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We work across a wide variety of industries, including:

• Nonprofits
• Professional services
• Manufacturing and industrial organizations
• Technology companies
• Healthcare organizations
• Logistics and distribution
• Construction and skilled trades
• Financial services
• Government and public sector organizations

We especially enjoy supporting organizations with unique workforce challenges, such as field-based teams, hybrid environments, rapid growth, or decentralized leadership structures.

Our work commonly includes:

• Employee engagement surveys
• Organizational assessments
• Leadership development
• Manager training
• Internal communications strategy
• Inclusion and belonging initiatives
• Workforce analytics
• Compensation and salary structure projects
• Retention and turnover analysis
• Stay interview programs
• Employee onboarding strategy
• Performance management redesign
• Executive coaching
• Team effectiveness
• Change management
• Organizational culture initiatives

We also help organizations tackle unique people-related challenges that do not fit neatly into traditional consulting categories.

Holistic has developed a variety of proprietary tools and frameworks designed to improve organizational effectiveness and employee experience. Examples include:

• Workforce analytics dashboards
• Turnover and retention analysis tools
• Employee sentiment and engagement platforms
• Values activation and culture measurement tools
• Inclusion and belonging frameworks
• Performance management modernization support
• Organizational communication audits
• Workforce projection and planning tools
• Stay interview and retention frameworks

Our solutions are designed to be practical, understandable, and actionable — not overly complicated or dependent on expensive software ecosystems.

Yes. We regularly facilitate:

• Leadership trainings
• Manager workshops
• Employee development sessions
• Team retreats
• Strategic planning sessions
• Inclusion and belonging trainings
• Communication workshops
• Change management sessions
• Executive discussions
• Interactive working sessions

Our sessions are designed to be practical, engaging, and conversational rather than overly theoretical.

Yes. We offer fractional HR support for organizations that need additional expertise, capacity, or strategic guidance without hiring a full-time internal leader. This can include:

• Fractional HR leadership
• Interim HR support
• Project-based HR work
• Employee relations support
• Organizational design
• Performance management support
• Recruiting process guidance
• Internal communications support
• Inclusion and belonging strategy
• Leadership coaching

We also maintain a network of experienced HR professionals who can support specialized needs.

Always. We do not believe in copy-and-paste consulting. Every organization has different workforce dynamics, leadership challenges, business realities, communication styles, cultural strengths, and operational pressures. We tailor our recommendations, facilitation, tools, and strategies accordingly.

While every engagement is different, our work is designed to create measurable organizational impact. Depending on the project, clients often see improvements in areas such as:

• Employee engagement
• Retention and turnover reduction
• Leadership effectiveness
• Internal communication
• Onboarding effectiveness
• Performance management consistency
• Inclusion and belonging
• Manager capability
• Employee trust and transparency
• Recruiting effectiveness
• Workforce planning accuracy

We combine employee feedback, organizational data, and practical execution support to ensure recommendations actually translate into action.

We believe organizational work should be measurable. Depending on the engagement, we may track:

• Employee survey scores
• Participation rates
• Retention metrics
• Regrettable turnover
• Internal mobility
• Promotion patterns
• Representation data
• Manager effectiveness scores
• Employee Net Promoter Scores (eNPS)
• Training participation and outcomes
• Communication engagement metrics

Our goal is not just to provide ideas — it's to help organizations produce meaningful and sustainable progress.

Depending on the engagement, we may analyze:

• Employee survey responses
• Turnover data
• Recruiting data
• Demographic data
• Promotion and compensation data
• Performance review trends
• Engagement metrics
• Exit interview data
• Stay interview insights
• Communication effectiveness metrics
• Organizational structure data
• Manager and team-level trends

We help organizations move beyond surface-level reporting and uncover meaningful patterns and opportunities.

Confidentiality and trust are critically important to our work. We use multiple safeguards to help protect anonymity, including:

• Minimum group reporting thresholds
• Aggregated reporting
• Data suppression where necessary
• Careful handling of open-ended comments
• Secure data storage and transfer practices
• Clear communication about confidentiality expectations

We also help organizations communicate survey and feedback processes in ways that increase employee trust and participation.

Holistic works with organizations across the United States. Many of our engagements are fully virtual, while others include onsite facilitation, leadership sessions, focus groups, trainings, or strategic planning support. We regularly travel for client engagements when it adds value to the experience.

Engagements vary widely depending on organizational needs. Some clients bring us in for a single training session, a survey project, a strategic planning retreat, a compensation analysis, or focus groups and listening sessions.

Others partner with us over multiple years for ongoing support related to employee experience, leadership development, organizational culture, inclusion and belonging, performance management, internal communications, workforce analytics, or fractional HR support.

We are comfortable supporting both short-term and long-term partnerships.

Absolutely. Our goal is not to replace internal HR teams — it is to strengthen and support them. We frequently partner directly with HR leaders, talent acquisition teams, learning and development teams, internal communications teams, executive leadership, employee committees, and operations leaders.

Whenever possible, we build tools, processes, and strategies that your internal teams can continue using long after an engagement ends.

In many cases, yes. One of our goals is to create sustainable systems and tools that organizations can continue using internally. Depending on the engagement, clients may retain:

• Templates
• Communication resources
• Dashboards
• Survey frameworks
• Strategic plans
• Facilitation materials
• Manager guides
• Training materials
• Process documentation

We believe effective consulting should build long-term organizational capability, not dependency.

We combine strategy, data, communication, and execution support in a way that is highly practical and people-centered. Clients often tell us they appreciate that we speak plainly, avoid unnecessary jargon, focus on actionable outcomes, adapt quickly, balance empathy with accountability, understand both business realities and employee experience, and provide strategic thinking alongside tactical support.

We strive to make organizational improvement feel approachable, measurable, and sustainable.

The easiest way is to contact us directly through our website or LinkedIn page. We're happy to schedule an introductory conversation to better understand your organization, goals, and challenges.

We can also provide case studies, references, sample deliverables, workshop examples, demo dashboards, and strategic recommendations before beginning a formal engagement.

Absolutely. Some organizations come to us with mature HR and people strategies, while others are starting from scratch. We can help organizations at any stage of the journey, whether they need foundational infrastructure, leadership alignment, employee listening tools, strategic direction, execution support, training, measurement systems, or communication planning.

Our role is to meet organizations where they are and help them move forward effectively.

Both. Some clients engage us for a single survey, one training, a compensation analysis, a retreat, or a communications audit. Others prefer ongoing strategic support through recurring partnerships or advisory relationships. We are flexible in how engagements are structured and scoped.

Typically, the process begins with a conversation. We'll discuss your organization's goals, current challenges, desired outcomes, timeline, existing resources, and budget considerations.

From there, we can recommend an approach that makes sense for your organization rather than forcing you into a predefined package.