Help People®
Human-behavior training since 1969

When employees grow, a company grows.

For more than fifty years, Help People has turned attitudes into results — more sales, lower turnover, and people who are glad to show up. It starts with PIE: Positive Input Everyday.

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HELP PEOPLE ® POSITIVE INPUT EVERYDAY PIE SINCE 1969

Honored by the U.S. Department of Labor, USA Today, INC. Magazine and MCI — and by thousands of people whose lives changed.

The PIE Program

Positive Input Everyday.

Human behavior is shaped by the input that reaches the mind — positive or negative. PIE delivers positive input every day, aimed at personal and productive growth. That's the whole idea, and it's why it works.

  1. Register

    Sign up your team or yourself for the 30-day program.

  2. Watch the intro

    A short orientation sets up the thirty days ahead.

  3. Join the forum

    Log on to the private PIE Program forum where the daily work happens.

  4. Do the daily step

    A brief assignment each day — a few focused minutes, no more.

  5. Show up daily

    Small positive input, repeated, is what turns ideas into habits.

Unlike the seminar that wears off by Tuesday morning, PIE runs a full 30 days of brief daily follow-up — almost like a month of coaching for every participant. Companies see less turnover, less absenteeism, and a better bottom line. People see it at home, too.

Who it's for

One idea, built for the people who need it.

Businesses

Grow sales through your people

Consulting, seminars, and a sales PIE program customized for your company.

  • On-site & online seminars
  • Public speakers
  • Secret Shopper program
  • Help People® Seal of Approval
Individuals

Change your own habits

The PIE Program and one-on-one life coaching, built for growth at any stage.

  • 30-day PIE Program
  • Life coaching
  • Free weekly newsletter
Schools, churches & parents

Start them early

The Student PIE Program brings the same simple fundamentals to young people.

  • Student PIE Program
  • Materials for parents
  • Group facilitation

Does it work?

Fifty years of answering yes.

#1fastest-growing hotel in Houston's history

Stouffer's Greenway Plaza Hotel was the first to use the Help People® program. Surveys showed 12% of guests on any given night were there because of housekeeping — and the hotel's largest cost center became a profit center. That was the beginning.

"Help People® turned the largest cost center in our hotel into a profit center. According to our guests' surveys, it's been an instrumental force in generating repeat business. Unbelievable."

Don Hansen · General Manager, Stouffer's

"The Help People® Seminar produced amazing results for our employees, and our hospital. It's true — when employees grow, a company grows."

Jane Griffin · VP, Health Care Chain

"The only program that has turned an intangible entity — attitudes — into a tangible entity of increased sales and profit."

Houston Business Journal

"Help People® has changed the course of history for entire industries, businesses and individuals. Twenty-five years after going through PIE, I can say it changed my company and my life."

Robert Hines · President, BrandonTaylor Advertising

"My four-year-old had been expelled from three day cares. After I started sharing what I learned from PIE, his new teacher told me he was the best-behaved child in her class."

Gay Beall

"Help People® changed my life completely. No one ever taught me how attitudes affect everything we do — and how easy it is to have the right one."

Jon Heath

Recognition

The work has been noticed.

Over five decades, the programs developed by Help People® have been recognized by government, the press, and industry alike.

U.S. Dept. of LaborLifetime Achievement Award
USA TodayQuality Cup — Semi-Finalist
MCI & INC. MagazineTop 10 Service Companies in the U.S.
Financial Executive's InstituteMost Creative Business Concept
Austin Business Journal39th Fastest-Growing Private Company
Oxford's Who's WhoFounder of the Suite-Hotel Industry

Our story

A simple idea, proven over fifty years.

Founded in 1969 by Warren R. Haskin II — listed in Oxford's Who's Who as the founder of the suite-hotel industry — Help People® began as a research company with one question: how do you increase sales through service?

1969

Help People is founded

A private research company in Austin, set up to study human behavior in the service industry.

1974

The PIE Program is created

After years of research, the first Positive Input Everyday program is developed and put to work.

1997

"Most Creative Business Concept"

The Financial Executive's Institute names the human-behavior programs more valuable to business than high-tech processes.

2004

PIE comes home

Help People® regains the rights to the PIE Program and begins offering it directly to businesses and individuals.

Today

Still helping people

The same fundamentals — delivered to companies, individuals, and students who want to grow.

Get started

Bring PIE to your company.

Call 512-444-8989 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Central · Monday through Friday
Email helper@helppeople.com For consulting, seminars, the Seal of Approval, or a customized PIE program.
Where we are Austin, Texas Help People® Inc.

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Businesses
Consulting, seminars, public speakers, Secret Shopper, the Seal of Approval, and customized sales PIE programs.
Individuals
Ask us about PIE or life coaching.
Schools, churches & parents
Ask about the Student PIE Program.