From assessment to action, Ikona provides the integrated diagnostics, intelligence, and guidance you need to modernize HR and rewire your organization for the future.
From Siloed Functions to a Systemic View
Traditional transformation relies on disconnected initiatives. This approach creates friction, not momentum. We believe true transformation requires seeing the whole system.
We integrate fragmented components of workforce management into a unified framework to diagnose and act on systemic issues.
We combine quantitative industry benchmarks with structured qualitative insight from our expert practitioners. This creates a high-fidelity, defensible view of how work *actually* happens.
Our ultimate deliverable is not a slide deck; it is a more capable organization. We arm your team with the tools, mechanisms, and data-derived credibility to own your transformation.
An integrated platform for unifying workforce intelligence. Each component works in concert, providing a seamless flow from diagnosis to continuous, system-level insight.
Our process begins by pinpointing your exact challenges and opportunities to build a data-driven roadmap.
Our proprietary assessment benchmarks your workforce system against our Ground Truth framework, revealing hidden capability gaps and prioritizing the highest-impact interventions.
Ikona is building the orchestration layer for enterprise workforce transformation. Our platform brings diagnostic clarity and strategic coordination to CHROs and their teams showing not just where the organization is struggling, but what to do next and how to do it.
Full Platform Reveal: Q4 2025
Technology and data are only as powerful as the teams who use them. We ensure your strategy translates into actions, success measures, and closed-loop feedback processes for continuous improvement.
Leverage the deep practitioner experience of our People Analytics pioneers to interpret results, facilitate alignment, navigate hotly debated topics, and craft strategies that turn insight into measurable outcomes.
We design and deliver workshops focused on strengthening your team’s collective data IQ, systems thinking, human-centered analytic designs, and evidence-based HR.
Stop reacting to organizational chaos. Start architecting your future. Schedule a discovery call to see how the Ikona platform can provide the clarity and control you need to lead transformation with confidence.
Expert guidance for CHROs and workforce leaders driving transformation.
The ISD is Ikona’s proprietary diagnostic that evaluates your entire people data ecosystem. In just 30 days, we identify systemic blockers across governance, infrastructure, analytic methods, and end-user products, to deliver a clear, executive-ready roadmap for transformation. No guesswork. Just strategic clarity.
It’s designed by practitioners for practitioners. Unlike surface-level benchmarking, the ISD reveals the underlying friction points in your data flows, from the upstream points where data is generated to the downstream points where data is consumed by HR end-users. Using our proprietary framework, we examine hundreds of thousands of data scenarios to deliver a faster, deeper, and more actionable analysis than legacy consulting models, so your team can move from inspection to execution with confidence.
Our process is fast and collaborative. We embed with your leadership and technical experts to diagnose over 30 data capabilities in the areas of 1) governance, 2) infrastructure, 3) analytic methods, and 4) end-user products – across dozens of major HR processes and programs. We then use proprietary AI tools to benchmark your diagnostic results against leading practices from thousands of industry thought leaders. Lastly, we craft targeted Build/Buy recommendations and co-develop a prioritized roadmap. Whereas traditional data inspections, industry benchmarking, and roadmap planning of this nature can take a data leader 1-2 years, ISD® engagements take less than 90 days, with an initial set of diagnostic results coming in under 30 days.
Your ISD® project lead is an Ikona Principal who are former Heads of People Analytics and HR Technology from leading enterprises like Amazon, Nike, and Google. The project team is assembled for your unique needs, selected from our hand-picked Ikona Talent Network network of former CHROs, People Analytics leaders, Researchers, Data Scientists, Technical Solution Architects, and HR domain specialists all of whom have hands-on practitioner experience delivering at scale inside Fortune 100 companies. Every engagement is led by a team of senior practitioners – not junior or non-expert consultants – bringing proven models and executive fluency from day one.
A transformation blueprint and playbook backed by stakeholder alignment, executive credibility, and clear ROI. Clients report faster access to insights, stronger cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to connect HR initiatives directly to business priorities. We don’t just assess – we help you implement the changes that matter.
Whether you’re building your first People Analytics function or scaling advanced data capabilities across the entire HR function, Ikona meets you where you are. We’ve helped high-growth firms lay their analytics foundation and guided Fortune 100 enterprises through HR digital modernization. If you’re serious about improving your people systems, we’ll show you how.