About Volare
Volare Consulting helps organizations reduce early attrition by strengthening the first-year employee experience.
We partner with leaders to design onboarding and early experience systems that create clarity, enable managers, and stabilize retention at scale.
My Story
I am Dr. Natalia Volkonsky, founder of Volare Consulting. I have spent my career studying what happens in the earliest stages of work—when employees are forming expectations, deciding whether they belong, and determining how much of themselves they will bring to the role.
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Early in my career in HR, I noticed a consistent disconnect. Leaders focused on outcomes, while employees struggled with unclear roles, uneven onboarding, and managers who were not equipped to support them. These early breakdowns were often dismissed as individual issues, yet they repeatedly led to disengagement and turnover.
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To understand this pattern more deeply, I conducted workplace surveys and one-on-one interviews focused on employees’ first weeks and months. The insight was clear: when early experience was intentional—roles were clarified, managers were enabled, and feedback was taken seriously—retention, engagement, and performance stabilized.
Volare Consulting was created to apply this lens systematically. Drawing on applied research, real-world consulting experience, and doctoral research on onboarding and belonging, my work focuses on diagnosing where early employee experience breaks down—and helping organizations fix it before attrition takes hold.
Our Mission
Volare Consulting helps organizations activate talent early by strengthening onboarding and first-year employee experience.
We focus on clarity, manager enablement, and systems that stabilize retention and support sustainable growth.
The Splinter Philosophy
Most organizations try to fix workforce problems where they appear—low engagement, declining performance, rising turnover. But like symptoms in medicine, these issues rarely originate where they surface.
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The real cause often appears much earlier. In my work, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat across industries: disengagement and attrition frequently begin in the first weeks and months of employment, when roles are unclear, onboarding is inconsistent, and managers are not equipped to integrate new hires.
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At Volare Consulting, we call this the splinter—the small, early breakdown that later becomes a costly organizational problem. When engagement drops or retention suffers, many leaders respond with perks, programs, or performance initiatives. These efforts treat symptoms without addressing the source.
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Our work starts by locating and removing the splinter. We examine how people are hired, onboarded, and supported early on—before designing solutions. By strengthening early employee experience, we help organizations stabilize retention, improve performance, and build systems that scale.
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Organizations that grow sustainably don’t fix culture after it breaks. They build it correctly from the beginning.