Forward-deployed experts for People Teams
We work alongside your team to turn workforce insights into stronger managers, better talent practices, and new ways of working with AI. From the first assessment through implementation, our experts help you decide what to change and do the work with you.
How we work
Understand what matters. Put change into practice.
Understand
Combine workforce data with surveys, focus groups, and listening sessions to understand what employees experience and where your team should act.
Align & Activate
Get leaders and teams ready to act. Build shared understanding and practical skills through facilitated workshops, training, and keynotes.
Sustain & Execute
Work with a dedicated advisor or embedded expert to redesign practices, support leaders, and carry the work through implementation.
Surface Intelligence platform
People intelligence that moves work forward
Surface is the AI-native people intelligence platform. It brings together the signals shaping your workforce, benchmarks your practices against peers, and produces the finished work your team can act on immediately.
What we offer
Expert help for your biggest people priorities
Develop stronger managers, improve how you hire and evaluate performance, or help your People team put AI to work. We bring the expertise and hands-on support to move your priorities forward.
Understand
Understand what employees experience
Combine surveys, focus groups, and listening sessions to identify what needs attention and decide where to act.
Employee Listening
Understand
Help leaders see where to grow
Assess leaders against Paradigm’s Inclusive Leadership framework and identify specific behaviors to develop.
Leadership Assessments
Align & Activate
Build the skills your teams need
Help managers and employees practice better feedback, communication, and leadership through expert-led workshops and training.
Workshops, Training & Keynotes
Align & Activate
Put AI to work on your People team
Help your team adopt Surface and build the skills to use AI in its everyday work.
AI Enablement
Sustain & Execute
Work through your next people decision
Bring a senior advisor into your team’s work, with ongoing strategic support and individual coaching for leaders.
Strategic Advising & Coaching
Sustain & Execute
Give employee groups a clear purpose
Define the role, structure, and priorities of your ERGs and inclusion councils, with training and measures of progress.
ERG & Inclusion Councils
Sustain & Execute
Build better ways to hire and develop people
Review and redesign hiring, performance, and development practices, with clear criteria and practical tools for the people using them.
Process & Program Design
Sustain & Execute
Make the case for what comes next
Turn workforce findings into clear board reports, executive updates, and employee communications that explain what you learned and what you plan to do.
Communications & Reporting
Our impact
Stronger leaders. Better talent practices. Lasting change.
Our work across organizations informs how we approach your priorities, from developing leaders to changing the practices that shape everyday work.
Organizations we have worked with since 2014
Employees’ confidence in their organization’s culture initiatives
Representation of women in leadership in one year
Employees who feel their voice is heard
Customer stories
See the impact firsthand
See how organizations have worked with Paradigm to develop leaders, hear from employees, and improve their talent practices.
All customer stories
Our experts
Meet Paradigm’s Talent & Culture Experts
Our consultants, facilitators, and advisors bring experience in people analytics, organizational psychology, and people leadership. They work alongside your team on the decisions, skills, and practices that shape your organization.
Insights
Our Latest Insights
All insights
Insights
From HR Leader to Transformation Architect: The New Role of the Chief People Officer
As AI reshapes how work gets done, the Chief People Officer’s role is expanding. Discover the three critical responsibilities CPOs should own.
Article
How to Build a High-Performance Culture: The 2026 Guide
Eight steps for building a high-performance culture rooted in belonging and backed by data to improve profitability and meet your business goals.
Culture fundamentals
7 Ways to Improve Cross-Cultural Communication at Work
Building cross-cultural communication skills within your workforce unlocks a world of financial and inclusion benefits.
What does your team need to move forward?
Tell us what you’re working on. We’ll help you identify where expert support can make a difference and what working together could look like.
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