Our Approach
At Aculasek Consulting, we build high performance teams, develop effective managers, engage talent, and generate thriving company cultures. Our approach is grounded in three core principles:
- At the center of all endeavors we are human beings -- not assets or resources
- Our behavior is guided by our emotions
- We live in a particular culture
Our Approach
Our Story
Our Story
In late 2002, the company started with an "aha" moment. Having hired and worked with numerous management consultants in the past, the founders realized a problem: consultants seem to be forgetting they were working with humans. The workforce was treated as a "resource," and senior leaders offered cookie-cutter solutions -- as if people could be fixed like a machine. In response, Aculasek Consulting was launched as a boutique organizational development consulting company focused on building high performance teams.
Our first promise? We work with human beings.
Meet the Principles
We are diverse as the clients we serve, each of us offering a unique set of skills to meet the needs of our company and those with whom we partner.
Maggie Weiss
Director
Maggie is a catalyst for sustainable change. With a continuing 40-year career of wisdom and consulting, she embodies a lifetime passion for supporting people to live and work joyfully and powerfully together, where each uniquely contributes new ideas, principles, and perspectives that become integral and dynamic into an organization’s DNA and offers in the market place.
Within this context, Maggie’s work focuses on clarifying and designing an organization of accountability and relationship. She dives into an entity’s shared commitment and understanding of both the formal and informal agreements which frame how the organization actually works in a results-oriented culture. Her work has spanned from Fortune 100 companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, non-profit organizations, governments, multilateral bodies such as the United Nations, grassroots organizations, and many others.
Stephanie Mikulasek
Founder & Managing Director
Stephanie's expertise is built on her twenty-five years in government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. She specializes in executive coaching, teaching practical and effective cross-cultural skills, public management, organizational structures, strategic thinking and envisioning for the future, team-building, and company operations. She has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and throughout the United States, and has been the recipient of multiple awards for her work.
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