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At Five Ives™, we partner with leaders in high-pressure organizations to build capacity and stabilize your staff. Whether through our comprehensive Staff Sustainability System™, leadership coaching, or trauma-informed training, our services are designed to stabilize your workforce and protect your mission.

Who Do We Help?

We serve people who help people in settings where burnout, chronic stress, and turnover undermine impact.

If your organization shows up for people who have experienced trauma, has high rates of burnout, or you have organizational dysfunction stemming from ongoing issues (e.g. chronic absenteeism, unhealthy communication, political division, etc.), we can help you!

We have served organizations with a variety of missions, including:

  • Schools & early learning programs 
  •  Healthcare facilities  
  • Child advocacy & family support services  
  • Nonprofits and social service providers  
  • Domestic violence & trauma support agencies  
  • Faith-based organizations  
  • Behavioral health and crisis response teams
  • Supporting networks, associations, and umbrella agencies

If your mission involves serving trauma-impacted populations or involves high-demand work, we help you build capacity that lasts.

How Do We Help?

At Five Ives™, we help people who help people. Whether you’re leading a hospital, school, nonprofit, or department, our work is designed to stabilize staff, strengthen trust, and protect your mission from the toll of burnout and turnover.

Improving Staff Capacity
(Staff Sustainability System™)

Our flagship, research-backed framework for building organizational capacity, The Staff Sustainability System™ addresses burnout at the root, not the surface.

The Staff Sustainability System™ guides organizations through three stages — Relieve, Reset, and Reinforce — to improve retention, boost staff stability, and embed lasting structural change that helps your team carry the chronic pressures the work demands.

Backed by research and proven in the field, it’s a system that pays for itself by cutting turnover costs.

Leaders use this system to:  

  • Cut turnover costs by stabilizing teams. 
  • Rebuild trust and morale across staff.  
  • Gain clarity for how to address unavoidable chronic pressures.
  • Embed sustainable practices that protect against future crisis.

Trauma-Informed Coaching & Training

We offer executive coaching, leadership development, and trauma-informed staff trainings to meet your organization where it is.

We offer coaching and training packages to assist organizations with:

  • Leadership systems coaching around trauma-informed best practices
  • Trauma-informed care implementation
  • Team communication and behavior support
  • Custom workshops tailored to your context

We support you in creating lasting change that leads to systemic (and personal) wellness.

On Demand Courses

Accessible training you can start today. For teams and individuals who need flexible, self-directed access, our online resources offer proven tools in bite-sized, accessible formats.

Covering trauma care, burnout prevention, and staff sustainability practices, these courses help you train your staff without waiting for the next in-person session.

Our courses are: 

  • Flexible — learn at your own pace. 
  • Practical — evidence-based tools, ready to implement. 
  • Scalable — equip entire teams affordably.

Why It Works

All of our work is built on research in burnout prevention, organizational change, and trauma-informed care — and our results reflect that.

Organizations using our approach report:  

  • 85% of staff more willing to stay in the profession long-term after just four months. 
  • 96% of leaders found the training immediately actionable. 
  • Fewer turnover pressures and stronger retention after the first year. 
  • Improved morale and trust across teams. 
  • Better outcomes for clients, patients, and students as staff regain stability.  

This isn’t about adding “one more thing.” It’s about replacing surface-level fixes with a system that actually sticks.

Don't know where to start?

Burnout looks different at every stage — and the right starting point depends on where pressure is concentrating.

The Capacity Squeeze Map™ is a free 15-minute structural diagnostic that shows you exactly where your organization's capacity is breaking down — and which type of support will actually move the needle. 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

We feel this deep in our souls.

And no, we offer online quotes without a sales call needed for the Staff Sustainability System. It only takes two minutes and we can give you a detailed estimate for implementation. If a call happens, it’s to clarify needs or answer your questions — not to push a sale.    

Also, we never engage in gross sales trickery. If we do jump on a call to iron out details, it will leave you feeling seen and heard and there is never any pressure from us! We want the best for you and your organization, even if it (sadly) isn't us! 

If you send us the information for what you are looking for, we can create a rough estimate for you!

Absolutely. We meet teams where they are, even in crisis mode, and help stabilize function so real change can begin.

Most of our work is ongoing, system-level support. One-hour sessions are generally custom or keynote formats; the lasting change comes through sustained engagement.

It can be challenging to implement large-scale change quickly, especially if your organization is in crisis mode. (The Five Ives™ stages speak to this!) But this does not mean there aren't options.

One effective strategy is to have a voluntary pilot program and collect data from the programming to inform the next stages of the project. When people see how effective the system is, they will want to be part of the whole-org rollout.

Another option is to create a plan for phases of implementation that address organizational needs. For example, in a school district, a leadership program over the summer followed by a roll-out across the school district that spans a few semesters could help create space for the project within the larger organizational needs. 

We currently offer some on-demand resources available for immediate access. (Visit our On-Demand page to view current offerings.).

We have blog and podcast full of actionable help that's free (click here to visit the blog and podcast page)..

We can also customize your experience with the Staff Sustainability System™ to reduce up-front costs. We recommend smaller organizations with a limited budget request information about the Relief portion of the system and build ongoing work into the budget for future years.

If you are looking for a more holistic program that gives support to a greater number of staff at a lower cost per person, we recommend applying for grant funding to help pay for the Staff Sustainability System™ . We can help you as you work through the grant application process with language to describe our services and pricing estimates to give to potential funders.

The short answer is that it depends. We do charge a speaking fee and travel expenses. Submit a request at hello[at]fiveives.com and we can chat about your needs! 

DEEP FIVE IS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
struggling with high rates of burnout

We work with organizations prone to burnout, overwhelm, and stress among leaders and employees. We help organizations go from putting out metaphorical fires to doing the work they dream of doing for those they serve.

This is a multi-year program designed to take your organization through the Five Ives, the stages of healing to gently change direction from being on a hamster wheel, burning yourselves out to showing up with the energy you need to serve again.

COMPASS IS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
wanting to implement trauma-informed care

We offer organizations in "helping professions" (e.g. schools, nonprofits, social services, first responders, medical organizations, etc.) to confidently say for them, trauma-informed care is more than a buzzword.

With Five Ives, you are getting what you need to make sure your organization is going in the right direction as you help people who have experienced trauma. We offer multiple tiers of support, starting from a full-day training intensive to a trauma-informed certification program that gives your donors, grantors, and those you serve confidence you are *actually* trauma-informed.


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