Our Solutions
We partner with organizations at key inflection points: moments when growth, complexity, or transformation signal that it’s time to design work intentionally.
Scaling Fast & Designing for Growth
Startups move quickly, but coherence, clarity, and culture often struggle to keep pace. We help founders build the backbone for intentional, sustainable scale.
- How do we scale fast without losing clarity, culture, or coherence?
- What backbone – purpose, values, operating norms – do we need to grow intentionally?
- How do we build simple, fair, scalable people practices before complexity sets in?
- How do we attract and integrate the right people without creating bureaucracy?
Performance & Execution Architecture
Designing the decision clarity, operating rhythms, and accountability that turn strategy into consistent execution as you scale.
STARTUP JUMP START
Designing the foundation (purpose, values, and operating norms) so founders scale with clarity from day one.
COMPENSATION & TALENT BACKBONE
Building simple, fair, and strategic talent and rewards practices that grow with the business.
TALENT ACQUISITION PRACTICE LAUNCH
Creating a right-sized, high-impact talent engine that attracts and integrates the people who matter most.
Sharpening Capabilities for
Future Readiness
As organizations grow, early systems hit their limits – we help sharpen leadership, culture, and ways of working for the next stage of scale.
- Our structure has worked so far – how do we redesign it for what’s next?
- How do we ensure collaboration, clarity, and decision-making still work across hybrid, distributed, and global teams?
- How do we adopt AI in a way that boosts performance and promotes trust and collaboration?
- Are our leaders ready for the next chapter of growth?
- Do we truly understand what our people need to perform, stay, and thrive?
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN & WAYS OF WORKING
Designing how work actually works – simplifying structures, clarifying governance, strengthening collaboration, and enabling effective hybrid, distributed, and global teamwork.
AI INTEGRATION & HUMAN-CENTERED ADOPTION
Integrating AI into workflows, culture, and capabilities in a way that enhances performance, protects trust, and elevates human potential.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & SUCCESSION READINESS
Preparing leaders and pipelines for the next chapter of growth through intentional development, capability building, and succession clarity.
TEAM EFFECTIVENESS & HIGH-STAKES FACILITATION
Improving collaboration, decision-making, and trust so teams can navigate complexity and execute with shared purpose.
CULTURE & ENGAGEMENT INSIGHTS
Revealing what strengthens performance and well-being through engagement insights, listening sessions, and behavioral data, turning findings into practical design decisions.
Leadership, Executive & Team Coaching
Leaders and teams growing with intention and relatedness to make transformation real.
- How do I lead with clarity and impact through uncertainty and paradoxes?
- Who am I becoming as a leader — and who do I need to become for what’s ahead?
- How do we strengthen trust, relationships, and shared accountability so we perform together?
EXECUTIVE COACHING
Supporting leaders to grow with clarity, presence, and impact in moments of inflection.
TEAM COACHING
Strengthening relationships, trust, and shared accountability so teams perform together.
Our Cases
Scaling Fast & Designing for Growth
Building a Scalable Talent Practice for a Tech Startup
Signature Insight: Scaling sticks when purpose and structure evolve together.
Impact:
- Scaled through IPO while doubling org size
- Industry-benchmark engagement and retention were maintained during rapid growth
- Energy renewal, with a significant decrease in burnout and absences across the organization.
Client Situation: A mission-driven tech startup needing help with how to scale fast for IPO without losing its culture.
The Unmaze Way
Sense: Heard voices across the company mapping strengths, bottlenecks, and growth risks, and culture tensions in a remote-first context.
Design: Co-created talent development and compensation philosophies to align the leadership on a unique way to manage talent in support of the intended culture and unprecedented high growth rates. Designed an innovative framework to evolve ways of working, focusing on three pillars: intentional human relatedness & connection, performance & renewal sprints, and team collaboration flourishing.
Unmaze: Ran human design sprints and rituals to reinforce the evolved culture and expectations.
Sustain: Embedded quarterly learning loops and lightweight culture metrics.
Capability Reinvention for Specialty Growth
Signature Insight: Capabilities are the strategy in motion.
Impact:
- Revenues doubled over the period
- Market rank improved 11th → 2nd
- +15% boost in pipeline availability/readiness
Client Situation: A regional pharma shifting from primary care to innovative specialty care, needing new scientific and commercial capabilities.
The Unmaze Way
Sense: Diagnosed capability gaps against the growth thesis, and identified key shifts needed in terms of workforce, org design, capabilities, and ways of working.
Design: Blended buy/build strategy for critical roles and new go-to-market structures.
Unmaze: Launched role profiles, learning pathways, and mobility plans tied to outcomes.
Sustain: Tracked capability and pipeline metrics linked to market performance.
SHARPENING CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE
Connecting Talent Practices to the Business Value Creation Agenda
Signature Insight: When talent mirrors value, performance compounds.
Impact:
- 150 top leader roles identified as driving ~80% of value, with a clear mandate of what was expected to translate strategy into successful execution
- Two-thirds of top roles upgraded within the next 2-3 years with a build/buy strategy
- Bench quality/readiness up (double-digit gains across leadership competencies)
Client Situation: A Fortune 50 enterprise needing to improve and sustain performance and market leadership while realizing it didn’t have the leadership, org design, and cultural enablers to achieve its growth aspirations.
The Unmaze Way
Sense: Explored the key business drivers generating disproportionate growth and deeply assessed the human factors behind superior performance.
Design: An integrated framework for linking strategy → roles & capabilities → assessment → leadership deployment & talent investments to an action plan for value creation
Unmaze: Piloted across businesses, activating leaders to own their role and successor moves.
Sustain: Baked into the annual talent rhythm and “Talent Story” governance.
Culture Integration & Leadership Reset
Signature Insight: Integration works when culture design leads structural change.
Impact:
- Engagement +22 points in one year
- 80% of leadership roles were refreshed to fit the new mandate
- 100% succession readiness for top roles
Client Situation: A med-device business integrating two large competitors into one single company and needing a shared identity and new ways of working.
The Unmaze Way
Sense: Surfaced misalignments in culture, accountability, and team effectiveness.
Design: Co-created the leadership model, culture narrative, and engagement rituals.
Unmaze: Facilitated leader journeys and team alignment across regions.
Sustain: Established pulse checks, coaching, and peer learning to lock behaviors.
Leadership Architecture & Succession
Signature Insight: Succession pipeline health & readiness are designed, not discovered.
Impact:
- Accelerated the top 60 next-gen leaders with intentional development plans, investment required, and visibility across the enterprise
- 70% of the cohort had 1-2 developmental moves in the first two years of the program, with a 95% retention rate
- Succession bench strength for critical roles increased by 15 pp
Client Situation: A Fortune 50 enterprise seeking consistent readiness and mobility for its most senior roles in a context of significant business change & technological disruptions.
The Unmaze Way
Sense: Identified key role requirement shifts for the future and translated them into requirements as skills, experiences, and leadership traits most critical to success. An estimated supply-and-demand analysis of the most significant leadership gaps was conducted.
Design: Built a unified leadership architecture with assessments, acceleration paths, and development plans.
Unmaze: Activated Next-Gen pools and targeted rotations to close readiness gaps across a select group of future-ready leaders globally.
Sustain: Installed cadence, dashboards, and leader accountability for moves and development investments.