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LEON's data-driven approach to organizational health due diligence in VC and PE

LEON's data-driven approach to organizational health due diligence brings significant value to the venture capital and private equity industry, enabling more informed investment decisions, better performance for portfolio companies, and a broader societal impact.

Sustainable investing and organizational health: The pathway to people sustainability

The interconnection between sustainable investing, organizational health, and the importance of prioritizing employee health and well-being for a sustainable economy.

Due diligence for startup investing: The key people data VCs need to see.

How due diligence in startup investing is expanding beyond traditional financial metrics.

The ultimate guide to Series A due diligence

This guide explores the importance of organizational health in the due diligence process for early-stage startups seeking Series A funding, providing insight into how venture capitalists evaluate startups and collect data on organizational health.

Invest smart, not blind: Uncover the ROI of Human Capital with LEON

We designed LEON to give investors an accurate picture of a company's performance related to its human capital investments.

From Balance Sheets to Human Capital: The Changing Landscape of VC Investing

Why VC's are spending big to assess organizational health before writing a check.

Assessing organizational health before you raise VC funding. A game plan for founders

A startup's success in attracting investment from venture capitalists depends on more than just its business model and product - its organizational health is equally important.

ESG is not enough. It’s time to add an H

Every business should asses its impact on the health of employees, communities, and consumers.

The Cost of Healthwashing: Companies are not doing enough to create a sustainable workforce

The impact of "healthwashing" on employee well-being and how investors are taking a proactive approach to assessing the health of their portfolio companies.

Is the next big thing in venture capital organizational health?

Is there a social responsibility for investors to help create a sustainable and healthy workforce?

Guide: The Role of Organizational Health in High-Growth Startup Investments

This blog discusses the proposed changes by the SEC around adding organizational health to ESG and provides steps for high-growth startups to prepare for the expanding role of organizational health in investment decisions.

What is Wellness Intelligence?

The focus on “healthiest and happiest” is very intentional within LEON's mission — a healthy and happy group of employees encourages resiliency, and resiliency is the foundation of every high-growth business.

Your Stress Account. How a sports scientist looks at stress management

This is a guest post from Patrick Ward, Director of Research and Development for the Seattle Seahawks. It has been adapted somewhat for the target audience of this publication.

Your organization’s well-being: the ultimate performance hack

Through 10 years of research, we have learned that working on organizational well-being impacts real business results. Learn more about LEON Insight®.

Why go with LEON Insight vs. the McKinsey OHI?

Learn why LEON Insight is a powerful alternative to the McKinsey OHI.

Why You Need to Chill the F*ck Out And Take a Break While Scaling Your Startup

How stepping back and taking a breath can increase the health of you and your startup.

Where is the Kool-aid?

Managing company well-being today is akin to joining your favorite backcountry cult, led by some crazy-eyed megalomaniac, who somehow figured out the power of LinkedIn and webinars.

Well, what do you know: Sleep does impact sales performance.

In our busy everyday life, sleep and recovery are some of the most undervalued elements.

What's the difference between a diagnostic survey and an engagement survey?

Organizational health is a critical factor in the success of any company. It encompasses the purpose and mission of the organization, its values, and its ability to adapt to changing conditions.

What burnout actually is vs what your lazy HR guru tells you it is

If you are a gazelle running for your life, or that tiger sprinting for your meal, your body’s physiological response mechanisms are adapted for dealing with such short-term physical emergencies.

WeWork killed kombucha on tap.

Countless upstart tech companies have Kombucha on tap, the required Ping Pong table - yet employee "culture" is still as ambiguous as it was the day it started...

Use this Notion Playbook to embrace asynchronous management.

If you aren't already embracing the movement of asynchronous management, it's time to catch up and welcome you to a new world.

Super-Powering The Companies Your Ex-Talent Told You Not To Worry About.

While the wifi is getting quicker and the cloud storage is getting bigger and the video conferencing is getting crisper, there is one aspect of business that’s as dated as a wicker rocking chair...

The ultimate performance technology stack for sales teams

The Performance Technology Stack is a series of tools sales leaders use to manage high-performers. They form the backbone of modern sales team built for the future of work.

We're excited to unveil the newest feature in LEON: The Playbook Library.

With the LEON Playbook Library, high impact decisions don’t have to wait! Our templates are at your fingertips - whenever and where ever you need them.

Use this Superhuman Playbook to challenge innovation with your team

Superhuman creates stress and team delight with this Challenge Playbook.

Wellness Intelligence: The engine driving LEON Insight®.

The focus on “healthiest and happiest” is intentional within LEON's mission — a healthy and happy group of employees encourages resiliency, and resiliency is the foundation of every high-growth business.

Use this Hubspot Playbook to embrace asynchronous communication

Effective, asynchronous communication is the key to creating a future of work where employee well-being and happiness matters.

Use this Drift Playbook to improve the mental health of your sales team.

