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Engagement · Performance · ROI

Driving business performance through employee engagement.

Three Arch measures how engagement impacts performance — in dollars — and shows leaders what to fix for the highest return on investment. Because engagement isn't just an HR issue. It's financial too.

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Engagement is one of the most direct, controllable levers a CEO has on EBIT and ROIC.

The pandemic and generative AI rewrote the operating manual for organizations, forcing every function to answer the same question: how do we create value when the old playbook no longer works?

The answer increasingly points to a single determinant — how well an organization aligns its people behind the work. Yet engagement is owned by the wrong function, measured the wrong way, and treated as a soft concern.

When AI pilots stall, hybrid breaks down, or transformations miss their targets, leaders blame strategy, technology, or change management. The root cause is usually an engagement problem the business never owned.

$438B
Lost productivity, U.S. alone
Roughly 2% of U.S. GDP. Gallup, State of the Global Workplace (2024).
69%
U.S. employees disengaged
Levels have remained virtually unchanged for 25 years. Traditional approaches have failed to drive lasting change.
70%
Engagement variance from managers
Yet manager engagement is at all-time lows — even as they're expected to drive engagement on their teams.
25
Years unchanged

Engagement is one of the most researched problems in management. We know how to fix it. Yet for 25 years, levels haven't moved.

The proof it's possible already exists inside every organization — the people who are engaged today. Three Arch exists to close that gap.

Nine dimensions across three universal drivers of motivation.

Our model draws from decades of research in motivation science, behavioral psychology, and performance management.

Meaning
"We want our work to matter."
01
Clear North Star
Everyone understands the company's direction and how their work drives meaningful progress.
02
Shared Values
People work with others who share their standards and care about what matters most.
03
Role Clarity
Each person knows what's expected, plays to their strengths, and trusts teammates to do the same.
Belonging
"We want to be part of something bigger."
04
Psychological Safety
People can speak up, question ideas, and admit mistakes without fear.
05
Team Connection
There's mutual trust, respect, and shared commitment across the team.
06
Recognition
Effort and outcomes are recognized in ways that are meaningful, specific, and consistent.
Mastery
"We want to grow and make progress."
07
Growth
People are challenged to learn, develop new skills, and stretch toward their potential.
08
Ownership
People are trusted to take responsibility for results and given the freedom to choose how they achieve them.
09
Energy
People have the mental, physical, and emotional capacity to bring their best to work.

A six- to eight-week engagement that quantifies what engagement is worth.

We connect your engagement data to financial outcomes and target the highest-ROI opportunities for improvement.

01   Measure

Score nine dimensions across three pillars.

Run our engagement diagnostic across your teams to capture Meaning, Belonging, and Mastery scores, and benchmark against top-quartile performance.

02   Quantify

Translate scores into EBIT, ROIC, and free cash flow.

Populate a three-statement financial model with your actuals. Convert organizational scores into a CFO-defensible quantification of recoverable impact.

03   Prioritize

Identify the highest-leverage interventions.

Pinpoint the two to three behavioral interventions — typically 70% of recoverable value — and tie each to specific operational and financial metrics.

04   Embed

Put engagement on the business scorecard.

Deliver a 90-day operating model owned by line leaders, not HR. Engagement becomes embedded within operational excellence — not another HR initiative.

The only partner that quantifies the financial impact of engagement — and gives leaders the exact behaviors to improve it.

Capability Survey Providers Training Firms Consulting Firms Three Arch
Quantify the cost of disengagement and show the ROI of improvement
Identify the specific leader behaviors that drive results
Provide clear, situational guidance on what to do and when
Embed behaviors into leaders' ongoing operating cadence
Tie engagement to the metrics leaders already manage
Track behavior change and business impact over time

Engagement is a proven driver of better performance, resilience, and profitability.

Companies that lead in both engagement and performance create 40% of all economic profit.

23%
Higher profitability
18%
Higher productivity
46%
Lower voluntary turnover
147%
Higher earnings per share
Return on invested capital
Total shareholder return
80%
Higher operating margin
50%
Lower earnings volatility
Sources: Gallup Annual Report (2023); McKinsey Global Institute, Performance through People (2023).
Because nobody ever changed the world while disengaged.
The Three Arch Mandate

Founded by an operator who built engagement systems where they actually mattered.

Ryan Almon founded Three Arch after leading enterprise transformations at Adobe, Microsoft, AT&T, and ServiceNow as a Senior Consultant in Ernst & Young's People Consulting practice — including four years as the sole EY consultant leading Adobe's global Future of Work program through and after COVID.

Earlier in his career he built financial acumen at PIMCO, where he closed $1.3B in institutional mandates and joined the task force standing up the Federal Reserve's Commercial Paper Funding Facility during COVID-19. That combination — financial rigor and on-the-ground transformation experience — is the foundation for Three Arch's business-first approach to engagement.

Selected Clients
Adobe
Microsoft
AT&T
ServiceNow
Background
Senior Consultant, EY People Consulting
Senior Associate, PIMCO
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

The questions we're working on.

Article · Strategy

Why engagement belongs to the CEO, not the CHRO

Perspective · AI

The 3–5× gap: why AI leaders capture more value on identical investments

Report · Operations

Putting engagement on the business scorecard: a 90-day operating model

Article · Finance

What disengagement is costing you — a CFO-defensible model

Quantify what engagement is worth in your business.

If you're a CEO, CFO, or board member who suspects engagement is moving the P&L — and want it measured, prioritized, and embedded — we'd welcome the conversation.

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