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Research and Program Development

Turn insights into systems that work

Research-led training, SOPs and culture programs delivered in weeks.

Founders need evidence, and programs built for how their teams work. This practice combines applied research with operational execution, so what we design gets used.

Five outcomes we are hired for

Reduce time to productivity

Get new hires and newly promoted leaders effective faster, through clear training, documented decision logic and role-specific playbooks.

Eliminate execution drag

Find and remove the hidden cultural and operational constraints that slow decisions down and create rework.

Protect institutional knowledge

Turn critical expertise into SOPs and playbooks before key people leave, so the business is not dependent on any one person.

Build internal capability

Enable your own team to train others using real cases and your own language, without building a training department.

Connect culture to results

Move beyond values statements to measurable improvements in decision speed, accountability and alignment.

Increase consistency

Align how work gets done across teams and locations while preserving autonomy, and without micromanaging.

Our services and products

Train the Trainer programs

Build internal capability fast, without building a training department. We create custom training programs using your language, your cases and your operating context, integrated into the SOPs you already have.

This practice also runs the Field Ready Program, our own leadership onboarding certification for first-time leaders.

Documentation systems, SOPs and playbooks

Turn critical know-how into systems your team can rely on. We extract expertise from your subject-matter experts through interviews, capturing decision logic and edge cases without burdening your teams with the SME hours a documentation engagement usually takes. The result is faster onboarding, more consistent execution and fewer errors.

Culture assessment and activation

Identify what is slowing execution down and fix it. We uncover and translate cultural and operational barriers, link findings to operational metrics like decision latency and escalation volume, and turn insights into prioritized interventions with named owners.

Applied research and program design

Design before delivery, so the programs get used. We begin with research into how work gets done across roles and teams, surface the constraints through interviews, observation and data analysis, then build programs grounded in that reality.

Is this you?

Scaling faster than your systems

Headcount growth has outpaced training and documentation, and execution depends on a handful of key people. We design training, SOPs and playbooks that create consistency without adding management layers.

Knowledge walking out the door

Critical expertise is not documented, and work slows down whenever specialists leave or are unavailable. We extract the decision logic and edge cases into documentation that stays in the business.

Good people, slower execution than expected

You have a capable team and the right tools, and yet decisions lag and follow-through is uneven. A culture assessment surfaces the hidden constraints, and targeted interventions improve execution speed.

Inconsistent work across teams or locations

The same roles are performed differently in different places, producing variable quality. We design SOPs and training that define how work gets done while preserving judgment and autonomy.

Practice lead

Ana Isabel Caguicla
Ana Isabel Caguicla
Practice Lead, Research and Program Development
Isah is an educator and researcher with more than twenty years of experience in curriculum and instructional design, academic leadership and program development. She brings a research-first approach to building training, SOPs and culture programs that change how teams work.

Frequently asked questions

What are train-the-trainer programs?
Programs that build your own capability to deliver training in-house. We design the curriculum around your real cases and coach your people to run it.
What are SOPs and why do they matter?
Standard Operating Procedures capture how critical work gets done, including the decision logic and edge cases that usually live only in somebody’s head. They matter because they make execution consistent and reduce the business’s dependence on individuals.
How does culture assessment work?
We interview across levels, watch how work moves, and connect what we find to operational metrics like decision latency and escalation volume. You get a prioritized list of constraints with named owners, not a report full of sentiment scores.
What is applied research and program design?
Research done for a specific operational purpose — understanding how your teams work — then used directly to design a program that fits that reality.
How long do these engagements take?
Discovery usually takes two to four weeks. Full program design and delivery runs six to twelve weeks depending on scope.

Let us design programs that get used

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