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Case Studies

Real organizations. Real results.

How coaches, HR teams, workforce programs, and organizations have used IRIS behavioral intelligence to hire better, develop people, and prove impact.

Selection & Hiring

Ziggi's Coffee — Multi-Unit Franchise Hiring

A fast-growing coffee franchise needed to maintain culture and service quality as they added locations. Applicants often lacked work experience, making traditional resume screening ineffective.

Results
  • 90% reduction in applicant evaluation time
  • 59% increase in employee retention
  • 9 locations using IRIS to hire
Workforce Development

YUPRO — Year Up Professional Resources

A leading workforce placement firm serving 16,000+ urban young adults needed a tool to rapidly assess participants and guide individualized coaching toward job placement and success.

Results
  • Over 400 program participants coached
  • 8% attrition rate (industry average: 250%)
  • 3× longer job placements than staffing industry
Selection & Retention

Waterfall Club — Golf & Spa Resort

A private resort club hiring an almost entirely new seasonal staff each year needed a way to identify who would stay all season, serve members well, and respond productively to coaching.

Results
  • 30% reduction in turnover
  • 20% increase in retention year-over-year
  • 18%+ increase in golf and food service revenue
Competency-Based Hiring

Swisslog — Healthcare Automation

A multinational healthcare automation company struggled with employee retention and performance in their field service technician group. Resume-based hiring wasn't identifying the right people.

Results
  • 65% reduction in employee attrition
  • $3.5MM in overall savings over two years
  • Eliminated credential requirements for competency-based hiring
Workforce Program

Hope House of Colorado — Teen Parent Program

A Denver nonprofit helping teen moms toward self-sufficiency found participants were losing jobs due to emotional intelligence gaps — but their existing rubric was too subjective to identify them.

Results
  • 100% of participants grew in the Imperatives
  • +13% average growth to Imperatives Target
  • +10% average growth to Career Readiness Target
Workforce Program

CrossPurpose — Career & Community Development

A Denver nonprofit reducing poverty through career development used IRIS to measure behavioral growth in their 6-week personal development course — generating data to prove consistent impact and secure increased funding.

Results
  • 91% of Leaders grew in Imperatives (Year 1)
  • 100% of Leaders grew in Imperatives (Year 2)
  • 5.48% consistent Readiness Target growth across years
Workforce Program

Activate Workforce Solutions — Barriers to Employment

A Denver workforce development firm helping people with histories of unemployment or incarceration needed objective screening tools. Standard assessments couldn't account for their candidates' non-traditional backgrounds.

Results
  • 3× retention at placement sites vs. other sources
  • $22,889 average annual social benefit per placement
  • More focused and efficient candidate conversations
Executive Coaching

NeuroEQ — Executive Coaching Practice

Executive coach and neuroscientist Nicole Gravagna needed to build trust and insight with new clients immediately — skipping months of relationship-building before coaching could be effective.

Results
  • Over 100 clients experienced measurable growth
  • 4.5× faster coachee trust-building timeframe
  • Up to 74 percentile change in targeted skills
Leadership Development

Self-Reliant Leadership — Veterans & Executives

Former Green Beret Jan Rutherford leads wilderness expeditions for veterans and executives to develop leadership. IRIS was used to benchmark growth before, during, and one year after the Patagonia Crucible.

Results
  • 87% of participants grew in Commonality
  • 49% average decrease in Approval Seeking (stronger identity)
  • Up to 2× growth in Self-Restraint
Higher Education

University of Colorado Colorado Springs — Leadership Class

An educational psychologist coaching 40 university students in the Chancellor's Leadership Class used IRIS to personalize development, measure growth, and prove the program's impact across the academic year.

Results
  • 97% of students experienced meaningful change
  • 3.64% average growth across all soft skills measured
  • 8.05% increase in Career Readiness as a group
Apprenticeship Program

GPS Education Partners — Manufacturing Apprenticeship

GPS Education Partners runs work-based learning programs for nearly 200 high school students annually in manufacturing. IRIS was used to measure growth across three custom targets over the program year.

Results
  • 100% of students demonstrated significant growth in one or more attribute
  • 100% grew in Leadership & Professionalism Target attributes
  • 72% grew to 95+ match score on Leadership Target
Education Hiring

Independent School — Transforming Teacher Hiring

A high school principal with 40+ years in education needed a more systematic way to identify candidates whose skills, character, and disposition aligned with each school's unique mission—before meeting them.

Results
  • 80% reduction in applicant evaluation time
  • 95% retention rate for teachers hired using IRIS
  • 60% increase in student enrollment over five years

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