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Business consulting rooted in brain science

Solve the human factor in your business equation.

The Human Factor, LLC (THF) has helped companies build or maintain cultures that produce sustainable productivity through custom outplacement, engagement strategies, executive and leadership coaching, and operational processes that actually work.

The THF Math™ — Let’s Do The Math
The THF Math Profitability Goals equals Productivity, multiplied by the sum of Mission, Methods, and Talent. Where Productivity equals Engagement plus Skills plus Tools. And Engagement equals the sum of Fit, Purpose, Connection, and Communication, multiplied by Leadership. Profitability Goals = (Productivity) × (Mission + Methods + Talent) ↓ Where Productivity = Engagement + Skills + Tools ↓ And Engagement = (Fit + Purpose + Connection + Communication) × (Leadership)

Read bottom to top: When leadership is strong and people experience fit, purpose, connection, and communication, you get engagement. Engagement plus the right skills and tools produces real productivity. Real productivity, multiplied by mission, methods, and talent, is what produces profit you can actually keep.

25+
Years of business coaching
35K+
Documented coaching hours
9
Integrated service offerings
2015
Founded to do outplacement right
What we do

Nine integrated offerings, one operating philosophy.

Each engagement starts with interviews, assessments, and the data/numbers you already track. Then we build the human systems that make the strategy actually work.

Why brain science

Science changes the way smart businesses operate.

Most business problems get pinned on strategy, tools, or “the wrong people.” Usually the real failure point is somewhere between how the brain processes change and how the organization is asking it to.

The Human Factor, LLC brings clinical grade brain science, emotional intelligence, and 35,000+ hours of hands on coaching into the operating model. The result is decisions that stick and behavior that scales.

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How it works

Three steps to a culture that performs.

1

Diagnose

Data analysis, interviews, and validated assessments to find where the human side of the business is leaking productivity.

2

Design

Sustainable solutions on a foundation of brain science. Tailored to your size, your industry, and what your leaders can actually execute.

3

Implement

Hands-on rollout — training, coaching, change support — until the new behavior holds without us in the room.

Featured engagement

Outplacement done right — for everyone in the room.

Terminations are difficult on the employee, the employer, the people who stay, and the surrounding community. Done well, outplacement protects all four.

The Human Factor, LLC offers customized programs that are prescribed around the employee’s role, tenure, and barriers to next employment — and start at $2,000.

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  • For the departing employee: a dignified exit, a comprehensive job-search system, and community connections.
  • For the employer: termination scripts, on-site reaction management, reduced retaliatory-litigation risk, lower UI liability.
  • For the team that stays: proof the company takes care of people, and lower risk of workplace conflict.
  • For the community: trauma reduced, families supported, productivity preserved.

Ready to solve the human factor in YOUR business equation?

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