Every gap is a liability.
Workplace dysfunction isn't a personality problem. It's an operational design problem: gaps in how the business runs that let harm go unchecked and quietly become legal and reputational liability. Workshops and consulting for teams and business owners ready to stop managing the symptom and start fixing the business.
For Your Team
Your people are living the dynamics whether anyone names them or not. In a workshop, breakout groups play The Corporate Menace™ and laugh at outmaneuvering the incidents: no names, no reopening history, no one asked to share their own story. From there, the conversation moves to how operational gaps let these dynamics persist, and how to make your organization's values a cornerstone of how the business runs.
For Business Owners
You're building your culture right now, by intention or by default, and every gap you leave open is one your business answers for later. When you learn how not to run a business, you learn how to design a profitable and ethical one. Workshops and consulting for founders who want integrity to be structural, not aspirational.
The tactic an employee laughs at is the design flaw an employer fixes. One methodology, both sides of the HR desk.
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Academically Grounded
The characters are fiction.
The research isn't.
Every character in The Corporate Menace™ is a personification of documented workplace behavior: patterns organizational psychologists, sociologists, and management researchers have studied and named for decades. The satire is the delivery. The scholarship is the foundation. Here are the ten, and a sample of the research behind them.
No. 01
Gaslighting Gabe
Gaslighting & reality manipulation
Sweet, P.L. (2019). The Sociology of Gaslighting. American Sociological Review, 84(5).
No. 02
Catastrophizing Caleb
Manufactured crisis & catastrophic thinking
Barlow, D.H. (2002). Anxiety and Its Disorders (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
No. 03
Mansplaining Miles
Condescension & expertise appropriation
Glick, P. & Fiske, S.T. (1996). The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(3).
No. 04
Microaggression Martha
Microaggressions & cumulative harm
Sue, D.W., et al. (2007). Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life. American Psychologist, 62(4).
No. 05
Tattle-tale Tim
Political behavior & selective disclosure
Ferris, G.R., et al. (2000). Political Skill at Work. Organizational Dynamics, 28(4).
No. 06
Forgetful Francine
Accountability avoidance & strategic amnesia
Schlenker, B.R. (1980). Impression Management. Brooks/Cole.
No. 07
Sabotaging Sally
Covert information manipulation
Burt, R.S. (2004). Structural Holes and Good Ideas. American Journal of Sociology, 110(2).
No. 08
Eavesdropping Evan
Information asymmetry & impression management
Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Doubleday Anchor.
No. 09
Miserable Meryl
Strategic pessimism & organizational power
Pfeffer, J. (2010). Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't. HarperBusiness.
No. 10
Instigating Ian
Conflict manufacturing & coalition building
Jehn, K.A. (1995). A Multimethod Examination of Intragroup Conflict. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40(2).
This is a sample. Every one of the ten draws on peer-reviewed research and foundational scholarship: 51 citations behind the taxonomy, 40+ discovery interviews across both sides of the HR desk, and five years inside corporate HR and talent acquisition.
The format is field-tested too: Raissa has co-delivered a guest workshop with organizational psychologist Dr. Anna Kallschmidt and written on workplace harm as a guest contributor for the nonprofit End Workplace Abuse. The humor is how it lands in the room. The rigor is why it holds up long after everyone stops laughing.
Ways to Work Together
Workshops
For teams, leadership offsites, and HR conferences.
Breakout groups play through Incident cards everyone recognizes, then work the room from laugh to fix: what's the operational gap, and how do you close it. Leadership leaves seeing exactly which gaps are quietly generating the extra paperwork, and what closing them would look like.
Half-day and full-day formats. In the room, groups play a card set curated for each session; every participant takes the complete game home. Six-person minimum. Pricing on request; travel quoted separately outside Chicago.
Consulting
For business owners ready to redesign how the business runs.
Culture audits, policy redesign, and accountability structures, scoped around what your business actually needs. You're not paying for time, you're paying for expertise, and everything we build, you keep.
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Before You Reach Out
Frequently Asked Questions
A facilitated session on recognizing the workplace patterns that quietly create harm and liability, and closing the operational gaps they run on. The Corporate Menace™ is how we open the room: the deck gets people talking honestly about workplace patterns without anyone having to talk about this workplace, because every scenario in it is fiction. Everything after that is the workshop.
HR leaders, managers, and executives who want to understand what their teams are experiencing and build more accountable organizations. Founders and small business owners who want to design the culture right the first time. Employees and member organizations who want to recognize and navigate workplace dynamics strategically.
Context framing, then breakout groups of five or six play through Incident cards everyone recognizes. The game does exactly one job: it gets the tension out of the room and gives people a way to talk honestly about workplace patterns without talking about each other. The scenarios are fiction, so the conversation stays about the pattern, never about anyone in the room, and nobody is asked to share their own history.
Then the core of the session: we trace the scenarios everyone just laughed at back to the operational gaps that let them happen in real workplaces, and work through the design fixes that close them. Along the way we cover how different generations communicate at work and why the same message lands differently across a team.
No. The workshop never hands down a verdict on your organization, because culture varies team to team, sometimes desk to desk. We work the way the best team frameworks do: here is what well-designed operations look like, here is where a specific team has gaps, here is how those gaps get closed. Behavior, never identity. Design, never blame.
We offer a half-day format and a full-day format, which adds the generational communication segment and more time in facilitated discussion. In the room, groups play a card set curated for your session, so the game fits the audience in front of it. Every participant takes the complete game home, included in the price, and the conversation continues at their own table long after the session ends.
Six people minimum, because the game needs real breakout groups to work; larger teams split into groups of five or six, and rollouts across several teams or departments are scoped as one program. To book, fill out the contact form with your headcount and a few possible dates. We'll scope the right format together, send the agreement, and a deposit locks in your session. Travel is quoted separately for sessions outside Chicago.
Yes. Employee-focused sessions for nonprofits, professional associations, ERGs, and community organizations are a core part of this work. Partners get what a standard corporate booking doesn't: member programming in the brand's own employee-first voice, sessions scoped to your community rather than a single employer, and a facilitator your members will actually talk to, because she has published with the nonprofit End Workplace Abuse and built this methodology from the employee side first.
If your members are living these dynamics, get in touch about a partnership.
Every engagement starts with a conversation and is scoped around what your organization actually needs: culture audits, policy redesign, leadership accountability structures, or a full organizational assessment. You walk away with documentation you own: the processes, the policies, and the structures, built to run without us. The natural starting point is a workshop: it surfaces the gaps, and closing them becomes the engagement.
Built for organizations ready to address the structural problem instead of managing its symptoms. Get in touch to start the conversation.
Yes. Raissa speaks on workplace culture as a design problem, covering pattern recognition in workplace dysfunction, the legal and reputational cost of mismanaged culture, and how organizations build accountability structures that work. Speaking, press, and podcast requests live on the founder page.
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