CATcH the
NEXT WAVE
of impact TALENT architecture
THE NEXT WAVE IS
✦ HUMAN-CENTERED
✦ EQUITY-INFORMED
✦ INTERSECTIONAL
✦ GLOBAL
THE NEXT WAVE IS
✦ EQUITABLE
✦ FEMINIST
✦ DECENTRALIZED
THE NEXT WAVE IS
✦ ADAPTIVE
✦ AI-ENABLED
✦ COMING!
THE NEXT WAVE IS ✦ HUMAN-CENTERED ✦ EQUITY-INFORMED ✦ INTERSECTIONAL ✦ GLOBAL THE NEXT WAVE IS ✦ EQUITABLE ✦ FEMINIST ✦ DECENTRALIZED THE NEXT WAVE IS ✦ ADAPTIVE ✦ AI-ENABLED ✦ COMING!
because the tides of WORK
ARE TURNING
FUTURE-PROOF TALENT
The next wave of business and teams are inevitable because the future of our planet, communities, and industries depend on shifting toward climate resilience, community health, and new economic systems. Impact-first organizations and innovative startups are designing new ways of doing almost everything - and they need the right talent architecture in order to get there.
The world of work is changing faster than most organizations can keep up with — especially the ones doing the most important work. Full-time with salary, benefits, and a commute to 40-hours a week in a physical office isn't the standard anymore, especially in the innovation economy. Fractional roles, advisory arrangements with governance options, contracted partnerships, ownership stakes, milestone-based engagements, teams across timezones and operating models… the shapes and sizes of work need to be as creative as the challenges they're setting out to solve.
That’s why we built Next Wave: a talent studio for the innovation economy. We help impact-first organizations develop the right constellation of collaborators, design the right arrangements, and build enduring teams that bring out the best in each other.
NEXT WAVE SERVICES
01
BUILD YOUR TEAM
LET’S GET THE RIGHT PEOPLE INTO THE RIGHT ROLES
Hiring at an impact organization is it’s own puzzle. The roles are less defined, the stakes are more personal, and the wrong fit costs you more than a bad quarter, it’ll cost collective momentum, precious budget, and progress towards your mission.
We work with founders and leaders upstream from a successful onboard to ensure roles are designed to reflect what the organization needs then we can run any/all parts of an impact-centered hiring process: sourcing, screening, interviews, and final selection support. Full-time, fractional, advisory, contracted — the arrangement should be as creative as the work itself.
What this looks like:
Org design and role architecture
Job description development
Candidate sourcing and screening
Interview design and facilitation
Evaluation frameworks for shortlisting and selection
Senior and leadership-level search
Consultant and contractor scoping and evaluation
Co-founder and founding team matching
02
STRENGTHEN YOUR TEAM
LET’S ARCHITECT THE TALENT SYSTEM THAT POWERS YOUR WORK
You've got good people. Now it’s time to make them a team that’s greater than the sum of its parts. We work with founders and leadership teams to build the connective tissue that turns individual talent into collective momentum — shared values that are actually shared, strategy that everyone can see themselves in, performance systems that develop your people instead of just grading them, and the kind of alignment that makes a small team punch way above its weight.
What this looks like:
Organizational values and culture workshops
Team reorganization design
Team retreats and strategy offsites
Performance review process design
Facilitation for teams navigating growth, transition, or friction
Impact thesis development and alignment
Offboarding and transition stewardship
SPECIALITIES
✦ CIRCULARITY
✦ CLIMATETECH
✦ IMM + MEL
SPECIALTIES
✦ PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
✦ WEB3
✦ NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
SPECIALTIES
✦ SYSTEMS CHANGE
✦ ESOs
✦ INNOVATIVE FINANCE
SPECIALITIES ✦ CIRCULARITY ✦ CLIMATETECH ✦ IMM + MEL SPECIALTIES ✦ PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ✦ WEB3 ✦ NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS SPECIALTIES ✦ SYSTEMS CHANGE ✦ ESOs ✦ INNOVATIVE FINANCE
WHO THIS IS FOR
IMPACT ORGANIZATIONS
If your work is impact-first and your team needs to match, we speak your language.
✦ Nonprofits, foundations, social enterprises, fiscally sponsored projects, charitable organizations — across the hybrid economy of incorporation types. ✦
INVESTORS + ACCELERATORS
We provide curriculum, office hours, and outsourced staffing support so your startups build strong teams from day one.
✦ Entrepreneur support organizations providing operational support and talent services to portfolio companies and cohort participants. ✦
START + SCALE-UPs
We’re the outsourced talent architect who gets where you're at before you have a full HR dept.
✦ Early-stage ventures that need fractional and outsourced people operations — from your first hire to your first reorg.✦
