Watch Carla's presentation on "The Magic of Crisis" at the LeadDev conference:
Carla Geisser
Layer Aleph is a group of four people who each had success leading our own bands before we decided to work together. Each of us has worked on large complex systems for about 20 years, and as Layer Aleph, we have taken on around 30 consulting jobs that were interventions
Most of our jobs at Layer Aleph have been to fix a specific, urgent problem. We founded the company hoping to be a kind of Titan Salvage for computers—we are available on short notice, we go where most people won’t, and we take contracts where the deliverables are
Clients hire us to make sense of all sorts of crises and systemic problems. While the specific goals and outcomes of each engagement vary widely, the majority of our projects follow a set pattern the first few days. Our engagements are almost always (only) 2 weeks long. Day 1 We
We normally don’t reveal the names of our clients, but it’s public information that we were part of the “strike team” that helped assess and turn around California’s unemployment claim backlog in 2020. As more states seek to modernize their unemployment systems, we have some advice about