Why Paradigm
People experts, working alongside your team
For more than a decade, Paradigm has helped organizations solve their hardest people and culture challenges.
12+
years of research, consulting, and training
2,000+
organizations, from Fortune 500s to fast-growing startups
26
workshops in the catalog, across eight topics
300K+
learners trained around the world
How we work
From insight to sustainable change
Every engagement follows the same arc: understand what is really happening, align leaders and teams on what to do about it, then sustain the change over time. Take the whole arc or the piece you need now.
1
Understand
Surveys, focus groups, listening sessions, and leadership assessments that show you what is really happening.
2
Align & Activate
Workshops, keynotes, and AI enablement that build shared understanding and the skills to act on it.
3
Sustain & Execute
Advising, coaching, ERG and program design, and reporting that keep the change going.
Listening & assessment
Understand
Surveys, focus groups, and listening tours
We help you understand employees' lived experiences in your organization. Our qualitative research experts can also design psychologically safe spaces where we hear directly from employees, surface key barriers and opportunities, and shape a path forward.
Employee Listening
Surveys, focus groups, and listening sessions that uncover how employees actually experience your organization, and what to do about it.
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Leadership Assessments
A scored assessment of how each leader shows up against Paradigm’s Inclusive Leadership framework, with a clear path from results to action.
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Workshops & enablement
Align & Activate
Facilitated workshops and keynotes
We help you create shared understanding, momentum, and commitment across leaders and teams. Our experts partner with you to design and facilitate keynotes, fireside chats, and workshops for key audiences, including executive teams, managers, HR teams, and ERGs.
Workshops, Training & Keynotes
Expert-led workshops for every level, keynotes for the moments that set the tone, and Train the Trainer to certify your own facilitators.
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AI Enablement
Help your people team adopt AI: evaluate your HR tech stack, roll out Surface, and build the playbooks and learning journeys that put it to work.
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Advising & programs
Sustain & Execute
Advising and fractional support
We partner with you over time to implement, adapt, and sustain talent and culture strategies, acting as an extension of your team. Our advising can be strategically focused, building a framework, prioritizing initiatives, and measuring impact, or tactically focused, refining materials and building the processes that make the strategy stick.
Strategic Advising & Coaching
A dedicated senior advisor on a regular cadence for your strategy, and one-to-one coaching for the leaders carrying it.
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ERG & Inclusion Councils
Structure, launch, education, and measurement for employee resource groups and inclusion councils.
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Process & Program Design
Reviews and redesigns of hiring, performance, and people programs so they produce fair, consistent outcomes.
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Communications & Reporting
Board and executive reports, custom benchmarking, and internal and external communications, including crisis response.
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Our experts
The people behind the work
Our consultants and facilitators bring research, field experience, and real-world judgment to every engagement, and that same expertise shapes Surface.
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