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Top 25 Cultural consulting firms based in Chicago, United States

Name: Cultural consulting firms based in Chicago, United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 212 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 212 cultural consulting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 5,164 professional contacts across them, including 2,060 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (427 companies); Chicago has 212.

This list covers cultural consulting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

212Companies

5,164Contacts tracked

2,060Verified emails

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The 25 largest cultural consulting firms based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 212 cultural consulting firms based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to cultural consulting firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Heidrick & Struggles	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1,001-5,000	3,376 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of executive search, corporate culture and leadership consulting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	Synectics INC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	248 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	RHR International	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	207 contacts →
	Partial evidence “RHR is a globally respected leadership consulting firm that helps businesses drive performance and growth through data-led assessment, world-class coaching, and executive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4	Ferguson Partners	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	106 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As a global talent management boutique serving all industries and with a strong concentration of real assets, healthcare, hospitality, and private equity clients, Ferguson…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	Japan Intercultural Consulting	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	100 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Japan Intercultural Consulting is an international training and consulting firm focused on Japanese business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	Small Shop	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	61 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Small Shop is a woman-owned, Chicago-based boutique consulting firm providing crafted goods and apparel production services from early-stage development through re-order.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	Alford Group	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	46 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a national, full-service consultancy for nonprofits, committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8	Minding Your Business	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	42 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At MYB (Minding Your Business), we believe that if you dare to look at things differently the possibilities are endless.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	Vantage Leadership Consulting	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	41 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “For over 50 years, we've operated with a single mission: to ensure our customers have the leadership they need to win in the marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	The Kaleidoscope Group	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	41 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Kaleidoscope Group is a business consulting firm helping organizations strengthen leadership, culture, and performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	ESA	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Precision-Tuned Foodservice Solutions: Expert support and strategic guidance, precisely when your brand needs it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	AHZUL	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We find inspiration in culture to advance the way brands connect with consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	Morten Group, LLC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Morten Group focuses on organizational and resource development, including workshops on diversity and building communities of inclusion and access, racial equity integration and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Welearn Learning Services	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We believe learning is human, and we build it that way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Purple Group Chicago, IL	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We are an independent marketing communication and advertising agency with consulting roots.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Stop Meeting Like This	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Stop Meeting Like This is a professional services firm that partners with forward-looking companies to transform how work gets done.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Icaway Human-Centered Cross-Cultural Advisory Systems For International Student Success	Partial evidence	Chicago, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Partial evidence “ICAway (pronounced I-See-A-Way) is a human-centered advisory firm focused on advancing international student success through cross-cultural insight, advisor education, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	Alma Advisory Group	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Alma Advisory Group (Alma) is a consulting services organization with a mission to foster short- and long-term organizational success through the cultivation of people, practice…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Inquest Consulting	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Strong evidence “inQUEST Consulting is a team of organizational culture consultants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Transcultures	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	10 contacts →
	Partial evidence “TransCultures is the world’s premier cultural and language solutions firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	The RED BEE Group LLC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Red Bee Group partners to assess, build and improve upon your current capabilities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Practica Group, LLC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Practica Group is a partnership of anthropologists and problem-solvers who discover cultural insights that yield strategic outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Call For Culture	Partial evidence	Chicago, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Call for Culture is a Black owned, woman-owned business that exists to drive positive and bold social change by transforming organizations and leaders into conscious changemakers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Clear Horizons Consulting	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Our firm approaches consulting from a place of collaboration and shared culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	The Frontlines	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Frontlines is a human capital consulting firm that helps frontline businesses & their workforces partner to accomplish great things together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: cultural consulting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names cultural consulting firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of cultural consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name cultural consulting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Cultural consulting firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

39.9%Verified-email coverage

24.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

170

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 212 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among cultural consulting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “cultural consulting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names cultural consulting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among cultural consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,060 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Cultural consulting firms by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names cultural consulting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many cultural consulting firms are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 212 cultural consulting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Heidrick & Struggles, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most cultural consulting firms?

New York leads the United States with 427 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (229) and Chicago (212).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,060 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 212 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.