Our hiring process has helped countless clients find and retain high-quality candidates, stop wasting time, diversify their staff, bring added efficiency to other HR processes, and more.

How do we do it? We don’t teach anything you’d find by Googling “diversity hiring” or asking an AI-powered tool to generate interview questions or job descriptions for you. Instead, our hiring process leverages best practices, addresses implicit bias, and sets a strong foundation for building the team you need to more effectively and efficiently achieve your organization’s mission.

Learn it right now by taking our on-demand course, teach it to your company with our customized workshops, or let us help you tailor it to your organization's specific needs by bringing us on for strategy consulting.

Learn more about what it’s like to implement our hiring process in these case studies.

“Natania brings a huge amount of experience and knowledge from many different industries to our work with her of building our hiring process. She has a wealth of useful source material and helps us put it in our own voice to make it work for our organization.

Learning this hiring process from her is also fun – even during difficult moments. She’s compassionate and non-judgmental, and her support makes this work feel so much easier.”

- Batya Levine, Director of Programs, Let My People Sing

Growing pains and other internal challenges

Are you stumped or coming up against a speed bump?

Have you been getting by without written policies, and now you’re going through a growth spurt or other change and need to codify things?

Are you starting a new venture/organization/company and want to make sure it has good bones?

We can help! We’ll work with you to design and implement a customized solution that might include:

Writing new policies or adjusting your policies to create the culture you want. Think PTO, sick leave, parental leave, bereavement leave, travel policies, dress codes, employee grievances, remote and hybrid work, email/phone/messaging usage, and more.
Revising your employee handbook or onboarding process.
Designing and conducting your first performance evaluation process.
Conducting a cultural assessment or materials audit to diagnose the challenges you’re facing and make tailored recommendations for addressing them.

Get started now by bringing us on for strategy consulting. We’ll also make a plan with you for how to roll out these changes with your staff so that they have the impact you’re hoping for. This might include facilitating a workshop, drafting email communications, devising a change management strategy, and/or any combination of these that’s right for your culture.

Let’s talk to figure out the right way in!

From our first conversation, Natania took time to listen and understand, rather than trying to push a package or service at us.

As a result, our organization matured significantly in terms of the systems and processes we were implementing for our staff. We were at a point of transition where we used to be able to get away with informal processes when we were 10, 20, or 40 people, but we couldn’t get away with that anymore at 200 people.

I’m so proud of what we’ve created together, the impact it will have on the company, and the way it drove equity across the organization."

Claire Koplimaa,

Chief of Staff at Qventus

Decision-making and project management

Do you need your projects to move forward more efficiently and effectively?

Do you find that your team often gets stuck when a decision needs to be made and either loops in way too many people to allow for speedy progress, or too few people to make a well-informed choice?

Do your staff feel like their voices aren’t being heard, even though management feels confident they’re listening?

Our clients consistently find that these challenges are eased and solved when they implement stronger decision-making and project management systems.

After taking the time to get to know your culture and diagnose your challenges, we’ll lead your staff through a series of workshops to learn these tools. For a more robust roll-out, we love joining your meetings to offer customized, real-time coaching for leaders and teams on using these tools effectively after our workshops. Curious to learn more? Let’s chat!

"During our time working together, Natania has become an indispensable business partner.

She helped our team navigate important conversations and make huge systemic strides in changing our processes to be more equitable and inclusive, while modeling equitable leadership for our staff."

Zach Seely,

Greenhouse

Performance evaluations and feedback

Do you look forward to performance evaluation season? How much value do you and your staff get from it? Chances are, you’re dreading it and aren’t getting much value from it – because of how much time it takes, because of how awkward or even painful it is, because of how dissatisfied most staff feel when it’s over…the list goes on.

How often do you get truly valuable feedback from your colleagues? Feedback that really helps you up your game – whether because you learned about something you’re doing well and now know how to lean into it even more, or because you learned about a way that your impact is misaligned with your intentions, and now have a path to change that.

How often do you feel comfortable telling your colleagues when they have missed the mark? Do you trust the process that’s in place for making a change when a colleague is in a pattern of destructive behavior? Chances are, not often, and you don’t.

It doesn’t have to be this way!

Our clients love our feedback and performance evaluation tools because they help create healthy organizational cultures. Using our tools, staff feel much more at ease with each other and feel confident about how to give and receive feedback in ways that will feel productive and healthy.

