Align your culture.
Sharpen your strategy.
Overcome resistance to change.
Accelerate execution.
Kara helps leaders turn ambition into action and action into sustained profit and organisational health.
THREE CORE PROBLEMS WE SOLVE
1. Culture Misalignment
Misaligned values lead to silos and inconsistencies across the business.
2. Strategy Without Buy-In
Strategies fail when people don’t understand them or commit to them.
3. Change Resistance
Transformation dies when human behaviour is overlooked.
To realign them, choose your path below.
SERVICES
- Culture Refresh
- Strategy & One-Page Plan
- Mentoring & Scaling
Short, powerful programmes to align your culture, sharpen your strategy, and accelerate execution.
DIAGNOSTICS
Kara 7+ Index™
Organisational health across culture, leadership, strategy, customer, proposition, people and execution.
Culture Matters Diagnostic™
Your flagship culture diagnostic — measuring values, behaviours, trust and alignment.
KEPS™ — Kara Ethical Promoter Score
A world-first sustainability & trust diagnostic connecting ESG performance to culture and customer outcomes.
KARA ACADEMY
Leadership development, online training, and tools to implement the 7-Steps and One-Page Plan.
7-Steps to Profit™ Online
One-Page Plan Online
Leadership Development (Live)
LICENSING
Become a certified Kara Consultant.
Access all IP, tools, diagnostics and the global Kara ecosystem.
PhD pathway available.
ALAN O’NEILL — SPEAKER
Keynotes • Clinics • Masterclasses
Known for practical, high-energy talks rooted in real consulting experience and doctoral research.
WHY LEADERS CHOOSE KARA
· 35+ years advising global organisations
· Doctoral-level research on culture, alignment and change
· Proven proprietary frameworks
· Practical, commercially-minded approach
· Change management that actually reduces resistance
· Tailored design, no generic solutions
Ready to align your culture, your strategy and your execution?
Let’s build the momentum your business needs.
About Us
OUR NORTH STAR
At Kara, we exist for one simple reason: to help leaders create organisations where people thrive, strategy is lived… and change actually sticks.
Most organisations don’t fail because of a lack of ideas.
They fail because culture, strategy and execution drift apart… quietly, slowly, and often unnoticed.
Our mission is to close that gap.
‘’We will support and challenge our clients with growth strategies that are practical, commercial and relevant’’.
Kara is an international advisory firm founded by Dr Alan O’Neill, a practitioner-scholar with:
35+ years advising organisations across Europe, the Middle East and beyond
Deep expertise in culture, strategy, leadership alignment and change management
A reputation for making complex topics simple, practical and commercially valuable
We are not a traditional consultancy.
We sit beside leaders, not above them… helping them navigate the real human and strategic challenges that shape performance.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
People first. Always. Culture is not a poster or a word on a wall. It is the lived experience of people at work. Everything starts there.
Strategy must be simple enough to repeat and strong enough to deliver. If leaders can’t articulate it in one minute, teams cannot execute it.
Change must be designed for humans, not spreadsheets. Resistance is not a problem, it is information. We help leaders turn that information into momentum.
Leadership alignment is non-negotiable. A team without alignment is a team without leverage.
True transformation connects culture, strategy and execution into one rhythm.
This is the heart of the Kara worldview.
OUR PHILOSOPHY: ALIGNMENT ABOVE ALL
Organisations are often over-managed and under-led.
They’re full of strategic ambition but lack behavioural cohesion.
We help leaders achieve alignment across:
Values and behaviours
Leadership intent and reality
Strategy and priorities
Execution and discipline
Culture and customer experience
When these align, resistance drops, speed increases, trust rises and results follow.
Alignment isn’t fluffy, it’s commercial.
Our Story
Kara began with a simple observation:
Organisations often know what they should do, but struggle to connect the dots.
Leaders had strategy decks, culture workshops, customer surveys, offsites, dashboards, and endless initiatives… but still experienced friction, resistance and misalignment.
Dr Alan O’Neill’s academic research confirmed what 35 years of practice had shown: alignment is the missing link.
This insight became the foundation for the Kara ecosystem:
- The 7-Steps to Profit™… the roadmap
- Kara 7+ Index™… the organisational health lens
- Culture Matters Diagnostic… the behavioural truth-teller
- KEPS™… the ethical and sustainability trust metric
- Kara Academy… the capability engine
- Kara Licensing… a global network of trained consultants
Today, Kara supports organisations large and small across multiple sectors, helping leaders build clarity, cohesion and confidence.
OUR DIFFERENCE
Leaders choose Kara because we offer a rare combination:
- Boardroom-level experience
- Doctoral-level research
- Proprietary frameworks you won't find anywhere else
- A warm, human style that makes tough conversations easier
- Absolute focus on alignment, execution and your customer
- Practical tools leaders can use immediately
We don’t just tell you what to do.
We help you do it and make it stick.
Driving Growth, Amplifying Impact
Colin Gordon
CEO, Glanbia
Kara consultants have many years experience of directing the focus from customer service into customer experience. Their experience will be of huge help to those in B2B or B2C who are looking for how to move their agenda forward.
Leo Crawford
CEO, BWG Foods
We in BWG have successfully engaged with Kara on a number of strategic projects in recent years. They bring a unique Customer Experience perspective and dimension to sales and marketing strategic discussions. I would recommend them to any person or organisation that is focusing on improving sales performance.
Stephen McNally
Deputy CEO, Dalata Hotel Group plc
Kara has completed some inspirational work for us at Dalata Hotel Group plc over the past number of years. Their insights into culture and customer thought process is second to none.
Unleash Your Business Potential.
Align, Execute, Succeed
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