Services

Cosmic Dawn, LLC offers organizational development services tailored to fit your company’s needs. Whatever people-challenge you’re facing, we invite you to reach out via our contact page to schedule an open-ended conversation about how we can help. We also offer the specific services below — feel free to inquire about any of them directly.

Research-Informed People Operations

Bring modern organizational science into the decisions your people teams already make. We partner with HR and leadership to inform hiring, performance, engagement, and retention practices with current expert research — translating the evidence into practical guidance for your context. For many clients, this is the natural starting point: a low-commitment way to sharpen current activities while we learn your organization and you evaluate the fit of the working relationship.

Leadership & Manager Training

Training for leaders and managers spanning eight distinct topics, grounded in the empirical psychology of what actually drives people to do their best work. Modules can be delivered individually or as a series, and utilize a small-groups delivery format that blends active practice with theory to maximize content engagement and retention. Modules are designed for any experience level — from first-time managers to senior leadership.

Organizational Culture Design & Education

Culture isn’t a series of impromptu e-mails delivered from senior leadership on a whim in an attempt to guide long-term outcomes. Culture grows organically in a company, over time, based on behaviors employees collectively recognize as successful. Let us help you deliberately design your company’s long-term culture by reflecting on what the best future version of your company will be, and reverse-engineering how to celebrate today’s behaviors to nurture that brighter future.

Every engagement begins with an exploratory consultation — as brief as a 30-minute phone call or as thorough as a multi-hour deep dive into your needs. From there, we typically hold a series of in-person meetings to define scope and detail. Pricing is discussed as part of the needs assessment and can take the form of hourly time-and-materials contracts or fixed-price contracts for defined products such as the manager training modules.

While clients often begin with research-informed people operations support, we’re happy to start wherever your needs are most pressing.

We work with Space, Tech, and Energy startups with fewer than 500 employees. Our engagements typically involve senior HR leaders (Directors through VPs), C-suite executives (CEO, COO, Chief People Officer), and group or team managers who want their people practices to match the ambition of their mission.