People Analytics · Team Assessments · Workforce Diagnostics

Your people shape everything.So ask the questions that matter.

Most small businesses and organizations don't have a systematic way to understand what their people think, feel, or need. Suttle Insights brings the same caliber of survey design, team assessment, and workforce diagnostics that used to be reserved for corporations with dedicated HR analytics teams, at a fixed project fee built for your size.

Fortune 100 In-House Experience
5 Core Service Areas
0+ Employees Surveyed in Practice
M.A. I/O Psychology, GMU

Clear answers to the questions every organization has about its people

You don't need a full-time HR analytics department to understand your people. You need the right questions, the right analysis, and a report your leaders can actually use.

Team Assessment

Team Health Diagnostic

Get a clear, honest picture of how a specific team is functioning right now, whether you're protecting strong performance or working through friction that's starting to affect results.

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Readiness Diagnostic

Change Readiness Pulse & Roadmap

Understand how your workforce is experiencing a significant change and get a clear picture of what to do next.

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Training Assessment

Training Needs Assessment

Find out whether training is the right solution, what to prioritize, and where development investment will make the most difference.

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Review Toolkit

Performance Standards & Review Toolkit

Define clear, consistent performance expectations so managers can evaluate fairly and employees know what's expected.

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The same quality of insight, without the enterprise price tag

Suttle Insights is a deliberate nod to the nature of the work. The most valuable things this practice surfaces are rarely the ones anyone was already looking for.

I work with organizations of all sizes and sectors that have real workforce complexity but no internal analytics function to make sense of it. That might mean several roles, several levels, or offices in more than one location. It usually means leaders making decisions about their people without a clear picture of what's actually going on.

That has meant working with federal agencies like the U.S. Department of the Interior, large assessment organizations like Educational Testing Service, and small nonprofit animal shelters where understanding the volunteer workforce matters just as much as understanding paid staff. This kind of work belongs in every sector, not just the ones that can afford a dedicated team.

This kind of work should be accessible to any organization that takes its people seriously. Budget and headcount shouldn't be the reason it isn't.

You might be a good fit if:

You have anywhere between 10 and ~300 employees, and something is shifting, whether that's growth, change, or friction under the surface.
There are enough layers in your business that no one internally is set up to make sense of the full picture.
You're making calls about retention, structure, or culture without solid data behind them.
You can sense something's off with your people, but you don't have the data to pin down what.
You've never formally asked your employees what's working, and you're ready to start.

A clear process from first call to final report

1
Discovery Call
We talk through what's going on with your workforce, which service fits, and what the engagement would involve. Always free.
2
Proposal & Agreement
You receive a written proposal with the scope, deliverables, timeline, and flat fee. Work begins once it's signed and agreed.
3
Design & Collection
I design the survey, interview guide, or assessment approach tailored to your organization, not a generic template, and we collect the data.
4
Analysis & Report
You receive a clear, executive-ready report with findings, themes, and prioritized next steps, not raw data.
5
Debrief & Action Plan
We walk through the findings together and, for listening and team engagements, close with a concrete action plan for what to do next.

The first conversation is always free

Tell me what's going on with your workforce and we'll figure out together which service fits. No pitch, no pressure, and no commitment until you decide to move forward.

No commitment required. Discovery calls are 30 minutes by phone or video.

Employee Listening
Team Health
Change Readiness
Training Needs
Performance

Employee Listening Survey & Action Plan

A custom survey deployed to your workforce, analyzed for patterns and themes, and delivered back as an executive-ready report with prioritized recommendations and a concrete action plan.

Typical Timeline4–6 weeks
Primary MethodCustom survey design
Key OutputExecutive Report + Action Roadmap
ScopeFull workforce

Understand what your employees are experiencing, what's getting in the way, and what to do next.

For most leaders, the honest picture of what employees are experiencing lives in hallway conversations and exit interviews. A listening survey changes that. Maybe you want to get ahead of emerging concerns, maybe this is your first real listening baseline, or maybe you just want to confirm that what seems to be working is actually working. An Employee Listening Survey & Action Plan gives you a professionally designed instrument deployed to your workforce, analyzed for patterns and themes, and delivered as a clear report your leaders can read, discuss, and act on, with specific, prioritized recommendations and a concrete action plan.

