We help you build a Loving culture and operations, so everyone can Thrive!

What happens when you make meaningful improvements to culture and operations?

People thrive!

Too many leaders and team members are suffering from high stress and anxiety, poor physical and mental health, low morale, decreased productivity, communication breakdowns, and high turnover. Perhaps you are too.

Yet, too often the automatic reaction is to offer self-care, mental health resources, and resilience.

There’s a place for these, but wouldn’t it be better to get to the root of the problem instead? Wouldn’t it be better to not harm people in the first place?

After all, the work itself isn’t by nature stressful or traumatic. In fact, this is work you used to enjoy. However, the work has been made traumatic and stressful due to poor cultural and operational practices.

We can help you change this. Things can be different!

We show you how to take simple, consistent actions over time in the right areas which can make all the difference in thriving for your team. When these operations and cultural changes are made, the work experience stops being confusing, overwhelming, scary, complicated, high-pressure, fractured, and hopeless.

Instead, the common experience is one of clarity, courage, wholeness, spaciousness, simplicity, and hope. Ultimately this shift moves teams from fear to love. Suffering stops and results improve.

Our Thrive Program guides overwhelmed, exhausted, and defeated leaders and teams to a more uplifting, healthy, and gratifying way of working.

We call that Thriving.

Are you ready to Thrive? Then let’s talk!

One Team’s Thrive Story

Their Challenges: Employee stress, burnout, and a history of trauma

This major municipal IT department was facing several cultural challenges that motivated them to seek outside expertise. Coming out of the pandemic, employees were experiencing anxiety, burnout, and difficulties balancing work and life. The organization recognized the need to be more intentional about creating a supportive culture where employees could bring their full, authentic selves to work. Additionally, there were lingering impacts from past events that needed to be processed in a healthy way.

"We wanted to create space for processing major changes in our department, in city government, and to process some historical changes that had been impacting our staff," said Leah, a key leader in the department. "And to really create spaces to center our employees' experiences and engage them in opportunities to move forward."

Throughout 2023, A Human Workplace delivered a robust set of offerings to move from the suffering, struggle and overwhelm to a better state of being. "Invitation to Thrive" Program was a multi-month themed progrram too move to Clarity, Courage, Wholeness, Spaciousness, Simplicity and Hope. The program included well-being sessions, experiential workshops, hands-on labs, leadership development, an "Activators" community, and more. In parallel, A Human Workplace guided the City IT's leadership in developing a strategic "Culture Vision" complete with defined cultural shifts, stories, and working groups.

What A Human Workplace Did

The City IT Department engaged A Human Workplace to design and deliver a comprehensive employee engagement program. The process began with a thorough discovery phase including surveys, interviews, document review, and sense-making sessions. This allowed A Human Workplace's consultants to deeply understand the issues and design customized programming.

The Impacts of the Invitation to Thrive

The Invitation to Thrive program had significant positive impacts on the City’s IT's culture. Leaders became more ready and willing to prioritize human-centered, values-driven work. "A Human Workplace really set the tone and laid the groundwork for that to be able to happen in a meaningful way," Leah shared.

Employees embraced opportunities to process experiences, build community and engage in the culture evolution. "We have proven it to be untrue in our City IT Department, that an IT organization can't do human-centered culture work," said Edward, Race and Social Justice Manager. "This has allowed people to have more faith and courage in dealing with these issues."

A cross-departmental "People & Culture Council" was formed to embody the desired culture and provide grassroots leadership. Participation in the engagement and culture work built momentum throughout the year.

The City’s IT's leaders consistently highlighted the human-centric partnership they experienced with A Human Workplace. As the Chief of Staff, Will said, "It became less about them being a vendor and really being someone that wanted to partner. I felt they really wanted Seattle IT to do well."

The A Human Workplace team was lauded for its compassion, care, listening skills and willingness to adapt to the City’s unique needs. "It didn't feel like a vendor," said Shelton. "They extended that feeling of colleagues and community to me."

Will summarized, "I really appreciated how open they were to listening to our suggestions and willing to shift on a dime based on our feedback - all while not sacrificing the fundamentals that make their approach effective."

