ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS
The right talent. The right opportunities. Greater business impact.
Your organization has already invested in capable people. We help you turn more of that existing capability into leadership readiness, stronger contribution, and meaningful career movement.
Through talent diagnostics, leadership-development experiences, and targeted organizational solutions, we help close the gap between the talent you have and the business value that talent can create.
THE OPPORTUNITY
You can't fully leverage talent you don't recognize, position, and activate.
Organizations face increasing pressure to strengthen leadership pipelines, retain valuable talent, improve workforce agility, and demonstrate returns on people investments.
Yet the answer isn't always another external hire or another development program.
Sometimes the capability the organization needs already exists within its workforce but isn't sufficiently visible, advocated for, or connected to the right opportunities.
That disconnect can contribute to:
rising replacement and external hiring costs
leadership vacancies and succession gaps
limited internal mobility
underutilized capabilities
development spending without clear evidence of contribution
Closing the Talent Activation Gap requires more than developing employees. It requires connecting capability to opportunity.
That's where The EMPACT Agency® comes in.
THREE STRATEGIC STAGES. FLEXIBLE WAYS TO ENGAGE.
From identifying underactivated talent to building stronger leadership pipelines.
Organizations have different needs, priorities, and levels of readiness. Our solutions are designed to meet you where you are while creating opportunities for meaningful and measurable progress.
01 | DIAGNOSE
EMPACT Insights™
Identify where capability is being overlooked, underpositioned, or disconnected from opportunity. Gain insight into barriers affecting talent activation and make more informed development investments.
02 | DEVELOP
EMPACT Accelerator™ & EMPACT Labs
Equip ambitious professional women with capabilities, positioning, visibility, and advocacy for greater leadership contribution. Choose from structured cohort-based experiences or targeted learning solutions aligned with immediate organizational priorities.
03 | SCALE
Customized Organizational Partnerships
Extend talent activation beyond individual learning experiences. We partner with organizations to design integrated initiatives that may combine diagnostics, cohort development, manager and sponsor enablement, customized learning, and ongoing measurement.
Start with the challenge. Build a solution around the business outcome.
01 | DIAGNOSE · EMPACT INSIGHTS™
Make better talent decisions by seeing what may be holding capability back.
Your organization may have capable employees who are performing well but not progressing, limited visibility into leadership readiness, or development initiatives that have not translated into meaningful movement.
Before adding another program, you need to understand where and why talent may be getting stuck.
EMPACT Insights™ is our organizational diagnostic designed to examine the conditions influencing career positioning and talent activation.
What we examine: Recognition and visibility of capability; career positioning and leadership readiness; strategic relationships, advocacy and sponsorship; access to development and career opportunities; barriers to translating contribution into advancement.
What your organization receives: A structured assessment, analysis of relevant talent-activation gaps, and an actionable organizational readout to inform development priorities and decisions. Depending on engagement scope, findings may be examined by level, function, business unit, or cohort.
The business value: Better visibility into potential activation barriers, clearer development priorities, and a stronger evidence base for deciding where to invest.
Best fit: HR and Talent leaders seeking clarity before expanding development investments or addressing persistent mobility and succession challenges.
When the challenge is unclear, the first investment should be insight.
02 | DEVELOP · THE EMPACT ACCELERATOR™
Develop the woman. Strengthen the conditions for her leadership impact.
Capability alone does not create career movement.
An organization can employ highly capable professionals who deliver consistently without those individuals being sufficiently recognized, connected, or advocated for when new opportunities emerge.
The EMPACT Accelerator™ addresses the individual and organizational sides of that challenge.
This structured cohort-based experience equips ambitious professional women to recognize and communicate their value, expand influence, cultivate strategic relationships, and position themselves for greater leadership contribution.
Grounded in our WIN³ Leadership Method™, this experience connects professional development and practical application to career positioning, influence, advocacy, and organizational opportunity.
Beyond the participant: We incorporate manager and sponsor enablement to help reinforce development, increase recognition of capability, and encourage access to meaningful opportunities.
What your organization gains:
Professionals better equipped for expanded leadership contribution
Stronger career-positioning and advocacy capabilities
Greater visibility into strengths and readiness
More intentional development and sponsorship conversations
Opportunities to connect learning with business priorities
Agreed measures of progress
The business value: A more intentional pathway for translating existing employee capability into leadership readiness, meaningful contribution, and potential career movement.
