Another competitive advantage:

A Relationship-Smart Culture.

Founders: Build the company
you wish you'd worked for.

What you’ve seenWhat you’ll build
Good people worn down by sub‑optimal managersAll managers skilled at relationship management
Politics, silos and pointless frictionFighting silos and friction is in the DNA of every team
Leaders: “People are fungible (except me, of course)”Leaders: “Relationships are the best part of the job”

With C‑FASTR™, the way your people treat each other becomes
visible, measurable, and an advantage you can grow.

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New companies need new playbooks.

Why this is worth your time

The thing in the way is inside the company. So is the advantage.

Bain asked executives what stands between their companies and profitable growth. 85 percent named something internal rather than something in the market. Among the largest companies it reached 94 percent. The two most common answers were losing the mission that made the company matter, and the slow arrival of bureaucracy.

Internal is the part you can still reach.

Bain & Company, Founder's Mentality

Every company has to handle disagreement, missed commitments, and news nobody wants to deliver. Handling those well is a skill, which means it can be taught, practiced, and measured like any other capability you invest in. A company whose people are good at it moves faster, decides once, and keeps the people it spent a year recruiting.

Your people also keep the skill. It produces outstanding results at work, and it contributes to their lives beyond a paycheck, which is a reason to be here that a compensation band does not reach.

The right thing for your business and the right thing for your people are the same thing.
What C-FASTR™ measures

Six dimensions. Every one of them is a behavior, and a behavior can be practiced.

Feelings need interpretation before anyone knows what to do with them. Behavior points at something specific. When a dimension scores low, you know which behavior to work on, and your team practices it in the same engagement.

Collusion

Whether the real conversation happens in the room, or afterward with different people.

A high score means the meeting is where it gets said.

Feedback

Whether people can tell each other the truth, and take it when it comes back.

A high score means hard news arrives early and lands well.

Accountability

Whether commitments hold, and what happens when they do not.

A high score means a missed commitment gets addressed, not absorbed.

Sensitivity

Whether people understand each other's situations well enough to find answers that work for both sides.

A high score means people solve for both sides, not for their own side.

Trust

Whether people can rely on each other when it counts.

A high score means people extend it before it is earned twice over.

Relationship focus

Whether the quality of working relationships is treated as part of the work rather than as something extra.

A high score means the relationship is part of the job, not a break from it.

How this differs from an engagement survey, since someone on your team will ask

An engagement survey measures how people feel about working for you, which is worth knowing and which usually needs focus groups and listening sessions before anyone can act on it. C-FASTR™ measures what happens between people: whether disagreement reaches the room, whether commitments hold, whether anyone says the hard thing. The two sit at different layers, and running C-FASTR does not mean giving up the survey you already have.

C-FASTR was built by a software engineer, over a 25 year career spanning organizational culture, process engineering, and program management, including seven years inside The Coca-Cola Company. That is why it produces a reading rather than an impression. Every CCS consultant is trained in the method and mentored through delivery before leading an engagement.

What you get back

A reading of your company, group by group.

You see where the friction is concentrated, what it is costing you in execution, and which behavior to work first. Then the same measure runs again, so the second reading answers the question that matters to you: did it move.

C-FASTR™ Culture Health Report: Sample Company, 80 people
Eng Product Sales Ops Leadership Avg
Trust71%58%44%62%76%62%
Collusion47%38%31%52%44%42%
Feedback: Giving74%69%81%66%84%75%
Feedback: Receiving52%48%39%57%41%47%
Accountability68%55%79%72%63%67%
Sensitivity46%61%54%49%58%54%
Relationship Focus59%66%47%70%73%63%
Strong (70%+) Watch (50 to 69%) Priority (under 50%)

On every dimension a higher score is better. Collusion scores high when the real conversation happens in the room. Illustrative sample, not client data.

Feedback goes out easily and comes back hard, in every group. That gap is the first thing to work, and it is a teachable skill.

Sales reads low on trust and low on collusion. That is usually one problem showing up under two names, and it is the group closest to your revenue.

Leadership scores highest on trust and lowest on taking feedback. Worth a conversation now, while it is still a reading and not yet a reputation.

Your results come to you first. Individual responses are never attributed to anyone.