Learning how to celebrate success with the people you lead can help create a culture built on personal growth instead of personal failure.

Use this Cynefin Company Playbook to better support your teams mental health

When it comes to relieving team stress and improving morale, connecting with your peers on shared experiences can be a powerful driver of emotional recovery and mental health.

Use this Airtable Playbook to fire-proof your company from burnout

Use this Airtable Playbook to reduce burnout risk, super-charge recovery and drive deep work with your team.

Try this Accord Playbook to improve alignment with your team.

Scaling a high-growth startup is this strange balance of preparing for the future while at the same time recognizing that no matter how much you prepare, sh*t is inevitably going to hit the fan.

Try this Loom Playbook to super-power your one-on-ones

Over the past decade, managing teams of people have become a world led by infamous trendy business magazines, beanie-wearing bloggers, and Linkedin "thought leaders" who like to preach "best-practice."

This is how managers die.

The mission of building better managers does not live in improved training or more L&D

The secret to ending burnout — the one HR Gurus don’t talk about.

‍Welcome, fellow traveler.

The three C's of defining an organizational health strategy.

When it comes to developing an organizational health strategy, it's important to understand what defines your company. These three Cs will help get you started.

The revolution will not be televised.

A key understanding about complex environments is that they cannot be planned for.

The Future of Organizational well-being: LEON Insight®

The central idea underlying LEON for the past seven years has been that the best way to run a business is to balance your company's performance with the health of your employees.

The importance of organizational health in an ever-changing world

This article will explore what organizational health is, how it affects businesses, and how organizations can use strategies to assess and improve their organizational health.

The evolution of employee engagement starts now — with Playbooks by LEON.

We believe smart recommendations will transform the way that businesses support their teams. Machine learning-based systems are already enabling customer support teams and sales teams to grow more efficiently. But until now, intelligent systems have stopped short of truly helping teams scale faster and smarter while reducing the cost to our most valuable asset; our entire people team.

The 7 best recovery services in the LEON Marketplace (so far)

Whether you’re looking for a service to help your team recover from a stressful quarter, or they've been burning out for the past year, and you are just now getting to it, our smart marketplace can help you and your team members recover. By using LEON to guide your recovery and well-being decisions, you not only gain access to some of the best wellness brands out there, but you also do it in a way that is based on data and current needs.

The LEON 4P Matrix: A Step-By-Step Guide For Creating a Healthy Organization

A healthy organization is more critical than ever in today's business world.

Take your team back: Why managers need LEON

For most companies, managers have no shortage of performance goals, but making sure to scale fast as hell, while entire teams turnover due to stress is an organizational and leadership nightmare.

Support a team in need with LEON Support Playbooks

You wake up Monday morning smashing your phone to make that d*mn alarm stop, check LEON, and see your team is on fire (figuratively speaking of course…usually). Here’s your fire extinguisher...

Super-secret Soviet recovery strategies for a stressed-out sales team

Performance in the world of high growth, SaaS sales is akin to the world of professional sports. That constant ebb and flow of success and failure - of winning or losing that quarter-defining deal.

Shelly Azen Of UnHR on Organizational Health. [Podcast]

With nearly 30 years of HR experience, Shelly Azen chats with us on the evolution of Organizational Health and the opportunity metrics play in aligning operational and people strategies.

Stephanie Majors Of SellX on Organizational Health. [Podcast]

Tune in as our guest, Stephanie Majors shares the importance of empathy and support when scaling Organizational Health.

Say hello to the LEON Marketplace: Helping companies and partners grow.

One product rarely evolves to solve all of your needs or the needs of your employees— no matter how well designed it is. We all use various tools to improve our mental health, physical fitness, and overall well-being. Each product used is only one tool of many at our disposal.

Remote Work Excellence: Fight burnout and support your teams with LEON.

Leading a team has never been more challenging. HR & People teams have been stretched thinly supporting managers facing new challenges in a remote working environment.

Recover or die.

Now that we're all watching the Summer Olympics, I wanted to share some of the strategies we used in the 2016 Rio Olympics to help our athletes get ready for competition.

Salomé Martini Of Spot on Organizational Health. [Podcast]

Tune in to learn how Organizational Health is comprised of a number of factors whether visible and known throughout the company or those that remain below the surface, as well as, the importance of them all both big and small.

Rats, wheels and a case for autonomy (sort of) in the workplace.

In the most recent Huberman and Sapolsky podcast, they discussed a study about two rats on a wheel.

Management is chaos.

Our biggest fault we have when it comes to managing employee well-being & performance is this idea that it’s a linear process.

Nadia Vatalidis Of Remote on Organizational Health. [Podcast]

Despite leaders’ best efforts, worldwide burnout and disruptions in Organizational Health persists. In this episode we reveal why—and how to help employees begin to thrive again.

Modernize your performance management system using the LEON
 framework

Moneyball for Fast Scaling Companies.