What are our employees actually experiencing, and what's getting in the way?
The themes, friction points, and strengths that exist in your organization right now, surfaced in a way that's impossible to get through informal conversation or assumption.
What's driving the patterns we're seeing, and how significant are they?
What's underneath what employees said: the conditions, relationships, and structural factors that explain why things are the way they are.
What should we do first, who owns it, and what do we tell employees after?
A prioritized action plan built from what your people told you, with clear owners, next steps, and a communication strategy that closes the loop.

The report matters, but what your organization does with it matters more. Every engagement closes with a written plan and a live walkthrough with your leaders.

Every survey is built around your specific workforce. For smaller teams, the methodology adapts: when response volume is limited, analysis leads with themes and careful interpretation rather than statistics, so the findings stay honest and useful regardless of headcount.

Validated survey dimensions
Employee Engagement Organizational Commitment Job Satisfaction Recognition Communication Perception of Voice Role Clarity Manager Relationship Peer Relationships Burnout Intent to Stay Structural Barriers
Rough Timeline ~4–6 weeks
01Week 1Intake & Survey DesignKick-off, org screener, custom survey build
02Weeks 2–3Survey DeploymentAnonymous survey delivered with communication support
03Weeks 3–5AnalysisItem, dimension, and open-text theme analysis
04Weeks 5–6Report & WalkthroughExecutive report and live session with leaders
What's Included
  • Intake call + signed scope agreement before work begins
  • Organizational screener to capture workforce structure, roles, and context
  • Custom survey instrument built around your workforce and goals
  • Recruitment and reminder email templates for leaders to send
  • Full analysis: item-level, dimension-level, and open-text themes
  • Executive Summary report with findings, employee quotes, and prioritized recommendations
  • Live walkthrough session with leaders
  • Action Roadmap: top priorities, recommended actions, and guidance on communicating results back to employees
Add-ons available: Pulse check 90 days post-delivery, manager-level breakouts, focus group facilitation, or a results presentation for your full staff.

Find out what your employees actually think, and what to do about it.

A listening engagement typically runs 4–6 weeks from first call to final report. Start with a conversation. It's free, and there's no commitment until you've seen the proposal.

Fixed-fee engagement. No hourly billing. No commitment until you've seen the proposal.

Employee Listening
Team Health
Change Readiness
Training Needs
Performance

Team Health Diagnostic

A structured, multi-dimensional evaluation of how your team is actually working across processes, climate, and role interdependence, including a perception gap analysis that shows where team members see things differently.

Typical Timeline4–6 weeks
Primary MethodSurvey + stakeholder interview
Key OutputTeam Dynamics Report
Team SizeTypically 5–25 members

Understand how your team is really functioning, where alignment is strong, and where friction or perception gaps need attention.

Most teams never get a clear, honest picture of how they're actually functioning. A Team Health Diagnostic provides that picture. Maybe your team is navigating growth, working through a leadership change, or dealing with friction that's affecting results. Or maybe things are going well and you just want to understand what's making it work. It's a structured evaluation that examines three distinct layers at the same time:

01
Team Processes
How your team plans, coordinates, monitors progress, and manages conflict. These are the operational mechanics that either enable or constrain performance.
02
Team Climate
The quality of trust, cohesion, cooperation, and leadership within the team. These are the interpersonal conditions that determine whether people bring their best work.
03
Role Interdependence
Whether team members share an accurate understanding of how their work connects and who depends on whom. This is often the least visible source of friction.

What makes this service different is the perception gap analysis. Most team surveys just report averages, and averages hide the real story: when one team member rates trust at a 5 and another rates it at a 2, the mean of 3.5 tells you almost nothing useful. This assessment looks at that variance directly, mapping where team members see things differently. That disagreement is often the most useful signal you'll get.

The deliverable is a Team Dynamics Report with clear areas of strength, prioritized opportunities, and targeted, evidence-based recommendations your team lead or manager can act on immediately.

