The Story Behind the Work
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Who We Are
For years Nathan sat across the table from talented people, first during onboarding, later during exit conversations.
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Same pattern every time. Strong resume. Solid interview. Glowing assessment report.
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Six to eighteen months later the same person was walking out the door. Confidence shattered. Teams lost momentum. Another expensive hiring cycle begins.
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One day the weight of it hit him. The problem wasn't talent. The problem wasn't even poor hiring.
The gap was identity.
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Nobody was taking the time to understand who these people actually were, their strengths, their drivers, the roles where they would naturally thrive, and using that knowledge to develop them and set them up to succeed.
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Leaders and team members had skills on paper, but they didn't truly know who they were. And without that foundation everything else eventually fell apart.
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So Nathan drew a line in the sand.
He partnered with TTI Success Insights to bring world-class assessments into the process, then turned to Julia, who specializes in identity-level transformation, and together they built something entirely different.
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Today Nathan handles the data. Julia builds the transformation. And the people who work with them don't just perform better, they lead and live differently.
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The gap in your organization isn't talent. It's identity.
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At Your Elevated Edge we don't just run assessments. We change the people behind them.
Two people. One mission. Different gifts.
Nathan brings the data
Julia brings the transformation
Together they give organizations something neither could build alone.
Nathan Garibay, PHR
Nathan spent eight years inside corporate HR watching the same pattern play out, and it never got easier to watch.
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Talented people hired with potential. Placed without clarity. Given a handshake and a handbook. And three months later sitting across the table from Nathan while he delivered news that would follow them home, into their confidence, their marriage, their sense of who they were and what they were capable of.
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The company would move on. Post the job. Fill the seat. Run the playbook again.
Nathan couldn't.
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He knew the problem wasn't the people. It was that nobody ever took the time to truly understand them, how they communicated, what drove them, where they would naturally thrive. Nobody was using that knowledge to develop them and set them up to succeed.
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That realization became the foundation of Your Elevated Edge.
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Today Nathan brings world-class TTI assessments into organizations and does something most assessment providers never do, he sits down personally with leaders and their people to walk through every result.
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Because data that stays in a report changes nothing.
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But data that gets into the right hands, with the right conversation around it, changes everything.
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Nathan doesn't just run your assessments. He gives your organization the clearest picture of your people you've ever had.
Co-Founder · Lead Assessment Strategist & TTI Preferred Partner
For more than 25 years, Julia Garibay has worked with people around performance, first as a professional ballroom dancer and coach, and later through her work in human behavior and change.
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Throughout those years, one thing fascinated her more than anything else:
The power of the mind to shape what we do.
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She saw it constantly in the world of competitive ballroom dance, where she coached and competed professionally at an international level. Two people could have similar talent, preparation, and opportunity, and respond completely differently when it mattered.
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One could perform with confidence. The other could suddenly hesitate, overthink, or fall apart under pressure.
The difference wasn't always skill.
Something else was happening beneath the behavior.
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That observation sparked a deeper study of the mind and human behavior: beliefs, emotional patterns, identity, focus, past experiences, subconscious responses, and why people can consciously want one thing while repeatedly doing another.
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Today, Julia combines more than 25 years of coaching and performance experience with hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Choice Theory, and Emotional Intelligence to help people understand the patterns influencing how they think, feel, and behave, and change the ones that are no longer serving them.
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Her work isn't about telling people what they should do.
It's about helping them understand why they're doing what they're doing in the first place.
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Because once you can see the pattern, you have a choice you didn't have before.
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Awareness creates choice. Choice changes patterns. New patterns change lives.
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