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

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

✦ Ensuring high quality media standards and cultural protocols for 607 digital media files for use in a community-based digital book, demonstrated by detailed meta-data and cataloguing for each image, audio, or video file.

✦ Obtain written and cultural permission for 607 digital media files from community members, museums, government archives, auction galleries, and private holders. 

✦ Documenting cultural gatherings and practices in image, audio, and video through proper community-based protocol.

Digital Media Manager

Hanover Research

Research Consultant

✦ Guided executive decision-making through data-informed recommendations and forecasted key labor market and education trends, as evidenced by 124 quantitative and qualitative research reports in 4 years of full-time and consulting work.

✦ Expanded into international markets and developed new international mixed-method methodologies based on global policy and market trends, as demonstrated by 30 research reports with international clients in Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.

✦ Streamlined internal research processes and mapped intranet data usage trends, as evidenced by 10 internal reports, 1 internal survey, and 1 presentation to leadership.

Research Analyst

American University

✦ Assembled literature and datasets on international policymaking and analyzed changing trends in urban development and good governance, as evidenced by reports for 6 academic research projects.

✦ Administered international training programs and developed course curriculum, as demonstrated by TAing 75 international affairs professional with a 100% completion rate.

✦ Cultivated early- and mid-career international professionals and provided individualized global career counseling, as evidenced by supervising 18 international research projects for early career professionals and instructing 22 mid-career professionals on good governance.

Graduate Research Assistant

World Bank Group

✦ Coordinated training for incoming investment officers and orchestrated logistics for six-week program at international conference facilities, as demonstrated by 2 successful cohorts with 100% success rate.

✦ Shaped bank’s quality control process and rebuilt participant database to hone enrollment management system, as evidenced by 1 relational database of 4,075 records across 7 training programs.

✦ Conserved resources and streamlined training program operations, as demonstrated by 
creating 1 spreadsheet tracking 16,764 inventory record across 50 categories.

✦ Revitalized information management system and expanded financial investment training video library collection, as evidenced by recording 5 training sessions.

Program Coordinator

University of Washington

✦ Administered international training programs for early- and mid-career professionals and developed new international training programs to meet changing market conditions, as evidenced by overseeing an annual portfolio budget of $500,000.

✦ Supervised international professionals in training programs and provided career counseling and mentorship in international affairs, as demonstrated by annual enrollment of 200 people across 4 programs.

✦ Evaluated programs using interview and survey methods as well as communicated results to international clients through annual reports, as evidenced by 12 program evaluations.

✦ Developed recruitment and training program for program assistants, as evidenced by 100+ applicants, 6 hires, 2-week training program, 1 Standard Operating Procedure, and 1 direct report for 1+ year.

✦ Established online video marketing for office to boost enrollment, as demonstrated by self-producing 5 marketing videos for international programs.

International Program Coordinator

Accolade English Institute

✦ Developed course curriculum for English students at beginner, intermediate, and advanced skill level, as demonstrated by 5 courses taught across 3 public and private institutions.

English Teacher

✦ Oversaw recruitment of UW international exchange students and developed targeted marketing materials for in-class presentations, as evidenced by 50 presentations to classes totaling over 4,000 students.

✦ Compiled annual statistics report and calculated study abroad office’s enrollment growth rates, as demonstrated by a 6% increase in student enrollment.

Recruitment and Statistics Intern

I am an international researcher with a background leading diverse teams and a passion for solving puzzles. I'm seeking professional opportunities working with a team of data experts to deliver key insights to organizational decision-makers.

Currently, I am working as a digital media specialist at Washington State’s Burke Museum as part of a digital book project partnering with First Nation communities in Canada. Before moving back to my hometown of Seattle for a PhD program, I also lived in Washington, DC for a half decade where I worked for the World Bank Group, finished two master’s programs, and worked as a research analyst and consultant for international higher education markets. Some previous proud accomplishments include: 

•	Building a cross-border dataset on Indigenous boarding and residential schools of the Northwest Coast for my doctoral dissertation to complete an econometric analysis informing comparative data governance in US and Canadian Truth Commissions.
•	Improving a demographic forecasting model used in US court cases for Tribal water rights in the Southwest, earning a Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Methods during my PhD program.
•	Producing quantitative and qualitative evaluations for NSF programs supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in US STEM higher education.
•	Producing customized research and recommendations for university leadership looking to expand their program portfolios into international markets.
•	Developing multiple case studies of joint-venture US-Sino higher education institutions based on field research in China.

Specialties:
•	Mixed-method research
•	Computational statistics (Python and R)
•	Data governance and modeling, particularly with sensitive information
•	Interviews, focus groups, and participant observation
•	Digital media management (images, video, and audio)
•	Strategic planning and organizational change
•	Program management, monitoring, and evaluation
•	Cross-cultural communication

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