Overall, A Human Workplace provided transformative culture programming tailored precisely for the City IT Department's situation. True to their name, they role-modeled the human workplace principles they aim to cultivate.

The Partnership Experience

“Invitation to Thrive has allowed people to have more faith and courage in dealing with tough issues.”

Right Fit Your Thrive Solution

Our Thrive Model is adaptable. With our Thrive Assessment, we identify what’s strong and what needs improving, and then we can offer solutions that fit your needs and build on your strengths. From leader-specific masterclasses to all-staff events, the principles of Thrive are built to scale. Browse below to see our Thrive offerings for Leaders, Team Members, and your whole Organization. .

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Thrive Offerings for Leaders

Thrive Foundations Masterclass for Leaders

Learn how to build a culture and operations that are healthy and productive, not harmful and struggling. Understand the 6 Thrive ways of being and why they are important to organizational success, team member engagement, and customer satisfaction. Includes a individual Thrive Assessment, understanding readiness, the science of thriving, case study examples, and tips to get started on your journey to Thrive. 3 hours, virtual or in person.
Thrive Coaching for Your Culture and Operations

Our coaches support leaders, managers, and supervisors as well as teams to make the culture and operational improvements that lead to thriving. Guided by your Thrive Team Assessment results, your coach will dynamically engage with you to improve in practical activities, habits, behaviors, and norms that create more clarity, courage, wholeness, spaciousness, simplicity, and hope.
Monthly Thrive Leadership Tools Subscription

Equip your leaders to be proactive partners in cultivating a thriving culture and operations. This monthly subscription delivers the tools for leaders to use in one-on-ones, team meetings, and internal communication. Leaders receive a 15-minute topical activity for team meetings, conversation starters and tips or one-on-ones, and content for team communication all to reinforce Thrive culture and practices. Help leaders leverage existing channels of impact with ease and consistency.

Thrive Offerings for Team Members

Thrive Workshops: Build Individual and Team Skills

Provide your team with the tools and skills needed to cultivate each Thrive competency, Clarity, Courage, Wholeness, Spaciousness, Simplicity, and Hope. 1.5-2 hour virtual or in-person workshops are available for all team members or specifically for leaders and managers. All workshops include practical tools for application to common challenges for immediate impact and benefit.
Thrive Assessment, Report and Team Workshop

Discover your Thrive strengths and improvement opportunities using our Thrive Assessment. Review your Thrive Team Report with our facilitator’s guidance, exploring your collective results and areas to strengthen along with recommendations for action. Walk away with a team plan to improve thriving. Jumpstart a healthier culture and operations.
Hosted Thrive Channel on Your Platform

This light-touch, high-impact service provides topical content, resources, questions for discussion, and Q&A all in support of Thrive culture and operations practices in your organization. This foundational change management practice builds internal support among early adopters and champions who spread their influence and naturally impact the whole organization.

Thrive Offerings for Your Whole Organization

Ready to Thrive: Prepare for Change Success

Your Thrive Assessment points to needed changes as well as strengths, but diving into change without preparing leaders and teams can be unproductive, harmful, and wasteful. Instead, prepare your organization for the shift to Thrive practices. Our culture change experts guide your team to understand what the change is, why it is needed, what their roles are, and how it will help them and the organization.
Thrive All Staff Gatherings

A Gathering is not a meeting, not a training, and not a workshop but an experiential and relational event proven to powerfuly impact skills, culture and operations. Participants discover and practice creating a thriving workplace in real-time. Build clarity and confidence as a work community for new ways of working tailored to your team’s opportunities to improve culture and operations. In-person for most teams; and online for purely virtual teams. We suggest hosting Gatherings bi-monthly or quarterly.
Thrive Keynote Talks and All-Staff Events

Everyone appreciates a heartfelt invite, particularly to something meaningful and transformative. In this talk, Renee takes you on a journey that offers more than just escape from workplace challenges—it provides a roadmap to genuine flourishing. Learn how thrive culture can advance individual satisfaction, boost team effectiveness, and foster a workplace where everyone can thrive together. 60-90 minutes.