As Featured on NPR’s Planet Money & Yowei Shaw’s Proxy Podcast, The Layoff Trilogy
Human-Centered Advice and Consulting for People & Organizations
Bringing People and Purpose Together to Build Authentic, Impactful Workplaces
OUR SERVICES
For CEO/COOs and HR Teams of 1
Navigating an evolving industry is hard enough, leave it to us to guide you on all things Human Operations. From facilitating business model planning, internal process design, and organizational development to owning payroll & benefits and beyond, we act as your fractional People and Operations team - meeting you where you are in your People & Operations journey with flexible partnership models. We’ll help you zoom in to execute and out to strategize in order to ensure your people & processes are properly positioned to blow your goals out of the water.
For Workers
Between quickly evolving environments and increasing customer demands and expectations, the work itself is hard enough - let us help you change your workplace, mindset, or work styles so we don’t make work harder than it needs to be!
We provide ongoing coaching services to individuals who want to improve themselves and/or their workplaces, along with one-time/on-demand advisory services for those who need help navigating workplace challenges.
Our Mission
At Somehow I Manage, we partner with employees and small businesses to cultivate effective, efficient, and profitable human-centered workplaces.
Guided by principles of thoughtfulness, authenticity, and adaptability, we help you develop processes and programs that consider the impact on employees, consumers/communities, partners, and investors to help you ensure your business works for everyone (well, except competition!).
Drawing inspiration from conscious capitalism, positive psychology, and matriarchal models of organization, we foster environments that enhance both profitability and purpose.
Our Operating Principles
We follow three main guiding principles that we try to reflect in our behavior and decision making. We’re able to do our best work for you when client values align closely with our values, and are also able to work with you to define your values if you haven’t already. Our Core Values:
Kindness & Curiosity: We aim to approach every situation with kindness, assuming and giving good intent. We try to come from a place of seeking to understand.
Authenticity & Transparency: We aim to be as honest and open as possible, sharing our biases while keeping everyone’s perspective in mind.
Deconstruct & Delight: We aim to approach problems with a root cause analysis - deconstructing issues with question & coaching focused curiosity to understand the core of the concern. We then aim to partner with you to create a simple win:win solution, in a process that should be light, human, and fun.
