“Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.”
— Martin Buber
interhuman group grew out of a simple observation. Josh Plaskoff spent thirty years inside organizations like Eli Lilly, Salesforce, KAR, and Anthem, watching leaders get trained in the mechanics of business while the human side of the work went untaught.
Paula Berbeco was on a parallel path, moving between nonprofit and corporate leadership and noticing the same gap. They met at Anthem and realized they were looking at the same problem from two different angles.
The name interhuman is intentional, right down to the lowercase i. It isn’t about the individuals in an organization. It’s about the space between them: the relationships, the unspoken patterns, the culture that forms between the people on an org chart. That space is where interhuman group does its work.
Dr. Josh Plaskoff
Dr. Josh Plaskoff, known to many as Dr. J, calls himself a lifelong student of everything, from organizational learning to chocolate truffles. For more than thirty years, he has helped multinational corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits build healthier, more productive workplaces. He was a pioneer in organizational learning, named one of the 50 Most Influential People in the field, and is credited as one of the founders of employee experience as a discipline. He has published and spoken widely on leadership, culture, learning, and change, and holds a master’s degree from USC and a PhD from Indiana University.
Josh lives in Carmel, Indiana, with his wife Robyn, his sons Ryan, a pilot, and Ian, a sports broadcaster, and Penni the hound dog, whom he calls the daughter he never had. The son of an actor, he loves a good movie, a Monty Python quote, and pulling leadership lessons from Shakespeare, mostly about what not to do.
Dr. Paula Berbeco
Dr. Paula Berbeco brings deep leadership experience across both nonprofit and publicly traded companies. Her work spans building culture, leading strategy, supporting teams through change, and connecting data with real-world solutions. She holds a Doctorate in Psychology focused on Organizational Development and Leadership, along with master’s degrees in Health Administration and Counseling. Her research and writing explore leadership, employee experience, belonging, diversity, inclusion, and authenticity at work.
Paula lives in the Midwest with her husband, Bob, and describes herself as a cat mom, coffee drinker, and yoga enthusiast.
What we believe
Everything interhuman group does traces back to a short list of things Josh and Paula believe matter: unconditional respect, trust, honesty, and the idea that relationships come first. They bring the same determination and attention to detail to this work that they’d want any organization to bring to its people.
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