We can bring these tools to you through workshops, strategy consulting, mediation between people who are having an ongoing challenge, and/or coaching. Reach out to figure out the right solution for you.

Natania's highly adaptable approach was ideal for our growing team. Companies of all sizes would benefit from her commitment to addressing the most relevant issues for a specific organization.

Natania differentiates herself in the way she customizes her approach based on her client’s needs. She is truly committed to helping your organization improve through sustainable, accountability-based practice, wherever your starting point.

Paul Joo, Co-founder & COO of Summer

People management

When you were promoted into your first job where you managed other people, did anyone train you to do that? Probably not. In the US, we usually reward people for being strong individual contributors by promoting them into roles where they manage other people. And while they might know how to do those people’s jobs really well, we don’t give them much if any training on the entirely new skillset we’re asking them now exercise: people management.

Many of us feel like we will be good people managers because we have been managed by other people, but then we find ourselves in these roles making a lot of things up and trying and failing pretty often.

There’s another way! We offer workshops and personalized coaching on people management skills to help you and your people managers build their management toolkits. Whether you’re just starting your first people management role, or have been at it for a few decades without formal training, we’re confident these tools will help you build a trusting, kind, and caring culture on your teams while driving exceptional performance. Reach out to learn more.

"Natania took time to really understand our company, and the people inside, before jumping to solutions. As a result, her advice is more tailored and has been readily accepted.

Through her work with us, we have a more diverse workforce, a more rewarding work environment, and a tremendous soothing of some of the subtle dysfunctions that had plagued our teams before."

Allan Platt,

CEO at Clareo

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) assessments and strategy implementation

Are you committed to DEI but not sure what to be doing about it? Natania has been a DEI consultant since 2018 and has helped countless organizations develop and implement strong DEI strategies.

But we encourage you to read carefully here! “DEI” is a term used to describe a wide variety of work, and not all of it has a positive impact.

Here’s what it means for us: We work with organizations that have strong intentions around how demographically diverse they want their staff to be, how equitably they want to treat those staff, and how included you’d like everyone to feel at work.

They have questions or concerns about how well they’re delivering on these intentions, so we help them make the changes needed to bridge the gap between these values as intended vs as experienced day-to-day by their staff. If this is what you’re looking for, we’re not particularly concerned with whether you call this “DEI” work or something else that resonates better for your team. We’re just glad to help.

We offer both targeted, one-time interventions (think writing a new policy, facilitating a customized workshop, etc) and long-term strategy (think staring with an assessment of your current state, offering recommendations for next steps, and then working with you through implementation) to help you with your DEI work.

Reach out to chat and we can put together a scope that’s just right for where you are on your DEI journey.

Natania showed us the way a company's systems and policies can perpetuate harm and oppression. She worked with us to create new systems and structures within our organization that helped us move toward equity.

Natania also has a knack for leveraging pre-existing people systems and weaving DEI into those structures, so DEI isn't just an add-on, accountability is built-in, and people become invested in the work.

Rebecca Gildiner,

Strategy Client

"My work with Natania helped me unlearn the skills that helped me merely survive by minimizing myself -- as a trans person, as a Black person, as a woman -- and learning skills to help me thrive in those identities.

So many people don’t have access to a Natania to help them with that, so I'm very grateful."

Kylie Madhav

Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SAGE USA

Conferences and events

If you’re looking for someone to motivate your staff or conference audience at your next event, reach out! A dynamic and inspiring speaker, Natania gives keynote speeches and participates in panel discussions about all of the topics above and more. Common keynote addresses, fireside chat, and panel discussion topics Natania has addressed have included:

How to Respond to Current Events
Getting Comfortable with Feedback
Understanding Gender at Work
Equitable Hiring
DEI 101
Unlearning Unconscious Bias
What is Social Identity?
Active Allyship 101 and 201
Customized offerings to speak to unique audiences.

Don’t see your desired topic here? Reach out so we can create a customized offering for you.

"Natania is a great resource for any organization that is looking to navigate social issues and their impact on the workplace.

Somehow, Natania manages to touch very hard topics in a very respectful and interesting way, which not only creates space for learning and understanding but also brings awareness to things most people at work don’t bring up."

Carla Vazquez,

Leadership Coaching Client and Workshop Participant

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