Building and Managing High-Performing Teams Workshop

The session is structured around the ConsciousHR framework: Attract & Hire → Keep & Protect → Prepare for Hiccups. Startups don’t fail because of bad products. They fail because of people problems that compound quietly — until they’re expensive. This workshop will help attendees build a practical, action-ready plan covering the three people strategy pillars most critical to startup survival: recruiting, culture, and performance management. Pillar 1 — Recruiting for Early-Stage Teams Most early-stage startups hire reactively and pay for it. This module reframes recruiting as a marketing and strategy function, not a last-minute scramble. Pillar 2 — Culture-Building on a Budget Culture isn’t a mural or a mission statement. It’s how things actually work day-to-day — and it’s built (or broken) in the first 60 days of every hire. Pillar 3 — Performance Management for Small Teams Performance management for startups isn’t a once-a-year form — it’s a living system that prevents small friction from becoming big turnover. About Lindsay Mastrogiovanni: Lindsay has delivered this curriculum to startup ecosystems across Central New York. She built ConsciousHR on the premise that HR is invisible profit — not overhead — and has spent over 15 years helping founders build people systems that scale. Cost: free to attend