At Culture by Code, we help organizations embrace the future of work.

We partner with leaders to modernize how their organization operates by offering:

  • Fractional HR Business Partnering & People Strategy

  • Culture & Organizational Development

  • Responsible AI Adoption for HR and Leaders

Whether you're navigating change, reimagining your communications strategy, or implementing ethical AI in your operations, we meet you where you are and help you build what’s next.

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Transform your culture without breaking your code.

What we do.

  • We help organizations align culture, leadership, communication, and ways of working with their strategic goals.

    How We Support You

    • Cultural assessments, values alignment, and employee experience design

    • EVP development and refinement to define what makes your organization a great place to work and communicate it clearly to current and future talent

    • Organizational design support during periods of growth or restructuring

    • Change management guidance for technology adoption, mergers, or evolving business strategy

    • Leadership and team development programs that strengthen capability, communication, and cohesion

    • High-performing team facilitation, conflict navigation, and cross-functional collaboration support

    • Succession planning and talent strategy that prepares future leaders and builds internal capability

    What You Can Expect

    • Faster strategy execution: Alignment between culture, structure, and business priorities so work moves forward with less friction

    • Smoother change adoption: A structured approach that minimizes disruption and helps employees adapt confidently

    • Stronger talent outcomes: A more resilient, engaged culture that retains great people and builds the conditions for long-term performance

  • We partner with leaders to elevate people strategy, organizational health, and employee experience.

    How We Support You

    • Talent and workforce planning with clear roles and skill alignment

    • Employee relations and leadership coaching delivered with fairness and thoughtful communication

    • Change management support during restructures, technology adoption, or evolving ways of working

    • Manager development to strengthen delegation, feedback, and everyday communication

    • Employee experience, onboarding, recognition, and culture health initiatives

    • People analytics and insights that turn employee feedback into meaningful action

    • AI-enabled HR processes that modernize documentation, performance cycles, and internal communications

    What You Can Expect

    • Stronger organizational alignment: Clear roles, expectations, and communication that reduce confusion and friction

    • Healthier employee experience: More supportive relationships, better onboarding, and stronger team dynamics

    • More confident leaders and managers: Better coaching, feedback, and everyday decision-making

    • Smarter, scalable HR operations: Processes and workflows that save time, reduce errors, and improve clarity

  • We help organizations adopt AI responsibly, protecting culture, strengthening communication, and giving leaders the clarity they need to make better decisions.

    How We Support You

    • Ethical AI strategy, guidelines, and governance

    • Fairness and bias mitigation practices

    • HR and leadership AI literacy and training

    • Process modernization across onboarding, performance, documentation, and knowledge sharing

    What You Can Expect

    • Reduced legal and reputational risk: Clear standards and ethical guardrails that prevent biased or opaque AI decisions.

    • Stronger employee trust: Transparent practices that reassure teams AI supports them, not replaces or surveils them.

    • Smarter, strategic adoption: AI investments that are sustainable, human-centered, and aligned with your mission, values, and talent strategy.

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Case Studies

  • The organization acquired 3 companies in one year and faced inconsistent and fragmented internal communications, resulting in low visibility into key updates, events, and priorities, contributing to disengagement and a lack of alignment across teams.

    Solution:

    • Introduced and facilitated regular company-wide, All Hands meetings to establish a consistent communication cadence, partnering with executives to craft clear and aligned messaging.

    • Built and launched a centralized internal communications platform designed to boost transparency and streamline updates across the company. This included: 

    • A dedicated Slack channel for real-time updates

    • A shared calendar for key events and milestones

    • A wiki for essential knowledge and resources

    • A regular email digest to keep everyone aligned

    Results: 

    • Average an 80% participation rate across 18 countries 

    • +10% increase in agreement with “There is open and honest two-way communication.”

    • Created and authored 100+ editions of the weekly “In Case You Missed It” (ICYMI) newsletter, achieving a 50% average open rate.

  • As AI technologies rapidly evolve, organizations across industries are feeling the pressure to adapt, but many employees and leaders lack a foundational understanding of what AI is, how it works, and how to use it responsibly. Central Oregon Community College (COCC) recognized this gap among its regional business community and workforce development programs and wanted to offer practical, approachable training to bridge it.

    Solution: COCC partnered with me to design and facilitate a series of AI Literacy workshops tailored for professionals, small business owners, and HR leaders. These workshops were designed to:

    • Demystify artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts

    • Build confidence in using everyday AI tools

    • Spark thoughtful conversation about responsible, ethical AI use in the workplace

    • Encourage strategic thinking about how AI can augment (not replace) human work

    Results: 

    • Participant confidence increased (based on pre/post workshop surveys) in understanding and applying AI tools in their work.

    • 95% of attendees rated the workshop as "highly relevant" or "very helpful" to their role or business.

    • Sparked continued engagement, community events and helped COCC position itself as a regional leader in workforce AI readiness and innovation.

