Build A Work Culture Where Employees Want To Stay

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Let’s talk. Book a discovery call with our team, where we will walk you through our strategy for your organization to see these types of work culture improvements. 

After our call, you’ll walk away with a Roadmap to Boost Employee Retention—yours to keep for free, whether we work together or not.

 

Ready to Elevate Your Workplace Culture?

Learn exactly what successful organizations, large and small, are doing and should do to retain their employees and support their well-being during this current season of political, societal, and technological (AI) uncertainty.

You want to make an impact, increase efficiency, and increase your bottom line, but how do you do this with your current work culture?

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Based on this chart, from 2019-2023 employees quit their jobs because of organizational culture.

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For the last 10 years turnover costs have steadily increased.

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For the last 16 years people have quit their jobs more and more.

Our Process

Most workplace culture programs offer one-time training sessions or require long-term consulting retainers. We do neither. Through our Elevate Work Programs, we equip your leadership and staff with proven strategies to address turnover, improve communication and staff well-being, and create a culture where employees feel valued and motivated to stay. 

But what truly sets us apart? We build systems—not dependencies. Our team works alongside you to implement a repeatable framework that your organization can sustain on its own, so you don’t need to rely on outside consultants.


On our discovery call, we’ll introduce you to our 3 E’s Framework, the foundation for embedding lasting change in your workplace. Let’s talk about how to create a work environment where people don’t just show up—they show up fully engaged and ready to handle the pressure of work.”

Elevate Work: 3 E's Framework

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What is Elevate Work?

Elevate Work Logo - bigYou’ve hired great people, but something still feels off. Miscommunication slows progress, stress levels run high, and despite your best efforts, turnover remains a problem. The truth is, most employees—and even leaders—never get real training on the emotional intelligence (EQ) skills that drive collaboration, accountability, and retention.

Elevate Work isn’t another leadership workshop or a one-time culture training. It’s a hands-on training and implementation program that embeds emotional intelligence into the way your team works every day.

When you finish our process, you’ll have an in-house EQ training and implementation program that can tackle the people and relationship management issues that lead to turnover and burnout. Our structured, tiered approach gives organizations a clear roadmap for transforming workplace culture—without relying on vague buzzwords or one-size-fits-all solutions.

What makes Elevate Work different?

  • Practical not Theoretical

    We go beyond theory. Your team won’t just learn about emotional intelligence; they’ll practice it in real-world situations that directly impact their work.

  • Long-term Solution 

    We create lasting change. Instead of quick fixes, we help you build habits and systems that sustain a culture of accountability, well-being, and high performance.

  • Tailored Approach

    We meet your team where they are. Whether your organization is struggling with retention, trust, or leadership effectiveness, we tailor our approach to address your most pressing challenges.

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Emotional-intelligence Touches Every Facet Of Your Organization But Employees Rarely Receive Training On It, So This Creates These Types Of Problems At The Workplace:

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  • Disengagement

    Employees disengage or leave because they don’t feel supported.

  • No Feedback, No Growth

    Managers struggle to give feedback that actually leads to growth.

  • Lack Of Resilience

    Teams become reactive instead of resilient in the face of challenges.


Major Challenges In Today’s Workplace With The Hidden Costs Of Workplace Challenges—and How EQ Can Solve Them

Organizations face ongoing challenges that impact performance, retention, and workplace culture. Many don’t realize that strengthening emotional intelligence (EQ) within their workforce is the key to overcoming these obstacles.

  • The High Cost of Turnover

    Employee turnover is expensive—U.S. companies lose nearly $1 trillion annually to voluntary departures. Leadership turnover alone can cost 200% of a leader’s salary in replacement costs. Yet, many departures are preventable with stronger engagement and culture.

  • Culture Drives Retention—But It’s Broken

    A strong workplace culture makes employees 4x more likely to stay, yet only 31% of employees feel engaged at work, the lowest level in a decade. Without a culture that prioritizes both productivity and well-being, disengagement thrives. 

  • Sustainability Beyond Buzzwords

    Companies with a Chief Sustainability Officer are 27% more confident in the impact of their initiatives. Yet, many struggle to make cultural transformation part of daily operations—leading to short-lived efforts that don’t create lasting change. 

  • Adapting to a Changing Workforce

    With 60% of employees citing generational differences as a source of workplace conflict and 23% reporting high burnout, organizations must go beyond technical skills to develop leaders who can navigate evolving employee expectations and workplace dynamics. 

Elevate Work helps you break these cycles by equipping your team with the tools to communicate effectively, lead with confidence, and build a workplace where people want to stay and succeed.

The Elevate Work Sustainable Solution

This is how we will implement your in-house EQ training & implementation solution

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On-Demand Training

Every employee learns key EQ skills at their own pace through on-demand training.

