Build your people & culture ecosystem with Agate

Start-Up Consulting

People are your biggest asset.

We partner with venture capital firms to optimize and grow their portfolio companies to ensure the highest ROI from their people, strategic culture and leadership practices.

Agate provides expertise at the level and time commitment you need to drive your business. We customize each consulting engagement based on stage and depth of investment, whether it be performing a deep dive for due diligence, supporting a turnaround venture or working as an embedded partner to evolve an already thriving organization.

Each of our offerings is designed to strategically drive business, optimize science and technology platforms and enhance the development of your people.

Strategic & Operational Consulting | Due Diligence

Leadership Development & Coaching

Grow your people and your teams.

We partner with clients to coach and develop individuals at every level to gain and refine people leadership skills. Our trainings and leadership coaching are grounded in proven neuroscience tools and philosophies. We incorporate personality assessment tools and the uniquely impactful Shift Positive 360 assessment.

For mid-level managers, we highly recommend our customized micro-coaching program as a virtual and practical way to provide self-awareness and leadership training to a group or individuals.

Coaching | MBTI & StrengthsFinder | Leadership & Team Training | Team Effectiveness Workshops

Evolve your people and culture as your business matures.

Develop the reinforcing tools and systems to implement and ensure an organization that will thrive.

We partner with clients to design unique programs reflective of each culture, that drive the desired dialogue and mindset centered around growth and learning. Agate provides thought partnership and project management to develop relevant and purposeful programs for your people.

Compensation Philosophy & Programs | Performance & Feedback | Onboarding | Benefits & Wellness | Career Ladders | Employee Engagement & Recognition

Culture Coaching

Identify and embed the values that reinforce the culture you aim to build.

Complete a Culture Coaching exercise to get a pulse check on your organization. We connect with a subset of your organization to identify cultural strengths and target solutions for continued development. During the coaching we facilitate a conversation for participants to further appreciate organizational strengths and understand how they can be empowered as individuals to break down barriers and drive positive change.

Our highly effective Culture Coaching is one-of-a-kind and will provide individual and holistic feedback for the organization. Following our coaching we provide a comprehensive assessment identifying key reinforcing levers for positive change, and solutions to pragmatically facilitate changes in a meaningful way.

Culture Assessments & Coaching | Organizational 360 Feedback

Values, Strategy & Goal Setting

Company values are the foundation on which you shape culture, ensure alignment and create engagement.

We facilitate collaborative exercises to identify and bring cultural values to life, identifying habits that can be embedded throughout programs and operations. Our work includes partnering with clients to design strategic meetings that drive alignment around vision, business objectives and cultural initiatives.

We work with clients to bring the philosophy of OKRs to life, as well as identify and implement solutions or technology platforms for company-wide adaption.

Values Identification & Implementation | Meeting Design & Facilitation | Goal Setting | OKRs Implementation

Talent Planning & Acquisition

Hire with intention. Seek out the talent that your culture needs—not only now, but as your organization grows and thrives.

We work closely with our clients to design talent acquisition strategies and employee value propositions that will attract and retain exceptional talent. Our offerings include strategic leadership and talent planning, talent gap assessments, succession planning, and the development of distinctive candidate interview and onboarding experiences.

Talent Strategy | Recruiting | ATS Implementation | Effective Interviewing Practices | Hiring Manager Training

Shift Positive 360

Provide feedback and coaching based on the focus of what right looks like vs. what wrong is.

The Shift Positive approach is grounded in positive psychology and takes a unique approach to gathering feedback, using appreciative and solutions-focused questions to identify desired behaviors. This approach is far more effective than a traditional 360, as it leverages an individual’s “people system” to build collective strengths for a stronger system, not just individual.

360 Feedback | Coaching

Compliance

Reduce organizational and individual risk, and maintain legal compliance.

We partner with clients to create or update policies, procedures and employee handbooks, reflective of company culture and operations. Additionally, we perform employee investigations and reporting.

In all of our work, Agate is diligent in ensuring compliance with State and Federal laws.

Employee Handbooks | Operating Procedures | Policy Development | Investigations & Reporting