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for building better work performance
About Us
At Humaneering Performance, we help growing businesses find their footing when growth starts to strain its people. When people feel unclear or burned out and start questioning their impact, performance slips, not because they don’t care, but because the system isn’t supporting them. We rebuild from the inside out, so people feel set up to succeed, contribute, and grow.When people thrive, performance follows. Founded by Kate Graham, a lifelong champion of human potential, we design people systems that make growth sustainable and performance feel human again.
What We Do
We turn chaos into clarity with practical tools and deep human insight. Our work includes:
Discovery sessions that reveal what’s really holding people back
Role and organizational design that ensures clear expectations
Culture transformation that people can actually feel
Guides, onboarding paths, and process maps that translate to high performance
Coaching that meets people where they are and helps them rise
Every project focuses on your people’s unique way of working and is rooted in respect for human potential.
Who We Work With
We partner with founders and growing organizations who care deeply about their people but feel the strain of scaling. You’re our kind of client if:
You feel stuck between where you’ve been and where you’re going.
Growth has created more noise than clarity.
Your people are tired of surviving and ready to thrive.
We help you rebuild the systems that make work feel good again. We’ll build the skeleton. You bring the heart.
What Sets Us Apart
Culture is more than just another project. It should feel like you. We are known for being:
Real: No jargon, no ego, we’re just people helping people thrive.
Grounded: We use tools that work in real workplaces.
Collaborative: We build with you.
Energizing: Our work leaves teams buzzing, not burned out.
We keep things simple, human, and built to last, because that’s what true growth feels like.
Success Stories
Katherine Graham is a talent development, learning and development, operational efficiency, and performance expert with 15+ years of experience helping leaders and teams unlock performance through clarity, culture, and capability. The goal is always to make work work for your people.
Some project successes:
- Amazon Lean Train-the-Trainer: Created the Instructor-Led Training (ILT) component of a standardized Lean Train the Trainer (T3) program for Amazon's XMCI through Allen Interactions, designing a comprehensive 4-day curriculum covering Lean tools, facilitator skills, and change leadership principles to train approximately 3,100 new Lean trainers across 1,350 North American Operations sites in the first year, enabling sustainable continuous improvement capability for 786,585 associates.
- Marathon Refinery Performance Project: Developed instructor-led content to address performance gaps at a refinery that included the creation of an AI coach component with Practica. This communication scenario allowed leaders to practice communication in a safe space and receive personalized feedback based on the standards for successful communication to reduce safety-related incidents.
- Leadership Development for an International Construction Company: Created mutli-level, blended leadership development from executive down to site managers to combat ongoing contractor tensions and site incidents. Participants left the initial pilot event raving about the unique experience that left them ready to apply new insights on the site immediately.
- Local Municipality Union Job Level Distinction: Designed career pathways for their Technicians within for departments. This involved a complete analysis to uncover what outputs (job responsibilties) occurred within each department, what quality standards were expected for each output, what tasks were required to produce each output to standard, and what tools and resources were available and/or needed for successfully completed each output.I worked with stakeholders to determine what outputs were better suited to entry level versus level 1 and level2 Technicians and built guidelines for the competencies necessary to develop someone from entry level to supervisory level. I then created unbiased methods for evaluation that the union could get on board with for advancing Technicians through the newly developed pathway to leadership.
- Department of Labor Trade Apprenticeship Program: Built the framework for an apprenticeship program that ensured underprivileged workers a path into the trades. The success stories that resulted made this a real joy, as I had a direct positive impact in improving the lives of those graduates and their families, as well as the businesses that hired them.
