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ABOUT BEST NEXT STEP

Best Next Step is a communications consultancy to step up engagement and acceptance of changes—always focused on clarity, empathy, and momentum. Best Next Step partners with Communications, Technology and HR leaders to build or improve on: 

  • Change in leadership or direction
  • Service or location expansion 
  • Employee program rollouts and events
  • Technology implementation
  • Business transitions, mergers and acquisitions 
  • Internal channels and employee experience 

  

Best Next Step comes from my passion for “what’s next?”—for processes, tools and communications in the evolving workplace, orchestrating experiences that solve problems, connects employees and moves forward.  


My 25-year career journey includes employee communications roles across agency, in-house and corporate teams (ex-GE), primarily as a message and channel strategist, with a large dose of program leadership across company changes, HR transformations, tech launches, service model and cultural shifts. 


  • 20+ unique experiences on change projects, sharpening transformational and transactional messaging, and writing for today’s readers—90%+ involved, 2x better understanding. 
  • Consistently removed barriers to employee engagement, deploying new intranets, mobile, email and conversational channels, typically with 65% early adoption, 80%+ after 6 months.
  • Dug in on complex data, compliance and operational needs to enable better communications processes, improving speed and accuracy—drove year-long changes in 100-days!
  • Aligned more than 80% of an organization (95%+ participation) through the power of listening to employees before shifting organization goals or structures.  


Best Next Step is my way of driving optimism, inclusion and improvement into employee communications.

 

Let’s step,

Marc T


Marc Tarantelli - Communications and Change - driving optimism, inclusion and improvement

With Best Next Step, I bring structured thinking, calm confidence, and a hands-on execution partner.

Change sticks. Communications work.

Services include:

Measurable outcomes you can expect:

Measurable outcomes you can expect:

  • Program launch plans for Total Rewards, performance, reward and recognition, workplace experience and more
  • Employee survey communications from canvassing, to listening sessions, to responses
  • Organizational rhythms from bus schedules to huddles, to office hours and all hands
  • People announcements and profiles from org announcement templates to showcase stories
  • Channel strategy and audits from segmentation, personas and mapping, to targeting and delivery process and tools with actionable communications analytics
  • Change messaging from stakeholder updates and knowledge sharing, to both transformational and transactional employee messages that get understood
  • Best Next Steps! 

Measurable outcomes you can expect:

Measurable outcomes you can expect:

Measurable outcomes you can expect:

  • More thank you for sharing feedback / Less complaints about missed messages
  • More first-time-right processes / Less requests for further explanation 
  • More participants and advocates / Less rumors and detractors
  • More audiences ready for what's next!


My specialty is building comms strategies that activate employees, align stakeholders, and get measurable results. From Total Rewards to Workday to new leadership announcements, brand and technology rollouts, I help you hit the mark the first time.


Whether you need embedded support, a strategic partner, or just a fresh perspective, I’m here to help people understand what’s happening, why it matters, and how to move forward.  

Tell me about:

Tell me about:

Tell me about:

  1. What BEST looks like … Explain your big goal and why it matters? Where’s your destination? What's success feel like? Who’s celebrating with you?
  2. What’s NEXT? … Share any known priorities, problems or processes and the people involved. Help me understand what moves you forward. 
  3. Your current STEPS … What’s going well today, what requires change? And where are we starting?



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Marc Tarantelli

Delmar, Bethlehem, NY, USA

646.373.6159 / marc@best-next-step.com

Hours

Mon

09:00 am – 05:00 pm

Tue

09:00 am – 05:00 pm

Wed

09:00 am – 05:00 pm

Thu

09:00 am – 05:00 pm

Fri

09:00 am – 05:00 pm

Sat

By Appointment

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