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01 / PREMISE
EVERY COMPANY IS IN THE BUSINESS OF TRUST.
FEW APPROACH EXPERIENCE THAT WAY.
Trust is hard to earn. Valuable once built. Easy to damage. And never permanently secured.

Some of the most direct opportunities to earn, reinforce or damage trust happen through experience.

Companies make consequential investments in those moments - yet the level of strategic ownership rarely matches the investment.

Human/Works provides senior experience leadership to companies and venture firms that need the judgment, direction and continuity to manage the moments where they engage directly with the people who matter to them.

Companies gain senior ownership and structure across the events and experiences that matter - without the recruitment cycle, permanent headcount, benefits or equity associated with a full-time hire.

HW / 02
02 / THE PROBLEM
MONTHS - SOMETIMES YEARS - COMPRESSED INTO HOURS.
Years of work. Millions invested. A disproportionate amount riding on a remarkably small amount of time.
The experience is where the product, the ambition, the investment and the belief behind it all become visible at once.
The priority is to determine what the company most needs people to understand - then make every decision serve it.
The message isn't what you intended.
It's what people understood.
DIGITAL FLUENCY DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY TRANSLATE INTO EXPERIENCE.
For companies built in digital, those moments require an entirely different form of fluency. Products, interfaces and communications become space, scale, light, sound, movement, hospitality and human behavior.
The company was built in digital.
Experience asks it to operate in three dimensions.
What works on a screen does not automatically work in a room.
Yet ownership is often fragmented across internal teams and delivery partners - with no senior leader maintaining a clear view across experience as a system.
HUMAN/WORKS PROVIDES THE SENIOR OWNERSHIP BETWEEN
WHAT THE BUSINESS NEEDS AND WHAT THE EXPERIENCE DELIVERS.
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03 / THE WORK
SENIOR EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP.
TWO DISTINCT ENGAGEMENT MODELS.
Fractional Head of Experiences
Senior ownership across experience - setting direction, aligning teams and leading consequential decisions from initial intent through delivery.
Direction + prioritization Experience architecture Client-side leadership Delivery continuity
Human/Works stays involved as the work develops - resolving tradeoffs, reviewing major decisions and protecting the original business intent.
One company / Leads + advises.
VC Portfolio Experience Partner
Senior experience judgment shared across a portfolio - giving founders and leadership teams access before consequential decisions become fixed.
Founder + leadership access Plan + decision reviews Major-moment pressure tests Portfolio visibility
Focused company support is provided within agreed access parameters. When a company requires deeper or more sustained involvement, that work can be scoped separately.
One portfolio / Guides + advises.
FRACTIONAL HEAD OF EXPERIENCES PROVIDES DEPTH FOR ONE COMPANY.
VC PORTFOLIO EXPERIENCE PARTNER EXTENDS SENIOR JUDGMENT ACROSS A PORTFOLIO.
BOTH PROVIDE SENIOR CONTINUITY WITHOUT AN EXECUTIVE SEARCH, PERMANENT HEADCOUNT, BENEFITS OR EQUITY.
BOTH ARE STRUCTURED AS INITIAL SIX-MONTH ENGAGEMENTS.
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04 / HUMAN/WORKS
Built from both sides of the work.
FOUNDED BY MITCH DEL VALLE, HUMAN/WORKS DRAWS ON 25+ YEARS ACROSS BRAND-SIDE LEADERSHIP AND AGENCY-SIDE DELIVERY - BUILDING EXPERIENCES AROUND THE WORLD.
Brand side
WE'VE SAT INSIDE THE ORGANIZATION - RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OBJECTIVE, THE BUDGET, THE STAKEHOLDERS AND WHAT THE EXPERIENCE ULTIMATELY NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH.
Agency side
WE'VE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING IT REAL - TRANSLATING THAT AMBITION ACROSS TEAMS, PARTNERS, MARKETS AND THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM.
THE PERSPECTIVE BEHIND HUMAN/WORKS WAS SHAPED BY LEADING GLOBAL EVENTS AT BEATS BY DRE / APPLE AND CO-FOUNDING NOMAD LABS - WITH WORK SPANNING MORE THAN 60 MARKETS WORLDWIDE.
HUMAN/WORKS OPERATES FROM THE CLIENT SIDE - WORKING ACROSS INTERNAL TEAMS AND DELIVERY PARTNERS WITHOUT TYING THE DIRECTION TO A SINGLE AGENCY.
HUMAN/WORKS BRINGS SENIOR THINKING, STRUCTURE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
TO THE SPACE BETWEEN WHAT THE BUSINESS NEEDS AND WHAT THE EXPERIENCE DELIVERS.
HW / 05
05 / CONTACT
LET'S TALK.
Tell us what you're working on.
Based / Amsterdam + Los Angeles
Working / Globally