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 their people-centric nature. 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.
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Elevate Work: Culture Transformation Program
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Elevate Work: Implementation
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Elevate Work: Executive Coaching
Our Elevate Work Executive Coaching is a unique blend of leadership development and emotional intelligence. We work one-on-one with leaders to help them better understand the connection between their professional identity and work-related stress. By using wellness-based tools, our coaching allows leaders to navigate the demands of their roles while promoting well-being for themselves and their teams. This relationship-centered approach builds trust and drives long-term success.
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Elevate Work: Executive Leadership Course
iOE’s unique professional development programs are designed for comprehensive and sustained improvement of organizations. The implementation process involves one hour a month of consultation with iOE and 5-10 hours a month for implementation team members to integrate concepts from professional development into the organization.
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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.
