological safety, and questioning norms to create a clear, actionable profile of your organization’s Inquiry Culture.

Whether inquiry is thriving or quietly eroding, this assessment surfaces both strengths and blind spots so you can evolve your culture intentionally—not accidentally.

HOW IT WORKS

The assessment is designed to be conducted remotely, ensuring flexibility and minimal disruption to your day-to-day operations—while still capturing meaningful depth.

We begin with a collaborative discovery call to understand your organization’s structure, current challenges, and aspirations. From there, we deploy INQ IQ’s proprietary Inquiry Culture Assessment Tool (ICAT), which includes:

ONE: Confidential team surveys that gauge perception, safety, and openness to inquiry

TWO: 1:1 leadership interviews facilitated via Zoom, focused on modeling, mindset, and barriers

THREE: Environmental scans of internal documents (agendas, strategy decks, internal messaging)

FOUR: Behavioral pattern mapping using anonymized feedback loops and observational prompts

All interactions are facilitated by our core team of trained inquiry specialists and data analysts, ensuring both qualitative richness and analytical clarity. We handle scheduling, confidentiality agreements, and all logistics—creating a smooth and professional experience from start to finish.

Within 2–3 weeks, you’ll receive a comprehensive visual report that includes:

ONE: Cultural strengths, risk zones, and dominant inquiry behaviors

TWO: Insights into systemic patterns (e.g., top-down pressure, risk aversion, siloed communication)

THREE: A custom Inquiry Culture Profile mapped against our maturity model

FOUR: A strategy brief with prioritized recommendations, small experiments to pilot, and touchpoints for revisiting impact over time

We also offer an optional facilitated leadership debrief session (remote or in-person), where we walk through findings, explore interpretation, and discuss how to begin operationalizing a stronger Inquiry Culture across teams.

Inquiry Culture Building.

Operationalize a culture where curiosity fuels collaboration and innovation.

We help organizations move beyond slogans and vision statements to cultivate real inquiry practices across teams. From redefining how meetings function to equipping leaders with the skills to model intellectual openness, we build environments where strategic questioning becomes second nature and collaborative curiosity becomes cultural muscle.

This work doesn’t just spark new ways of thinking—it reshapes how your people engage, decide, and grow together.

HOW IT WORKS

We approach culture building as an ongoing transformation, not a one-time intervention. It’s designed to be scalable, fully remote-capable, and customized to your organization’s current state.

After assessing your Inquiry Culture (or building from existing diagnostics), we design a phase-based roadmap for cultural change, which includes:

ONE: Leadership modeling sessions (remote or hybrid), focused on rethinking influence, presence, and tone

TWO: Micro-interventions and rituals—from “First Five” team check-ins to inquiry-driven retrospectives

THREE: Custom facilitation guides for team leads, so the behaviors we introduce are sustained, not siloed

FOUR: Regular feedback loops through pulse surveys and observational journaling

Every stage includes asynchronous and live touchpoints. Our team provides coaching, tools, and design support so that curiosity doesn’t just get encouraged—it gets embedded in how work gets done.

Your organization receives a Cultural Activation Playbook—a living resource that evolves with you, outlining practical strategies, cue points, and principles for sustaining inquiry long after the engagement ends.

Inspired Inquiry Keynotes / Sessions.

Invite your audience into a culture-shifting mindset.

These high-impact, insight-driven keynotes introduce the power of inquiry as a force for innovation, ethics, and leadership. Whether speaking to executives, change agents, or entire teams, we use storytelling and case-based frameworks to shift mental models—and help people see inquiry not as a soft skill, but a strategic one.

HOW IT WORKS

Each keynote is custom-curated based on your audience, theme, and organizational goals. We begin with a brief discovery call and, if helpful, review your internal materials to understand current narratives, tensions, or themes.

Keynote topics can include

The Anatomy of a Better Question

Curiosity as Strategy

The Hidden Costs of Certainty

How Inquiry Cultures Outperform

Ethics, Innovation, and the Questions We Avoid

Delivery options include

Live or virtual keynote sessions (30–60 mins, with optional Q&A)

Pre-recorded presentations with integrated discussion prompts for internal use

Keynote + Microworkshop pairings for deeper engagement

We also provide follow-up materials or “culture conversation kits” to help teams reflect on the session and translate the message into action.

Inspired Inquiry Team Sessions.

Build the muscle of collaborative curiosity.

These sessions are highly interactive and deeply engaging—helping teams practice the inquiry-based habits that drive clarity, alignment, and creativity. Through structured reflection and skill-building, we help teams move from reactive dialogue to thoughtful, high-trust questioning and problem-solving.

HOW IT WORKS

All sessions are designed to work seamlessly in virtual or hybrid environments, using digital collaboration tools like Miro, Zoom, or custom whiteboarding templates.

After a brief intake with team leads, we customize your session(s) to fit your team's real-world challenges. Sessions typically include:

Reframing Exercises – helping teams rearticulate challenges with more nuance

Assumption Mapping – visualizing what’s driving decisions and what’s missing

Question Storming – generating high-quality questions as a group, not just ideas

Dialogue Practice – modeling safer, deeper ways of challenging each other’s thinking

We offer one-time workshops or a structured four-part series to build momentum over time. Teams leave with tools they can use weekly—plus a Team Inquiry Challenge to apply what they’ve learned to a pressing issue in their workflow.

Optional follow-up includes asynchronous check-ins or live retrospectives to reinforce habits and track impact.

Inquiry-Driven Data & Analytics.

Bring your data to life through the lens of intelligent questioning.

Our team helps you unlock not just what your data shows, but what it's trying to say—and what’s being overlooked. We synthesize complex data into clean, actionable insights, with a focus on framing the right questions around what matters most. Data becomes a launchpad for better decisions, not just a compliance box.

HOW IT WORKS

We begin by understanding the story you want your data to tell, then we reverse-engineer the right questions to ask of it.

Engagements typically include:

ONE: A data landscape review—existing systems, reports, and data culture

TWO: Co-creation of Inquiry Maps—visual tools that connect metrics to mission

THREE: Custom dashboards or visualizations tailored for leadership, staff, or public audiences

FOUR: Insight Briefs—short, strategic narrative reports that convert findings into forward motion

We work fully remotely using collaborative platforms and can integrate with your data team or act as a standalone partner. Whether for program evaluation, strategic planning, or board-facing communication, our goal is to elevate your signal, not your noise.

Inquiry Intelligence Consulting.

Strategic insight meets systems-level reflection.

This offering is for leaders facing complexity, transformation, or vision refinement. We don’t bring a toolkit of pre-made answers—we bring the right questions, and a process for helping you answer them well. Think of it as a space for guided strategic inquiry, grounded in clarity, candor, and alignment.

HOW IT WORKS

We start with a 90-minute exploratory consultation, where we clarify your challenge and align on purpose. From there, we co-create a customized engagement that may include:

ONE: Executive reflection sessions (1:1 or with small strategy teams)

TWO: Scenario mapping to evaluate assumptions and directional risk

THREE: Cultural sensing through interviews or mini-assessments

FOUR: Strategic synthesis—turning questions and observations into a clarified plan

All engagements are confidential, remote-friendly, and designed to fit within your pace of change. Whether it’s a single strategic retreat or an ongoing advisory partnership, the goal is the same: to build inquiry into your leadership practice—so that your decisions reflect not just what’s obvious, but what’s essential.