hum
noun
a low, steady continuous sound (sometimes at the threshold of human hearing).
Sanskrit for "I am That,” indicating the unity of all & collective wisdom.
Meet the Founder
Dr. Ciela Hartanov
Founder and CEO
A human behavior expert, future of work visionary, organizational psychologist, speaker, and writer, Dr. Ciela Hartanov believes that every leader and organization should have the opportunity to prosper in the future, and has dedicated her career to reinventing the way we work.
Ciela was part of the founding team of The Google School for Leaders and Head of Next Practice Innovation and Strategy at Google, where she developed projects designed to shape the future of leadership and work.
She’s gone on to work with organizations such as Salesforce, Stripe and Mitel, equipping them to divert potential failures proactively, create viable solutions to problems faster, and adapt to ever-moving targets with innovation.
Today, she works with organizations through her boutique consulting firm, humcollective, to (r)evolutionize the way we work, innovate, and adapt — both as individuals and as organizations — via the Sensitivity Paradigm ™.
I was well-trained to find the “truth” about what works at work.
Which is why it came as such a surprise when I found myself working with a cross-functional team of executive leaders thinking, Nothing I’m doing is working.
My career as a traditional Organizational Psychologist, supporting organizations through change management, leadership and organizational development ultimately led me to question what I was really here for.
Defeated, exhausted, resigned, embarrassed, I realized: I’m the well-paid expert, and I can’t make this work. The realization that leadership development tools were losing their utility led me to call my boss wondering if I needed to quit.
Instead, I asked for 6 months to investigate the future of leadership.
Here’s what we found: mindset matters more than skill set when it comes to effective leadership. My study in emergent practices formed the Innovation and Research Lab at Google, which later informed and was integrated in the Google School for Leaders.
In sharing this work with the world, I learned that so few organizations are equipped to compete in the future, and I set out to share my approach to innovation.
Today, humcollective works with organizations to implement the Sensitivity Paradigm™. A holistic framework for developing leaders, team practices, and organizational impact, to perform for the future.