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Culture Design & Leadership Development Consultancy | Amsterdam | CinderMonkey

Every organisation has a fire burning somewhere. Most leadership teams are just very good at not looking at it.

CinderMonkey helps organisations find what's actually going on beneath the surface, and build the culture, leadership, and team dynamics to do something real about it.

Amsterdam-based. Internationally curious. Trusted by Securitas, Zorggroep Almere, Bol. and organisations where the gap between ambition and reality had quietly become a little too comfortable.

36+

Finished projects

36+

Customers

€130K+

Social impact created

9

Tribe members

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Tribe members

We're a strategy and implementation agency. Combining culture with leadership.

Yes, we know how that sounds. Stay with us.

Every organisation is, at its core, a tribe, with its own rituals, unspoken rules, and deeply held instincts about how things get done around here. Some of those instincts are your greatest strength. Others are quietly costing you your best people.

We're CinderMonkey. We work with teams who sense something is off — in their culture, their strategy, their team dynamics, or the way they lead — but haven't quite been able to name it yet.

We find the roots. We don't just treat the symptoms. And yes, we do it with warmth, with honesty, and without the kind of inspiration that sounds profound until you actually have to do something with it.

Discover our change-making products and tools

APE-X Rootdigging Reset

One day. Seven questions drawn from corporate anthropology. A 90-day roadmap you'll actually use, in your hands before 5pm. Our flagship diagnostic for organisations that are done not knowing what's really wrong.

€4900On-site

MonkeyDojo Leap

A one-day train-the-trainer: Learn how to use attention and memory load (Brain Room) and the other 5 elements to optimise your learning session(s).

€395On-site

MonkeyDojo Lv 1

A 13-week train-the-trainer; Four-layer transfer design, built for real work

€2500On-site
How we work
It's one thing to deliver a 10/10 training day. It's another thing to help companies integrate it. We're the ones who make Monday morning actually different."
Most organisations don't have a strategy problem. They have a reality problem, where what leadership believes is happening and what's actually happening in the tribe have quietly drifted apart. That gap is where culture breaks down, where good people leave, and where ambitious plans go to die a polite, well-documented death. CinderMonkey is a strategy and implementation agency. The distinction matters. We don't just diagnose and disappear. We bring our instincts into the room, we back them with data, and we stay in it with you until the desired change is actually integrated in your culture. Culture, leadership, organisational change, they get filed under 'soft' a lot. But they show up in every metric that matters. In how long people stay. In how fast decisions move the needle. In the distance between what gets said in the boardroom and what gets whispered in the hallway. We're trained to notice that distance. To name it. To measure it. And then to close the gap, not with a framework dropped from the outside, but from inside the work itself.
"We make the soft stuff data-backed and honest. Because your organisation deserves both."
How we work
It's one thing to deliver a 10/10 training day. It's another thing to help companies integrate it. We're the ones who make Monday morning actually different."
Most organisations don't have a strategy problem. They have a reality problem, where what leadership believes is happening and what's actually happening in the tribe have quietly drifted apart. That gap is where culture breaks down, where good people leave, and where ambitious plans go to die a polite, well-documented death. CinderMonkey is a strategy and implementation agency. The distinction matters. We don't just diagnose and disappear. We bring our instincts into the room, we back them with data, and we stay in it with you until the desired change is actually integrated in your culture. Culture, leadership, organisational change, they get filed under 'soft' a lot. But they show up in every metric that matters. In how long people stay. In how fast decisions move the needle. In the distance between what gets said in the boardroom and what gets whispered in the hallway. We're trained to notice that distance. To name it. To measure it. And then to close the gap, not with a framework dropped from the outside, but from inside the work itself.
"We make the soft stuff data-backed and honest. Because your organisation deserves both."

Explore our range of services

CinderMonkey is a creative strategy and culture design collective that helps organizations ignite meaningful change from the inside out. With a sharp focus on human behavior, team dynamics, and purpose-driven leadership, we blend psychological insight with bold design thinking to shift culture, unlock potential, and build movements, not just teams. Our approach is radically honest, co-creative, and always grounded in real-world action. We don’t do surface-level fixes, we go deep, where the fire starts.

Testomonials

Never miss a moment

We love to share. So every month we drop into your mailbox with our CinderMonkey's Monthly Two's. Two questions, two insights and one anecdote from one of our ongoing programs. You can sign up below.

Want to hear more? we've dedicated our Linkedin pages to sharing content that drives us. From client stories to personal insights. Real stories about subjects that captivate us. You can find them on the about page.

Never miss a moment

We love to share. So every month we drop into your mailbox with our CinderMonkey's Monthly Two's. Two questions, two insights and one anecdote from one of our ongoing programs. You can sign up below.

Want to hear more? we've dedicated our Linkedin pages to sharing content that drives us. From client stories to personal insights. Real stories about subjects that captivate us. You can find them on the about page.