Transform Your Organization's Effectiveness
steve@stevewalkerphd.com
Data-driven solutions for leadership and people success.
Welcome to Walker Consulting: Our Mission
At Walker Consulting, our mission is to empower organizations to make data-driven decisions that enhance their effectiveness. We believe that informed people decisions are the cornerstone of successful leadership and thriving businesses.
About Walker Consulting
I am a seasoned industrial and organizational psychologist with broad and deep experience advising clients on practical and useful people solutions.
Our Approach
As a trusted partner to managers and professionals, I help organizations tackle leadership challenges by identifying critical people measurement and management needs. Leveraging industry best practices, I design and implement tailored, high-impact solutions that drive meaningful, lasting change and improve business outcomes. My approach is built on three core principles:
- Identifying real business needs and getting to the heart of the challenge
- Delivering practical, no-nonsense solutions - simplifying complexity to find what works
- Executing with purpose - turning insights into action
Optimizing Hiring Decisions
We review, diagnose and recommend hiring and selection solutions that increase accuracy, are fair and valid, and enhance the candidate experience
Engagement and Listening
Walker Consulting can provide end-to-end support on all forms of employee listening. We will help you find and effectively deploy the right listening channel to meet your business, leadership and employee needs.
Talent and Performance Management
Most companies have systems to measure and distinguish their talent, yet systems are often misaligned to pay, company norms, and management will and skill. We will find the weak links and strengthen the entire performance and talent chain.
Influencing Leadership Development
Most organizational effectiveness solutions are not fully bought into and wind up being short-lived. We will listen to leaders and help them figure out what they ready for and what they need to do to make any change stick.
Innovation
Approaches to talent, performance and engagement often rely on programs or complex processes. Our approach to innovation is to work backwards from the desired goal to create the simplest solution that feels fresh and will be used.
Success stories
Optimizing Hiring Decisions
A sales & trading business faced inconsistent performance among new hires. We revamped the hiring process with realistic work simulations and behavioral interviews, leading to smarter hiring decisions, increased retention, and a stronger talent pipeline.
Driving Engagement
A financial services firm’s outdated annual surveys left leaders in the dark. We introduced a cutting-edge continuous listening strategy, implemented top-tier survey tools, and delivered real-time insights. This initiative earned praise from the CEO and remains a cornerstone of their employee engagement strategy.
Tailored Performance Management
A mid-sized company sought to improve accountability with a uniform goal system. We guided them toward role-specific behavioral expectations, enhancing performance differentiation. This framework now informs their recruitment, performance management, and talent review processes.
Leadership Development
A financial services leader hesitated to adopt an existing leadership program. By securing buy-in through a peer ambassador, we gained widespread acceptance and successfully customized the program, later hailed as the best leadership initiative the division had experienced.
Innovation
An outdated review process limited performance potential. We guided HR partners and leaders through the transition to a dynamic performance management system. Through workshops and targeted education, we demonstrated the approach’s ease and effectiveness, leading to expansion for talent reviews and multi-rater feedback.