Your people and culture need to shift. Let's make it happen.

The philosophy

We want the same thing you do:
change that actually sticks.

Skills matter. Frameworks help.
But without shifting the beliefs
underneath nothing really changes.

That's the level we work at. And it's where things actually change.

You've outgrown the usual answers. Something isn't working and you know it.

The answers you've reached for haven't been wrong.
They just haven't been enough.

  • A high performer can't make the leap to the next level.
  • A team is stuck and no one can quite name why.
  • The leadership team knows something has to change. They just can't name what.
  • The culture isn't keeping up with where you're going.
  • Good isn't good enough anymore.

Every program is built around your people, your context, your goals.

No off-the-shelf answers. Just work that fits.

Right nowBurnt out

AfterEnergized and engaged

Right nowHesitant to take ownership

AfterHold each other accountable

Right nowTerritorial and siloed

AfterCollaborative and aligned

Right nowAvoid conflict and hard conversations

AfterCommunicate openly and say the hard things

Right nowStuck in the status quo

AfterCurious, creative, open to new ideas

Right nowCaught in the weeds, disconnected from purpose

AfterStrategic and connected to the bigger picture

Right nowLack trust, unwilling to take risks

AfterTrusting and willing to take risks

Right nowAt risk of leaving

AfterLoyal and committed

A process that goes to the root.

DISRUPT

Surface what's actually going on.

DEEPEN

Expand awareness of self, of each other, and of the organization's culture.

SHIFT

Road test new beliefs, skills, and tools to meet real situations until new behaviours take root.

SUSTAIN

Embed the new so it holds when we're not in the room, and when things get hard.

Every engagement is customized to your people, context, and goals. But everyone moves through the same four stages, because that's what makes it work.

The people who've worked with us come back. And send others.

You're in experienced hands. Between us, we bring over three decades of work with leaders, teams, and organizations, and most of what brings new clients to us is a conversation with someone we've already worked with.

A WorkModern workshop in progress: a facilitator at the front of a room of seated participants

We've worked across finance, healthcare, education, media, insurance, architecture, and beyond.
Wildly different worlds, and the work translates.

4.5+average engagement survey rating
30+combined years of practice
2000+leaders served

Our clients say we’re just what they need to dig deep and disrupt the status quo.

We were running hard through a high-growth, high-change stage — a performance culture that was still being built. The risk wasn't that leaders would resist the direction; it was that they'd execute it poorly on the people side and erode the trust we were trying to build. WorkModern helped close that gap. The work translated directly into how our leaders showed up in calibrations, in difficult conversations, and in the moments where accountability met empathy. It changed how people thought about their role as leaders. For anyone skeptical about whether this kind of work moves metrics: our leadership trust index results tracked upward through one of the most demanding operating years we'd had. That doesn't happen without development that actually lands.

VP, People & Operations FinTech

Since working with WorkModern, we now have more open & honest conversations based on mutual trust, and there is greater personal awareness and insight into our behaviours.

VP Sales Finance Company

WorkModern solidified us as a team in a time of great change. We were already a close and high functioning team; however, we needed to change how we worked to become more collaborative and cross-functional. WorkModern helped us better appreciate how we needed to behave to ensure that the necessary changes were both possible and sustainable. The team now trusts and supports each other, and has an increased capacity for tackling new challenges.

Vice Provost University

I was hopeful that there would be an elevated level of interaction and a true sense of "team" for us as a group, and this has met those expectations in a big way. We had a team meeting last week and discussed a sensitive subject in a way that we could not have before these sessions.

Executive Director Charitable Organization
Tamar Kagan and Michelle Rothstein, the founders of WorkModern

We started WorkModern because we've seen what happens when the human side of work gets ignored. Talent leaves. Decisions stall. Teams that could be doing great work are stuck fighting each other instead. Culture becomes the thing everyone complains about and nobody changes.

Michelle and Tamar have spent a combined three decades working on the beliefs, dynamics, and unspoken things that derail even the best strategies. We're not consultants who parachute in with a framework and leave. We roll up our sleeves, ask the hard questions, and stay until the work is real.

Because when people work well together, really well, everything moves faster. Decisions get made. Talent stays. The culture stops being a problem and starts being an advantage.

More about us

If you need a vendor with a catalogue of off‑the‑shelf programs, we're not the right fit. If you need partners who will go deep with you and build something that actually lasts, let's talk.

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