When growth is being quietly blocked, it looks like this:
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Decisions bottleneck at the top
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Teams wait, second-guess or play it safe
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Work feels busy, but priorities aren’t clear
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Friction builds quietly in meetings
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Real thoughts & ideas are held back
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Energy drains — and your best people start to look elsewhere
This isn’t a lack of effort.
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It’s a sign the conditions for growth aren’t in place.
Growth Cultures feel different
✔ People understand what’s expected
✔ They feel trusted and confident to act
✔ Decisions are made close to the work
✔ Creating energy & wellbeing is part of the plan
✔ Collaboration is supportive, even under pressure
✔ Learning & meaningful progress are built into everyday work
Growth is experienced everyday, not by luck, but by design.
There is a formula for
sustainable growth
Growth doesn’t happen by accident or through one-off initiatives. It comes from intentionally shaping the conditions people work in every day.
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At Make It Human, we’ve mapped the elements that unlock growth for people and businesses — and turned them into practical models, tools and skills leaders can use in real, modern workplaces.
Kitty McCormick
MD, Head of Private Banking, Santander
Make it Human charts a path, where making positive adjustments will enable a healthy culture to thrive. This is hugely valuable for leaders, but equally for those who aspire to lead in the twenty-first century.
Sarah Jallow
Chief People Officer, Saville Assessment
The approach focuses on taking small, manageable steps that create lasting habits, offering a realistic starting point for implementing and embedding meaningful changes in your everyday work environment.
Steven Beattie
Chief People Officer,
Lexxic
The insights are relevant and easy to implement and we’re confident that we will see significant improvements in our employee engagement, performance, and overall organisational culture at Lexxic.
Jonny Friedman
Chief People Officer,
Fiecon
I love being part of the make it human club! The catch ups always bring thought provoking questions to the agenda and it’s great to discuss these items with like minded individuals in different organisations to develop and grow my thinking.
What the Growth Culture shapers say
You can shape cultures where people & businesses grow, every day.
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Choose to nurture
growth cultures
When teams are stretched, communication is scattered, and everything feels urgent, culture stops being intentional — and starts working against performance.
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Without careful focus, culture quietly drifts towards toxicity. We help you pinpoint the everyday behaviours, habits and environments that enable focus, performance and growth — even under pressure.
At Make It Human, we demystify culture, breaking it down into simple and tangible steps proven to shape cultures where people and businesses grow.
Our vision and models are outlined in Make It Human founder and author Sarah McLellan's book. The world's most successful and durable companies share one thing in common - an unrelenting focus on shaping growth cultures.
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Solutions to help you nurture
a Growth Culture
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Why this matters...
Delivering
Lasting Results
7x
More Innovative
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10x
Higher Retention
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20x
Productivity
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21x
Increase in
Diversity & Inclusion
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From: Bersin's Thriving Organisations, 2023
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