The Story Behind the Work
Our story
Who We Are
For years Nathan sat across the table from talented people, first during onboarding, later during exit conversations.
Same pattern every time. Strong resume. Solid interview. Glowing assessment report.
Six to eighteen months later the same person was walking out the door. Confidence shattered. Teams lost momentum. Another expensive hiring cycle begins.
One day the weight of it hit him. The problem wasn't talent. The problem wasn't even poor hiring.
The gap was identity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The gap in your organization isn't talent. It's identity.
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.
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.
The company would move on. Post the job. Fill the seat. Run the playbook again.
Nathan couldn't.
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.
That realization became the foundation of Your Elevated Edge.
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.
Because data that stays in a report changes nothing.
But data that gets into the right hands, with the right conversation around it, changes everything.
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
Julia has spent 25 years studying one question.
Why do some people perform at the highest level under pressure, and what actually separates them from everyone else?
She didn't study it from a distance. She lived it. As a professional competitive ballroom dancer competing at an international level, Julia performed on command, in front of judges, with a partner, under pressure, where the margin between good and exceptional is razor thin and identity is everything.
What she discovered is that the difference was never just skill. It was always WHO.
The performers who held their composure when it counted. Who communicated clearly under stress. Who led their partner through uncertainty without losing their own center. They weren't just more talented. They knew who they were. And that self-knowledge changed everything about how they showed up.
Julia spent the next two decades turning that insight into a methodology, one that takes the tools separating elite performers from everyone else and makes them teachable. She trains individuals, executives and teams in the communication skills, composure under pressure, and self-awareness that turn capable people into consistent performers. The kind that don't crumble when it counts.
Julia doesn't just develop your team. She transforms who they are, so that when pressure arrives, and it always does, they know exactly who they are and how to lead from there.
Co-Founder · Identity-First Leadership Coach & Master Practitioner of NLP
Julia Garibay, MNLP
Know a Leader Who Needs This?
We work with leaders who are done settling for assessments that collect dust and training that fades in weeks.
If you know someone ready for Identity-First Leadership, send them our way. We'll reach out personally and let them know exactly why you thought of them.
Validated TTI Assessments
Science-backed tools that reveal exactly how your people communicate, what drives them, where they naturally excel, and where the gaps are.
We give organizations the clearest picture of their people they've ever had.
Then we build a path forward from that foundation.
Personalized Debrief Sessions
Unlike most assessment providers who just give the report, we sit down with your leaders and their team members individually to walk through every result.
A Strategic Development Roadmap
Based on the assessment data and your organization's goals we build a targeted action plan, a clear, prioritized path that connects each person's results to measurable performance outcomes.
Half-Day Workshops
Training that is zeroed in by your data, not generic curriculum. Each workshop targets one specific leadership challenge and transforms not just what your people do, but who they are when they show up.
We Help You Stop the Cycle
1.9T
50%
2.5X
33%
Lost annually to employee disengagement in the US
- Gallup State of the Global Workplace
Of employees leave because of their manager
- DDI Global Leadership Forecast
Replacing a high performer can cost up to 2.5x their annual salary
- SHRM & Deloitte
Of new hires quit within the first 90 days
- SHRM