The Coffee Chat Challenge: Discovering our culture

Our Coffee Chat Challenge is simple: grab coffee with thirty colleagues in your first month. Mayowa and Isabella’s coffee chat shows how quickly this helps new joiners find their feet and start building the relationships that shape their Elixirr experience. 

Those early conversations give you a glimpse into the breadth of thinking across the firm. They turn a global organisation into a network you can navigate from day one and help you see how collaboration happens in real terms. 

Most people join a project straight away, so the challenge becomes a practical anchor. Some keep lists of names as they go. Others talk about coming from more rigid environments and finding, almost immediately, that their perspective is welcomed. Many describe feeling part of the culture far faster than expected. That sense of belonging is not left to chance. Here we value initiative, curiosity and a willingness to get stuck in. 

The strength of the challenge lies in what it unlocks. Different backgrounds aren’t just acknowledged, they strengthen the work. Whether you arrive from behavioural science, digital or a completely different path, your thinking adds something distinctive. Those first thirty coffees help you see where your voice fits and give you the confidence to use it. 

At its core the coffee chat challenge is about momentum. It accelerates connection, widens your perspective and sets the tone for how you will grow here. Our culture is created through people, and we make space for them from the start.