Leadership and Values Development Programme
Sostratus Energy
Sostratus Energy is a clean technology company focused on delivering innovative, space-efficient, behind-the-meter power solutions that support decarbonisation and sustainability goals.
Overview
As the business scales globally and expands its ViaGen™ product family, the Board and senior leadership team partnered with FabricShift to ensure their culture, values, and leadership capabilities evolved to support ambitious growth.
The programme was designed to define a clear set of values and behaviours, strengthen leadership capability, and build high-performing, innovative teams capable of taking products rapidly to market.
Best Beginnings partnered with us to strengthen leadership practices that support their mission to reduce health inequalities, particularly for Black, Asian, and ethnic minority families during early years parenting. The programme aimed to enhance cultural competency, foster team collaboration, and embed inclusive practices that empower the organisation to serve diverse communities effectively.
Approach
Tailored to Sostratus Energy’s strategic priorities, the programme was built around FabricShift’s behaviour change model to foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability. We worked closely with the SE Board and leadership team to align the programme with business goals, including operational efficiency, rapid product delivery, and long-term employee retention.
The programme included:
- Leadership workshops: Focused on building trust, psychological safety, and innovation in fast-paced environments. Topics included leading through complexity, decision-making at pace, and engaging diverse teams.
- Values and behaviours creation: Co-creation sessions led to the definition of a core set of values and practical behaviours that now guide decision-making, performance, and culture across the business.
- Behaviour tracking and reinforcement: Using FabricShift’s HabiTrack™ tool, leaders selected priority behaviours aligned to the values and tracked these over six weeks, embedding habits such as giving timely feedback, empowering teams, and inclusive problem-solving.
FabricShift evaluation model
The programme was evaluated using FabricShift’s 4-part impact model:
- Knowledge acquisition: Post-session feedback showed a 90% increase in leaders’ clarity on how to model values-led leadership and drive innovation.
- Application of learning: Reflection data showed 82% of leaders were actively applying new strategies in team meetings, product reviews, and hiring decisions.
- Behaviour change: HabiTrack™ data revealed 79% of participants consistently practised priority behaviours aligned with agility and inclusion.
- Culture and organisational change: The business reported a measurable uplift in team engagement (+25%), employee performance, and time-to-market efficiency.
Impact
- Increased engagement and retention: Employee engagement rose by 25%, with improved staff retention in key technical and engineering roles.
- Performance and productivity: Leaders reported improved communication, faster decision-making, and greater accountability across teams.
- Cultural alignment: The newly embedded values have become a foundation for recruitment, onboarding, and performance management.
Behavioural change highlights
Leaders adopted daily practices that enabled innovation and team ownership, including cross-functional collaboration, transparent decision-making, and celebrating learning from failure. These behaviours are now embedded in leadership routines, underpinning a culture that drives both commercial growth and social impact.
25% increase in team engagement
90% increase in leaders’ clarity on how to model values-led leadership and drive innovation
Testimonials:
“Thank you please continue to run and offer this out to others for personal development, and growth and to better those conversations and strengths needed to make HEE the best place to work”
“The session was helpful for me to identify my strengths that I can bring to the mentoring relationship, an area I am weak in.
“I really enjoyed the session. It made me feel positive afterwards in taking part in the reciprocal mentoring scheme.”
Next Steps
Following the project, a comprehensive report was published and can be accessed here.
I was really enjoying the sessions. The presenters are so inspiring.
