We help align your internal culture with business goals and external values
Bespoke People Consulting for
Startups | Small Businesses | Nonprofits
5-100 employees
Prevent problems & be proactive about scaling sustainably.
There’s the way you’d like to do it, and the hacky version that’s more realistic—if you get the time.
Yet something more urgent always seems to come up.
You’re perpetually under-resourced, burned out, and hoping to break out of reactive cycles.
It might not even be your job to think about these issues—but it’s not anyone else’s, either. Let us help.
Little things are big things:
Individually, those smaller issues might not cost enough (yet) to allocate internal time to fixing.
Collectively, they are more expensive than the sum of their parts.
Too often, companies wait until they feel the pain more acutely—when it’s both harder and costs more to fix.
That’s where Headwaters comes in.
We help you find root causes, identify early flags, and collaborate on bespoke solutions to help you build scalable and lasting improvements to your organization's efficiency and sustainability.
Most clients come to us with an urgent problem like attrition, burnout, an interpersonal conflict, slower productivity or difficulty hiring.
When we dig further, these are often symptoms of several interrelated, under-attended People needs, such as:
underperformance
tension between teams
outdated or missing processes & documentation
inequitable compensation
inefficient or ineffective hiring
cultural silos between groups
Your company is an ecosystem requiring care and maintenance.
All partnerships start with an Organizational Health Assessment to avoid surprises, check assumptions, and better-understand what we’re addressing— so we don’t fix one problem while creating another.
From there, we pause and assess. We decide together whether to move forward with Headwaters’ custom solutions, or if our report delivers a useful strategic guide for your in-house team to carry forward.