Optimize your team by bolstering with exec-level guidance.
Achieve ambitious business outcomes.
Advisory / Consultancy: Combining the benefits of a performance coach plus operational and strategic excellence in the field. Empowerment and tactical guidance for you, your People leader, or other senior leaders as needed (or combination). Balancing critical short-term needs while mapping a longer-term vision for your People strategy.
Fractional People & Culture Leadership: There may be a stage in which fractional leadership makes sense for your organization. This will allow you to maximize my impact without the full exec-level salary. I’ll roll up my sleeves and lead special projects, dig in with the ELT on more of a day-to-day basis as well as longer-term strategy, work with you to shape the culture, train HR team members, overhaul tricky processes, etc. Fractional (partial week) or temporary team member, either embedded or behind the scenes.
What I am not: an employment attorney. However, I can advise you through sensitive employment matters, setting up day-to-day operations correctly to mitigate unnecessary risk, and ultimately engaging outside counsel if needed.
My passion is leveraging my experience to empower early stage organizations to launch an effective, emotionally intelligent, strategic, and rewarding People function to support highly ambitious business outcomes.
I have been the People leader starting from scratch at 20-30 employees. I have assembled mentors and advisors to help me avoid mistakes that have been made countless times before in our fast-paced start-up world. I have scaled organizations to over 10x within a couple year’s time. I have navigated teams seamlessly through many RIFs, advised executives on delicate internal communications, coached founders on sensitive personnel issues at the top, advised on risk potential in employment matters, taken teams through a pandemic, led fully remote onboarding. I have tackled People Operations from all angles, with a comprehensive understanding of every stakeholder’s perspective: the founder, executive, employee, investor, board member, customer.
Every start-up has a unique combination of values, priorities, investor expectations, growth trajectory and the accompanying growing pains. I look forward to learning more about your vision so that I can maximize the ROI of your People function, amplifying your team and conserving valuable runway.
I am a business operator turned HR professional, and I don't believe in blindly following "best practices". The Future of Work is now, and it's time to be smart about what YOUR business really needs...today. No trends, no knee-jerk reactions. Making the right decisions early on will serve your business, your employees, and ultimately your bottom line. Let's work together to build an effective, strategic, and rewarding People function and organizational culture to drive your highly ambitious business outcomes.
How my experience supports the work we will do together: I am a generalist. I go deep in every area of HR, as I have done most everything myself at one point. I have been both the sole People leader starting from scratch at 20 employees, as well as the leader of 15-person People teams supporting orgs of ~400. I have both scaled organizations through hypergrowth, and navigated teams seamlessly through RIFs. I have advised executives on delicate internal communications, coached founders on sensitive personnel issues, advised on risk potential in employment matters, taken teams through a pandemic, led fully remote onboarding. I have tackled People Operations from all angles, with a comprehensive understanding of every stakeholder’s perspective: the founder, executive, employee, investor, board member, customer. My superpower is navigating seamlessly from big-picture strategy back down to the smallest level of detail, and back again.
Every start-up has a unique combination of values, priorities, investor expectations, growth trajectory and the accompanying growing pains. I look forward to learning more about your vision so that I can maximize the ROI of your People function - amplifying your team, empowering your leaders, and achieving measurable results.
