Creatively tailored
just for you

I wholeheartedly believe that clarifying what it means to build, nourish, and lead a quality life is the single most important investment we can make.

Maria Grillo with breadstick, workplace culture, Crunchy Bread Culture Studio

Building a quality life can feel so abstract that most people quit before they even begin! So within your ecosystem of quality living, let’s start small. Using the categories listed below, where do you need the most support at this moment? We can always expand the focus as we go!

TEAM

In-Team Culture Enablement

Have you been tasked with building a high performance, cross-functional, and perhaps even an inter-company team that is responsible for a large share of revenue at your workplace? You might be looking for a partner to help co-create your team culture north star, assess team dynamics, or facilitate diagloue. We love helping teams reduce the stuff that gets in the way of creativity and innovation.

WORKPLACE

Lived Culture Alignment

Are you looking to build an organization that is genuinely living its company values in stressful moments just as much as in celebratory ones? Let’s find solutions that bring the informal and formal organization into a crunchy goodness melody.

INDIVIDUAL

Quality Living Strategy

A Signature Crunchy Offering that’ll take 3-months to explore and design together. It’s perfect for the person who’s looking to lead a values driven, emotionally connected, and responsive life that repels stress.

And when it comes to your investment, we’ll assess your situation against the following tiers of partnership:

flour, workplace culture, Crunchy Bread Culture Studio

A dash of dusting
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≤ a week

Like a pinch of flour on a nearly baked loaf, we’ll come in as an advisor to help prevent any sticking as you rise.

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Demi Baguette
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few weeks

We’ll isolate one specific challenge to solve within a concentrated week or two of collaboration.

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Boule
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a quarter

If there’s more than one challenge, and instead a few that are interconnected, we’ll cluster them together for a well-rounded assessment.

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Baguette
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half a year

A longer-term partnership that may occur on a quarterly basis, this will include a more robust assessment and selected executions to be implemented over stretches of time.

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Bakery
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full year

Perhaps my favorite collaboration tier, we’ll go into full baking mode together! This is for the dough that needs custom kneading, gathering, and baking over a one year period. If you’re thinking words like “overhaul” or “refresh” this is likely the tier for you.

A little story on why designing experiences that celebrate quality of life is important to me...

When my dad became terminally ill, I remember so vividly his doctor asking me towards the end of his illness – “what would he want his quality of life to be?” I was standing in the hallway outside of his hospital room and despite the chaos that surrounds critical care environments the world around me stopped. I knew what he wanted his healthy life to look like, but I had ZERO clue as to what his desires would be with his constraints of living at the time.

When he passed away, I was 27 working as an Account Director at a creative agency that I dreamed of working at all through college. My whole identity was wrapped up into the climb of being successful there. And then I crashed. Without my dad, who was I? My confidence and desire for living crumbled.

After a quarter-long mental health break a year after he passed, that question of quality of life plagued my brain. It became the impetus of me eventually pivoting my career and overhauling how I interact, celebrate, and navigate the world around me.

I am not a therapist. Or a life coach even. I am a creative, an observer, a seeker, and a builder. I am also a daughter, a partner, a sister, a Tía, a trusted friend and a lover of people. I blend all of these roles with my background in Communications and Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology to help teams, workplaces, and individuals embody quality living on their terms.

maria film strip, workplace culture, Crunchy Bread Culture Studio
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maria and mama, workplace culture, Crunchy Bread Culture Studio

Still trying to make sense of your need?

Sometimes, when I know I need something but can’t quite articulate it, I need to talk it out. We can have a complimentary 25-minute conversation to sort through what’s on your mind and how we might partner together to solve for it.

boules of bread, workplace culture, Crunchy Bread Culture Studio