Best fit: Organizations seeking a measurable cohort-based development experience for ambitious mid- to senior-level professional women.
TARGETED DEVELOPMENT · EMPACT LABS
Practical learning for the talent and leadership challenges that matter now.
Not every organizational challenge requires a full diagnostic or cohort experience.
EMPACT Labs delivers focused, customized workshops and learning experiences designed to strengthen career positioning, strategic visibility, leadership influence, advocacy, and sustainable performance.
Whether supporting an ERG, equipping managers, or addressing a specific development need, each engagement connects learning to practical workplace application.
Focus areas:
Career Positioning & Leadership Readiness
Strategic Visibility, Voice & Influence
Advocacy & Sponsorship
Develop Beyond Your Manager
Sustainable Performance
Manager & Sponsor Enablement
Engagement formats:
Interactive workshops and masterclasses
Leadership and ERG development experiences
Manager and sponsor sessions
Executive speaking and facilitated conversations
Customized multi-session programs
Business value: Targeted capability development aligned with organizational priorities.
03 | SCALE · CUSTOMIZED ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
Move beyond individual programs. Build stronger systems for talent activation.
Sustainable talent activation requires more than isolated learning experiences.
For organizations seeking broader transformation, we design customized partnerships that connect talent insights, professional development, manager and sponsor engagement, practical application, and measurement.
These engagements may include:
organizational talent activation diagnostics
multiple Accelerator cohorts
manager and sponsor enablement
targeted EMPACT Labs experiences
measurement and organizational reporting
follow-up initiatives to reinforce progress
Business value: A coordinated approach to strengthening leadership pipelines, internal mobility, talent utilization, and organizational capability.
Best fit: Organizations seeking a strategic partner to support talent activation across multiple teams, cohorts, or business priorities.
FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
Different challenges. Different starting points. One goal: Greater talent activation.
You need to understand why capable employees are not progressing.
Start with EMPACT Insights™.
You want to strengthen the readiness and positioning of an identified group of women.
Start with The EMPACT Accelerator™.
You have an immediate development, advocacy, sponsorship, or leadership need.
Start with EMPACT Labs.
You want a broader, measurable talent activation initiative.
Explore a Customized Organizational Partnership integrating diagnosis, development, application, and follow-up measurement.
Every engagement begins with organizational priorities and the outcomes that matter most. No offering is a required prerequisite for another.
BEYOND PARTICIPATION
Development should create movement, not simply attendance.
Training completion and participant satisfaction can tell you whether people engaged with a program. They do not, by themselves, tell you whether capability is being more effectively activated.
We believe organizations should look further.
Depending on engagement scope, our measurement approach can examine:
Career Positioning
Changes in how participants recognize, articulate, and demonstrate their value.
Visibility & Advocacy
Progress in strategic relationships, manager conversations, visibility, and sponsorship access.
Applied Leadership
Evidence of new behaviors, expanded contributions, and application of learning to real work.
Opportunity & Movement
Indicators such as stretch assignments, expanded responsibilities, career-development conversations, and internal mobility.
Organizational Insight
Patterns that help talent leaders understand barriers and inform future development decisions.
We align measurement with engagement scope, available data, and agreed business priorities.
The goal is not simply to demonstrate that development happened. It is to understand what changed and what that means for the organization.
THE EMPACT DIFFERENCE
Corporate experience. A positioning-centered methodology. An evidence-informed approach.
The EMPACT Agency® combines more than 20 years of corporate experience with a distinctive understanding of the connection between individual capability, organizational recognition, and career opportunity.
Founded by Georgia Wolfe-Samuels, CPA, a former Big Four senior manager, EMPACT brings a perspective shaped by evaluating evidence, identifying gaps, understanding risk, and connecting organizational processes to desired outcomes.
Capability does not automatically become opportunity. Positioning connects the two. Positioning requires advocacy.
We develop professionals while helping organizations strengthen how they recognize, support, and activate the talent already contributing within their workforce.
READY TO ACTIVATE MORE OF YOUR EXISTING TALENT?
Let's turn talent potential into greater business contribution.
Whether your challenge is leadership readiness, internal mobility, sponsorship, talent retention, or demonstrating the value of development, we'll help you identify an appropriate place to begin.
Bring us your talent priorities. We'll explore the challenge, the outcomes you're seeking, and the EMPACT solution best aligned with your needs. Start With EMPACT Insights™ →