What the assessment examines
Team Processes Planning & Coordination Conflict Management Trust Cohesion & Cooperation Team Climate Leadership Quality Role Interdependence Perception Gap Analysis
Rough Timeline ~4–6 weeks
01Week 1Intake & InterviewsContext call and brief stakeholder interview
02Weeks 1–2Survey DesignCustom multi-dimensional team survey built
03Weeks 2–4Data CollectionAnonymous team member survey deployed
04Weeks 4–5AnalysisMeans, variance, and perception gap analysis
05Weeks 5–6Report & DebriefTeam Dynamics Report and debrief with leaders
What's Included
  • Intake call and brief stakeholder interview to understand team context, goals, and what you're trying to learn
  • Custom survey deployment using validated team process and climate dimensions
  • Perception gap analysis examining both means and variance across dimensions
  • Team Dynamics Report with dimension-level findings, prioritized opportunities, and evidence-based recommendations
Add-ons available: Team debrief facilitation session, follow-up pulse survey 60–90 days post-delivery, or manager coaching session on report findings.

Find out what's really driving the dynamics on your team.

If your team is performing well, this helps you protect it. If friction is starting to affect results, this helps you get ahead of it. Either way, the first conversation is free.

Fixed-fee engagement. No hourly billing. No commitment until you've seen the proposal.

Employee Listening
Team Health
Change Readiness
Training Needs
Performance

Change Readiness Pulse & Roadmap

A structured diagnostic that combines focus groups and a validated survey to show how your workforce is experiencing a significant change, and what your leaders should do next.

Typical Timeline6–8 weeks
Primary MethodFocus groups + survey
Key OutputChange Readiness Report
Stage FlexibilityBefore, during, or after

Understand how your workforce is experiencing a significant change, what's helping, what's getting in the way, and what to do next.

Change is rarely a single moment. Sometimes it's a restructuring from six months ago that still has people unsettled, or a technology rollout that technically launched but never quite landed. Sometimes it's a leadership transition that left the organization misaligned in ways no one has fully named. And sometimes it's a change on the horizon that leadership suspects the workforce isn't ready for.

Already behind you
The change that never quite landed
A restructure, rollout, or leadership transition that technically happened, but left gaps, confusion, or unresolved tension in its wake.
Happening now
Change in progress
You're in the middle of it and need to know how people are experiencing it, what's helping, what's getting in the way, and where to course-correct.
On the horizon
Change you're about to introduce
A decision has been made. Before you announce it, understand whether your workforce is ready and what needs to be in place for it to stick.

The Change Readiness Pulse & Roadmap is a structured diagnostic built for all of it: changes that are coming, changes that are underway, and changes that are already behind you. It's also the right service for organizations that want a deeper, more targeted look at employee sentiment and engagement around a specific strategic initiative or challenge, beyond what a general listening survey covers.

It combines stakeholder focus groups with a survey built around the factors that matter most: change readiness, management support, communication clarity, and employee confidence. Together, these build a complete picture of where your organization stands and what specific steps will move things forward.

The deliverable is a consulting report with root cause analysis, prioritized findings, and tailored recommendations your leaders can act on. Practical, evidence-based, and specific to your organization's culture, structure, and resources, built from what your people actually told me, not generic best practices pulled from somewhere else.

What the assessment examines
Change Readiness Management Support Communication Clarity Employee Confidence Perceived Capacity for Change Sentiment & Concerns Engagement with the Change
Rough Timeline ~6–8 weeks
01Week 1Intake & ScopingChange context, stakeholder map, engagement plan
02Weeks 2–3Focus GroupsStructured conversations with workforce segments
03Weeks 3–5Survey DeploymentValidated change readiness instrument deployed
04Weeks 5–7AnalysisIntegrated qualitative and quantitative synthesis
05Weeks 7–8Report & WalkthroughChange Readiness Report with prioritized roadmap
What's Included
  • Scoping call to understand the change, context, and key stakeholders
  • Signed engagement overview confirming scope before work begins
  • Focus group(s) to surface perceptions, concerns, and recurring themes
  • Survey using validated change readiness instruments (readiness, support, efficacy, communication)
  • Integrated qualitative and quantitative analysis
  • Change Readiness Report with root causes and prioritized recommendations
Add-ons available: Additional focus group sessions, pulse survey at 60 days post-change, or stakeholder presentation support.

Find out how ready your workforce actually is before the change lands.

Or trying to understand why a change that already happened still hasn't fully landed? Either way, that's exactly what this is built for. The first conversation is free.

Fixed-fee engagement. No hourly billing. No commitment until you've seen the proposal.