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Training by Expert Psychologists

Cohorts of employees receive live training from expert psychologists to practice key skills that lead to retention, accountability, employee well-being and belonging in your workplace.

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Organization Development Expert Assigned

An organizational development expert guides your organization to form an implementation team.  This team leads implementation of organization-wide processes that support ongoing EQ growth of your workforce. This includes development of work performance accountability measures and embedding processes that promote employee well-being.

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Train-The -Trainer

Your organization chooses 2 or more employees to receive Elevate Work Train-the-Trainer. These employees will be certified as Elevate Work Culture Coaches and learn how to independently provide live skills training and lead an implementation team (no ongoing external consultation necessary). 

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On Going Support

Your organization joins the Elevate Work community through Elevate Work organizational membership. This gives ongoing access to on-demand content for refreshing current employees and onboarding new employees, the ability for your learning and development (L&D) team to provide live training of Elevate Work skills and access to implementation supports for your Culture Coaches to lead your implementation team.
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Leader Masterminds

Gain access to other organizations implementing Elevate Work and participate in leader masterminds focused on work culture improvement nationwide. This will accelerate your organization’s growth by giving your leaders best practices for managing workforce trends and ensuring ongoing high quality production from employees while still supporting their well-being.

Results You Can Expect from Elevate Work

  • Reduced Turnover Costs

    Employees feel more valued, leading to more likely retention and lower hiring and training expenses.

  • Stronger Workplace Communication

    Teams navigate conflicts with emotional intelligence, improving collaboration and productivity.

  • More Effective Leadership

    Managers confidently address workplace challenges at the root, saving time and preventing burnout.

  • Sustained Organizational Growth

    Internal teams gain the skills to drive long-term success, reducing reliance on outside consultants.

About iOpening Enterprises

Screenshot 2025-05-07 105853 iOpening Enterprises is a professional development services firm dedicated to transforming organizational work culture through science-backed training, implementation consultation, and emotional intelligence coaching.

Elevate Work, our flagship professional development training and implementation program, is designed to cultivate an emotionally intelligent workforce, sustain high-quality work, and enhance employee well-being.


Unlike traditional training programs that focus primarily on technical skills, iOpening Enterprises specializes in developing the “soft skills” essential for fostering strong workplace relationships and achieving organizational goals.

By equipping employees at all levels with the tools to navigate workplace dynamics effectively, we help organizations improve retention, boost productivity, and create environments where employees’ work and well-being thrive.

Why Dr. Isaiah Pickens Founded iOE

20211002_130140Dr. Isaiah Pickens decades of experience led him to a simple but profound fact:  organizations can retain and grow their employees by reimagining success as achieving high quality work while promoting employee well-being.

As a clinical psychologist and organizational development specialist, Dr. Pickens has spent over two decades exploring how our most important identities—professional, personal, and social—are deeply connected to both what stresses us and what motivates us. His work bridges the science of human behavior with the realities of workplace dynamics to create emotionally intelligent, high-performing teams.


He founded iOpening Enterprises (iOE) and created Elevate Work to help organizations bridge the gap between workplace success and employee well-being. As clinical faculty at NYU School of Medicine and former Assistant Director at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, he saw firsthand how stress impacts decision-making, communication, and resilience.

His expertise in emotional intelligence, trauma-informed leadership, and designing compassionate systems fueled the development of the Elevate Work approach and has led iOE to become a trusted advisor for building psychologically safe, high-performing teams. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader and Stanford-certified Compassion Specialist, Dr. Pickens has developed research-backed strategies that help organizations navigate conflict, support retention, and create fair, transparent processes where employees and leaders thrive and want to stay. 


He believes better workplaces are possible with the right tools and knows that work success can happen without sacrificing the well-being of the people driving that success.

Current & Past Clients

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Ready to elevate your workplace culture? Boost retention rates? Better manage stress?

The iOpening Enterprises team is ready to help your organization create a workplace where employees want to stay.

This isn’t for everyone. This opportunity is only available for organizations that are serious about accelerating their growth or impact by also focusing on emotional intelligence (soft skills) alongside the technical skills you already prioritize.

Organizations that want to: Decrease burnout, Improve retention rates, Increase Impact, Increase Revenue.

 

By investing in their people’s long-term success and well-being are the organizations ready for this opportunity.

We’ve helped organizations make lasting work culture improvements, and while every workplace is different, we guarantee at least a 25% improvement in company-wide communication—a proven driver of retention and morale.*

Let’s talk. Book a discovery call with our team, where we will walk you through our strategy for your organization to see these types of work culture improvements. 

After our call, you’ll walk away with a Roadmap to Boost Employee Retention— the flipbook is yours to keep for free, whether we work together or not.

 

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