You can't be controlled by what you see coming.

Toxic culture isn't a people problem. It's a design problem.

Outsmart Your Toxic Boss™ is a workplace-culture brand for the people who refuse to work around the chaos.

When a business designs its operations to promote integrity, clarity, and transparency, it leaves little to no room for toxicity, coercive control, or shady politics to infect the organization.

When a business poorly designs its operations, it ends up depending on the dysfunction to generate revenue. That creates room for harm, and ultimately, liability. Infrastructure, not good feelings, protects the business and its people, and when employees are valued and supported, revenue naturally increases.

Political warfare has become so normalized in the modern workplace that we've forgotten how to enjoy work, collaborate, and celebrate profitable success as a collective. You don't have to suffer to make a living or make your employees suffer to generate revenue to be successful.

We don't hand you affirmations. We hand you language, strategy, and a way to see the patterns clearly.

Outsmart Your Toxic Boss™ helps employees and employers recognize what toxicity looks like, address it professionally, and redesign the business to prevent it in the first place.

We show professionals how to protect themselves from shady politics through humor. Laughing at manipulation creates distance, and distance keeps you from taking the tactics personally. We give professionals and business owners permission to laugh at the predictability, and at the fact that they can outsmart it in the first place.

Poor operational design is laughable for the same reason. More often than not, the gaps causing harm are simple to fix. But when a business refuses to address the gaps perpetuating harm, its employees and bottom line suffer. No founder builds a business with the intention of harming their employees. But there's a reason employment law attorneys are still in business.

Our work takes four forms:

• The Corporate Menace™. A satirical card game that hilariously lifts the veil on workplace harm while inspiring players to start the conversation around change. Pre-order →
• Merch. Wear the title. Let the other Menaces find you in the wild. Shop →
• Workshops. For teams, and leadership looking to foster a professional, healthy work environment. Workshops →
• Consulting. For business owners ready to redesign their operations, so culture and revenue improve together. Get in touch →

The dysfunction is structural. The education is intentional. The satire is iconic.