Choose your path

You're ready for the next level. Your team might not be.

And that gap is costing you — in time, energy, and money. Every path starts in the same place: knowing exactly how your team is wired. From there, you choose how deep you go.

The real cost

The gap between where you are and where your team is doesn't close on its own.

Up to 200%
of annual salary to replace a leader who leaves
Gallup
30%
of first-year salary lost per bad hire
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Up to 20%
of payroll wasted on misaligned work
Happily.ai
40% more
time spent relitigating decisions on misaligned teams
Happily.ai
27+ hrs/wk
lost by the average CEO to reactive, non-strategic work
Harvard Business School
34%
of annual salary lost in productivity per disengaged employee
Gallup
The role nobody hired you for
You became the Chief People Officer the day you made your first hire.

Every decision about who does what, how they're evaluated, and who gets hired next has been routing through you ever since — whether you wanted the job or not. You don't need to hire one. You need someone who already knows how to read a leader, and build a high-capacity team around them. Nobody understands how a leader and their team are wired as deeply as we do — and we build the team to match.

You finally know how your people are wired.

No more guessing why someone isn't performing. You can see it — and so can they.

Everyone is in the seat they were built for.

Roles stop overlapping. People stop fighting the work that drains them.

The business runs without you in every room.

Decisions move without routing through you. You lead instead of operate.

Three ways to work with us

Every path includes the Work Intelligence Index® for your whole team. From there, how deep you go depends on what your organization needs next.

Know.

Every guess costs you money and energy. Know. ends the guessing — in one day.

Best if you need the clear picture first
  • Work Intelligence Index® for your entire team — how they think, connect, and execute
  • 1:1 pre-training meeting with every team member
  • Pre-training strategy session with leadership
  • Team Capacity Map — communication style, decision-making, problem-solving, information processing, and conflict resolution for each person
  • Full training day, in person or remote
  • Post-training strategy session
  • Recommended next steps
Our clients' favorite path

Align.

The wrong hire costs you money. The wrong fit costs you energy. Align. protects both.

Best if roles, culture, or hiring are the real issue
  • Everything in Know.
  • Work Style DNA™ for your entire team — how your team executes and their superpowers for getting work done
  • Second full training day on Work Style DNA™
  • Core Values & Culture Setting Workshop
  • Role alignment recommendations
  • 3 Right Hire Reports™
  • Hiring insights built from your team's actual wiring

Design.

You built this to reach something bigger. Design. builds the team that gets you there.

Best if you're the bottleneck and it's time to step out
  • Everything in Know. and Align.
  • 3-day on-site build with your leadership team
  • Full org chart audit and redesign
  • Leadership Duplication Plan
  • People Performance System™ — job descriptions, postings, KPIs, 30-60-90 onboarding, quarterly and annual reviews
  • Next 3 strategic hire recommendations
  • 90-day virtual implementation, weekly calls
Why this, not the alternatives

Every alternative gets you partway there. Here's what's actually different.

Generic assessments
Typical

Tell you a label. Don't tell you what to do with it.

Work Ethos

We don't stop at the label. We build the team structure around what we find.

DIY / internal HR
Typical

Advice you have to translate into action yourself, on top of your day job.

Work Ethos

We install the system with you — not homework you're left to figure out.

Traditional consultants
Typical

Recommendations in a slide deck. Then they leave.

Work Ethos

Systems built and running before we leave the room.

Full-time CPO hire
Typical

A year and $200K+ before you see results.

Work Ethos

90 days. A fraction of the cost. Built around your actual team.

Side by side

What's actually different between them.

Included Know. Align. Design.
Work Intelligence Index® + Team Capacity Map✓✓✓
Full training day + leadership strategy sessions✓✓✓
Work Style DNA™ + Culture Workshop—✓✓
Core Values & Culture Setting Workshop—✓✓
Role alignment + 3 Right Hire Reports™—✓✓
3-day on-site build + org chart redesign——✓
People Performance System™ (job descriptions, postings, KPIs, 30-60-90 onboarding, reviews)——✓
Leadership Duplication Session——✓
90-day virtual implementation, weekly calls——✓
Not sure which one?

Here's how leaders usually decide.

Choose Know. if —

  • You just need the clear picture first
  • You're not sure yet what's actually broken
  • You want data before you commit further
  • Budget is the deciding factor right now

Choose Align. if —

  • Roles overlap or people are in the wrong seats
  • Culture is undefined or inconsistent
  • You're about to hire and need to hire right
  • You're ready to solve it, not just see it

Choose Design. if —

  • You're still the bottleneck for every decision
  • You have no job descriptions, KPIs, or review process
  • You're growing and your current org chart won't support it
  • Your leadership team needs depth, not just more hours from you
Payment arrangementsStructured payment arrangements are available over three months, on every path.
Design. is limitedWe accept a maximum of 12 Design. engagements a year to keep the work high-touch.
We train the way you workRemote team, we train remotely. In-person team, we train in person. Hosting a retreat, we'll be there.
Still not sure?

Leaders who work with us don't have a better team next year. They have a different organization — starting now.

Talk it through with us. No pitch, just clarity.

Book your team strategy call