AFTER THE RIF
Your team got downsized. The work did not.
WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS HAPPENS AFTER A LAYOFF
18–24 months
before productivity returns to pre-RIF level
Harvard Business Review
+33%
increased turnover among top performers
American Management Association
77%
of survivors report making more mistakes
Leadership IQ
THE PROBLEM NOBODY PLANS FOR
A layoff is a cost decision.
The bill comes due as a performance problem.
The assumption is that the team will absorb the shock. The work will get redistributed. Morale will bounce back. The show goes on.
That is the hope. It is rarely the reality. Here is what actually happens: The team can't keep up with the workload. Deliverables start to slip. Firefighting consumes management bandwidth. Customers are complaining. The best people — the ones with the most options — get fed up and leave. And the cost you just cut? It quietly grows back.
Reducing headcount does not reduce the workload.
WHY THE USUAL HELP ISN'T ENOUGH
Most post-layoff support focuses only on morale.
We fix the work underneath it.
Town halls, recognition programs, resilience workshops, change management plans — all fine, but none of them change the fact that you're asking a smaller team to carry the whole load.
We help you make the changes to roles, processes, structure, and technology that are needed to elevate team performance and rightsize the work, using an integrated approach.
Operating Model &
Organization Design
Structure the organization around the work that actually matters — not the org chart you inherited.
AI-enabled
Productivity
Automate and augment the right work — after it's been redesigned, not before.
Work Redesign & Process Improvement
Reduce, simplify, and standardize the work so scope matches the team's real capacity.
Capability
Building
Build management and team capability required to make the gains stick.
THE 90-DAY ROADMAP
Four moves determine how fast — and how strong — your team comes back
Recover
Stabilize the team,
protect critical talent,
and capture
knowledge .
Reimagine
Right-size the work to match capacity and leverage technology to augment and enable.
Redesign
Optimize job design
for ownership, accountability, and engagement.
Realize
Execute the plan,
develop capabilities,,
and engage the stakeholders.
Want the full 90-day roadmap? The free playbook
includes every tool, checklist, and template.
HOW WE WORK
Three ways to engage — matched to your needs
Blueprint
Develop a robust plan
Six working sessions over twelve weeks to develop an execution-ready blueprint. We show you how; you lead the work.
Virtual
Boost
Develop a plan + energize the team.
A high impact team workshop to jumpstart the transformation and 1:1 coaching for the leader
Virtual
Build
Plan, energize + deliver results
Tailored, hands-on support.
We partner with you throughout the entire transformation journey.
In person / Virtual
Going through a layoff or restructuring?
We offer a no-cost 30-minute Recovery Diagnostic for qualified leaders. In half an hour,
you'll leave knowing what to focus on in the first 90 days — whether or not we ever work together.