Great work happens in supportive environments.
Our work
Functioning workplaces:
Have high quality meetings and time for deep work
Foster inclusion
Respond to employee needs and improve their culture
Provide benefits that support employees lives
We envision workplaces that are human focused and a place where everyone is valued and included.
Our workplace design consultancy helps eliminate obstacles to being a functioning workplace through a combination of coaching, facilitation, and changes to workplace policies and norms.
Working together, you will take steps towards developing a workplace culture where your team members can thrive. We’ll partner with you to make system and culture-level changes that stick, resulting in greater employee engagement.
Our team
Emily Grantz, Co-Founder
Emily (they/them) is a skilled facilitator trained in inclusive facilitation through AORTA, and Gracious Space. They have worked in higher education, the aerospace sector, and most recently in public transit. Their expertise spans project and program management, coaching teams to adopt Agile and Lean methodologies, and supporting teams in leveraging collaboration tools such as Trello, Planner, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Teams.
Emily can help you level up your workplace by having better meetings and developing more efficient, collaborative and fun ways of working together.
In their free time, Emily can be found at the nearest park with their wife, drinking an iced latte and petting other peoples’ dogs.
Cassie Schmitt, Co-Founder
Cassie (she/her) is an expert at designing for remote work through program development, process improvement, and integrating equity into work. She uses inclusive design approaches to solve problems and believes everyone can make incremental progress towards making things better.
Cassie can help your organization at any stage of your remote work journey whether it’s creating new policies, integrating remote work practices into your processes, using communication tools, or helping staff feel empowered and productive.
She has worked in higher education, non-profits, and local government and has over 9 years of experience making remote work better. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her husband and dog, traveling to new places, and baking.
Our values
When working together we will:
Care for people
Make things better
Be honest
Be curious
Partner together
Throughout our services we root our work in advancing gender, racial, and disability justice, and find joy in supporting organizations in developing effective and employee-friendly workplace cultures and processes. We have expertise and lived experience with fat activism, disability justice advocacy, and gender bias in the workplace.
We defer to organizations owned and operated by people of color for anti-racism training and consultations. We are happy to connect you with some of these organizations if you need support in anti-racism work.