Human readiness for the future of work.

How people
work
together
is our work.

The Schutz Company is an organizational consultancy that builds human readiness: people who are present with each other, willing to own the outcome, and clear enough to move together.

Proof

72% →

7.54%


Employee turnover, and named Employer of the Year

Brentwood Bay Resort & Spa

$1M →

$5M+


Quarterly revenue, 2018 to 2020

Guardian Veterinary Specialists

Up-time

99%


Online four months ahead of plan, $40M+ saved

Shell URSA deepwater platform

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[Photo: real client team members, candid, one person per frame.]

Since 1980 · Built on FIRO® and The Human Element® · Used in dozens of countries

Organizations that have used our work include

NASA · Procter & Gamble · Shell · PepsiCo · Unilever · Roche · Pfizer · Boeing · Toyota · Memorial Sloan Kettering · Airbus · Volvo

Four arcs of work.

Each arc starts with a business problem and follows it back to how people work together.

01

Strategy Execution

The plan is clear and it is not happening.

The outcome

Plans people commit to, and carry out.

We find where commitment quietly turns into compliance, and change it.

02

Executive Team Excellence

The executive team is less than the sum of its members.

The outcome

A leadership team that decides together and holds to it.

It starts with what the team is not saying to itself.

03

Culture of Results

The culture rewards effort, not results.

The outcome

Ownership becomes the norm instead of the exception.

People contribute without waiting to be asked.

04

Adaptive Capacity

The world is moving faster than you are.

The outcome

An organization that changes direction without first breaking something.

We build the capacity to change early, when it is easiest to build.

The strategy is human.

Every plan succeeds or stalls in how people work together.

“A true breakthrough.” Warren Bennis, on The Human Element®

Why us.

Ethan Schutz and Monica Diaz are Master Licensed Human Element Practitioners.

01

We work on what other fixes leave untouched.

02

We work on the system: leaders, teams, and the whole organization at once.

03

Every engagement is tailored, from one leadership team to a multi-year transformation.

04

The method is tested: FIRO®, a validated theory, refined with clients since 1980.

Venn diagram: Presence, Ownership and Clarity overlap at the center in human readiness.

Three states.
One capability.

Presence

People give the conversation and each other their full attention.

Ownership

People contribute without waiting to be asked, and start with their own part when something goes wrong.

Clarity

People leave a discussion with the same understanding of what was decided and why.

Let us talk about your people.