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Gabriela Mauch

Gabriela Mauch joins the Productivity Lab following a career focused on organizational effectiveness, leadership, and design at management consulting firms including McKinsey & Co. and KPMG LLC. Gabriela shifted from consulting into the corporate world when she sought opportunities to bring organizational strategy and solutions to life. After taking the opportunity to help stand up McDonald’s first Organizational Effectiveness & Leadership Center of Excellence, she worked across the McDonald’s system to improve its business performance through implementing solutions that empowered employees, improved processes, and leveraged technologies that kept McDonald’s relevant in the digital age. Gabriela finds herself constantly gravitating towards new ways of advancing the world of work; recognizing that the importance of productivity in the workplace extends far beyond business performance; she feels a deep connection to her work as it relates to employee wellbeing and engagement. Gabriela received her BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Redefining Productivity Calls for Redefining its Metrics

While claims of productivity gains dominate headlines, they often fail to recognize the staggering increase in employee burnout, drastic drops in employee engagement, emerging workplace biases, and disproportionate impacts across employee groups.

2022 State of the Workplace: Productivity & Engagement Trends

Making claims about how well we maintained productivity at home in 2020 while ignoring employees’ cries for help regarding burnout, social isolation and feelings of disconnectedness would only further prevent us and others from identifying real solutions for healthy productivity and habits in the new workplace.