WE BUILT THIS
BECAUSE GOOD ENOUGHwas costing everyone.
Do Better Consulting is a talent and career advisory firm for founders, talent leaders, and senior professionals who are done navigating real decisions with generic advice.
THE WORLD OF WORK
GOT TOO COMFORTABLEwith things that don't work.
Hiring that looks busy but breaks teams. Careers that look impressive but feel misaligned. Talent strategies that sound right in a presentation and fall apart in practice. Leadership advice that changes nothing.
Do Better was built to replace all of that with something more useful: honest diagnosis, real strategy, and the kind of direct conversation that most people in this industry have stopped having.
We work with founders who are scaling too fast on the wrong people. Talent leaders who know exactly what's broken and can't get anyone to listen. Senior professionals who have built real careers and somehow become invisible in a market that should be finding them.
The name is not accidental. Good enough is a choice. And we're not interested in making it.
"Most early-stage founders don't have a hiring problem. They have a growth architecture problem. Hiring is just where it shows up first."
ONE MANDATE.
EVERY ENGAGEMENT.Replace chaos with clarity.
Every engagement, whether it's a founder rebuilding their hiring process, a talent leader trying to get leadership aligned, or a senior professional rebuilding their market presence, runs on the same principle. We don't recycle frameworks. We don't deliver decks that live in folders. We diagnose what's actually broken and build what actually fixes it.
HONEST DIAGNOSIS
We tell you what we actually see, not what's comfortable to say. If the problem isn't what you think it is, we say that. If the solution is simpler than you expected, we say that too.
REAL STRATEGY
Not a template applied to your situation. Not a framework built for someone else's org chart. Strategy that's specific to your stage, your goals, and the actual constraints you're working inside.
DIRECT CONVERSATION
The uncomfortable truth is usually the one nobody's said yet. That's the conversation we're built for. Every session, every engagement, every call. We say the thing.
Desiree Goldey
Builds hiring infrastructure for scaling companies · Founder & CEO, Do Better Consulting
Serving clients in Austin, TX and remotely across the United States.
Desiree Goldey is a certified coach and founder of Do Better Consulting. She's spent her career challenging outdated norms in leadership and hiring, working with organizations to build cultures that are genuinely inclusive and effective, not just well-intentioned.
As a queer, Black woman, Desiree's lived experience shapes how she approaches leadership and consulting. Based in Austin, TX, she brings resilience, humor, and directness to the work.
Founded on the mantra #dobetterpeople, Do Better Consulting tackles the real issues that get in the way of good leadership, homophobia, sexism, racism, and plain bad management, with practical strategy instead of platitudes.
Desiree's debut book, Leadership Is a Practice, Not a Personality, is out October 2026. She also co-hosts Talentless, a podcast on talent, leadership, and DEIB with co-host Ashley King, CEO of DEI Labs.
Do Better Consulting is an extension of everything she's built, observed, and challenged. The name says it plainly: there is a better way to hire, a better way to lead, and a better way to show up in a market that isn't seeing you clearly. That's the work.
Outcomes from client engagements across pre-seed startups to $200M+ organizations. Built through deliberate system design, not luck or hustle.
DIRECT.
INCLUSIVE.
Unafraid to say the thing.
Do Better has always been a vocal, unapologetic advocate for inclusive hiring, equitable leadership, and workplaces that are designed to work for the people inside them, not just the people at the top.
That's not a marketing position. It's the reason the firm exists. The same clarity we bring to hiring strategy and career positioning, we bring to the harder conversations about who gets seen, who gets hired, and who gets to lead.
We work with the whole picture, not just the process.
- — 2024 Top HR Innovator, awarded by Pillar
- — Most Inclusive HR Influencer, Social Micole
- — Talentless Podcast — Co-host
- — Partnering or sponsoring? Explore how to work with Do Better as a partner.
DEIB at Do Better isn't a policy. It's the reason the firm exists. We build hiring systems that evaluate people on what they can actually do, not on proxies or the comfort of familiarity.
Remote first. Flexible by design. No midnight emails, no manufactured urgency. We model the workplace culture we advise our clients to build.
We hold ourselves to the same criteria we hold our clients to. Honest, consistent, accountable. Or we haven't earned the right to advise anyone else.