Rapid Reculturing: Transforming Organizations at Pace and Scale - Hardcover

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ALEX BAILEY is a leader in human-centered organizational transformation and leadership development. She is a multi-award-winning psychologist, business owner, and executive advisor who works with senior leaders navigating the human realities of power, pressure, and change. With over two decades of experience at the board and executive levels across all industries and markets both private and public sector in all regions of the world, Bailey brings evidence-based organizational psychology to leadership and decision-making in complex, high-stakes environments across business and government.

KERRI O’NEILL is a Chief People Officer, board strategist, author and qualified executive coach. She is a global expert in optimizing organizations through culture, talent, and large-scale technology-driven transformation. She created the UK’s online safety regulatory capability from scratch, led 12,000 people through one of the most public corporate collapses of recent years, and built one of the FTSE 100’s earliest People Analytics functions. Kerri is Chief People Officer at Ipsos UK & Ireland and its Global AI Workforce Transformation Lead, sits on the UK CIPD AI Advisory Board, is named one of HR’s 30 Most Influential Leaders, and is a Trustee and Honorary Officer of Oxfam GB.

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Praise for RAPID RECULTURING

“Rapid Reculturing offers a timely call to take culture seriously as a strategic system, not a side project. The compelling idea of ‘reculturing’ will stay with readers long after they close the book. The authors bring in multiple ideas and frameworks, but busy leaders should focus on the book’s core message―organizations can and must intentionally reshape culture at pace and scale to succeed in today’s business environment.”
―AMY C. EDMONDSON, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School, and author of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

“Organizational culture is a CEO’s secret weapon to achieve growth. Rapid Reculturing is timely and does not shy away from the hard truth about what it really takes to shift organizational culture today. Its honesty is refreshing, and it reflects the very purpose of Ipsos―providing insight grounded firmly in the experience of real people. At a time when the ways we understand culture are rapidly evolving, from AI, advanced analytics to lived-experience, Kerri, Ipsos UK and Ireland’s Chief People Officer and her co-author Alex offer a clear, practical and science-based guide for leaders determined to build cultures that can help them thrive in a changing world. I highly recommend this right now to leaders.”
―KELLY BEAVER, MBE, Chief Executive, Ipsos UK & Ireland

“Culture is vital―but ask ten leaders to define it and you’ll get ten different answers. Rapid Reculturing by Alex and Kerri brings much-needed clarity. It helps you define the culture you need and gives you practical tools to get there―fast. And that speed matters. Be sure to read to the very end, especially the chapter on Human Connection. It will enrich you as a leader and as a person. Five stars. You’re going to love this book!”
―CHESTER ELTON, Bestselling author of The Carrot Principle and Leading with Gratitude

“Prepare to be deprogrammed from indoctrinated ‘best practices’ of culture change and immersed in the new science of organizational transformation. Steeped in modern research, this series of cliffhanging suppositions keeps you wanting more and then delivers with exquisitely satisfying pragmatic applications to accelerate fulfillment of your organizational vision.”
―CHUCK KEMPER, CHRO of the American Bureau of Shipping

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Traditional change models are breaking down under the pressures of AI adoption, workforce burnout, and the demands of five generations working side by side. Alex Bailey, who pioneered the first strengths-based performance program in a UK organization and scaled it across 27 countries at Aviva, and Kerri O’Neill, CPO of Ipsos UK and inaugural member of the CIPD HR30, introduce Reculturing―a science-backed model for building sustainable high performance in the Intelligence Age. Rapid Reculturing provides the mindset shift and practical playbook leaders need to build cultures where people thrive at pace and scale.

Drawing on the authors’ combined experience supporting cultural evolution programs for organizations including Booking.com, American Express, Allianz, Publicis Media, TotalEnergies and the UK Central Government, the book reframes organizational transformation as a cultural challenge rather than a structural one. It shows why legacy approaches to change fail under modern complexity and presents a fresh framework for adaptive leadership that responds to accelerating conflict and uncertainty. Each chapter connects organizational psychology research to actionable steps leaders can implement immediately within their own teams and divisions.

Rapid Reculturing equips readers with a concrete shortcut to redesign how their organizations operate, lead, and perform. The book addresses how to integrate AI responsibly while sustaining human-centered values, how to respond to generational friction as a source of strength rather than disruption, and how to replace outdated practices with approaches suited to the current era. O’Neill’s expertise in executive coaching and diversity strategy grounds the model in real workforce outcomes and measurable organizational impact.

Written for business leaders, HR professionals, and transformation consultants, Rapid Reculturing offers a direct path from stalled change initiatives to cultures that adapt and perform under pressure. This book provides the science-backed frameworks, leadership principles, and implementation strategies required to create organizations that are resilient, human-centered, and built to operate at the speed the Intelligence Age demands.