The news today is filled with stories about how systems can help or hurt individuals or groups. This is not new! Dawn Snyder founded the business to create and adjust systems so that everyone can benefit. Our work is evidence-based, inclusive, and results-oriented.

What We Do

We help organizations grow and change by cultivating practical, cutting-edge learning and performance solutions.

1. We identify performance requirements that will achieve business goals.

2. We provide information about performance (actual performance, desired performance, performance gaps, and root causes, and measures) so that clients can get the most impact from available resources.

3. We formulate feasible, actionable strategies that align efforts to the desired organizational outcomes.

4. We create performance solutions that get results.

5. We build evaluation systems that help clients make decisions about performance and to continuously improve their products and services.

 

How We Do It

  • Focus on your unique context and needs
  • Learn about opportunities and barriers that impact performance
  • Build on existing strengths, successes, and capabilities
  • Focus on efficiency, feasibility, sustainability
  • Collaborative, positive, success-oriented
  • Leverage existing resources to promote client ownership of the solution
  • Add value in every aspect of our partnership

Dawn has been a wonderful advisor to Black Spectacles, helping us to understand a variety of aspects and considerations of designing curriculae and courses. She is like a surrogate team member for us – widely respected among our teammates, and the subject-matter experts she has facilitated meetings with. Dawn is a trusted consultant to myself as CEO, and to our entire team, when it comes to anything related to the practice of learning design.

Marc Teer, FAIA

Founder & CEO, Black Spectacles

Dawn worked closely with our team, directing our efforts in building a new Competency Model and software products based on that model.  As such, our team was able to:

  • Create a new model of the strategic skills building needed to help Insights (marketing research) directors train staff and help individual researchers build new skills more quickly.
  • The Strategic Skills Model provided a framework for working smart as Insights Professionals by: 
    • Defining best-in-class strategic skills so that Insights Directors can more objectively assess and develop their team members.   
    • Providing individual insights professionals with a blueprint for building their own strategic abilities.

Olivetree uses this framework in all coaching and workshop sessions and developed software, Insights Central, based on the competencies revealed in this model.  

Dawn is an unequaled expert and trusted adviser in the field of performance improvement. I have been working with Dawn over the last year and her keen intelligence, subject matter expertise and depth of experience makes every encounter a success. She always brings a positive energy to our team efforts and is a joy to work with. I would recommend Dawn to anyone.

Carol Shea

Olivetree Insights

Dawn Snyder has worked with the DACUM program as a reliable partner for many years.  Few people that I’ve ever worked with are as talented as Dawn. She is insightful, creative, dependable and congenial when it comes to marshalling resources to get a project up and running and seeing it through to completion. Her consulting experience coupled with her business insight and analytical and facilitation skills makes her a valued asset to any organization.

John Moser

The Ohio State University –
Center On Education And Training For Employment