Healthier teams build stronger businesses.
Officium is a boutique consultancy that helps organizations build cultures where people actually want to stay — through practical, human-centered work on wellbeing, culture, and leadership.
We started Officium because most "people strategy" gets treated as an afterthought — a survey once a year, a values poster on the wall.
We work directly with leadership teams to build culture, wellbeing, and engagement into how the business actually runs day to day: how meetings happen, how feedback flows, how workload gets managed before it becomes burnout.
Our team has sat inside HR, operations, and leadership roles ourselves — we bring that lived experience, not just a slide framework, into every engagement.
Hildur Jakobína Gísladóttir
Founder & Owner | Work & Organisational Psychologist
I founded Officium after more than fourteen years of leading people and services in Iceland — seven of them as a Social Services Manager, and seven more as Director of Labour.
Those years gave me a close view of how organisations really work: what leadership asks of people, how quickly workplace pressure builds, and how much of what gets called a people problem turns out to be a question of culture, structure or workload.
My work sits where psychology, management and organisational development meet. Today I work alongside organisations and leaders to make sense of workplace culture, psychosocial risks, leadership and employee wellbeing — and to build workplaces that are healthier and genuinely more effective.
What I bring to that is a combination of psychological knowledge, hands-on leadership experience and a real understanding of how organisations and the people inside them shape one another.
- MBA
- MSc Clinical Psychology
- MSc Behaviour & Organisational Psychology
- Executive Coach, Reykjavík University
- ACT Therapist
Four ways we work with organizations
Each engagement is scoped to what your people actually need — not a fixed wellness package. Here's where clients typically bring us in.
Employee Wellbeing
Building practical wellbeing programs around workload, burnout, and mental health — not just a once-a-year seminar.
Culture & Engagement
Diagnosing what's actually driving disengagement or attrition, and rebuilding the day-to-day habits that shape culture.
Leadership Development
Coaching managers on the human side of leading — feedback, boundaries, and building psychological safety on their teams.
People Strategy & Org Design
Structuring roles, teams, and career paths so growth doesn't come at the cost of the people driving it.
Confidential employee support, when it matters most
Our Employee Assistance Program gives your people a private, professional place to turn — and gives your organization an early intervention route long before pressure turns into absence, formal escalation, or avoidable turnover.
Employees reach our practitioners directly. You receive anonymized, aggregated reporting on usage and themes — never individual case detail.
Confidential Employee Support
A direct, private route to qualified practitioners for personal, workplace, or family pressures — no manager sign-off, no disclosure back to the employer.
Early Intervention
Support that reaches people while the issue is still small — reducing sickness absence, presenteeism, and the cost of cases that reach a formal process.
Mental Wellbeing
Short-term counselling and evidence-based tools for stress, anxiety, low mood, burnout, and the life events that inevitably follow people into work.
Psychosocial Workplace Support
Work on the workplace factors themselves — workload, conflict, bullying, change and restructuring, critical incidents — with manager consultation and team debriefs.
Bring confidential support to your teams.
We scope the program around your headcount, sectors, and existing benefits, then support rollout and manager communications so people actually use it.
Four stages, in order, every time
Nothing here is decorative — this is the actual sequence a project moves through, from first call to handover.
Discover
We talk to your people directly — not just leadership — to understand what culture and wellbeing actually look like day to day.
Diagnose
We name the real driver behind disengagement or burnout, not the symptom everyone's already been treating.
Design
We build a plan sized to what your managers can realistically sustain — not a wellness initiative that fades by Q2.
Deliver
We stay through the first quarter of rollout, coaching your managers as it lands with real teams.
What it's like to work with us
"They didn't hand us a wellness survey. They sat with our managers until burnout actually started going down."
"Officium was blunt about what wasn't working in our culture. That honesty is rarer than it should be."
"Small team, huge attention to detail. It felt like having a people partner on staff, not a vendor."
Let's talk about your people.
A first conversation is free, unscoped, and confidential. We'll tell you honestly if we're the right fit — even if that means pointing you elsewhere.