Human-First Redundancies In The AI Era

Right Size Your Team, Protect Your Culture

You’re a Founder, COO, or Head of People. You’ve built something meaningful - and now you have to let people go.

You’re expected to:

  • Rapidly adopt AI

  • Protect runway

  • Cut costs fast

  • Avoid legal risk

  • Keep morale intact

  • Preserve your brand

  • Protect the culture

  • Shift to lower cost territories

  • Do more, with less

What keeps you up at night:

  • “Will my team ever trust me again?”

  • “Am I doing this fairly?”

  • “Can I execute without breaking people?”

  • “How do I protect the ones staying?”

  • “What if this destroys what we built?”

  • Are my managers capable of delivering this change?

  • Do my people team have the capacity to handle this?

  • How do I protect our brand?

What you really want:

  • A fast, clean, compliant process

  • Messaging that lands with truth and care

  • People to leave with dignity and support

  • A culture that heals and recalibrates

  • To emerge with trust and momentum intact

We’ve been there. We’ve led this. And we’ve built the end-to-end partner we wish we’d had.

What We Do

Awaken+ delivers full-service workforce transitions with unmatched precision and presence. This isn’t a playbook drop. It’s full execution.

  • Workforce planning & role mapping

  • Business case creation & board-ready docs

  • Selection criteria, legal alignment & risk tracking

  • Messaging strategy for every level (board, team, public)

  • Manager training & live script coaching

  • Consultation support & exit logistics

  • Unrivalled coaching & wellbeing-led career transition

  • Post-restructure cultural rebuild

You lead the business. We lead the transition.

The Awaken+ 5-Phase Restructure Framework

1. PLAN

Design the path.

We map your restructure strategy with logic, alignment, and fairness.

Think Org Design, RACI, Workflow Mapping. Skills Gap & Financial Contribution & Change Analysis.

Unlike other Consultants we have deep and clear conversation about right-sizing, readiness for change, impact assessment and well-mapped, water-tight assessment of your business and all the humans impacted or involved.

2. PREPARE

Get the message right.

We craft communications that speak with clarity, compassion, and courage.

Think transparent messaging, leader training, and tailored comms for every audience - from board to frontline.

Unlike other consultants, we don’t just script what to say - we coach your leaders to hold space, respond with empathy, and lead with presence. Our approach transforms the hardest conversations into moments of connection, clarity, and forward momentum.

3. EXECUTE

We run it with you.

From consultation to exit, we lead with presence, precision, and care.

Think real-time delivery, coaching under pressure, stakeholder navigation, and protecting dignity throughout.

We don’t just advise, we’re in the room with you. We coach your leaders, hold the emotional weight of the process, and execute with calm authority so your people feel held, not handled.

4. SUPPORT

Where we outpace the market.

We meet people at the crossroads and help them rise.

Think impacted group circles, career direction, nervous system regulation, and a wellbeing experience that’s more than a box-tick.

We offer transformational support, not transactional outplacement. We help people rediscover their purpose, direction, and power in the face of change.

5. REBUILD

Don't let silence fill the space.

We help your culture land, recalibrate, and lead forward.

Think post-restructure integration via retros, targeted feedback sessions and coaching for leaders involved.

Unlike others, we stay after the dust settles. We help your team reconnect, re-energise, and rebuild trust so you emerge stronger, wiser, and with momentum.

Who We Serve

We work best with:

  • Organisations at the crossroads of AI implementation & workforce disruption

  • Founders navigating layoff optics and investor tension

  • People leaders doing the job of three with little internal support

  • Ops execs needing airtight execution under pressure

  • Scaleups preparing for runway, sale, or survival

If you need someone who actually delivers, we’re it.

Why Awaken+?

  • We’re operators, not theorists - we’ve led these transitions from the inside

  • We own the entire journey, from scenario modelling to post-restructure rebuild

  • We blend compliance and care, strategy and soul

  • We protect your leadership, your culture, and your integrity

  • We manage the emotions and risks directly but compassionately

You’ll be remembered for how you handled this. Let us lead you through the marshlands of change

Work With Us

Full Delivery (E2E)

Scoping, end-to-end planning, delivery, and rebuild. We do it with you - legally tight, human-led, and values-first.

Request modular support if you need help with just one aspect of change