Fractional people development for AI safety organizations
Turn individual brilliance into collective intelligence
Fractional people development for AI safety organizationsBuild a sharper strategy and the culture to deliver it
The challenge
Suboptimal results. Many symptoms. One root cause.
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No bureaucratic HR. No fluff.
No generic frameworks.
Only high-ROI interventions that catalyze your team's impact.
Joe Hardie
Executive Director
Arcadia Impact
“RAISEimpact has supported us in improving our management, staff performance, and hiring systems. They built context quickly, and helped us design a survey to understand the pain points and challenges in our team. Then guided us in creating our staff roles and responsibilities documents, which have given staff greater clarity about expectations. This has been especially helpful for new hires during onboarding, allowing them to understand their role and how to perform well more quickly. It has also enabled us to give more specific, targeted feedback to our team. We've onboarded 10 hires with the new documents, and as a result, we've had positive feedback from staff and experienced faster onboarding, saving us management time. They also guided us to clarify and include culture expectations in our role docs, which has helped us maintain our culture more effectively as we have scaled up. As we've been navigating a leadership transition and rapidly expanding our team, it's been valuable to have someone experienced in management to give us advice. Adam is thoughtful and takes the time to really understand the issues we're facing. We strongly recommend RAISEimpact to other AI safety startups facing these types of challenges.”
Charbel Segerie
Executive Director and Cofounder
The French Center for AI Safety (CeSIA)
“Working with Adam and the RAISEimpact team is always a boost of motivation and clarity. They quickly got to the most central and important bottlenecks of our organization, and surfaced mistakes that could have been critical. They supported us in getting through a funding crunch and helped us form our strategy for managing our team through that difficult situation. Their recommendations on HR and fundraising helped us with operational challenges and positioned ourselves to execute our Global Call for AI Red Lines campaign with greater impact. We highly recommend working with RAISEimpact.”
How we work
Assess
We talk with each leader and use a team health survey to understand how work gets done and where people are struggling. We also look at how decisions are made, including where people see the same situation differently. The survey gives us a baseline to return to later.
Design
We agree with you which problems to tackle first and what to try. For one organisation, this meant clarifying roles and delegation. For another, it meant planning a retreat around the strategic decisions the team needed to make.
Build
We work alongside your team for three to six months, helping put the changes we’ve agreed on into practice. In our regular meetings, we work through the decisions you’re facing and follow up on what you’ve committed to. We stay involved as you try things out and adjust the approach together.
Measure
We compare the team’s survey responses before and after the work, looking at each area separately. When we share results, we explain the limits of what they can tell us.
David Conrad
Managing Director
Talos Network
“Working with RAISEimpact gave us the space and structure to step back and think strategically about our long-term direction. They helped us clarify our vision and sharpen our theory of change, both through leadership workshops and in helping us design sessions at our team strategy retreat. This strategic thinking has helped us to refine our organisational direction for the coming years, and has been invaluable in major fundraising conversations. We'd highly recommend working with them.”
Results
Team satisfaction in eight months. That exceeded the predefined target by 140%.
The three largest gains map to the three things we targeted: feedback systems, management transition, accountability protocol. The areas we didn't target showed the smallest movement.
Team
Adam Tury
Co-Executive Director
Adam has worked in EA and AI safety since 2022. He has coached more than 50 leaders, 18 of them in AI safety, across more than 350 sessions, with an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. He designed retreats for Successif and coached AI safety founders for Impact Academy (now SteadRise). Before that he spent more than 11 years leading engineering teams at Amazon and Bloomberg. At Amazon he grew a business-critical organization from 8 to 25 people across three teams. He holds a master's in computer science and engineering, focused on AI and machine learning.
Teo Embers
Co-Executive Director
Teo has spent ten years helping leaders in technical organizations. At EqualPlus he grew a global team of leadership coaches from 2 to 30. He has trained more than 1,300 coaches, and more than 4,000 leaders and managers at Google, Revolut, the UK Government and other organizations. For three years he sat on the board of the International Coaching Federation, shaping professional development for its more than 3,000 members. He built the first version of Impact Academy's (now SteadRise) coaching program and founded Greater Human, an AI app based on Internal Family Systems with more than 1,000 users. He holds a master's in physics.
Patrick Gruban
CEO, Successif
Patrick has led Successif as CEO since 2026. He was its Chief Operating Officer from 2024, helping grow the organization and building the operational infrastructure behind its programs and community. An entrepreneur since the mid-1990s, he founded a software company serving the banking sector and co-founded a textile business he recently sold. In 2022 he joined Effective Altruism Germany as Co-Director. He serves on the board of trustees of Effective Ventures UK and the board of directors of Talos Network. RAISEimpact is a member of Successif's venture studio.
We think most AI safety organizations would benefit from this work. We also think most won't reach out until the pain is acute. If you're somewhere between curious and drowning — that's a fine place to start a conversation.
Open to AI safety organizations with 5+ paid staff. Fully funded — no cost to participants.
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