"C-FASTR is a practical, repeatable system that can help teams build trust fast. As trust rises, alignment happens sooner: priorities get clearer, decisions speed up, and cross-functional execution tightens. The result is tangible business impact through more predictable delivery, higher engagement, and stronger customer outcomes."
Pamela Bishop, Board Member, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
Where to start

Four ways in, priced up front.

Pick the one that matches where you are. Each one stands on its own.

The Read

$24,500

You want the numbers before you commit to a program.

  • Your people complete the assessment, and CCS consultants talk with your key leaders to find the story behind the scores.
  • You sit down and go through what it says, dimension by dimension and group by group.
  • You leave with a recommendation on what to work first.

Credits in full toward an engagement started within three months.

The Build

From $60,000

You want the skills built, and evidence that they moved.

  • Your team learns to tell the truth and take it, decide once, hire against your real values, and repair a relationship when it comes apart.
  • The culture gets built into the machinery: how people are brought in, what gets recognized, what gets addressed. Your own leaders learn to run it.
  • C-FASTR is scored again and set against the first reading.

The Whole Company

From $80,000

You want the culture to reach the people you never meet.

  • Everything in The Build, delivered to every group in the company.
  • Three more sessions: Stopping Collusion, Seeing Other Perspectives, and Embedding Relationship Focus Into the Culture.
  • People inside your company trained to carry the work, and readings across the year that show whether it is holding as you grow.

Managers build culture on their own teams rather than waiting for you.

The Design Intensive

$90,000

Your leadership team is ready to decide, together and out loud, what kind of company this is.

  • Two days with your senior leadership team, C-FASTR baseline included, so the room opens with your numbers.
  • You leave with the culture written in behaviors rather than adjectives, and an install plan with real accountability attached.
  • Commitments from every leader who was in the room, and CCS back afterward to make sure the install is holding.

Continue into The Build within three months and it is reduced by $10,000.

Starting prices cover up to 25 people. Beyond that, price follows the number of groups, because the work is delivered in rooms of 25 and the assessment happens once regardless of size. Cost per person falls steadily as the company grows. CCS will price your company in the first conversation.

Companies in the top quartile of organizational health return three times more to shareholders than those in the bottom quartile, and twice the return on invested capital.

McKinsey Organizational Health Index
What it asks of your people

Enough time to build a skill. Not enough to slow the company down.

The Build

About ten hours of each person's time, spread across several months. Two surveys at fifteen to twenty minutes each, two half day sessions, and a two hour check-in. A handful of leaders are also interviewed, which adds about an hour for them.

The Whole Company

Roughly double that, since the three additional sessions reach every group in the company rather than one.

The Design Intensive

Two full days for your senior leadership team, and a survey for everyone else.

How CCS works

Five things we hold to, on every engagement.

Everyone, not only the leaders.

What senior leaders live and what a team lead lives cannot differ at the soul level. Same structure, same contours, shaped by the people carrying it.

Live and facilitated, in person or remote.

Relationship skills are learned in rooms with people in them, where someone is present to make sure everyone comes out of a hard moment better than they went in. Whether that room is physical or on video is your call.

Nobody sees a number before they know how to read it.

In every session your people learn the six dimensions and how to read the report first, and see their own results second. A leader is never handed difficult numbers about their team and left alone with them.

Twice, not once.

Skills this difficult need a second pass. Every engagement comes back to the same rooms with new data and new material, because one session teaches a model and two build a habit.

What clients say

From people who have been in the room:

"The session was engaging and thoughtfully facilitated, helping us identify areas of strength as well as those that need attention and improvement. The situational examples were especially effective. They really resonated with the team and made the content both relatable and impactful. It's a resource I would recommend to other organizations seeking to strengthen their culture and performance."
Carla Williams-Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
"I've sat through trainings that triggered more resistance than progress. C-FASTR was completely different. It addresses hard topics through relationship skills everyone can get behind, regardless of their politics. It gave us a way to talk about hard things without the room splitting apart."
Ron Baker, Independent Consultant
"C-FASTR gave us language and tools for things we knew mattered but didn't know how to address systematically."
Chris Murphy, CTO and Vice-Chairman, The Harris-Murphy Youth Foundation

The companies that excel build strong relationship focus into their soul, as early as possible.

If that’s the company you want to build, then let’s talk.