Employee Listening
Team Health
Change Readiness
Training Needs
Performance

Training Needs Assessment

Before your organization invests in training, find out whether training is actually the right fix, what to prioritize, and where development investment will make the most difference.

Typical Timeline4–6 weeks
Primary MethodLeader interviews + survey
Key OutputPrioritized TNA Report
Decision It EnablesCommit, redirect, or hold

Understand what's actually behind the performance gap, whether training is the right response, and where a development investment will have the most impact.

When performance isn't where it should be, training is often the first thing organizations reach for. Sometimes that's the right call. Often it isn't. The problem might be a process issue, a tool gap, unclear expectations, or a management routine that needs attention. Training cannot address any of these.

When it is a training problem
A genuine capability gap
People lack the skills or knowledge the role requires
The gap is consistent across multiple role incumbents
Training addresses the actual root cause
There's a clear, prioritized development path forward
When it isn't a training problem
Something else is in the way
Unclear expectations or shifting role definitions
Process or tooling gaps that training can't fix
Management routines that undercut performance
Motivation or environment, not capability

A Training Needs Assessment helps you figure out which one you're dealing with before committing the budget. Through leader interviews and a targeted questionnaire with role incumbents, this service maps what the role actually requires, where genuine capability gaps exist, and whether training is the right solution. The result is a clear, prioritized report that tells you what to train, who needs it most, and why, along with any non-training barriers that should be addressed first.

This service identifies what training is needed and why. It does not design or deliver the training itself. The report gives you the clarity to make a confident development investment. For organizations that want a head start on structuring the training itself, a high-level learning outline for the top-priority need is available as an add-on.

Rough Timeline ~4–6 weeks
01Week 1Org AnalysisLeader interview: goals, context, training history
02Weeks 1–2Task & Person AnalysisRole requirements and performance gap mapping
03Weeks 2–4Analysis & SynthesisGap prioritization and root cause identification
04Weeks 4–6Report & DebriefPrioritized TNA Report with recommended approaches
What's Included
  • Leader interview for organizational context, strategic goals, and current training efforts
  • Task and person analysis via survey and/or interviews with managers and role incumbents
  • Role incumbent survey to identify where capability gaps are most significant and confirm whether training is the right solution
  • Priority ranking of training needs by gap, importance, and readiness
  • TNA Report with prioritized findings and recommended training approaches
  • Transfer recommendations to ensure training sticks post-delivery
Add-on available: High-level learning outline for the top-priority training need, to give you a head start on structuring the content.

Not sure if training is the right answer?

Most organizations find out after spending the budget. This is how you find out before. Tell me what performance gap you're trying to close. The first conversation is free.

Fixed-fee engagement. No hourly billing. No commitment until you've seen the proposal.

Employee Listening
Team Health
Change Readiness
Training Needs
Performance

Performance Standards & Review Toolkit

Custom performance expectations for a specific role or team, grounded in what the job actually requires and described in clear, observable behavioral terms so managers can evaluate consistently and employees know what's expected.

Typical Timeline4–6 weeks
Primary MethodStructured interviews
Key OutputStandards + Review Toolkit
DurabilityBuilt for recurring use

Define what good performance looks like in observable terms so managers can give feedback consistently and employees know what's expected.

For most organizations, performance reviews are an afterthought. A generic template gets dusted off once a year, ratings vary from manager to manager, and the process feels arbitrary to the people on the receiving end. That's not really a people problem, it's a design problem.

A Performance Standards & Review Toolkit gives your organization a custom set of performance expectations for a specific role or team, grounded in what the job actually requires and described in clear, observable behavioral terms. Managers walk away with a tool they can apply consistently, employees get a transparent standard to work toward, and performance conversations become easier to navigate for everyone involved.

For
Managers

Consistent language and a structured process. Every manager evaluates against the same behavioral standard, so ratings reflect actual performance, not personal style or relationship history.

For
Employees

Clear expectations and a fair process. People know what strong performance looks like before the review happens, not after. That transparency changes the conversation entirely.

For
Leaders

A defensible, evidence-based process. Performance decisions grounded in observable behavior, not gut feel, are easier to explain, support, and stand behind when it matters.

The work starts with conversations with the people closest to the role: managers who evaluate it and the people who do it. Their real examples of what strong, solid, and developing performance looks like become the foundation, rather than generic competency frameworks imported from somewhere else. Two tiers are available: a practical role scorecard for organizations that need clear standards quickly, and a more rigorously validated instrument for higher-complexity needs.

