About High Peaks Group
High Peaks Group helps organizations hire, keep, and develop your best people with a modern, effective talent strategy.
High Peaks Group is a management consulting company focused on talent. We leverage a network of certified consultants and a range of tools - including the Predictive Index - to support organizations to retain and develop their most important asset: their people.
We do this by developing a strategy that uses data and analytics to ensure every people-leader is prepared for the challenge of leading. Our strategic approach informs job requirements, helps identify ideal candidates, aligns teams to deliver results, and inspires employees to fully engage in the work of the organization.
Do What Works
We are creative and innovative in solving clients’ unique challenges. No canned solutions.
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High Peaks Group exists to end the workplace stress epidemic. Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, in his book Dying for a Paycheck, said the workplace is the fifth-leading cause of death in the U.S. This is unacceptable.
We need better workplaces for a better world. Workplaces have evolved over time to become centers for stress. But it doesn’t have to be that way. New mindsets, structures, and approaches will help us let go of outmoded ways of working and adopt a more human-centered approach.
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Workplace Greatness.
After more than 25 years studying and helping organization, we understand that change is about more than “fixing” people or problems. It’s about updating mindsets and optimizing systems.
We believe organizations are full of potential, not problems. Leveraging strengths, building momentum, involving many vs. few, and engaging the hearts and minds of employees must be part of any change strategy, or it will fail.
We believe optimizing talent is about more than installing software. It’s about understanding oneself and others in the context of generating business results.
Our Values
Make an Impact
Our job is to influence leaders who influence the world’s organizations.
Be a Labrador
We are friendly, reliable, excitable, attentive, and caring.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Our clients, employees, contractors, partners, and supporters are whole, functioning and worthy. We have no room for distain.
Create Opportunities
Our work is inherently about change. So, if we are going to change, do it to help people.
Meet the Team
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Paul Thallner
Founder & CEO
Paul Thallner founded High Peaks Group to help leaders and teams create workplace greatness: equitable, resilient, and world-class. As a past executive turned organizational consultant, he has first hand expertise in strengths based collaborative models for culture and engagement, team development, strategy design & implementation. He is a leader in the design and facilitation of leadership development programs and strengths-based, complex models for systemic change and sector-wide innovation. He is an executive group facilitator skilled in securing team alignment and acceleration. He is also an executive coach trained in narrative, strengths-based and mindfulness approaches. He serves clients in the mountain resort, insurance, law, higher ed, tech, healthcare, government and social sectors. His professional partnerships include XCHANGE Approach, The Teal Team, Take Back Work, Real World Group, Drexel University School of Education, and various industry groups. -
Sunday Helmerich
Consultant
Sunday is an advocate for fostering psychological safety in learning spaces to equip folks to absorb new concepts, acknowledge current biases, and feel intrinsically motivated to make the changes necessary to create equity in their workplace. As a gender queer person, showing up authentically - and feeling the safety to do so - is very important to them. The desire to create more safe spaces in businesses fueled their decision to leave the music industry, earn a Master’s in Org Psychology, and roll up their sleeves to help organizations transform into safer, more inclusive places for all.