About The Alignment Lab

The pace of change in organizational life has accelerated faster than the human systems meant to sustain it. New tools, shifting norms, and compressed timelines have reshaped how work gets done — but knowledge still silos, collaboration still gets left to individuals and teams to figure out on their own, and the relational infrastructure that makes organizations actually function is still largely invisible, assumed, or overlooked.

The organizations that are differentiated in this moment aren't necessarily the ones with the most advanced technology. They're the ones that have developed their people – their capacity to connect, communicate, and lead with intention – as deliberately as they've developed everything else.

That's the work of The Alignment Lab.

We move individuals and organizations from uncertain and reactive to informed, intentional, and empowered – with the sight to understand what's actually happening beneath the surface, the infrastructure to sustain it, and the conviction that the people-side of organizational life is knowable, ownable, and worth building. We do this by excavating beneath the visible problem to surface overlooked assumptions and discover better questions – drawing on expertise in behavioral science, data analytics, and the social architecture of organizations to design interventions that go deeper, last longer, and ultimately belong to our clients.

Because employees are people, not parts. And organizations that truly see, respect, and empower their people don't just perform better – they become part of the legacy of those people.

About the Founder

Hannah Yung-Boxdell built The Alignment Lab around a habit she kept returning to throughout her career: before pushing forward, take a step back. Understand the actual question. Locate the real gap. Only then does the path forward become clear, and sustainable. What she found, over a decade of organizational strategy, systems improvement, analytics and culture transformation work, was that this wasn't as common a practice as she'd assumed. And that the cost of skipping it was everywhere.

Approach

Hannah's practice is grounded in industrial-organizational psychology – the science of human behavior at work – which she brings to bear as both an executive coach and organizational consultant. Her practice sits at the intersection of behavioral science, analytics, and social architecture in the workplace. Hannah’s work is fundamentally about helping people and organizations reclaim agency – at a moment when the future of work feels increasingly uncertain and people’s sense of control increasingly thin.

She works across two interconnected domains. On the organizational side, she helps leaders and teams understand what's actually happening beneath the surface – through assessment of organizational networks, employee listening strategies, and culture – and supporting the strategy, systems and analytics needed to adapt. On the individual side, she coaches professionals at career inflection points, managers seeking to strengthen their ability to develop and lead their teams, and senior leaders working to close the gap between who they intend to be and how they're actually experienced.

The connective thread is what she calls collective effectiveness: the idea that organizations perform better when individuals are aligned, managers develop their people intentionally, and the relational infrastructure of the workplace is understood and tended to – not assumed.

Background

Hannah holds a Master's in Applied Industrial-Organizational Psychology from George Mason University and an undergraduate degree in Neurobiology, Physiology, & Behavior – a foundation that established both a scientific approach to improving complex systems and a deep appreciation for the human behavior that drives them.

She is also certified as an executive coach (CEC) and diversity professional (CDP). Hannah brings nearly a decade of experience in senior management and leadership roles across private and government sector organizations – informing organizational strategy, business operations, and people-and-culture programs with scientific rigor. Her commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility spans work in private sector, government, and academic settings, including policy, programming, and committee leadership.

Hannah is also an active member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), where she serves on the Visibility Committee as the White Paper Subcommittee Lead; work that reflects a long-standing commitment to translating organizational and behavioral science into practice for the people who need it most.