About Be Empowered Consulting
Why We Exist
Be Empowered Consulting exists to help organizations improve performance and people experience by strengthening how decisions are made—where work actually happens.
Most organizations today have more employee listening and people data than ever before. Yet many continue to struggle with hesitation, inconsistency, and frustration at the manager level. Too often, the response is to introduce new programs, training, or tools—without addressing the decision conditions managers are working within.
We believe better outcomes come from clearer decisions, not more initiatives.
What We Stand For
Our work is grounded in a set of values that shape how we approach people challenges and organizational decisions—particularly in complex environments.
People First
We start with the reality that managers and employees are navigating competing priorities, time pressure, and uncertainty. Our work respects those realities. Rather than assuming poor intent or capability, we focus on creating the conditions that allow people to make sound decisions and do their best work.
Simplicity
Complex organizations do not need complicated solutions. We believe clarity is a competitive advantage. Our approach reduces noise by focusing on what matters most—helping leaders and managers understand which signals to act on and which to ignore.
Practicality
We design support that managers can use in real time. Our work is not theoretical or programmatic. Decision frameworks, insights, and guidance are built to fit into the flow of work, not sit on a shelf.
Impact
We measure success by whether decisions improve—not by the volume of activity. The goal of our work is tangible change: greater confidence, consistency, and effectiveness in how people decisions are made, leading to stronger performance and a better employee experience.
How We Work
Our approach focuses on manager decision empowerment—using existing employee listening and people data to identify decision pressure points and provide practical support where managers need it most.
We help organizations:
- Translate employee listening into decision-relevant insight
- Clarify where managers can act and where issues are systemic
- Support consistent, confident people decisions without adding burden
Engagements are intentionally phased to establish clarity before action and to ensure focus, relevance, and impact.
Who We Serve
We work with:
- HR and people leaders
- Business and operations leaders
- Organizations navigating complexity, growth, or change
Our clients span industries including pharmaceuticals, consumer packaged goods, and higher education, and often operate across multiple regions and regulatory environments.
We are best suited for organizations seeking thoughtful, targeted intervention, not large-scale transformation programs.
Our Capability Model
Be Empowered Consulting is intentionally structured to combine senior advisory leadership with flexible, high-impact expertise.
The firm maintains a robust network of trusted specialists, enabling us to bring cutting-edge assessment and analysis capability in-house, with the ability to provide end-to-end people analytics and decision support for organizations of all sizes.
This model allows us to:
- Scale expertise as needed
- Match capability to the specific question at hand
- Maintain rigor without unnecessary overhead
Clients benefit from focused senior leadership, supported by the right expertise at the right time.
Better decisions create better organizations.
La Toya McClellan
Founder and Principal
La Toya McClellan has spent 15+ years leading employee engagement, leadership development, and HR business partner functions in complex global organizations across pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, and higher education sectors.
She previously served as Global Head of Engagement and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Astellas Pharma, where she was responsible for designing and leading enterprise-wide strategies that drove meaningful employee experience across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC regions.
Prior to Astellas, La Toya spent eight years at Brown-Forman Corporation, advancing through roles including Senior HR Business Partner and Manager of Engagement and Diversity. In these positions, she led high-stakes people initiatives including major reorganizations, leadership transitions, and large-scale engagement improvement efforts requiring clear decision frameworks for managers operating under pressure.
"This consulting model reflects work I led inside complex organizations—now formalized to help others do the same."
La Toya's expertise is rooted in practical experience: translating engagement and people data into actionable clarity for managers, building decision support frameworks that hold under organizational complexity, and ensuring HR strategy drives real performance outcomes.
She holds a Master's degree in Psychology with a concentration in Diversity Management and is a certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR). She maintains certifications in multiple assessment and decision-support methodologies.
La Toya is based in Indianapolis and works with clients globally.