Consulting, keynotes, and workshops

Build a workplace people want to belong to.

Promoting friendships in the workplace is one of the most important investments your organization can make. The science is clear: These relationships enhance engagement, performance, creativity, and productivity, while reducing stress, burnout, and even injuries.

Keelah leading a workshop
200+ hours of shared time to turn an acquaintance into a close friend (Hall, 2018)

Organizations run on relationships. Most leave them to chance.

Friends share what they know.

Information moves fastest between people who trust each other, across teams as well as within them.

Friends step in.

Help, coverage and candor come more easily from a colleague who is also an ally.

Friends are a reason to stay.

The people around us shape whether a job feels like a place we belong.

Ways to work together

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Culture and team advisory

Find where connection breaks down, whether in onboarding, hybrid schedules, team structure or physical space, then redesign the conditions that let friendships form and last.

For executive teams, people and culture leaders, and workplace strategy.

Keynotes and workshops

The science of friendship at work, for all-hands meetings, offsites, leadership retreats and conferences. Grounded in published research, with things to try the following Monday.

Keynote, interactive workshop, or a series.

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Programs for managers and people teams

Onboarding that builds real ties, rituals that sustain them, and how to handle the jealousy and venting that come with close relationships, drawing directly on Keelah’s research.

For hR, L&D and manager development programs.

Research partnerships

Measure connection inside your organization and test what changes it, with study designs that hold up to peer review.

Law and psychology

Consultation on legal decision-making, punishment and the role of emotion in dispute resolution, from a psychologist trained as a lawyer.

How it works

  1. A short call

    Thirty minutes to understand your people, the problem and what success would look like.

  2. A clear proposal

    Scope, format, timeline and fee in writing, tailored to your organization.

  3. The work, then the follow-up

    Delivery, plus a check-in afterward on what changed and what to try next.

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