LEON: The Anti-Employee Engagement, Engagement Platform

So, HR teams should know more about their people's overall well-being than ever before, right?

Is Your Startup Killing You? A story of Provigil, Lambos and Venture Funding.

An honest discussion regarding the health of startup founders, and how your company may slowly be killing you.

Kelli Dragovich Of Pendo on Organizational Health. [Podcast]

Building happy, productive teams is hard to do. Learn how to approach Organizational Health from both a quantitative and qualitative way to implement effective strategies to meet company goals.

Human Resources Vs. Wellness Professionals - Who Does Employee Wellness Better?

Improve manager effectiveness with Playbook Feedback

Making significant decisions on how we lead teams of people is a lot like being on a diving board, alone and afraid to jump.

Human Capital Due Diligence: The New Currency for Raising VC Money

If you're a startup looking to raise venture capital money, you better believe that potential investors are going to be doing their due diligence.

Human "Capital" and how WeWork killed kombucha on tap.

Companies (probably companies you’ve worked for) approach “employee wellness” from two very different angles… culture and HR.

HR engagement surveys are dead. Long live Diagnostic Surveys.

Engagement surveys are a thing of the past. You now have a new option: Always-on, always-learning Diagnostic surveys. Learn more below.

How LEON Insight and narrative paths are redefining employee engagement surveys

Gain better insight into your employees and the overall effectiveness of your organization.

How to pick a wellness benefit your employees will love.

It’s a big commitment to pay for and manage a company wellness program. But as a small or large company, offering a wellness benefit is one of the biggest perks you have when it comes to attracting and hiring talent, employee productivity, and retention.

How to help employees with burnout.

That’s right, you guessed it. Employee burnout no longer operates in a silo. And it is no longer the sole product of our jobs (as convenient as that would would be).

How much does a wellness benefit cost?

A wellness benefit can have a significant impact on where people decide to work these days. So it comes as no surprise that over 70% of all companies offer some sort of employee wellness benefit today.

Grow faster with LEON Challenge Playbooks

LEON’s Challenge Playbooks give you a healthy, safe way to improve performance without tanking well-being. Here’s how...

How healthy is your organization?

When fast-scaling tech companies want to understand how to inspire sustainable company growth, they turn to LEON Insight.

Maximize Playbooks with Growth Windows — The best way to support and engage your teams.

Ever wondered how our Wellness Intelligence engine works? You're in luck. We're about to deep dive into how our Growth Widows feature can maximize how you use Playbooks with your team.

Gordon Gecko, Snapbacks and why SaaS Sales Managers are lost.

Like Gong, Drift etc., creating a new category is hard.

Find and hire a LEON Expert today.

There's a new resource to find LEON performance managers, mental health experts, and well-being leaders for your company: LEON Experts.

Don't hire LEON. Here's how you can replace us.

This isn’t an article on our wellness intelligence platform that catches burnout & mental health issues before performance crashes. It’s an article on empowering folks like you to do that without us.

Elisa Garn Of LevelNext on Organizational Health. [Podcast]

Coaching and mentoring within corporations typically leave a positive effect on the employees. Tune in to hear why mentoring arguably has a more lasting impact and how it can improve employee well-being.

Moneyball: A Burnout Playbook Playlist for Sales Leaders

A Playbook Playlist to help Sales Leader’s mitigate the risk of rep burnout.

This serial-killer (disguised as a physician) is one that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs should be aware of.

Dr. Death isn’t a Marvel super-villain.

Coinbase and how they super-power performance using this Playbook.

The team at Coinbase is built for high-performance.

Are you burning out: 17 ways you can overcome work-related stress

Burnout, we bid thee farewell.

Announcing LEON Insight: The survey product that smartly “does it for you.”

As more and more teams grow in headcount and leaders' expectations have risen accordingly, the demands on employees have soared – it often feels like teams now need superpowers just to keep up.

A letter from the founders: Why LEON's Insight data is so powerful

LEON Insight® gives team leaders the necessary data to create a performance management system that will accelerate productivity - for free.

6 Grit Playbooks that hit so hard they give you f*cking whiplash.

We’ve all heard about those startups that began in someone’s bay area garage and went on to become behemoths of companies.

7 best Playbooks to build a resilient as f*ck sales team.

So you want to build a high-performing, highly motivated sales team! But how do you build a team so gritty that it will make Angela Duckworth blush in disbelief?

4 models to quantify organizational health at your company

How much is your investment in organizational health worth for the company?

A LETTER FROM THE CEO: Why LEON's data is so powerful

Growth Windows from LEON give team leaders the necessary tools to create a performance management system that will accelerate productivity.

A HUMANS guide: Advice you should never say f*ck off to.

3 Questions to Ask Before Implementing an Organizational Health Strategy

Are you considering implementing an organizational health strategy? We’ve all heard the term, but what does it really mean and how do you go about doing it?