AABL provides services in three categories:

People Operations Strategic Planning,

Workplace Culture Assessments, and

Operational Values Alignment.

Each category of services is designed to address the exact culture assessment needs of each client and allow for the design of strategic implementation plans that fit your specific circumstances. I conduct this work with a eye toward HR process upgrades, company culture enhancements, and risk/cost mitigation practices, always in alignment with your leadership’s priorities and your company’s mission and values.

Services

People Operations Strategic Planning

AABL thoughtfully designs employee engagement programs, initiatives, policies and procedures for your organization, tailored specifically to your company and easing the overall "culture strategy" workload of your HR and senior leadership teams. Empower your internal HR function to provide the holistic people operations approach best suited to your workforce and your company’s ideal “employee value proposition”.

Services

  • Allow AABL to custom-design employee engagement programs uniquely-tailored to your organization, such as ERG programs, employee-driven knowledge-sharing programs, employee engagement audits and more.

  • Upgrade your performance assessment and promotion processes and policies to increase transparency and engender greater employee “buy-in”, addressing areas such as:

    • Role Competencies Articulation

    • Performance Review Processes and Format

    • People Manager Role Coaching and Support

    • Raise/Promotion Process Articulation

  • Designing a strong and authentic company culture helps your organization to attract the best talent.  Develop the tools to attract and evaluate highly-qualified, values-aligned candidates for hiring consideration, and ensure that candidates experience your company’s culture and values at all touchpoints during the recruiting, hiring and onboarding processes, from the initial application through the first 100 days of employment.  AABL’s services include:

    • Recruiting Process Review/Values Alignment

    • Onboarding Process Review/Values Alignment

    • Values-Aligned Offboarding Process Design

  • Get AABL’s support on elements of the HR function that your internal team may not currently have the bandwidth to manage, as well as support on designing and implementing HR projects that align the HR function to company values and further solidify the Employee Value Proposition.  Services include:

    • Overall HR Process/Policy Review and Enhancements

    • General HR Project Assistance

    • Values-Driven Benefits Planning

    • Employee Wellness Policy Design

Workplace Culture Assessments

Proactive culture management should be a strategic priority for any senior leadership team. AABL’s deep-dive culture audit, evaluation and assessment services unpack the specific workforce and team dynamics at your organization, providing key insights to company leadership and concluding with practical, implementable recommendations for improvement.

Services

  • Communication is essential to positive and productive team functioning, and communication challenges can deeply affect teams.  AABL’s experience in unpacking and assessing working dynamics and subcultures—both within and between teams and departments—provides your leaders with the insights and recommendations to facilitate teams that produce their highest-quality work.

  • Key to employee engagement is whether employees feel included in the mission, purpose and work of the organization.  AABL has experience performing employee inclusion, diversity and belonging audits and assessments that give your organization a baseline understanding of where you currently stand on these key engagement elements and a way to measure the impact of your culture initiatives.

  • Notwithstanding an organization’s culture support efforts, Employee Relations matters will inevitably arise, and will occasionally necessitate investigations.  Having experience conducting internal investigations and holding a certification in advanced internal investigations, I conduct workplace investigations with the sensitivity, objectivity, detail and thoroughness essential to provide HR, senior leadership, and outside company counsel with the findings necessary to chart a path forward to resolution.

Operational Values Alignment

Aligning a company’s business operations to its values is essential to maintaining organizational integrity, the employee value proposition, and reputation in the marketplace.

AABL’s values alignment services enable your company to authentically “walk the talk” of your organization's values in your business operations, improving the connection between employees and the company and strengthening your company’s reputation among both internal and external stakeholders.

Services

  • Syncing your company’s values with business operations across your organization reinforces an inclusive, sustainable and high-performing workplace culture, supporting the overall employee value proposition and bolstering organizational integrity and reputation among internal and external stakeholders.   Let AABL design your company’s roadmap and implementation plan to achieve a 360-degree integration of your organization’s values into the way you execute on your business objectives, projects and initiatives.

  • Does your organization have an Employee Value Proposition that supports your organization’s optimal culture?  AABL can help your organization to identify and clearly articulate a holistic portrait of all of the elements of employee development and support that your company provides, providing employees with a full-circle understanding of the company culture and commitment to values, and encouraging a reciprocal investment by employees in the company’s mission and producing their best work for the organization.

  • Is external corporate social responsibility reporting a priority for your company, whether for inclusion in annual reports or to pursue ESG/sustainability certifications?  Identifying, collecting and analyzing all of the pertinent information that exists across your entire organization that may be relevant to corporate social responsibility reporting can be a daunting proposition.  Let AABL advise you on how best to collect pertinent CSR/ESG data and frame your CSR/ESG narrative in a way that is most authentically aligned with your organization’s mission, values and culture, and in a manner appropriate for both external and internal audiences.

  • Do your organization’s values, as currently articulated, support your company’s current vision for realizing its optimal culture and performance?  Do your company’s values currently exist in amorphous form that is “generally understood” among your employees but have not yet been articulated (and therefore open to misunderstanding and self-interpretation)?  AABL can help you to develop or update your values to authentically reflect your company’s current positioning, self-view, and aspirations, and to develop an articulation of those values for both internal and external stakeholders.

  • Whether for internal or external communications or branding purposes, AABL provides values-aligned “voice and tone” communication advisory services designed to ensure that the authenticity of your organization’s mission and values shines through, no matter what the circumstance.

  • Material changes that constitute inflection or transition for your workforce—whether as a result of corporate restructuring, the introduction of new technologies into the workplace, or otherwise—is an inevitable aspect of every business; and, at least initially, these changes can introduce fear and disorientation among employees, no matter what your baseline culture.  AABL has years of experience advising senior leadership on how to navigate corporate change (pre-, during and post-transition) in a manner that best aligns with corporate culture and provides the stability required for teams to continue to operate with as little disruption as possible.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • What differentiates AABL from other workplace culture consultants is our highly-personalized approach to this sensitive work with a company's most important feature: the strength and stability of its workforce.  Culture work is incredibly delicate, vital work, where you often don't get second chances to get it right; missteps can be extremely costly--both culturally and financially--to an organization, but when done well, this work can be an extremely rewarding investment in your business.  At AABL, I don't offer off-the-shelf, templatized, one-size-fits-all solutions to your culture challenges; our culture solutions are are specifically designed to address the particular challenges of your unique organization.

  • AABL is lean, but also scalable if necessary (i.e., if required by the scope of your culture project).  I work with a network of experienced, independent people & culture and HR specialists, all of whom share AABL's core values of Courage, Integrity, Curiosity and Humility and the AABL approach to providing white-glove customized services, who I can engage to join an AABL project if necessary.  And no matter the size of the AABL team, you will always have me as the lead.