Path Forward Consulting
The Road to Organizational Effectiveness

Every company strives to improve its organizational effectiveness by maximizing the potential of human resources, empowering the leadership teams and promoting the values of DEI. Most of them, however, lack a viable strategy to achieve this goal and implement solutions that don’t achieve the desired outcomes.

Here’s where Path Forward Consulting (PFC) can help.

PFC is a boutique talent management firm that offers consulting, customized training, and coaching services in the areas of organizational effectiveness, leadership development, and DEI. The company believes that culture plays a vital role in overall organizational effectiveness. To this end, it helps clients to amplify culture as a strategy to become more successful overall.

"DEI is an important factor that contributes to organizational effectiveness and it has gotten a lot of attention in the past few years. But there are other factors a that most organizations tend to overlook. Consequently, they struggle with DEI goals and miss the impact of culture on other areas of the business,” says Allison Manswell, founder and CEO, PFC. “We support clients to identify the most significant elements of organizational effectiveness and allocate resources accordingly.”

PFC leverages its expertise in talent and business management to create well-structured processes and change behavior with its unique design and delivery of training. All solutions are tailored according to client requirements.

When engaging with clients, PFC first conducts a customized assessment. This enables the company to understand the data that is already available and scale the collection of new data as necessary.

“The questions need to match the information we really need. By customizing the assessment process, we can zero in on the most appropriate business drivers for each organization.” says Manswell.

PFC then interprets the data to create a comprehensive report that entails its findings and recommendations. The company sets priorities and designs a strategy to ensure the proper execution of its plans. It also defines relevant metrics to measure the effectiveness of the initiatives. More importantly, PFC remains in partnership to monitor outcomes. and revise the plans as necessary.

In one instance, a Fortune 50 organization approached PFC to train their employees on race in the workplace. Their employees were initially hesitant to talk about race, which was a roadblock to creating an inclusive organizational culture. PFC deployed full-scale training to nearly 30,000 employees that started in Jan 2019. By mid-2020, the managers and employees who had taken the training reported being better to navigate the focus on racial equity and increase trust between colleagues.

PFC’s consulting solutions come from the wealth of experience of its founder and the depth of expertise of its team. Their consulting solutions combine off-the-shelf interventions and customized solutions built from the ground up based on specific client needs. The end result is a business model where 95% all new business is either repeated client or referrals.

“We know what our clients lack and can show the best path forward to help them succeed,” says Manswell.