When work starts to feel painful, applying the right pressure can fix everything.
Disengaged teams, exhausted managers, and misaligned leadership don’t fix themselves. They compound — until the cost becomes impossible to ignore.
Trusted by organizations like these…
You’ve felt it. So has everyone else.
The meetings that drain more than they produce. The manager who’s technically doing their job but clearly checked out. The team that was aligned six months ago and isn’t anymore. The high performer who just… left.
None of these are mysteries. They’re symptoms. And they all trace back to the same four root causes — the four pressure points that silently destabilize even the best organizations.
The Healing Power of Pressure
Organizations, like the human body, experience pain. And like the human body, that pain can be alleviated by locating and applying pressure to specific points.
The question isn’t whether your organization has pressure points. It does. Every organization does.
The question is: how long are you willing to let them go undiagnosed?
We’ve spent decades mapping organizational pain.
Sarah Ohanesian and Jeff Gibbard are the co-owners of Super Productive — a productivity consulting practice dedicated to transforming organizations into environments where everyone can thrive.
Pressure Points is their organizational consulting arm: the diagnostic framework they built after decades of working inside, alongside, and in service of organizations from scrappy startups to Fortune 500s.
They’ve seen the same patterns repeat across industries, sizes, and cultures. That experience became a framework. And that framework has helped clients get their teams on same page to start thriving within months of implementation.
This is diagnostic medicine for your organization — backed by the full depth of the Super Productive ecosystem.
“Testimonials, as authentic endorsements from satisfied customers, serve as potent social proof, significantly inspiring trust in potential consumers.”
The Pressure Points Diagnostic™
Over decades of work with organizations across every stage and sector, we developed a proprietary diagnostic framework that maps nearly every ache and pain of the modern work environment to four root causes. These are the four Pressure Points every organization must know about to go from pain to thriving.
Clarity
You wouldn’t believe how many of the problems organizations deal with are rooted in a lack of clarity.
From mismatched expectations to vague instructions, a lack of clarity can sink a team’s alignment. The most difficult part of this pressure point is that it’s not always clear where the problem is hiding. We find it and apply the right amount of pressure to move you from confusion to clarity.
Collaboration
Everything about how a team works together will dictate its results.
Collaboration includes communication styles, conflict resolution, accountability, autonomy, and even leadership. We work with individuals and teams to identify what’s missing so we can help your organization apply the right amount of pressure to get everyone moving in harmony.
Systems
The tools you use and how you use them, play a vital role in dictating how work gets done…or whether it even does.
As strategists and technologists, we’re able to see the big picture and hidden connections stopping teams from moving efficiently and effectively. Once we see what’s not working, we show you the different places to apply pressure to simplify your tools, spur adoption, and get everyone working in unison.
Utilization
In a finite world, every organization will bump up against the constraints of time and money.
Failing to effectively manage time, energy, and resources has a compounding negative effect. We look at how organizations manage their time, energy, and allocation of people to see if it’s on the right path. Applying the right pressure can sustain excellence instead of leaving you picking up the pieces.
Testimonials, as authentic endorsements from satisfied customers, serve as potent social proof, significantly inspiring trust in potential consumers.
Testimonials, as authentic endorsements from satisfied customers, serve as potent social proof, significantly inspiring trust in potential consumers.
consider the cost of doing nothing
Replacing an employee can cost 50–200% of their annual salary and cause an immediate 25% drop in team productivity.
Disengaged employees who stay can cost the company around 34% of their annual salary.
Team misalignment can derail a product launch, damage client relationships, and jeopardize the success of key hires after they join.
The four pressure points — Clarity, Collaboration, Systems, and Utilization — are expensive whether you treat them or not. The difference is that left untreated, you don’t control how you pay.
The Pressure Points Program
The customizable, modular productivity program to that applies pressure to where your organization needs it most for healthy, consistent, high-performing teams.
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Whole Organizations, Teams and Business Units
What You’ll Get
A customized workshop (2-8 hours) that addresses your unique pain points
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C-Suite/Leadership, Managers, HR
What You’ll Get
Flexible engagements with custom tailored solutions for your organization
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Annual meetings, conferences, and off-site retreats
What You’ll Get
A transformational model for creating workplaces where everyone can thrive.
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C-Suite/Leadership, Managers, Selected Team Members
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Personalized attention and guidance, with session notes and recordings
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The Risk-Free Pressure Test Assessment
Before you make any investment in your organization’s health, we want you to be certain it’s the right move. That’s why we offer the Risk-Free Pressure Test Assessment.
In 30 minutes, we’ll map your organization’s active pressure points, identify the one causing the most damage, and show you exactly what a targeted intervention looks like. If we can’t give you a clear, actionable picture of your organization’s pain — the call is completely free and you walk away with a sharper understanding of your own situation.
No pitch. No pressure. Just a diagnosis.
Frequently Asked Questions
two kinds of leaders
You already know which kind of leader you are.
The only question left is what you’re going to do about it.
The first kind feels the pressure building — the friction, the fatigue, the quiet exits — and tells themselves it’s temporary. That it’ll sort itself out. That this is just what running an organization feels like.
The second kind recognizes a symptom when they see one. They know that organizations don’t heal on their own. They get diagnosed, treated, and then they thrive.
we will get in the trenches with you to…
1
Do The Work That Matters.
Does it seem like everyone is busy, but the most important work isn’t getting done? We help organizations get clear and aligned on priorities, then build simple workflows so every person knows what to tackle next and what can wait.
2
Deliver Results, Consistently.
You don’t have to be in the position where one week your team crushes it and the next you’re running fire drills. We show you how to manage collaboration and give you systems to plan, track, and finish the work so you can trust your team to deliver.
3
Unlock Better Ideas.
When you hire smart, creative people, the work shouldn’t get stuck in safe and familiar, but it often does. We help you uncover the space, structure, and shared language your team needs to innovate without sacrificing results.
4
Move Faster.
What happens when your team does great work but it just takes too long to ship? You apply the right pressure. We show you how to tighten your systems so decisions happen faster, handoffs are cleaner, and projects stop dragging on.
5
Overcome Burnout.
The best way to lose great people is by leaving them stretched thin. We show you the reality of time, energy, and workload, then help you redesign workflows to develop systems that manage capacity without dropping the ball.
6
Maximize Output.
It hurts when people are busy all day, but the output isn’t there. We find the exact factors getting in the way of your team’s ability to deliver. With a little pressure in the right places, you’ll quickly start boosting results.
P.S. It really is risk-free
The Risk-Free Pressure Test Assessment isn’t a sales call dressed up in diagnostic clothing. It’s a genuine 30-minute working session where we map your organization’s pain. You’ll leave with clarity about where your painpoints are, what pressure needs to be applied to fix it, and whether or not we are the right fit to help you with it. If you’ve been meaning to do something about the friction in your organization, this is the lowest-risk first step you can take.