AIR
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BRIEFING

The number your CFO
has never run.

AIR™ is a 90-day workforce investment system that helps healthcare, senior care, education, and other people-driven organizations measure what employee turnover, burnout, and disengagement are actually costing them. Then fix it.

Built On
Peer-Reviewed Research from Harvard, Gallup, and the Journal of Labor Economics
Designed For
Healthcare, Senior Care, Education, and Skilled Trades
Delivers
90-Day Cycles With Measurable, CFO-Ready ROI
DESIGNED FOR HUMAN-TOUCH ORGANIZATIONS

Industries where the work cannot be automated.

H
Healthcare
Hospitals · Clinics
S
Senior Care
Home Care · Hospice
E
Education
K-12 · Higher Ed
C
Childcare
Early Education
T
Skilled Trades
Construction · Services
The Context · What Has Changed

Why the human workforce
has broken down.

Three concurrent shifts have converged for the first time in a century. Each one is documented in peer-reviewed research. Together, they form the operating environment any human-touch organization is working inside right now.

1. Burnout Became Chronic
50%

of voluntary turnover is now driven by burnout. Not pay. Not management. The cost of replacing a single bedside nurse can reach $88,000.

Kronos / UKG · NSI Nursing Solutions, 2024
2. Caregiving Collapsed
$1T

in unmet caregiving needs falls onto working parents and adult children every year. The result is workforce exits that almost never appear on a P&L.

Boston Consulting Group, 2024
3. Engagement Evaporated
$8.9T

in productivity is lost annually to disengagement, globally. Most organizations have an engagement score. Almost none have a financial number.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2024
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The System · How AIR Works

A 90-day operational system
that runs inside your organization.

AIR translates a century of peer-reviewed research into an actionable rhythm any HR team can run. Three phases. Ninety days. Repeats every quarter.

A
ASK
Make the cost visible.

Five anonymous workforce surveys. Five validated calculators. The diagnostic instrument HR has been missing, producing one defensible number for the C-suite.

I
IMPLEMENT
Translate research to action.

An evidence-ranked menu of investments across financial well-being, caregiving, health, burnout, and trust. Each option scored by published ROI.

R
REVIEW
Prove the return.

A 90-day pulse survey, a CFO-format People P&L, and decisions about what carries into Cycle 2. The operational rhythm that prevents drift.

The math has been settled for over a century. We made it usable.
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What You Receive · Cycle One

Every license includes
a complete operational system.

AIR is not a subscription, a course, or a consulting engagement. It is a structured system your organization owns from day one and can run every quarter, indefinitely.

The full AIR™ Toolkit
A 115-page operational guide covering every step of the 90-day cycle.
Five validated workforce surveys
Built on peer-reviewed instruments. Run anonymously. Designed for HR teams to deploy.
Cost of Inaction calculators
Five integrated calculators that produce a single, CFO-defensible annual number.
Evidence-ranked investment menu
A menu of proven workforce investments with published ROI for each.
Manager training appendix
A complete training module to bring frontline managers into the system.
People P&L template
A CFO-format financial output at Day 90. Built to be presented in a boardroom.
AIR Assist™ AI integration
An AI-powered assistant trained on the toolkit to support your team through every step.
Quarterly update access
All research, calculator, and methodology updates as the system evolves.
The Origin · A Clinical Lens

A clinician who saw the same
problem walk in every day.

Dr. Dylan Riggs
DC, MS · Founder, Riggs Speaking and Consulting
Doctor of Chiropractic
Northwestern Health Sciences University
M.S., Exercise Science
Concordia University, St. Paul
B.S., Health and Fitness
Eastern Washington University

Dr. Riggs spent years in clinical practice treating patients whose pain had little to do with their spine. A nurse working back-to-back shifts. A teacher who had stopped sleeping. A skilled tradesman whose childcare had collapsed for the third time that month. They came in for the body. They left having said something about the work.

He treated the symptoms. But over time the pattern was unmistakable: the same broken organizations were producing the same broken people. The research on how to address the cause was already settled. It had been settled for decades. It just had never been organized into a system that an HR team could actually run.

"I built AIR because the math has been on the page for a hundred years. The instrument to act on it had not."

AIR is the result. A 90-day operational system. Built on peer-reviewed research from Harvard, Gallup, Boston Consulting Group, and the Journal of Labor Economics. Designed for the industries where the work cannot be automated away. Owned by the organizations that license it. Repeatable every quarter.

Riggs Speaking and Consulting works with healthcare, senior care, education, skilled trades, and human-services organizations across the United States.

Common Questions · From Decision Makers

Questions we hear
before every first cycle.

How is this different from an engagement survey platform?
Engagement platforms produce engagement scores. AIR produces a defensible dollar figure. Most HR leaders already have engagement data and still cannot translate it into a number their CFO will sign off on. AIR is the financial translation layer that lives alongside whatever survey platform you already use, or it can replace one if you do not have one yet.
What does our team actually have to do?
Cycle 1 typically requires 25 to 40 hours of HR team time spread across 90 days, depending on data readiness and organizational complexity. The Toolkit walks your team through every step, the surveys deploy in 15 minutes once configured, and AIR Assist™ is available throughout to answer questions. Subsequent Cycles take significantly less time as the system becomes routine.
Will this really show results in 90 days?
Workforce returns follow a J-curve. Leading indicators like engagement scores, benefit utilization, and loyalty intent move within Cycle 1. Lagging indicators like turnover rate, tenure improvement, and healthcare claims typically move over 6 to 18 months. The Toolkit includes a Boardroom Conversation Guide that helps you present early-cycle results without overpromising.
How is this different from hiring a consultant?
A consultant typically costs $25,000 to $75,000 per engagement, owns the methodology, and delivers a static report your team is then expected to implement. AIR is a fraction of that cost, you own the system internally and can run it every 90 days indefinitely, and the deliverable is an operational rhythm rather than a document. The Toolkit was designed specifically to replace the static-report problem that causes most consulting engagements to fade within 18 months.
What does the research foundation actually include?
AIR synthesizes peer-reviewed research from Harvard Business School, Gallup, the Boston Consulting Group, and the Journal of Labor Economics, alongside government data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, PHI National, and NSI Nursing Solutions. Every calculator and recommendation in the toolkit cites its source. Full citations are available on request.
Who is this not for?
AIR is not designed for organizations under 25 employees, for fully-automated tech or e-commerce companies where the workforce dynamic looks different, or for leadership teams that are not prepared to act on the diagnostic once they have it. The system creates clarity that requires response. If your organization is not ready to invest in addressing what the surveys reveal, this is not the right time to start a Cycle.
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The Next Step · Two Ways to Start

Ready to know
your number?

Start with the free 90-second Cost of Inaction Audit to see what your organization is likely losing every year. Or message directly to schedule a 30-minute briefing where we walk through AIR specifically for your situation. No pitch. Most prospects use the second meeting to decide if and when a Cycle makes sense.

Talk Directly
Dr. Dylan Riggs, DC, MS
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