Professional Credentials
Bachelors, Anthropology (Honors), Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Law, Juris Doctor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Official Member, Forbes Coaches Council
Hi. I’m Yuri Kruman. I’m a corporate Organization Design/HR Strategy Consultant and top-rated executive coach for corporations and fast-growth startups and expert on Employee Experience (EX), board member, and official member of the Forbes Coaches Council, as well as contributor to Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business.com, Influencive and numerous other top platforms.
A regular guest on top podcasts including Entrepreneur on Fire, Wharton Business Radio, As Told By Nomads, Conscious Millionaire and The Blind Entrepreneur, he's also been published or featured on Inc., Fast Co., Time, Mashable, PBS, BBC and numerous top blogs, TV and radio. In his corporate work, Yuri trains client teams on ways to maximize their EX, especially talent retention, learning and development using storytelling, branding and proprietary personal development strategies.
My consulting, advising and coaching portfolio includes consulting corps and fast-growth startups, executive coaching and advisory work, as well as speaking engagements, workshops and advisory work focused on Organization Design and Development, HR Strategy focused on Employee Experience (EX), Change Management, Customer Experience (CX) and business strategy, impacting thousands of Fortune 500 and startup executives.
I recently published a book, "What Millennials Really Want From Work and Life" (Click for FREE PREVIEW; Business Expert Press, March 2019) and have done numerous keynotes, panels and workshops at corporations, top startups and universities, including Google, The Muse General Assembly, UPenn, Columbia, NYU and 2020 Startups, among many others.
I provide training on ways to...
Developing and Implementing a Winning HR/People/Culture Strategy
Future-proofing Your Company’s Workforce and HR Planning
Increasing Employee Engagement and Decreasing Turnover
Winning the War for Millennial Talent
Increasing Retention and Engagement for Millennials and Gen Z's with an Effective Benefits Strategy
Creating A Compelling Brand-Story Strategy
Leading Through Change In The Millennial Economy
Training Your Gen X and Boomer Executives to Work Effectively with Millennials and Gen Zs
Delivering a Customer Experience that Delights Millennials
In my free time, I write a great deal on subjects near to my heart, as well as coach busy Millennial execs and entrepreneurs and speak. Outside of my work, I love traveling with my wife and two daughters, writing fiction, dining out and photographing nature.
My priority is achieving transformational results for my clients, above all.
HR IS A BIG PAIN POINT FOR FAST-GROWTH COMPANIES
Nearly every week, we meet Fortune 500 and fast-growth startup execs running exciting, profitable companies. As soon as they learn we do HR Strategy Consulting, every last one starts to complain about their employees.
Turnover is high.
Engagement is low.
Too many are unproductive.
Too many are unmotivated.
Competitors are poaching our best people.
Some quit before 6 months. A few have even ghosted us this year.
All they want is to get paid more and get promoted.
Nobody wants to pay their dues anymore.
Teams don’t communicate well.
Digital transformation is too expensive and too often ineffective.
Just pricey software that nobody uses or buys into.
We just need “bodies in seats” to fuel our growth.
Can you help me?
WHAT WE DO
At Master The Talk Consulting, we take a unique — and uniquely human - approach to HR Strategy and Organization Development.
Instead of the usual resource- and systems-heavy approach by large consultancies that too often fails to engage employees, we first work to unlock and align individual executives and middle managers’ personal Mission, Vision and Values to company mission, vision and values.
HOW WE DO IT
HR Strategy
Transitioning from startup to corporation is often chaotic and fraught for getting the HR part right. We help with creating talent-team-company alignment on Mission, Vision Values, as well as Employee Handbook creation, Hiring and On-Boarding help, Career Pathway design and implementation, setting promotion and pay increase milestones, as such helping build the on-ramp to hiring a dedicated, full-time HR Director.
Organizational Design
There is no shortage of tech solutions out there to ostensibly improve communication, project management and productivity. Getting buy-in and adoption from employees is much harder. We focus on using proven, cutting-edge best practices, tools and strategies to dramatically improve and standardize information and decision-making flows and processes, performance bench-marking and organizational project management.
Every part of our work is focused on creating and scaling a superlative Employee Experience, decreasing turnover and improving engagement, improving employee alignment, morale and productivity, leading to a virtuous cycle of happier employees, happier customers and higher revenues.
Executive Coaching
Just as importantly, we help C-suite execs to get the HUMAN part right in themselves — and in their Human Resource. We work with them to create and grow their personal brand — and the company’s — by telling their story in a compelling way.
With better alignment, they are now free to stop putting out fires and focus on solving problems strategically, empowering and trusting their employees. We coach them to automate, outsource and delegate tactical work, hire, coach, retain and develop top talent effectively, plus become effective leaders, not just managers.
Client C-Suite executives feel more aligned in all areas of their life, get invited for speaking engagements, build a thought leadership brand and win industry awards, as well as start consulting and coaching side-hustles, leading to more business opportunities.
Hands-On Implementation
In addition to creating a detailed and robust Employee Handbook to standardize company culture, we also help with Hiring and On-Boarding, Career Pathway design and implementation, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)/Team Playbook creation and Business Succession Planning.
Given our wide experience in other functional areas of building successful startups, we are also happy to recommend trusted vendors for financial model creation and management, fractional CFO and CMO and other areas.
