ACR Culture Consulting
Think You Know Workplace Compliance? Prove It.
The Culture Climb is an interactive training tool that tests your workplace decision-making across 33 real-world scenarios. Navigate discrimination, accommodation, retaliation, DEI, and leadership challenges as you climb from New Hire to CEO.
How It Works
Four steps from first click to full compliance insight.
Choose Your Path
Play the free 8-scenario version to test your instincts, or unlock the full 33-scenario training to master workplace compliance.
Face Real Decisions
Every scenario is grounded in actual workplace situations involving employment law, DEI, and ethical leadership. Four choices per scenario — bad, acceptable, better, and best.
Get Your Results
See exactly where your knowledge is strong, where it needs work, and what the law actually says about each situation — with real statutes and case law.
Leadership Assessment
Employers receive a six-dimension leadership profile with a branded PDF report and recommended follow-up interview questions.
What’s Covered
Every scenario includes four tiers of feedback: what the law requires, what good practice looks like, what the best leaders do, and what happens when organizations get it wrong.
Employment Law & Compliance
- ADA accommodation (interactive process)
- Religious dress code & Sabbath conflicts
- Pregnancy discrimination (PDA)
- Age discrimination (ADEA)
- Sexual orientation (Bostock)
- Pay equity (EPA / Lilly Ledbetter)
- EEOC charge response
- Retaliation protections
- Off-duty conduct (NLRA)
- Fraternization policies
- Wage & hour (FLSA overtime)
Workplace Culture & DEI
- Recognition bias against quiet performers
- Golf-buddy pipeline favoritism
- Proximity bias against remote workers
- Hustle culture rewarding hours over output
- “Optional” happy hour that penalizes non-attendance
- Potluck exclusion and undisclosed disabilities
- Campfire leadership pipeline exclusion
- Fitness challenge and non-visible disability
- Culture at scale — insider vs. outsider dynamics
- Diversity hiring without inclusion retention
Holiday & Event Compliance
- Christmas vs. Holiday party naming
- Bar venue excluding recovery, religion, caregiving
- Mandatory Secret Santa vs. religious beliefs
- Holiday shift assignment based on perceived religion
- Off-site party harassment — employer liability
- Mandatory Saturday retreat vs. Sabbath
- Nepotism in hiring decisions
- Layoff decisions with disparate impact
- Credit-taking and attribution ethics
- Workplace safety and OSHA reporting
Bostock v. Clayton County · Groff v. DeJoy · Lilly Ledbetter · Burlington Northern · Faragher/Ellerth · EEOC v. Abercrombie
Choose Your Edition
From free exploration to full leadership assessment — pick the level that fits your needs.
Free Edition
- 8 curated scenarios
- Basic outcome feedback
- Public leaderboard
- Score + rank (details gated)
- Climb from New Hire to CEO
Pro Edition
- 33 comprehensive scenarios
- 4-tier legal feedback with statutes and case law
- 4 nuanced choices per scenario (bad/acceptable/better/best)
- Randomized answer positions each playthrough
- Full detailed scorecard
- Training Mode for compliance education
Leadership Assessment
- Everything in Pro Edition
- Role-specific scoring (Supervisor / Manager / Executive)
- 6-dimension leadership profile
- Branded PDF report with analysis
- Recommended interview follow-up questions
- Candidate comparison for team assessments
Included Free with Consulting
The Pro and Leadership Assessment editions are included at no additional cost with any ACR Culture Consulting engagement of $500 or more. Every consulting client receives full access as part of their engagement.
Book a ConsultationSix-Dimension Leadership Profile
The Leadership Assessment measures candidates across six competencies that define effective workplace leaders.
Compliance Awareness
Knowledge of employment law, ability to identify legal risk, and understanding of protected classes and accommodation requirements.
Ethical Reasoning
Ability to navigate ambiguity, balance competing interests, and act with integrity when the right answer is not obvious.
Decision-Making
Whether the candidate is decisive, consultative, or avoidant under pressure. Tolerance for risk versus caution.
Conflict Resolution
Approach to interpersonal conflict, team disagreements, and managing difficult conversations with professionalism.
DEI & Inclusion
Demonstrated understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles in real workplace scenarios — beyond surface-level awareness.
Strategic Judgment
Ability to think beyond the immediate situation, consider organizational impact, and make decisions that serve long-term goals.
Who It’s For
Whether you’re sharpening your own skills or evaluating someone else’s, The Culture Climb meets you where you are.
HR Professionals & Managers
Sharpen your compliance knowledge in an engaging format that’s more memorable than slide-based training. Identify gaps before they become incidents.
Small Business Owners
Train your team on discrimination, accommodation, retaliation, and ethical practices without the cost of an external training vendor. Comparable training costs $25–$50 per employee per year elsewhere.
Employers Hiring or Promoting
Use the Leadership Assessment to evaluate candidates on competencies that matter — compliance awareness, ethical reasoning, conflict resolution, DEI fluency, and strategic judgment.
Consultants & Trainers
License the platform as a training tool for your own clients. Contact us for volume licensing and white-label options.
Built Different
“Built by ACR Culture Consulting — 20+ years of experience inside legal systems, government agencies, and private organizations. Every scenario is grounded in real workplace situations and real law, not hypotheticals.”
Anise Roberson, J.D. — Founder, ACR Culture Consulting
Boyd School of Law, UNLV · Las Vegas, Nevada
Ready to Climb?
Start with the free version. Unlock the full training when you’re ready. Assess your candidates when it matters most.