Strategic advising & coaching
A thought partner for your toughest people decisions
Get ongoing strategic advising and coaching from an expert who works as part of your team. Together, we set priorities, work through decisions, and turn plans into practices your organization can use. As your needs change, our work changes with them.
Key benefits
Expert support for decisions and delivery
Data-driven decision making
Our experts analyze talent processes, policies, and trends to uncover opportunities for impact.
Tailored expert guidance
Work through decisions about hiring, retention, leadership development, and organization design with an experienced advisor.
Advising and fractional leadership
Bring an expert into your team’s work to help prioritize initiatives, develop materials, and support implementation.
Sustainable growth & progress
Build a strategy that evolves with your organization’s structure and workforce needs.
Our approach
How advising works
Set priorities together
Start with the decisions and challenges your team is facing. Your advisor helps interpret workforce findings, identify where more listening is needed, and focus the work on the priorities that matter most.
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Benchmarking & analytics
Your advisor starts from what Surface already shows about your workforce and how it compares with peers, then helps you decide what it means for your organization and what to do next.
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Embedded strategy & advisory support
Work with a dedicated senior advisor through regular meetings, working sessions, and project work between conversations. Set goals and deliverables together, then adjust the focus and cadence as your priorities change. Your advisor can join existing team meetings or meet separately with you.
Coaching for the leaders carrying the work
Give leaders a thought partner to work through specific challenges and practice new behaviors. Inclusive Leadership Coaching connects assessment findings to an action plan with goals, measures, and timelines, with summaries and resources to support progress between conversations.
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How an engagement can run
Surface produces the work. Your advisor helps you drive lasting change.
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