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We help businesses
run beautifully™
At Diotima Works, we help leaders create organizational coherence — where strategy, culture, leadership, and execution connect seamlessly to amplify performance and purpose.
Our approach is built on Diotima’s Ladder for Business™, a proprietary framework inspired by Plato. In the original dialogue, Diotima of Mantinea describes how love evolves — from passion for one thing to love for transcendental excellence.
Applied to business, this becomes a roadmap for growth: from obsessive focus on one product to shaping markets and industries.
By adapting an ancient framework, we create cultures where purpose is clear, people are aligned, and performance flows naturally.
What would you do with more time and more profit?
AI makes culture more important than ever before
An organization’s culture has always been central to its success. It shapes how decisions are made, how teams work together, and how customers experience your business. But for many leaders, culture sits in the background — important, but perpetually deferred in favor of the more urgent pressures of running the business, managing employees, and delighting customers.
Those pressures aren’t going away. What can change is how the day-to-day happens.
Culture is the real, unspoken system that drives behavior: what gets rewarded, what gets ignored, and how decisions are made when no one is watching.
From the inside, it’s hard to see. It’s literally not being able to see the forest for the trees.
And now, AI is reshaping work at every level — from decisions and collaboration to knowledge flow and even what “expertise” means within your organization. Without a coherent culture to anchor shared purpose and human judgment, technology risks amplifying misalignment instead of creating clarity.
This isn’t a theoretical concern. It’s already here. The way your organization works — and thrives — will depend on whether your culture can adapt as fast as the world around you.
Culture has always mattered. But right now, it’s decisive.
Culture Determines Performance
Decades of research show that culture is the single biggest differentiator between great organizations and the rest — but culture isn’t the slogans on your wall or the perks in your handbook.
Culture is how things get done.
When people, processes, and tools are aligned with purpose, the result is organizational coherence — a state where everything works together seamlessly.
When an organization is coherent, performance flows.
At Diotima Works™, we’ve adapted an ancient framework to help leaders build cultures that run beautifully — delivering clarity, time, and profit you didn’t think were possible.
Organizational Coherence Index™ Measuring what really matters
Unlike traditional culture surveys or leadership frameworks, we don’t treat elements in isolation. We integrate the human, operational, and strategic layers into a single system.
The result is change that sticks:
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Decisions align with purpose
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Teams collaborate more effectively
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Execution accelerates without friction
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Performance improves — sustainably
In an age of complexity, coherence isn’t optional. It’s what creates clarity.
The Organizational Coherence Index (OCI) is our proprietary diagnostic tool, a quantitative way to measure how aligned, connected, and adaptive your organization is at every rung of the Ladder.
We assess four dimensions of organizational wisdom:
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Alignment: Are strategy, culture, and operations integrated?
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Connectivity: How effectively do teams collaborate across silos and functions?
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Purpose Integration: Is your “why” reflected in decisions, products, and culture?
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Adaptive Capacity: How well can your organization evolve amid disruption?
Organizational Coherence matters:
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When organizations improve health, they are 59% less likely to show signs of financial distress, have 6× fewer safety incidents and EBITDA rises 18% within one year. (McKinsey)
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In 2024, global engagement fell to 21%; only 27% of managers were engaged and ~70% of team engagement variance is attributable to the manager. (Gallup)
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Teams in the top quartile of engagement deliver +23% profitability vs. the bottom quartile (latest Gallup meta-analysis across 183k business units, 53 industries, 90 countries).
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Companies in the top quartile of McKinsey’s Organizational Health Index average ~3× higher return than bottom-quartile peers.
“Through Diotima’s lens, the purpose of business is not simply to compete — it is to ascend.”
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Perspective Shift:
Profit isn't fuel, it's an outcome
If you’re consuming your outcome as fuel, you’re caught in a trap of diminishing returns.
With every level of service, we help leaders and organizations tap into a fuel of limitless abundance to grow the rewards of success.
Through Diotima’s Ladder for Business and the Organizational Coherence Index, we help leaders tap a deeper source — an abundant force that aligns meaning with performance and purpose.
Because when coherence flows, performance follows.
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