For Companies
You’ve invested in their career.
Now invest in the life around it.
A private social advisory your company can sponsor for LGBTQ+ employees in Los Angeles. For those relocating here, and those who have been here for years.
The Investment
The best employers invest beyond the workplace.
What your company already provides
- Compensation and benefits
- Career growth
- Workplace culture
- Health and wellbeing
- ERG community and visibility
What FriendsHAUS helps add
- A social life beyond work
- Meaningful friendships and community
- A stronger sense of belonging
- A partner who feels at home too
- Deeper roots in LA
An ERG builds community inside the company.
This is the life outside it.
Who This Is For
Retention doesn’t stop at the office.
What an employee builds beyond the office matters. FriendsHAUS helps LGBTQ+ employees build a life in LA worth staying for. An employee rarely forgets which employer invested in that.
New to LA
Help the move hold.
For employees relocating to LA, and the partners coming with them. The work begins where the relocation package ends, and carries on long after the boxes are unpacked.
More on relocationAlready Here
Being established doesn’t mean feeling rooted.
An employee can live in LA for years and still not feel connected to it. Maybe they never found their people. Maybe their friendships changed as their life did. FriendsHAUS helps them build the relationships that give them more reasons to feel invested in the life they’ve built here. Feeling supported outside of work has a way of showing up inside it.
Where This Sits
A familiar model, applied to life outside work.
Think executive coaching, but for social connection and belonging.
Companies can sponsor an individual employee, a defined group, or a broader eligible population. Engagements are personalized and confidential, with the relationship between FriendsHAUS and the participant remaining private.
Fits within employee experience, wellbeing, talent retention, LGBTQ+ benefits, or relocation support.
How It Works
Three months. Three phases.
One advisor.
The pace flexes to the person. The work does not.
01
Intake and mapping
A private intake session charts existing relationships, what they actually want from the city, and what the next chapter needs to look like. The first considered introductions begin as the map takes shape. Your HR team receives confirmation that intake is complete.
02
Introductions and integration
Curated introductions continue, paced by chemistry and readiness rather than by calendar. The work turns to how Los Angeles actually operates: its geographies, its circles, its codes. Where a partner is included, the work extends to them.
03
Foundation and handoff
Introductions deepen into relationships. A closing reflection for the client on what was built, recommendations for maintaining it, and a final status report to the sponsor.
Three months is typical, and engagements run to six where the situation calls for it. A partner or spouse can be included as an extension of the same engagement.
New to LA · Relocation
Getting them here is only half the move.
Your mobility partners handle the logistics of arriving, and handle them well. FriendsHAUS works on what comes after: the relationships and routines that turn a new city into a home.
The employee arrives with a job, colleagues
and a reason to be here.
Their partner arrives with none of it.
›Explore relocation support
Coordination with your mobility team can begin before arrival, and where there is a move it can be scoped inside the relocation budget alongside the partners you already use.
Confidentiality
What the company sees,
and what it does not.
The client is the individual, not the company. Nothing personal is ever shared with the employer, and that is contractual rather than a courtesy. Your employee signs a Participant Agreement with FriendsHAUS. You sign a Master Services Agreement that defines exactly what you receive, and commits you in writing not to ask for more.
What you receive
Participation status, session counts, start and end dates. A fixed template at the beginning, midpoint and close.
What you do not
The substance of any conversation, who they meet, anything about their partner or personal life, or any assessment of how they are doing.
One exception, and it runs through your employee. If something structural is in the way, such as housing, immigration or a logistical problem your team could solve, we raise it with them first, and pass it on only if they want us to.
The timeline, the cost model and the six questions your team will ask first ›
The Practice
One advisor, start to close.
FriendsHAUS is the private practice of J'Net Nguyen, founder and principal advisor.
She holds an M.A. in Communication Management from the University of Southern California and has spent nearly two decades inside Los Angeles’s LGBTQ+ social, professional and philanthropic circles, including advocacy and fundraising leadership roles with LGBTQ+ nonprofits.
She personally leads every corporate engagement, from confidential intake through the closing reflection. For corporate clients, this means no rotation of account managers, no associates, no escalation paths. The relationship is direct, and so is the accountability.
J'Net Nguyen
Founder
Corporate engagements are open to LGBTQ+ employees. The specialization is gay men in Los Angeles, which is where the network runs deepest. We would rather name that than claim the same depth everywhere, and we will tell you in the first conversation if someone would be better served elsewhere.
From the Individual Practice
“It was humbling to arrive in LA and realize the one network I couldn’t build was my own. I knew exactly how connection worked, I just couldn’t engineer it for myself.”
Bobby Lennox · Serial Entrepreneur
The same work a sponsoring company is buying. Read more from clients
Ways to Partner
Two ways to begin.
Sponsored Engagement. One person, over three to six months. For someone whose experience of Los Angeles matters to the business.
Annual Allocation. A set number of engagements across the year, drawn on as situations arise. For organizations with a meaningful LGBTQ+ population in Los Angeles, recurring senior moves, or both.
The simplest place to start is one person. An allocation makes sense once you have seen the work.
From $7,500
per corporate engagement. Scope is shaped privately.
A Standing Invitation
If there is someone in Los Angeles whose life here you would like to invest in, that is the conversation.
What we'll cover in 30 minutes
- Who on your Los Angeles team this would matter most for.
- How an engagement is scoped inside an existing budget.
- Whether we are the right fit for the person you have in mind.
The employer-sponsored model is being built now with a small number of early partners. We are not claiming retention data we do not have. Better to run a scoped engagement around one person, with the measures agreed in advance.
If the fit is right, we will both know it. If it is not, you will leave with a clearer view of the problem either way.