Vision & Values Strategy
Teams are stronger when each person understands how their work contributes to the company’s future. We work with leaders to align business strategy and corporate vision, and to help translate those tenets to the everyday activities of employees.
“Hilgart is committed to truly understanding an organization’s culture, it’s strengths & challenges and customizing programs accordingly. Erin never takes a “one size fits all” approach to leadership development. The partnership [Hilgart] has forged with our company has enabled them to design and deliver high quality, engaging programs and essential tools for managers and their teams.”
Director, Human Resources, Fortune 500 Company
“I wanted to offer my heartfelt thanks for facilitating our board retreat last week. We got great feedback on the retreat from our fellow board members. Everyone left the room feeling energized and with a clear sense of purpose for the work ahead. You offered us just the right amount of structure and guidance, and did so in such a lovely low-key manner. I can’t thank you enough for making the day so productive, thought-provoking, and truly enjoyable.”
Board Chairperson, Non-Profit Organization
Culture Assessment & Alignment
Nothing is more important to a company’s success than building an engaging and inspiring culture across all dimensions. Using qualitative and quantitative measures, we quickly assess and track company culture, and then design and develop the programs that help a business shape its culture into the desired one, while maintaining the essence of who it is. We help ensure that a company’s values don’t just live on paper but are lived and seen across the behavior of all employees.
“(Hilgart) provided learning and development training, facilitated leadership off sites and developed our culture strategy which has been invaluable given the journey of integrating (two organization’s) cultures. Her innovation and thoughtful guidance has assisted our team in the difficult cultural transition.”
Business Division COO, Fortune 500 Company (post-merger)
“Erin is able to build credibility and engage with even the most challenging people. We have brought Erin in to deliver workshops for us during times of change in our organization. Even when employees have been “trained out” and inundated with other topics, Erin has been able to get people thinking and addressing the issues that matter.”
Vice President, Human Resources, Financial Services
Executive & Career Coaching
Good leadership starts from within – from understanding the beliefs and passions that drive you, and from discovering where that best fits with your company’s vision. We partner with leaders to find opportunities to align business strategy with real leadership and career objectives, and offer the custom tools and skills that help leaders succeed in inspiring their teams, while using a leadership style that is their own.
“A year ago, I sought out Erin’s coaching because I needed to improve the leadership (survey) scores in my department. A year later, those scores have improved – but that is not all. The results of the coaching are obvious in the improved work environment and interactions across my team. I am a stronger leader than I was 12 months ago, and it shows.”
Department Leader, Fortune 500 Company
“Erin pushed me to think beyond the context of the challenges I was confronting to the more meaningful question of why I was confronting those things, and helped increase my self-awareness of patterns into which I was unintentionally falling. As with any discipline, executive coaching can be challenging as a forced means of confronting your weaknesses. However, Erin adapted her style of engagement to ensure that the sessions were always constructive and continued to progress on my objectives.”
Executive, Financial Services
“I highly recommend Erin as an executive coach and mentor. Through a sustained coaching relationship, Erin shared ideas and experiences that allowed me to consider my approach in a different way. Her ability to understand and challenge me to develop a strategy to reinvent myself and my career has changed my actions and thought processes. I am extremely appreciative of Erin’s coaching and found her to be one of the main contributors to my success in a new role.”
Hector, Compliance Technology Professional, Fortune 500 Company
Leadership & Managerial Training
Soft skills, such as personal and new manager effectiveness, play a vital role in both professional development and reinforcing corporate culture and expectations. We offer the support and tangible training needed so ensure each participant walks away with new skills. We ensure ongoing success by working with a company’s learning and development team to refine or create from a scratch a complete training solution.
“With vast knowledge of the Finance sector, (Hilgart) was able to propose an excellent solution to the many challenges we previously had engaging both graduate mentees and their mentors within the business. Erin was a pleasure to work with, she always connects the dots, sees the big picture and provides realistic and tangible solutions. The feedback was extremely positive on (Hilgart’s) workshops, a big difference to feedback received on previous vendors. This new mentoring program has much greater traction than in previous years and Erin has fully equipped me and my team to continue to monitor the success and implementation of her solutions.”
Michele, Graduate Training Manager, Financial Services (UK)
“Erin designed our award-winning Career Management Program which not only included a career management workshop but also follow-up programs to help employees keep on track through further workshops and express coaching. These programs were delivered across America and received very positive feedback. (Hilgart’s) approach was highly consultative – partnering with colleagues across the business to ensure the program design truly met our needs. Given the success of this initiative, we continued partnering with (Hilgart) on broader areas including employee engagement, culture and generational training.”
Head of Leadership, Learning & Talent, Fortune 500 Company
Advancing Human Resources Professionals
No matter how effective Hilgart’s solutions are, we know that when all is said and done, it’s a company’s Human Resources team that is accountable for the ongoing success of organizational and people strategies. That’s why we work hard to partner with HR throughout each stage of our work, involving them as internal consultants to the business. Some HR leaders engage us in developing their teams’ internal consulting skills even further. From HR Business Partners to Specialist teams and Learning & Development functions, we offer accreditation, coaching, and even co-design and co-facilitate workshops. This positions HR to own and drive strategies and initiatives long after Hilgart has completed a project.
“Hilgart has become my Consultancy benchmark – Erin has set the bar high.
Erin is probably the best consultant I have had the pleasure of working with. She manages to understand the organisation so well that she feels like part of the HR team, yet manages to keep the value-add of a consultant – bringing independence, appropriate challenge and expertise. She is able to grasp where you are coming from and works with you to ensure that the end result is suitable and value-add. Erin and I have worked closely on a number of projects; I still talk about them to colleagues, and reference the quality of the material produced and the rave reviews they received.
In one project, Erin created a USA-wide workshop series, designed for our HR team to deliver to internal clients. Erin worked with the HR team to ensure they were comfortable and able to train using the materials to all levels of employees, from Directors through to those starting out in their careers. During the train-the-trainer process, she was naturally engaging, amicable and patient when members of the HR team were out of their comfort zone. This made it a safe environment to learn – which is key to me as an HR professional.”
VP, Human Resources, Fortune 500 Company