Rough Timeline ~4–6 weeks
01Week 1Intake & Doc ReviewRole brief, process review, job description analysis
02Weeks 1–2InterviewsStructured sessions with managers and role incumbents
03Weeks 2–4Instrument DevelopmentCustom standards built from real behavioral examples
04Weeks 4–6Delivery & Rater GuideReview tool, rater guide, and walkthrough session
What's Included
  • Consultation on the role(s), current review process, and performance challenges
  • Review of existing job descriptions and appraisal materials
  • Structured interviews with managers and role incumbents to identify what strong, solid, and developing performance actually looks like in this role
  • Custom performance standards with clear, observable behavioral examples at each level
  • Review form or appraisal instrument tailored to your role and organization
  • Rater guide with guidance for consistent, fair evaluation and performance conversations
Add-ons available: Manager training session on applying the standards, or a second-role toolkit at a reduced scope.

Find out what a consistent, trusted performance standard looks like for your organization.

If your managers are evaluating in their own way and your employees don't know what to aim for, the toolkit solves both. The first conversation is free.

Fixed-fee engagement. No hourly billing. No commitment until you've seen the proposal.

Organizational psychology for the real world of work

Suttle Insights is a one-person consulting practice built on the belief that smaller businesses deserve the same quality of people analytics that large organizations take for granted.

Industrial-Organizational (I/O) psychology is the scientific study of human behavior in the workplace. It applies structured research methods and psychological principles to the questions every organization faces.

  • How engaged are our employees?
  • What is actually driving turnover?
  • How do our teams function, and what gets in the way?
  • What does our workforce need to succeed?
  • Where should we invest in development?

I/O psychologists are trained to design the surveys, assessments, and diagnostic tools that answer these questions reliably, analyze the data with appropriate methodology, and translate findings into recommendations grounded in evidence rather than instinct.

It is one of the most practically applicable fields in psychology, and one of the least visible to the small businesses that could benefit from it most.

The person behind the practice

M.A. I/O Psychology, GMU, 2023 Organizational Development People Analytics Survey Design Psychometrics Denver, CO

I'm an Organizational Development professional and I/O Psychology practitioner with a background spanning employee listening, people analytics, psychometrics, and applied consulting.

In my day-to-day work, I'm embedded on the Talent & Organizational Capabilities team at a Fortune 100 aerospace and defense company, where I lead data strategy with a focus on organizational culture and employee listening, supporting a workforce of over 15,000 people. That means designing surveys, analyzing open-text responses at scale, and building executive-ready dashboards that translate complex people data into the kind of clear, actionable insight leaders can actually use.

Before that, I worked as an Associate Psychometrician and as a Human Capital Consultant, where I ran real client engagements: everything from initial scoping calls and focus groups through to final presentations and written deliverables. I've worked with federal government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and credentialing bodies.

Suttle Insights exists because every organization deserves access to honest, substantive people analytics, and cost or headcount shouldn't be the reason it stays out of reach.

Substance without jargon

The methodology is research-backed. The report is written for a business owner, not an academic journal.

Defined scope, clean handoff

Every engagement has a clear beginning, middle, and end. You know what you're getting before we start.

No upselling

I scope each engagement to what you actually need, not what generates the most follow-on work.

Actionable, always

A report that sits in a drawer isn't useful. Every deliverable is built around what you can actually do next.

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Let's start with a conversation

If you're not sure what you need yet, that's exactly what the discovery call is for.

Let's start with a conversation

Tell me what's going on with your business. I'll be straightforward about whether and how I can help.

Start with a discovery call

Not sure which service fits? Don't have a clear scope yet? That's what the discovery call is for. It's 30 minutes, no commitment, and completely free.

Location

Denver, CO, serving clients remotely nationwide

Email

aidan@suttleinsights.com

Response Time

I respond to all inquiries within 1–2 business days

What to expect from the discovery call

We'll talk through your workforce situation, what questions you're trying to answer, and the size and structure of your business. By the end of 30 minutes, you'll have a clear sense of which service fits, and what it would cost. No pressure, no pitch.

Send a message

I'll respond within 1–2 business days to schedule a discovery call or answer any questions.