Australian Enterprise Awards 2026 | 66 Based in Australia and serving the Asia-Pacific region, Assembly Culture is working to redefine organisational performance through the lens of behavioural economics. Founded and led by Lorissa Garcia, we learn more about the industry as the firm receives an accolade in the Australian Enterprise Awards 2026. Assembly Culture is a specialised organisational consultancy that bridges the gap between behavioural economics and workplace performance. Operating across Australia, Asia, and the Pacific, the firm challenges traditional culture models by exploring the emotional drivers that dictate how teams “assemble” and function. “Behavioural economics tells us that emotion drives behaviour,” explains Lorissa Garcia, the firm’s Founder and Director. “At Assembly Culture, we go beyond traditional culture work focused solely on values and behaviours, cutting deeper to explore the emotions teams and employees experience within an organisation. We believe culture is lived, not laminated, and that meaningful change comes through daily rituals, habits, and interactions, underpinned by connection and self-aware leadership.” Assembly Culture is trusted by leaders across government, NGOs, professional services, and the private sector due to its rejection of the one-size-fits-all playbook. Every engagement is meticulously tailored to the specific context, strategy, and people of an organisation. This commitment to personalisation ensures cultural interventions are not only human-centered but deeply practical. The firm’s values drive everything it does - viewing emotions as signals, not distractions, and helping leaders turn emotional insight into trust, clarity, and connection within their teams. It achieves this by offering bespoke workshops, leadership coaching, emotional culture diagnostics and design, team ritual creation, and strengths-based team development through its signature Culture Coaches Programme, alongside practical tools like The Workplace Rituals Deck. Every programme and resource is human-centred, co-created, and designed to uncover insights that shift behaviour, strengthen connection, and elevate performance. “Our unique selling point lies in our ability to translate emotional insight into tangible outcomes,” Lorissa continues. “Ultimately, we want our clients to leave with improved connection, productivity, and organisational performance, creating workplaces where people feel seen, supported, and motivated to thrive.” Lorissa tells us that the culture and leadership space is shifting towards deeper, more human-centred work. Organisations are moving beyond tick-box engagement tools and traditional leadership training, and looking instead for approaches that build emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and collective awareness. In Australia, the focus on psychosocial wellbeing has accelerated this shift, creating demand for culture strategies that make emotional signals visible and actionable. Assembly Culture works with these trends by helping leaders understand the emotional drivers shaping their teams, and by embedding practical rituals, behaviours, and reflective practices that strengthen connection and the performance of the individual and the team. “We like to see industry challenges as opportunities for growth,” she adds. “Hybrid tension becomes a chance to build belonging; retention pressure becomes a moment to elevate leadership capability and shared awareness; regulatory shifts create space for culture work that is meaningful rather than reactive. We look to the external factors influencing how people show up in organisations, and use these to deliver development that is responsive and relevant.” Recently, Assembly Culture gained recognition for its work, and its highly personalised approach, in the Australian Enterprise Awards 20206 where it was named Culture & Leadership Consulting Innovators of the Year 2026 for its endeavours. Now, the future is all about scale without losing soul. Being founderled, the firm will focus on still bringing the personalised service to the work it undertakes, whilst creating bigger ripples into the client community. In 2026, Lorissa plans to expand the leadership development ecosystem with deeper programmes focused on collective emotional awareness rather than traditional leadership ‘training’. The AC Culture Coaches Program will be refreshed to grow into a wider learning pathway, helping more organisations build internal capability around emotional culture, and there are also plans to broaden product lines, with The Workplace Rituals Deck becoming the centrepiece of a suite of tools that make culture work practical, repeatable and actionable. Lorissa adds: “Across Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Australia, we’re supporting individuals and teams to integrate emotional culture and leadership into everyday work, helping leaders create cohesive, motivated, and high-performing teams.” Contact: Lorissa Garcia Company: Assembly Culture Web Address: www.assemblyculture.co Culture & Leadership Consulting Innovators of the Year 2026
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