ABOUT

Groups of volunteer parents conceived of our name, seals, and reporting system, and after extensive research, the app was developed and tested. Our systems protect, engage, and optimize performance and satisfaction. We operate Look1st.org as a public service to protect children and the elderly by providing systems and resources to prevent and detect organizational abuse and facilitating mandatory reporting by anyone for any organization. At Look1st.org, people can also look for a seal to see if organizations are doing what they should to protect them and foster engagement. Look 1st, Inc. is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).

The Why

  • To safeguard individuals and organizations and foster engagement to enhance performance and satisfaction.

The How

  • Provide continually improved web-based solutions that protect people and organizations and facilitate engagement.

The What

  • Develop research-driven solutions that optimize the timeliness, quantity, quality, and management of critical information between people and organizations.
  • Award seals to entities that meet legal requirements and other essential standards to prevent and detect wrongful conduct and conditions, facilitate engagement, foster.
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Principles and Promise

  • Do good
  • Objectives first
  • Relentlessly pursue what can be
  • Facilitate, listen to, and embrace feedback
  • Make decisions based on logic and valid information
  • Continually improve - better, faster, more with less
  • Seize initiatives
  • Take responsibility
  • Measure performance
  • Reward performance
  • Keep learning
  • Embrace change
  • Treat everyone the same
  • Address conflict
  • Do the right thing
  • Zealously protect the privacy of all our constituents
  • Be financially fair and prudent
  • Waste not
  • Care for the environment
  • Have fun
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Leadership

Nick Burkholder

Nick is the founder of Look 1st. He develops performance blueprints that enable organization leaders to achieve and maintain optimum performance. He is an authority on missions, objectives, metrics, feedback, and delivering important information. He has completed over 300 global consulting and workshop engagements for organization leaders. He was an HR leader at the Johnson & Johnson Worldwide Family of Companies and The Vanguard Group of Investment Companies. Nick is a former Army Captain and Chief Military Police Operations for Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

A graduate of Lafayette College and a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources, Nick co-authored "The Executive Career Guide for MBAs” with Richard H. Beatty and edited "On Staffing, Advice and Perspectives from HR Leaders." He also wrote "Outsourcing: The Definitive View, Applications & Implications" and was the lead author of "Ultimate Performance: Measuring Human Resources at Work.” He is writing "What Can Be: The Essentials of Sustained Optimum Performance.” John Wiley & Sons publishes all his books.

Nick was recognized by a Secretary of the Army, two The Vanguard Group chairmen, and two Johnson & Johnson chairmen for taking on significant and difficult objectives and achieving them.

He enjoys and learns from grandchildren Heidi, Maggie, Ollie, Jehu, and dogs, particularly a German Shepherd named Scratch.

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History

Look 1st originated from a consultancy established in 1998. This consultancy applied engineering principles to human resource management and developed a blueprint to analyze, design, and structure organizations. Associated websites became leading authorities on staffing and human resource performance.

Most engagements included working with organization leaders to optimize their mission and objectives. Invariably, developing the associated indicators and metrics and delivering them to the right staff at the right time resulted in immediate, significant, and lasting performance improvement. During an engagement for Merck Research Laboratories, it became apparent that feedback is essential to achieving and sustaining optimum performance.

After extensive experience with employee opinion surveys, we began collecting and analyzing feedback from candidates, external workforces, and B2B buyers. Within a few years, our work had saved organizations tens of millions of dollars, driving even more significant sales increases and significantly improved workforce engagement and satisfaction.

When the Penn State child sex abuse scandal broke, our leadership resolved to understand why such incidents go unreported and what, if anything, could be done to facilitate prompt notification, the possibility of which was likely to preclude at least some negative occurrences.

After two years of the most comprehensive research, including collecting data from almost 80,000 candidates, temporaries, employees, consumers, and B2B buyers, Look 1st Solutions published “Comprehensive Analyses of Factors Associated with Communicating Serious Issues, Feedback and Suggestions.”

We are an authority on missions, objectives, metrics, feedback, and delivering important information. Our applications use research and expertise to Protect, Engage, and Optimize measurably.

We have collected and processed data and delivered important information for over twenty years. No applications are more trusted with important information. Our platforms have processed more than 1,267,000 notifications and surveys, and the responses and identities of every single participant have been cloaked and protected. Over 57,000 organizations have our guides and toolkits, and over 3,900 have relied on our applications for at least three years.

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