Organizational science × Practical advisory
Evaluate.
Advise. Execute.
Built around your business.
We combine organizational psychology, data analytics, and hands-on advisory to understand what is holding performance back and help leaders put the response into practice. We specialize in healthcare, pharma, biotech, and technology.
Two offerings. One focus on progress.
Organizational
Performance
& Execution
Find out what’s holding performance back.
Look beyond the immediate symptom to understand the system producing it. Align leaders, strengthen organizational performance, and turn coordinated execution into improved business output.
- Organizational assessment and performance priorities
- Leadership alignment and team effectiveness
- Focused interventions and follow-through
Sustainable AI Integration
& Value Realization
Make AI part of better work.
Build sustainable AI integration around business priorities. Equip people, redesign how work happens, and measure the value created through freed capacity and revenue analysis.
- AI priorities and workforce capability
- Workflow redesign and adoption
- Freed capacity, revenue analysis, and business impact
Our approach
Complex challenges.
A whole-system view.
Complex challenges rarely have a single cause. We examine how strategy, leadership, structure, capabilities, culture, and ways of working interact to shape performance.
Assessments, interviews, organizational data, observation, and dialogue build a coherent view of the organization. We interpret the evidence in context, agree where to act, and stay involved as recommendations become practice.
See the whole system.
Clarify the business challenge and the outcomes that matter. Combine assessments, interviews, organizational data, observation, and dialogue to understand the strengths, risks, and conditions shaping performance.
Make the choices clear.
Distinguish symptoms from underlying drivers. Identify the priorities that matter most, recommend specific actions, and clarify ownership and next steps.
Turn decisions into progress.
Work alongside leaders and teams through alignment, coaching, change management, workflow redesign, and team development. Measure what changes and adjust as the organization learns.
Work that delivers value
What changes
in the work?
Agree on success at the start. Connect people and workflow evidence to freed capacity, revenue opportunities, and business results.
Quality alongside speed.
Track cycle time, errors, rework, and decision quality together. See whether the work is improving as well as getting faster.
Make freed time count.
Identify the capacity AI frees, where it is redeployed, and whether it enables more valuable work, stronger customer service, deeper analysis, or new priorities.
Understand the revenue impact.
Analyze how AI-enabled changes contribute to revenue: increased throughput, stronger customer outcomes, or new products and services. Examine the available evidence and separate observed results from assumptions.
Use the evidence to decide what to scale, what to improve, and what to stop.
Intelligence & insights
Assess what matters.
Know where to act.
Our assessments establish a clear baseline of organizational performance, leadership effectiveness, and AI capability. Each connects reliable measurement to focused priorities and follow-up evaluation.
01Aktum AI™
Assess AI capability and impactAssess strategic alignment and workforce capability, then track changes in work, freed capacity, and revenue impact.
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Aktum AI™
Assess AI capability and impactIdentify priority teams and workflows, establish a baseline, and build the capability to execute your strategy. We provide insights into the capacity AI frees, how that capacity is used, and the revenue implications of changes in the work. Compare agreed measures before and after targeted changes, with assumptions and data limitations made clear. Explore Aktum AI ↗
02Aktum Insights™
Assess the drivers of performanceMeasure 24 organizational drivers, examine their causal pathways, and identify priorities for intervention.
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Aktum Insights™
Assess the drivers of performanceAktum Insights uses a research-validated, three-stage causal and predictive model to examine 24 drivers of organizational performance. Principal Foundation captures leadership practices and organizational conditions; Team Element examines workforce capacity, commitment, resilience, and experience; Organizational Output considers quality, efficiency, and productivity. The model traces how foundational practices influence workforce experience and, in turn, performance. We use these pathways, your organization’s evidence, and expert interpretation to identify root causes and target interventions. Explore Aktum Insights ↗
03Aktum Leadership™
Assess leadership effectivenessMulti-rater feedback on leadership behavior, strengths, and development priorities.
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Aktum Leadership™
Assess leadership effectivenessA 360 assessment brings together feedback from managers, peers, direct reports, and other stakeholders. Individual reporting, expert debriefing, and focused coaching help leaders translate assessment findings into sustained behavioral change.
Our expertise
The expertise to
put change into practice.
Leadership, talent, and organizational development support the changes your strategy requires.
Leadership & organization
Strengthen alignment, collaboration, decision-making, and the ability to lead through complexity.
AI integration & future of work
Define where AI should create value, build workforce capability, integrate it into how work gets done, and measure the business impact.
Change & transformation
Translate strategic direction into clear priorities, operating choices, and coordinated action.
Talent & succession
Make stronger talent decisions and prepare the leaders and capabilities your organization needs next.
Motivation & performance
Connect what people value with what the business needs: recognition, growth, autonomy, meaningful work, useful feedback, flexibility, and connection.
About Aktum
Clarity. Alignment. Commitment.
Better understanding.
Lasting commitment.
When people understand the direction, trust their leaders, and have the conditions to contribute, alignment becomes part of everyday work. Commitment deepens, and people have more reason to stay, grow, and carry the business forward.
Our team connects organizational psychologists, senior advisors, executive coaches, data specialists, and experienced consultants. We combine evidence with judgment, and stay involved as recommendations become practice.
The people behind Aktum
Experience across
science and practice.
Our staff
Catarina R. Dolsten
Founder & CEO
Charles H. Jones
Strategic Innovation & Partnerships
Eli Plaut
Consulting Director
Susan Roti
Executive Coach
Diego Ramos Ochoa
Executive Coach
Jonathan Williams
Management Consultant
Nick Rosemarino
Research Advisor
Peri Siff
Junior Management Consultant
Abigail Johnson
Senior Consultant
Our board
Dr. Mikael Dolsten
Business & Strategic Innovation
Dr. Bill Pasmore
Columbia University · Center for Creative Leadership
Dr. Patrick Converse
Florida Institute of Technology
Dr. Batia Wiesenfeld
NYU Stern School of Business
Dr. Jonathan Gerber
Clinical & Cancer Center Leadership
Client perspectives
Progress, experienced
by the people doing the work.
Practical support for stronger team dynamics.
Biomea Fusion
A stronger team through focused work together.
RTW
Workshops that engage the team.
LifeSci Partners
Common questions
A clearer starting point.
What does Aktum Group do?
We help leaders understand complex organizational challenges, decide where to act, and implement the response. Our work connects organizational science, data analytics, leadership development, and practical advisory across people, transformation, talent, and AI integration.
How can I find out what’s going on in my organization?
Aktum Insights uses a three-stage causal and predictive model to understand how leadership practices and organizational conditions influence workforce experience and, ultimately, performance. We examine 24 drivers, interpret the findings alongside interviews and organizational data, and distinguish visible symptoms from underlying causes. You receive a clear baseline and focused priorities for action, followed by measurement of what changes.
How do you help organizations integrate AI?
We align leaders on business priorities, assess workforce capability, redesign workflows and roles, and support adoption. We then provide insights into freed capacity, its redeployment, and revenue implications to help leaders judge where AI is creating value.
How do you measure progress?
We agree on success measures at the outset and establish a baseline. Depending on the challenge, these may include quality, speed, productivity, and employee experience. For AI integration, we provide insights into freed capacity, how it is redeployed, and revenue analysis alongside the agreed business measures. Follow-up measurement informs what to adjust or scale.
Start a conversation
What needs
to move forward?
Bring a performance challenge, an AI priority, or a decision that needs clearer evidence. We’ll help identify a useful starting point.
