Culture happens whether you pay attention or not. We've partnered with many of the world's most successful startups to design cultures where people and business thrive together. And we can help you do the same.

We've been there. We've scaled teams from 10 to 800 employees, at times 3x in one year. Now, we're the behind-the-scenes engine we wish we'd had when we were in house.

Nathalie McGrath Nathalie McGrath

Nathalie co-founded TPDH after being the VP of People at Coinbase as it scaled from 10 to >1000 employees. Nathalie is passionate about supporting and unlocking leaders as they realize that building a company is as much about their own growth as it is about the organization. Nathalie splits her time between California and Paris, and is rarely far from a good croissant.

Anabel Lippincott Paksoy Anabel Lippincott Paksoy

Anabel co-founded TPDH after leading People at Opendoor, scaling it from 30 to 600 employees. Anabel is a People Ops-obsessive and a Co-Founder of the pre-seed fund 43. She loves electric bike riding with with her husband and two boys in San Francisco, and spending weekends hiking and eating oysters near their cabin on Sonoma coast.

Alex Chester Alex Chester

Alex joined in 2021 and has worked with >20 partners, mainly in Web3. Before, she was a People Lead at Monzo, scaling the company through international growth. With a background in teaching, she thrives on solving the kind of unique challenges tech-founder-led startups often have. Based in Zürich, she hikes, is learning to ski, and always has the best TV recommendations.

"TPDH's insight, perspective, and advice were invaluable as we scaled Notion. They elevated our leadership so we could support our teams through a really difficult time, saw around corners, and set up processes that have grown with us."

Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion Notion

"TPDH has repeatedly been able to blend best practices with our own strong views on company culture. They've developed people policies and helped us see around corners while remaining authentically 'Flashbots'."

Stephen LevinHead of Operations at Flashbots Flashbots

I love The People Design House. They were on the ground with me as I shifted priorities and focused on a new set of company goals, helping me to understand how this impacts my team and how I could best support them.”

Mandy Teefey Founder of Wondermind Wondermind

"Nathalie and The People Design House were key advisors in the early days of Uniswap as we set up our people function. Nobody has more experience or insight—they're the best in the business."

Marvin Ammori Chief Legal Officer at Uniswap Uniswap

It's never too early to think about your people strategy.

We help reinforce your mission, values, and goals with stage-appropriate, tailored guidance, and we do it in two ways:

Coaching

We help founders and people leaders tackle their biggest challenges and level up their leadership in a way that's authentic to them. We'll regularly meet 1:1 to uncover patterns, explore root causes, and figure out what to do.

Projects

We work with you to identify and plan what you need, and then we roll up our sleeves and do it. Like designing compensation, building effective leadership teams, implementing performance management, and so on.

We believe that good advice is simple, direct, different for every company, and immediately actionable. That philosophy informs everything we do.

Ready to talk? Ping us and we'll set up a working session to see how we can help:
info@thepeopledesignhouse.com