Gary Walstrom, CEO and Founder of the online Culture Index facility, employs a staff of approximately twenty people with offices nationwide. Mr. Walstrom has had over thirty of experience in candidate selection, hiring, team building, team design, and management consulting in assessment techniques. The Culture Index program was developed by Mr. Walstrom, who holds the copyright, with the assistance of Dr. Louis Janda PhD and clinical psychologist. Dr. Janda has worked with many companies requiring assistance with candidate selection, making psychological assessment of potential employees, employees under consideration for in-house promotion and team building and team design techniques. Dr. Janda has authored eight college textbooks, nine books for the general public and more than thirty articles for professional journals. Dr. Janda's "Psychological Testing Theory and Applications" has been used by several universities and includes chapters on recruitment, candidate selection or filtering and team building and team design.

When properly understood and applied the Culture Index team design and team building programs influence critically important decisions which impact on the growth and productivity of the entire organization as well as the career development of employees. The Culture Index officers and licensees share a strong sense of responsibility for its constructive use and a Culture Index consultant will make regular contact with clients to offer his/her extensive experience, knowledge and support in the further application of team design and team building techniques. Culture Index is a macro-organizational consultant facility and the listing of all services provided would be a lengthy business but as well as the team design and team building programs, the uses of the Cultural Index system include candidate selection, the hiring process, position benchmarking, conflict resolution and overall organizational analysis of corporate culture.

The Culture Index program assists managements and organizations to visualize a team design and demonstrates how to effectively apply team building techniques to establish tangible improvements in performance and productivity standards throughout the workplace. With the benefit of Culture Index's Internet-based software clients will be able to apply the acquired skills and knowledge culled from the coaching and training program and continuously refer back for instant support. The team design and team building program application is an extremely powerful tool for great productivity and efficiency and even for the expansion potential of clients' companies.

The Culture Index programs can be applied to afford a more efficient candidate selection process for new positions that have arisen as well as for evaluating current employees for promotional purposes. The techniques allow the interviewer to more accurately understand a potential candidate or employee's skills, knowledge and experience and match these attributes to a specific position. The use of Culture Index's candidate selection tools assists the ensuring of the successful candidate being a good "fit" into the team design and an asset and driving force for beneficial change throughout the organization. The Culture Index program not only enhances the identification of a talent to blend with the team design but provides the means to manage the talent to its full potential within the team design.