About Culture Grove: Leadership and culture consulting with an anthropological approach
We help leaders build stronger ways of working.
At Culture Grove, we help growth-stage companies build cultures where people can do their best work and businesses can perform at their highest level.
Our approach is grounded in cultural anthropology, deep listening, and practical business strategy. We do not believe culture change happens through slogans or surface-level initiatives. It happens when leaders create clarity, align behavior with values, build trust, and reinforce the practices that shape how work actually gets done.
That is why our work focuses on helping organizations create leadership systems that reduce ambiguity, strengthen accountability, and support long-term performance.
- Anthropological insight grounded in real organizational research
- Practical strategies for leadership, trust, and culture alignment
- PhD in Cultural Anthropology
- Experience across healthcare, education, energy, nonprofits, and more
Stacy C.
"What sets Kristine apart is her understanding of the importance of corporate culture and the role it plays in an organization's success and profitability. She never forgets the end goal of training and employee engagement: productive, happy team members who are also brand champions."
Vision
At Culture Grove, our vision is to help leaders create workplaces where people feel respected, supported, and clear about what success looks like.
We believe healthy cultures are not accidental. They are shaped by the behaviors leaders model, the expectations they communicate, the rituals they reinforce, and the trust they build over time.
Our goal is to help organizations create cultures where people and performance can thrive together.
Our Roots: The Power of Values
At Culture Grove, our values are more than buzzwords. They are the roots that shape both our work and the way we work. We believe strong cultures are built through lived values, not aspirational language alone.
Two values sit at the center of everything we do: Connection and Trust. These are the roots from which lasting culture change grows.
Connection
We believe meaningful connection is what transforms workplaces into communities. We help organizations build stronger bridges between people, values, and goals so teams can work with greater understanding, belonging, and shared purpose.
How it shows up:
- We listen deeply to leaders, employees, and the stories shaping each organization.
- We create space for different perspectives, experiences, and realities to be understood.
- We help organizations strengthen alignment, not just activity.
Trust
Trust is the foundation that allows people and organizations to grow. When trust is present, teams communicate more honestly, collaborate more effectively, and move through change with greater confidence.
We help leaders build trust in ways that are visible, practical, and sustainable.
How it shows up:
- We lead with transparency, integrity, and follow-through.
- We help leaders translate values into everyday behavior.
- We measure success not only by outcomes, but by the clarity, confidence, and collaboration that emerge along the way.
Together, Connection and Trust form the foundation of Culture Grove’s work and the lasting change we help clients create.
Kristine Gentry, PhD
CEO and Founder
Creator of the C.U.L.T.U.R.E.™ Leadership Operating System
Kristine Gentry, PhD is a cultural anthropologist, consultant, speaker, and founder of Culture Grove. She helps growth-stage companies build stronger leadership cultures by reducing ambiguity, aligning behavior with values, strengthening accountability, and improving performance.
With more than two decades of experience across consulting, healthcare strategy, higher education, and organizational research, Kristine brings a rare blend of anthropological insight and practical business thinking to culture and leadership challenges. Her work is grounded in a simple but powerful belief: culture is not built by intention alone. It is built through what leaders model, communicate, reinforce, and allow every day.
Throughout her career, Kristine has helped organizations understand their existing cultures, surface hidden dynamics, identify the values and behaviors needed for success, and create practical strategies for lasting change. She is especially skilled at helping leaders move beyond surface-level culture work to build systems that people can actually use in the real world.
Her signature approach is the C.U.L.T.U.R.E.™ Leadership Operating System, a customized framework that helps organizations translate values into clearer expectations, stronger leadership behavior, better decision-making, and more consistent accountability.
Kristine has worked with organizations ranging from local nonprofits to multinational companies across industries including healthcare, education, oil and gas, industrial services, aviation, and the nonprofit sector.
Clients include: Children’s Memorial Hermann, Covenant Healthcare System, Houston Community College, City College of San Francisco, PHI Inc., PHI Air Medical, Golden Hour, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Greater Houston Partnership, Gyrodata, the City of Houston Mayor’s Office, Katy Independent School District, Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas Heart Institute, The Kinkaid School, Tyson Foods, and Apache Inc.
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