iOpening Enterprises specializes in transforming organizational work culture for small to mid-sized to large organizations. Our approach emphasizes the enhancement of soft skills, as opposed to the hard skills that are often the primary focus of most companies.
Many organizations overlook the importance of having an emotionally-intelligent workforce. Fostering healthy relationships and understanding the human element within the organization is crucial for improving retention, boosting productivity, and ensuring the overall well-being of both the organization and its employees, regardless of their position.
We are a professional development services firm that does so much more than training. Our psychologists and organizational development experts transform work cultures with our science-backed training, implementation consultation, and emotional-intelligence coaching for creating workplaces where employees want to stay.
Dr. Isaiah Pickens is the founder and CEO of iOpening Enterprises, a professional development company that helps organizations retain and grow their employees by transforming work cultures and reimagining success without sacrificing well-being. His unique expertise as a clinical psychologist and organizational development specialist is grounded in a career building people and systems.
As former Assistant Director at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and a former clinical assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Pickens has built a reputation as a national trauma expert and highly sought-after specialist for building emotionally-intelligent workforces.
As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader and Fellow, Dr. Pickens works collaboratively with cross-sector scholars and practitioners to promote a culture of health in America. Building on his national cross-sector work, Dr. Pickens is certified by Stanford University as a Compassion Specialist and uses his expertise in building compassionate systems to guide organizations toward workplace cultures that promote productivity without sacrificing staff wellbeing.
While leading iOpening Enterprises, Dr. Pickens has developed Elevate Work, a breakthrough suite of professional development programs that have helped organizational leaders and their staff navigate the most difficult work culture challenges. From conflict resolution to creating fair and transparent processes, iOpening Enterprises’ work has been described as transformative by those who have worked with Dr. Pickens and his team to improve their work culture.
He has been awarded the American Psychological Association Early Career Achievement Award and the Black Enterprise BE Modern Man award for his contributions to the field of psychology and building systems grounded in emotional-intelligence.
Dr. Pickens aims to continue transforming work cultures and unlocking people’s potential by moving the world from happy to healthy through psychological science.
