The Yes Works

Our clients come to us to engineer their cultures for four things:

PROFIT     |     GROWTH     |     INNOVATION     |     FUN

Because your culture is your future.

I'm synthesizing a life of learning and a diverse career of communications, customer service, training, and leadership development to help improve the work-lives of the people I serve. There is no work/life balance. There is only a balanced and fulfilling life. Work is part of life. Let's make it good.

Happily, fulfilling work and good productive work go hand in hand as a part of a balanced life.

I work with business teams to help build habits of work, communication, and collaboration to enliven work and make it good. It's good for business, it's good for people. That's the bottom line.

Co-Founder & CEO

Giant Leap

Lead two regional groups of Chief Executives and Business owners through a peer-mentoring experience...

We're whole humans leading companies, and it can be lonely at the top. Members of these groups find peers who have no agenda with them, have no fear of them, and will therefor put their best interests frontmost and share their honest, insightful thoughts and questions.

We're helping leaders live the entrepreneurial lives of their dreams.

CEO/Owner Peer Group Leader

Vistage Worldwide, Inc.

Get the most your team has to offer today, and grow their capacity tomorrow. Leading humans humanely and effectively for high performance and high fulfillment levels. Communication and collaboration culture. Innovation and problem solving.

Speaker

First 5 FUNdamentals

Founded in 2008, First 5 FUNdamentals (F5F) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to mobilize and inspire communities to achieve their collective goals for children and families. F5F currently supports three initiatives - Project Child Success, Help Me Grow Pierce County, and the Washington Communities for Children.

Vice President Board Of Directors

Mighty Good Work Podcast

Producer & Host

Stadium High School

I teach classes in theater to High School students in every grade level, and direct the school productions in our state of the art theater.

Teach juniors and seniors a course in Business Communication -- Public Speaking and Presentation, Customer Service, Copy Writing, Marketing, Surveys and other topics.

Theatre Arts & Business Communication Teacher

Gold From Straw Theatre Company

Managing Executive Director

Infinite Encore Coaching

Guiding leaders where they are to where they want to be.

Dream it.  Do it.  Live it.

Leadership Coach

Keller Williams Realty

Real Estate Consultant

Oakland School for the Arts

Tech Director and Theatre Teacher

People-first leaders come to us to help make their good teams LEGENDARY:

➡️ Do you have a nagging sense… We could be even BETTER? 

➡️ Do you have a strong culture that's still hampered by CONFLICT & miscommunication?

➡️ Have ACCOUNTABILITY gaps cost you sales, profit, clients, employee retention?

➡️ Is MISTRUST slowing you down?

➡️ Has a KEY PERSON quit out of the blue, citing more money & growth opportunity... And you can't allow a REPEAT with anyone else?

➡️ Is your headcount GROWING -- organically or through acquisition -- faster than team CHEMISTRY?

➡️ Is it hard to see how today's team can accomplish your AUDACIOUS GOALS for tomorrow?

It's time to REFUSE to accept a status quo where:

❌ MEETINGS are a dull time-suck // when they could be fun and productive.
❌ Gaps in communication and/or accountability create CHAOS.
❌ TRUST between team members is weak, so productivity suffers.
❌ Problems are suppressed until they become CRISES // instead of being brought to light.
❌ People resist CHANGE // instead of embracing reality and driving continual improvement
❌ Fixable PROBLEMS persist // when everything they need to find the solution is right there.

We can help. 

Think you can't have SWIFT & LASTING transformation with the team you have?

YOU CAN!

Because we use a unique science-backed approach to training and consulting. And we follow the advice of Albert Einstein:

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Check out these client results:

🎯 “There’s nothing else like The Yes Works.” Joe Mc Swiney, CEO, SOG Knives. Six months after we worked with his leadership team, Joe said that they’d seen a:
50% increase in mutual appreciation. 
30% increase in mutual understanding. Conflicts were easier to navigate.
80% increase in their ability to communicate positively and constructively under pressure.

🎯 “Your work got us through COVID. We embody the principles you trained us in every day.” Joe LeRoy, CEO, HopeSparks

🎯 “What you did with us is a part of the fabric of this company.” Philip Goward, CEO, TextExpander (Then Philip and partners were able to sell TextExpander ahead of schedule.)

🎯 “Here’s how important you are to me. You give me hope that my company’s culture will be preserved through scaling. 50 years from now, I’ll want you training our leaders to keep us who we are.” Hugh Stewart, CEO - Platform Transition 


Ready to see your team's full potential in ACTION?

Then ask for a call:

📞 https://calendly.com/aaronyes/15min

🌐 https://www.theyesworks.com/

Aaron Schmookler, Culture Engineer

PR Security Service

Crisis PR services for all organizations, because any firm can go from "Hero" to "Zero" in one Instagram post!

Principal

San Diego State University

Lecturing Professor

ROTARY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION INC

Chairperson

Rotary Club of San Diego

President

Stalwart Communications

Launched Marketing and PR agency on the Pay-on-Performance model for corporate, government and non-profit organizations

Financial Profiles, Inc.

Brought on board to revamp marketing strategy, overhaul online and print branding and create quantifiable measures of effectiveness.  The position originally reported to VP of Product Management, but elevated department status to Executive Team level by mid 2005. Supervise four-member staff in all marketing-related strategies and programs. Managed high, six-figure annual budget, tied to a percentage of revenue.

Director of Marketing

ContentOne

PR/Marketing strategist for agency’s software clients serving supply chain, security, business process management and Internet industries..  Versed in go-to-market strategy, corporate/product messaging, competitive analysis and industry analysts/media relations.

Manager, Strategy and Planning

McQuerterGroup

Responsible for all business and business tech media relations for wireless, Bluetooth, semiconductor and B2B software clients.

Senior Media Relations Manager

US Navy - USS John C. Stennis

Public Relations specialist with team of 8 for 7,500-member battle group.  Comprised of internal/employee communications as well as media, government, international and community relations.  Reported to senior flag officers.  Tour culminated more than nine years of Navy management experience in operations and marketing communications.

Public Affairs Officer

U.S. Department of Defense - U.S. Support Group, Haiti

Managed all public affairs initiatives and policies for 500-member medical and civil engineer humanitarian task force.  Developed and implemented internal media relations; community and international outreach programs; and proactive media relations increasing awareness of unit mission to U. S. and international markets.

Dave Oates is a Marketing and  PR expert with nearly 30 years of experience in the field. He helps organizations promote, maintain, repair, restore their brand's reputation with internal audiences, key stakeholders, social media influencers, news organizations, and other publics. Dave's experiences covers military, non-profit, education, consumer, tech, government, sports entertainment, and manufacturing industries. 

Dave Oates has been quoted in several news articles on Crisis and Promotional PR. They include the Huffington Post, Forbes, and others. He's also authored several Amazon eBooks on Crisis Communications for particular instances and also produced four LinkedIn learning courses.

Dave Oates serves as a Lecturing Professor at San Diego State University and is an Accredited Public Relations (APR) specialist. He received his MBA from San Diego State University and a B.A. degree from the University of Maryland. He is also a Past President of San Diego Rotary, the 10th largest Rotary Club in the world.

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Aaron Schmookler, Culture Engineer

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