Alliance Defending Freedom Reviews

- Massive turnover - Bottlenecks - Confusion regarding who the stakeholder is, or stakeholder decisions being overridden at the 11th hour causing massive disruption and rework - Lack of clarity regarding team structures. On the direct response and communications teams for instance, layoffs took place in January of 2024. At that time the CEO addressed the teams and committed to "getting it right" and rolling out a new comms/direct response structure to provide clarity and be sure we were working together in the right way. Now, one year and 8 months later, the teams are still waiting on that structure. The CEO says she is delaying because she "wants to get it right" w/o realizing the frustration that causes and how it makes the teams feel like, really, they just aren't a priority.

Executive Leadership comes across as completely tone deaf. They recently rolled out a rigid RTO to about 25% of the company. Uproot your family or leave with no severance package. It's not just the many who will be laid off who are upset. I'm aware of a handful of many in-office employees who will be putting in their notices soon because they refuse to put up with the CEO's moving targets and constant disappointment in her employees who can't seem to do anything right. People are scared of the CEO's response and opinion of them so they don't tell her the truth. Leadership communicated the RTO in a very strategic and calculated way with little clarity and ambiguous reasoning using scripture out of context to justify their actions. The work ADF does is certainly amazing, but don't let it fool you. In order to be encouraged in the slightest here or approved of, it often requires the sellong of your soul. Work during PTO, weekends, living in a state other than your spouse, etc.. No "good work" or "world changing mission" is worth that.