Strategy lights the way

People make it happen

CORE HR

Build a Strong Culture

Creating a culture of well-being and belonging is essential as we meet challenges and continue to cultivate innovation, collaboration and alignment. Promote resilence and connection where people work.

The Workplace Transformed

Re-imagine how to best enable your dispersed and diverse multi-generational workforce to do their finest work. Be intentional about hybrid work arrangements and make the best use of everyone's time.

Talent Management

Attract top talent by offering growth opportunities and workplace options. Hiring exceptional people is a start. Talent management best practices galvanize passion, alignment, and shared purpose.

CORE HR

ABOUT

Based out of San Francisco, Next Path Consulting provides Strategic HR services. Debra Horen, Next Path Managing Partner, is a seasoned and forward thinking Human Resources and Organizational Development leader in Biopharma and Diagnostics as well as disruptive Tech, Science and Engineering. Debra has led the HR function for newcos, turnarounds, M&A integrations, and long term culture change.

A collaborative business partner who ensures your people can refine and deliver your business strategies, we help rapidly growing start-ups build a robust scalable enterprise - the systems, infrastructure, and leadership to align and focus effort - while maintaining the agility and critical strengths of your legacy culture. Likewise, we help large companies navigate transformational change to unleash the creativity and problem solving behaviors that drive start-ups.

Debra has an M.Ed, several executive coaching certifications, the Senior Professional and Global Professional in Human Resources (SPHR, GPHR)) designations, attended the Stanford Executive Business School, and is a member of the Bay Area Human Resources Executives Council.

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PRACTICES

Well-being and Belonging @Work

Just as bees come together to make honey, equally vital is their independent work in the field to bring diverse contributions to the hive. The best creations come from a mix of autonomy and collaboration. How do you orchestrate the winning cultural balance of well-being and belonging with a dispersed work force? The ecosystem of a vibrant hive demonstrates how flexibility and a common purpose work in concert. If employees are well and work well together, the hive thrives. These simple principles underpin a creative and productive work culture. On top of this sits lightweight and frequent feedback mechanisms to facilitate communication, alignment, and incentives.

Executive and Team Coaching

We believe that a growth mindset sets the table for people to do their best work. We offer comprehensive services designed to add to your organization’s talent development and management capabilities. Using assessment solutions that have raised the bar on talent development, you have the freedom to create the right program for your organization. We use several customizable validated competency models and assessment tools to ensure your leaders and/or teams focus on the right development areas at the right time. We measure organizational, team and individual effectiveness and develop customized data driven development plans to help your organization move to the next level.

Learning and Leadership Development

Experiential learning followed up with applied practice on the job is the recipe for effective learning that sticks. Without “pull-through,” new ideas often fade. Today's fast changing global marketplace, continuous technological disruption, access to unprecedented data, a diverse workforce, and rapidly shifting economics require that learning is at the core of every organization. The concept of "Change Management," as an event, or a series of events, is outdated thinking. Change is the new normal. HR needs to be at the forefront of disruption, cultivate a culture of learning agility and change leadership, to ensure that the ability to take risks, experiment and adapt is in the DNA of every organization.

Change and Innovation Leadership

How do large companies navigate transformational change to unleash the creativity and problem solving behaviors that drive start-ups? Likewise, how do rapidly growing start-ups build a robust scalable enterprise - the systems, infrastructure, and leadership to align and focus effort - while maintaining the agility and critical strengths of your legacy culture? Continuous innovation must combine two different forms of organizational logic within the same organization. These are daily production, which works best with a conventional planning-and-control approach, and innovation, which requires greater freedom, flexibility, and a more open attitude toward experimentation.

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Next Path Consulting

San Francisco, CA 94158