The Yes Works

Our clients come to us to engineer their cultures for four things:

PROFIT     |     GROWTH     |     INNOVATION     |     FUN

Because your culture is your future.

I'm synthesizing a life of learning and a diverse career of communications, customer service, training, and leadership development to help improve the work-lives of the people I serve. There is no work/life balance. There is only a balanced and fulfilling life. Work is part of life. Let's make it good.

Happily, fulfilling work and good productive work go hand in hand as a part of a balanced life.

I work with business teams to help build habits of work, communication, and collaboration to enliven work and make it good. It's good for business, it's good for people. That's the bottom line.

Co-Founder & CEO

Giant Leap

Lead two regional groups of Chief Executives and Business owners through a peer-mentoring experience...

We're whole humans leading companies, and it can be lonely at the top. Members of these groups find peers who have no agenda with them, have no fear of them, and will therefor put their best interests frontmost and share their honest, insightful thoughts and questions.

We're helping leaders live the entrepreneurial lives of their dreams.

CEO/Owner Peer Group Leader

Vistage Worldwide, Inc.

Get the most your team has to offer today, and grow their capacity tomorrow. Leading humans humanely and effectively for high performance and high fulfillment levels. Communication and collaboration culture. Innovation and problem solving.

Speaker

First 5 FUNdamentals

Founded in 2008, First 5 FUNdamentals (F5F) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to mobilize and inspire communities to achieve their collective goals for children and families. F5F currently supports three initiatives - Project Child Success, Help Me Grow Pierce County, and the Washington Communities for Children.

Vice President Board Of Directors

Mighty Good Work Podcast

Producer & Host

Stadium High School

I teach classes in theater to High School students in every grade level, and direct the school productions in our state of the art theater.

Teach juniors and seniors a course in Business Communication -- Public Speaking and Presentation, Customer Service, Copy Writing, Marketing, Surveys and other topics.

Theatre Arts & Business Communication Teacher

Gold From Straw Theatre Company

Managing Executive Director

Infinite Encore Coaching

Guiding leaders where they are to where they want to be.

Dream it.  Do it.  Live it.

Leadership Coach

Keller Williams Realty

Real Estate Consultant

Oakland School for the Arts

Tech Director and Theatre Teacher

People-first leaders come to us to help make their good teams LEGENDARY:

➡️ Do you have a nagging sense… We could be even BETTER? 

➡️ Do you have a strong culture that's still hampered by CONFLICT & miscommunication?

➡️ Have ACCOUNTABILITY gaps cost you sales, profit, clients, employee retention?

➡️ Is MISTRUST slowing you down?

➡️ Has a KEY PERSON quit out of the blue, citing more money & growth opportunity... And you can't allow a REPEAT with anyone else?

➡️ Is your headcount GROWING -- organically or through acquisition -- faster than team CHEMISTRY?

➡️ Is it hard to see how today's team can accomplish your AUDACIOUS GOALS for tomorrow?

It's time to REFUSE to accept a status quo where:

❌ MEETINGS are a dull time-suck // when they could be fun and productive.
❌ Gaps in communication and/or accountability create CHAOS.
❌ TRUST between team members is weak, so productivity suffers.
❌ Problems are suppressed until they become CRISES // instead of being brought to light.
❌ People resist CHANGE // instead of embracing reality and driving continual improvement
❌ Fixable PROBLEMS persist // when everything they need to find the solution is right there.

We can help. 

Think you can't have SWIFT & LASTING transformation with the team you have?

YOU CAN!

Because we use a unique science-backed approach to training and consulting. And we follow the advice of Albert Einstein:

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Check out these client results:

🎯 “There’s nothing else like The Yes Works.” Joe Mc Swiney, CEO, SOG Knives. Six months after we worked with his leadership team, Joe said that they’d seen a:
50% increase in mutual appreciation. 
30% increase in mutual understanding. Conflicts were easier to navigate.
80% increase in their ability to communicate positively and constructively under pressure.

🎯 “Your work got us through COVID. We embody the principles you trained us in every day.” Joe LeRoy, CEO, HopeSparks

🎯 “What you did with us is a part of the fabric of this company.” Philip Goward, CEO, TextExpander (Then Philip and partners were able to sell TextExpander ahead of schedule.)

🎯 “Here’s how important you are to me. You give me hope that my company’s culture will be preserved through scaling. 50 years from now, I’ll want you training our leaders to keep us who we are.” Hugh Stewart, CEO - Platform Transition 


Ready to see your team's full potential in ACTION?

Then ask for a call:

📞 https://calendly.com/aaronyes/15min

🌐 https://www.theyesworks.com/

Aaron Schmookler, Culture Engineer

Enjoying career break to travel, develop new skills in HR, AI and Leadership, and assist family (caretaker).

Sabbatical & Travel

Tethers Unlimited, Inc.

Love the variety of HR at entrepreneurial companies like Tethers Unlimited, Inc, a private R&D Engineering firm for new products and technologies for space, sea and air.  Fortunately we added a Recruiter to disperse the increased volume on that side.  The employees are awesome, amazing to work with and talk with. Responsibilities include employee engagement, performance and talent management, recruiting, retention, cultural, organizational, people, and leadership coaching, compensation, benefits, safety, national security, policies and programs, HRIS, senior leadership team of 14.

*Company acquired by ARKA Group, LP.
https://arka.org/

Human Resources Director

LDC, Inc.

Comprehensive HR and making a positive impact for all stakeholders is my passion (Employee engagement, rewards and recognition, talent acquisition, retention, succession planning, training and development, organizational and cultural development, policies and programs, compensation, benefits, HRIS, performance management, coaching, senior management team, safety and risk management) for LDC, a civil engineering company.

https://ldccorp.com

Director of Human Resources

PremierXD (formerly Synsor Corporation) Company closed 9/2019.

Full cycle HR (Employee engagement, rewards and recognition, suggestion program, talent acquisition, retention, succession planning, training and development, organizational and cultural development, policies and programs, compensation, benefits, HRIS, Reduced workers' comp Retro Prgm claims and costs 80%, ESD Shared Work program, performance management, coaching, strategic planning), Senior Management Team, budget management, Green Team for sustainability, safety and risk management, for entrepreneurial design and manufacturing of custom retail display fixtures.  

https://www.premierxd.com

JanSport, a VF Company 

Full array of HR and safety responsibilities for manufacturing facility and assisted with start up and shut down of 2 other production plants. Responsibilities included employee engagement, recruiting, on-boarding, "JanSport University", benefits administration, compensation, training and development, affirmative action planning, workforce planning, succession planning, labor relations and negotiations, safety, worker’s comp, wellness and ergonomic training. Active participant on the Senior Management Team.  Oversaw HR, Safety, Occupational Health services, and On-Site Childcare Center.

https://www.jansport.com

Human Resources Manager

Human Resource professional enjoying the variety of many hats, particularly influencing positive strategic leadership, people development and organizational cultural impacts in entrepreneurially dynamic organizations.

Specialties: Comprehensive Management Strategist & Business Partner:  Senior Management Team, Strategic Planning & Execution, Corporate Culture Design & Alignment, Organizational Development, Budget Development & Alignment, Corporate Marketing & Branding, All HR Functions, Talent Acquisition & Retention, Workforce Planning, Succession Planning, Employee Engagement, Employee Relations, Compensation, Benefits, Safety, Security,  Risk Management, Training & Development for all levels in organization, Total Recognition.

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Aaron Schmookler, Culture Engineer

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