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Alise CortezGusto, NOW!
Human & Organizational Transformation

What will take your organization to its next level?

Growth, change and higher performance require more than strategy. Gusto helps leaders strengthen the human organization — aligning leadership, culture, meaning and purpose with where the business is going next.

Strategy sets the direction. People bring it to life.

For CEOs, executive teams and people leaders

Dr. Alise Cortez, Founder and Chief Ignition Officer of Gusto, NOW!
Our Approach

We help the human organization catch up with the business.

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Understand

See what is actually shaping leadership, culture and human performance today.

Align

Bring executive and leadership teams into shared clarity on direction, meaning and contribution.

Activate

Translate purpose and meaning into everyday leadership behaviour.

Sustain

Embed the conditions that keep performance and engagement alive through growth and change.

Trusted by leaders and organizations
American Heart Association DirecTV Methodist Healthcare Allstate Christus Health Raytheon / RTX Anaplan Cornerstone Lockton Whitley Penn

Also Overhead Door, Hockaday School, North Texas Commission, Voice of Hope, Toastmasters and CPhI North America.

In her audience’s words
I must say, thank you for looking right through me during your talk. I had been pushing so many thoughts by the side and going on with my life. Your message about the biggest adversity can define our purpose almost made me cry. I then cried and cried like a crazy person on my way home. Still processing so much energy and emotions. But I am on my way to let my purpose talk to me. I can promise you that. No more shutting it off!

Gunjan T.

The person behind the work

Hi, I’m Dr. Alise Cortez.

Founder and Chief Ignition Officer at Gusto, NOW! — a management consulting firm specializing in the activation of meaning and purpose. Organizational logotherapist, social scientist, speaker and author.

Twenty-five years in human capital and organizational excellence, spent helping companies, leaders and individuals across the globe live with gusto — and make the most of their one, precious life.

  • PhD, organizational logotherapist
  • Author of four books, curator of a fifth
  • Host, Working on Purpose — since 2015
  • 25 years in human capital & organizational excellence
  • Keynote speaker for enterprise and association audiences
  • Published organizational researcher

More about Alise

Ideas & intelligence for leaders

A decade of thinking, organized by how you want to take it in.

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Working on Purpose

Meaningful conversations with extraordinary leaders, live every Tuesday since 2015.

  • Stephen M.R. Covey · Trust
  • Bob Chapman · Truly human leadership
  • Raj Sisodia · Conscious capitalism

Ten years of episodes

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Ideas in action

Alise on stage and in conversation.

Live with Passion, Work on Purpose, Communicate with Potency!

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Insights & perspective

Executive point of view on the questions leadership teams are actually asking.

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Research & materials

The books, frameworks and published research underneath the work.

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Books by Dr. Alise Cortez

The work, at book length.

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The Great Revitalization

How activating meaning and purpose can radically enliven your business.

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Purpose Ignited

How Inspiring Leaders Unleash Passion and Elevate Cause.

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Research & intellectual property

Frameworks built on field research, not on adjectives.

15 Modes of Engagement

How people experience work and how it relates to their sense of identity — derived from Dr. Cortez’s field research.

Organizational Logotherapy

Building on Viktor Frankl’s work: creating the conditions for people to experience vitalizing meaning at work.

Meaning + Purpose

The core operating thesis — meaning is a performance variable, not a mood. Motivation pushes; inspiration pulls.

Destination Workplaces

What makes a culture magnetize the people it needs, and keep them.

What is your organization navigating next?

If growth, leadership, culture or change is creating a moment worth examining, we should talk.

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