Human Capital Solutions
Prepare
We partner with your help organizations identify and plan for your their human capital needs with services in organizational assessments, workforce planning, and human capital program evaluation.
Transform
Whether your organization is already in transition or planning for upcoming change, we help you on the journey with services in change management, strategic planning, and development of performance goals.
Perform
Once you know where you are going, we help your workforce get there and excel in performing their jobs. We provide services in career path and succession planning, leadership development, and training.
Our staff’s knowledge and insights about how government works and our expertise in human capital enable us to deliver solutions that accelerate organizations’ performance to meet their mission. We partner with our clients to design and execute solutions that creatively meet the challenges of today and position them for success well into the future.
Our Capabilities
Human Capital Strategy
Learning and Performance
The Atlas team of human capital professionals bring extensive strategic human capital expertise and experience helping federal departments and agencies meet Administration priorities and requirements including OMB Memorandum 17-22, creation of Agency Reform Plans, advancing workforce development and reskilling, filling mission critical vacancies, implementing program and enterprise-wide modernization, and improving employee performance and accountability.
Working collaboratively with our clients, we provide value-driven best practices, subject matter expertise, tailored human capital solutions, and measurable results.
Human Capital Strategy
- Policy Analysis and Implementation
- Human Capital Management
- Workforce Planning and Development
- Talent Management
- Performance Management
- Human Resources (HR) Operations
- Organizational Development
- Change Management
- HR/Talent Management System Analysis and Planning
- Business Process Improvement and Reengineering
Learning and Performance
- Training and Education Program Management
- Training Needs Analysis
- Curriculum/Course Design and Development
- Training Delivery
- Training Evaluation
- Leadership Development
- Coaching and Facilitation Services
- Learning Management System Analysis and Planning
Project Highlights
Training and Support Services
Client: Defense Security Service Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE)
Atlas provides full-spectrum instructional design support services as a sub-contractor to C2 Technologies, including:
- Strategic consulting on training standards and platforms
- High-visibility training needs analyses
- Course design and development for web-based, instructor-led, and virtual instructor-led training
- Course evaluation support
- Alignment with applicable competency models
“[Atlas] did a super job and was commended by Ms. Stokes for a well done brief. She better understands the challenges DSS faces as it looks to modernize training for background investigators.”
--Erika Ragonese, Chief of Training
Task Highlights: Atlas conducted the Background Investigations (BI) Training Needs Analysis, assessing the current BI curriculum provided by the National Training Center and recommending a new, blended solution when DSS assumes the mission.
Workforce Planning and Development
Client: Small Business Administration
The Atlas Team is well respected by the SBA OHRS, including SBA’s Chief Human Capital Officer, Elias Hernandez.
Atlas is supporting the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Human Resources Solutions (OHRS) to provide full-spectrum program management support to implement SBA’s Agency Reform Plan as required by OMB Memorandum 17-22. To help implement this organizational change, Atlas:
- Conducted a workforce trend analysis and root cause analysis to identify retention and other challenges facing the agency’s most critical occupations (MCOs)
- Developed a customized workforce planning methodology that validated MCOs and tiered them based on the level of risk to the agency
- Developed a competency model for each MCO outlining the knowledge, skills and abilities required from GS-5 to 15 levels to guide SBA’s talent development efforts
- Developed “current state” organizational charts and identified ways to improve SBA’s organizational structure and its performance management system
Results: Provided SBA with a deeper understanding of its workforce, helped the agency’s focus its workforce planning and talent development efforts to support its MCOs, and aligned its workforce development strategy to competencies required by key occupations to address existing challenges and skills gaps integral to the successful implementation of its Agency Reform Plan.
Critical Staffing Modernization Initiative
Client: Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
To help address the over 40,000 critical vacancies in medical staff throughout VHA’s national network of hospitals and clinics, Atlas Research provided VHA with Strategic Analysis, Process Improvement, Change Management and Program Management Services to improve, expedite and modernize VHA’s recruitment, hiring, and onboarding of high-priority health professionals and medical support staff. Atlas tasks included:
- Designed and facilitated “Rapid Process Improvement Workshops” for HR staff and facility managers in 18 VHA regions
- Made recommendations to improve and expedite hiring processes and policies
- Developed and executed change management and strategic communications plans to support the implementation of hiring reforms
Results: These efforts resulted in reducing the HR workload and shortening the recruitment and hiring process by 1-4 weeks at every VA Medical Center, saving the VA an estimated $6.6M in a single year.
Curriculum Design and Delivery of Blended Masters Degree Program
Client: Georgetown University
“The Atlas team delivered a superior product and were extremely responsive to unforeseen university changes. They provided superb subject matter expertise in instructional design, training delivery, and evaluation.”
-- Dr. Robert Carr, Georgetown EMHSA
Georgetown University’s School of Nursing & Health Studies contracted Atlas to design, develop, and manage a new blended master of science degree program in health systems administration to prepare mid-career health care professionals for executive leadership roles. Atlas:
- Analyzed program need, defined program scope, established overall curriculum, and designed all 22 graduate-level courses
- Coached faculty in course content development, created course materials in wide range of media, and implemented course in Blackboard and the live online classroom
- Assisted instructors and students during course delivery, providing technical, logistical, and classroom facilitation support
- Conducted formative and summative evaluation of the program impact
- Provided management support in strategic communications, marketing, student and instructor recruitment, and overall program administration
Results: Designed program of study and provided end-to-end program support for the 2-year program, featuring 22 unique, highly interactive graduate-level courses (15 delivered online and 7 in-person). The program launched in August 2015 and graduates its third cohort in May 2019.
Employee Engagement and Internal Communications
Client: VA Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
Atlas supported VA in their organizational change management effort to accelerate the adoption and successful implementation of this enterprise-wide transformation by developing a strategic communications and employee engagement plan. Atlas tasks included:
- Strategic communications planning
- Communications support for VA leadership, attending key VA leadership meetings to understand needs and prepare leadership to engage with managers and employees
- Integrated communications campaigns, with digital, social media, and print outreach
- Evaluating research and monitoring of communication initiatives
Results: Prepared VA’s leaders as communications champions to strengthen VA’s internal communications capability and quality so that VA employees were informed about VA and the VA transformation story, and inspired to do their best to improve the Veteran experience.
You can access Atlas Human Capital and Training Services easily through the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) Contract Vehicle. Atlas is qualified as a small and unrestricted business in both Pool 1 – Customized Training and Pool 2 – Human Capital Strategy, and our capabilities span the three HCaTS KSAs:
- Customized Training and Development Services
- Customized Human Capital Strategy Services
- Customized Organizational & Performance Improvement Services
Team Leaders
John Sepulveda, MA, MPhil
Director, Human Capital Strategy
Former government leader with deep experience shaping innovative human capital strategy to improve employee and workforce performance.
Renee O’Brien, MS, MSFS, JD, LSSGB
Director, Learning and Performance
Instructional design strategist who works to understand desired organizational outcomes and recommend solutions to ensure workforce performance.
Rae Anne Fischer, LSSYB
Principal, Human Capital and Training
Expert in quality assurance process and quality control procedures who works collaboratively with clients to ensure deliverables meet or exceed expectations.