  • As the organization scaled from 200 to 1,000 employees, leadership recognized the need for a more consistent and meaningful approach to employee listening. While engagement surveys had been used in the past, results weren’t effectively cascaded or acted on, leading to frustration among employees and missed opportunities for improvement. 

    The Solution: Partnered with the People team to design and implement a scalable listening strategy using the Culture Amp engagement platform, ensuring survey insights were actionable, accessible, and directly tied to business priorities.

    • Rollout of Culture Amp as the primary employee engagement platform, including onboarding, configuration, and survey design

    • Developed a manager enablement toolkit to help leaders interpret team-specific results and facilitate meaningful follow-up conversations

    • Created custom reporting dashboards and templates to help leaders move from data to action quickly and confidently

    • Hosted action planning workshops with cross-functional teams to co-create solutions rooted in feedback

    • Developed internal communications to close the loop, sharing company-wide themes, priorities, and next steps.

    The Results

    • 80% participation rate in the annual engagement survey.

    • 100% of managers received team-specific reports and action planning guidance within two weeks of results.

    • 43% lift in “I have seen positive changes taking place based on last year’s employee survey results”.

    • Established an ongoing rhythm of listening and learning that positioned People & Culture as strategic enablers of change.

  • Public sector teams are navigating ongoing change, rising demands, and limited resources. Central Oregon Community College (COCC) identified the need for practical, research-backed training to support public employees and emerging leaders in building more resilient, connected teams.

    The Solution: Partnered with COCC to design and deliver a custom workshop series on Building Resilient Teams, tailored specifically for the unique context and constraints of public service.

    Key elements of the program included:

    • Interactive sessions focused on team confidence, psychological safety, and leadership behaviors that foster resilience.

    • Real-world scenarios and group activities that encouraged peer learning and practical application.

    • Emphasis on small, actionable shifts leaders can make to build trust, improve clarity, and navigate uncertainty.

    • Tools and takeaways aligned with organizational realities.

    The Results

    • Participants reported increased confidence in applying the concepts to their teams.

    • Rated as an engaging and practical session.

    • Sparked demand for additional sessions on related topics, including workshops on critical thinking, decision-making, and navigating the future of work with AI.

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    Angeline Wong Tucker, Chief People Officer

    Carly has done such a great job leading our Employee Experience and Communication efforts! She does such a great job with our executive leaders, "herding cats" in an artful way to keep them on task, and on message. From a culture and employee experience perspective, she's insightful and pragmatic, looking for ways to reinforce the culture and improve the experience in a way that's digestible by the business, and appealing to employees. She's proactive, inquisitive, and has an excellent growth mindset, always looking for ways we can improve. She's an absolute pleasure to work with and a great person to have on the team.

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    Senthil Kumaran, CTO

    Carly has been my partner for internal comms and it has been an absolute pleasure working with her over the past 2 years. Driving org transformation leads to rapid evolution and change, having someone that is capable of understanding, applying empathy and positioning the internal comms for broad consumption is crucial to driving change. I am lucky we had Carly, not only helping with town halls but also communication in other forums. I think Carly's super power is her ability to listen intently and formulate comms strategy that aligns to specific cultural elements of the company. I highly recommend Carly!

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    Sylvia Krzmarzick, Chief People Officer

    From an Employee Experience perspective, she truly professionalized the way in which we rolled out and followed up on actions from our surveys and "Action Teams." While all of these structural and work products are critical, I found her partnership, advice and counsel truly something that differentiates true influence leaders. I give her my highest recommendation and endorsement and would consider it an honor to work with her again.

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    Taiwo Onibokun, Executive Coach

    Carly is a powerhouse leader who is laser-focused on value-added results! She is a strategic partner to executive leadership & works tirelessly to support her stakeholders with key operational insight that drives consumer & performance behaviors. Carly's strength is her ability to collaborate across diverse work teams.

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    Gina McCullough, Director of Integrations & Service Operations

    I worked closely with Carly both in an operational capacity and also as a co-chair of the company’s first ERG, Ellevate. One of her most significant passions was also ensuring diversity and inclusion, within the organization. She is someone who is able to develop and execute various types of initiatives while ensuring inclusivity and cross-collaboration with those areas impacted.

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    Matt Thomas, Sr. Director, Agile Program Management

    Carly is a natural leader and strategic thinker. I was fortunate to have worked with Carly during her tenure at Verizon Media, where she excelled at aligning strategic vision across leadership and executing business and organizational objectives. Carly is a smart executive and has the ability to leverage her strong relationship-building and communication skills to foster partnerships that enable both organizational efficiency and business opportunity.

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Meet Carly

Carly Pomeroy, the founder of Culture by Code Consulting, is a Culture and Communications Strategist and holds a Master's in Organizational Psychology from the University of Southern California. With 15 years of experience operationalizing culture and activating transformational employee experiences, she excels in guiding organizations and leaders toward fostering a high-performance and future-ready culture. In her spare time, Carly loves to tackle DIY projects and explore Central Oregon with her husband and two children.