About Grow Better Together

Oh hello! I’m so glad you found us!

Who’s ‘us,’ you ask?

Grow Better Together is all about human-centric organizational transformation for businesses in the live event management and creative fields. 

So what does this mean for you?

First, we’ll create a company culture that your employees can actually connect with.

Then, we’ll slash your talent turnover and build wildly successful organizational legacies!

Hi, I’m Gen!

Certified transformational coach, team performance expert, and ex-Cirque du Soleil employee (yes, really!)

I help creative leaders, teams, and organizations keep top talent engaged by cultivating a human-centric organizational culture and fostering a sense of vision.

My love of, and participation in, the arts, along with my 15+ year background in HR, let me live my dream life: 

  • Offering transformative executive coaching 

  • Elevating individual and organizational performance

  • Fostering leadership excellence

  • And driving sustainable growth

Because when leadership is strong, engagement is strong. 

I’ll uncover your direct impact on organizational culture!

Genevieve Retzlaff, PCC, CTPC
Founder and CEO of Grow Better Together

Need to develop your purpose, company culture, or employee voice?

Well, that’s my job.

Because while most transformational coaches take a mission-first approach, I'm all about connecting and aligning your business mission with the humans that serve it.

Why?

Because aligning people and business strategies into collaboration is what creates truly powerful and impactful organizations.

That’s the secret sauce inside any successful creative enterprise.

So how do we get there?

I’ve seen creative organizations struggle with talent engagement and retention for many different reasons.

It could be:

  • Having too much to do with too few resources

  • Juggling deadlines, budgets, and deliverables

  • Lacking leadership development opportunities

Many times creative leaders intend to move the needle forward, but have no idea how to get there. This means they put off transformational processes until ‘later’ and start focusing on business results — not team performance.

I believe intention is good, but it’s nothing without action. 

And after spending decades working in the creative industry, I know what it takes to empower great talent the easy way.

Success looks good on you

Testimonials

“After my career coaching program, I feel I have gained 100% clarity on my career direction. I learned so much about myself and the entire process was incredibly insightful. Geneviève created a safe environment where I felt comfortable to share my honest truth. The program had a great balance between introspection and practicality. I feel relieved and reassured about the future.”

– Ilaria, Career Clarity Client, Munich Germany

“Our coaching conversations have helped me both clarify many things as well as give me the peace of mind to continue honestly asking more questions of myself and of the process towards contentment in my work life, both as an entertainer and in whatever else may lay ahead.”

- Daniel Immel, Career Shifter, Nashville, USA

“Our 3-month coaching program enabled me to see my situation from a different perspective, helped me sort my thoughts, and ultimately allowed me to make intentional decisions. I’m pleased about the map we developed together. It still serves me as a guide.”

- Christian Deiß, Career Coaching client, Vancouver, Canada

“Our coaching program gave me the push I needed to continue to follow my gut feeling. I realised that I should capitalise on my passion and strengths rather than focus my energy on a financial stable job that brings no fulfilment.”

- Geneviève, Lighting Designer, Canada

“ Genevieve made me dig deep into myself which helped me achieve enough clarity about my career to make the decisions I needed to make to achieve fulfillment. Our program allowed me to build a realistic transition plan that worked for me.”

– Will Lacy, US expat living in Romania

“Booking Geneviève was one of the best career moves I've ever made. My coaching sessions with her gave me so much clarity on how to tell my professional story and what to focus on.“

- Eleanor Mayrhofer, Website Designer at Eleanor Mayrhofer

“Such a pleasure to work with Geneviève. She is efficient, very professional and genuinely cares. She supports our HR Department has if it would be her own! She has very good knowledge of the creative industry. Looking forward to collaborate with her again!”

- Louise Gélinas, HR Director, Digital Dimension Entertainment Group

"Grow Better Together isn’t just a cool company name. Genevieve truly lives and breathes these values, and it's been a fantastic journey working with her. She has been instrumental in aligning our business and people strategies as we expanded from Silicon Valley into Europe. With her guidance, we established robust HR processes, fostered a vibrant team culture, and cultivated an inspiring work environment where safety, empowerment, and happiness thrive. Her commitment to our values has truly propelled our growth journey. I highly recommend Genevieve and Grow-Better-Together as your HR partner."

- Sunny Choi, VP Business & Development, Plus, Munich Germany

“My business took a turn after just a few coaching sessions with Genevieve. We were able to tackle the things that held me back, my insecurities that were showing up in my business and led me to more than double my closing ratio with clients. I was able to talk to leads with confidence and let my true self shine so that potential clients were attracted to what I was offering. This was one of the best things I did for myself and for my business!”

– Vanessa Naumann, Founder and CEO of Blanc Events - Las Vegas, USA

“I have loved working with Grow Better Together so much! I am considering seeing if my other sales reps would be interested in doing a similar program as I completed with them. Growing personally and professionally is so important. I think it was incredibly valuable for my company and for my team.”

- McKenzi Taylor, Founder and CEO of Cactus Collective Weddings and MTaylor Inc., Las Vegas, USA

“When I first met Gen for coaching I needed help to make a plan for specific goals for my business. I wanted clarity on my next steps and to identify who could help me get there. Everything just seemed unclear and I felt like I was going round and round in circles. Gen helped me step back from the details and decide what I wanted to do and why. I felt comfortable exploring new options with her as she helped me to understand what was important to me and to connect with my courage to take action. I’m really pleased I got the opportunity to work with Gen. If you’re looking for help to move forward or create your next chapter, I highly recommend giving Gen a call.”

- Kate Greenslade, PCC, Mindfulness Coach

My mission is to keep your talent engaged and increase overall productivity through cultivating a human-centric organizational culture. You deserve to work with people who gets your creative reality.

And get this: transformation doesn’t have to be hard!