At Castaway and Company, our mission is to empower businesses with strategic insights and innovative solutions.
Employee Life Cycle Design Consulting
Elevating your focus on the entire Employee Life Cycle, starting with how your employer brand and culture attracts candidates, all the way through to your offboarding processes. Excellence in people processes and systems are a strategic investment that positively impacts your entire business and ensures continued success.
Collaboration and Impact
We believe that real transformation happens when people come first.
Over the years, we’ve joined forces with organizations of all sizes, ranging from emerging startups to well-established global brands to develop creative, out-of-the-box approaches that elevate both life and career.
Below, you’ll find some of our past and current collaborations. Each highlights a unique challenge and the tailored solution we designed to make a positive, lasting difference in people’s lives and careers.
Our Clients
The MagicMakers® Group
Castaway & Company is connected to a distinguished network of former Disney executives through Diane Yarborough’s membership in the MagicMakers Group—a collective of more than 50 former Disney leaders and line-of-business experts.
This group brings together practitioners who have spent decades designing, leading, and operating some of the world’s most admired brands. Drawing on over 750 collective years of experience across Disney’s diverse businesses, the Magic Makers approach blends storytelling, innovation, and operational discipline to help organizations close the gap between brand promise and day-to-day execution.
Rather than offering theory alone, this work is grounded in real-world practice—demystifying what makes exceptional experiences work and translating proven, people-centered principles into sound business systems.
The focus is simple and powerful: build cultures where leaders thrive, employees feel deeply connected, and every interaction delivers on the promise of excellence.
Castaway & Company shares this philosophy—believing that when leaders invest intentionally in their people and culture, excellence becomes contagious, and the experience feels meaningful for both those who deliver it and those who receive it.
Connecting Brand Promise and Operational Excellence