Comprehensive Human Resources Services

Without a full and functional HR department, it can feel impossible to hire, onboard, train, and maintain the kinds of systems and processes needed to support employees.

Whether you need to build and maintain equitable and inclusive systems, establish pay equity, or bring on a fully outsourced HR department, we bring an equity lens to all our Human Resources services.

Our offerings are tailored to your short-term, long-term, and seasonal needs, and can include smaller maintenance tasks as well as full-scale departmental initiatives.

    Your HR Consultants or Department

    Our HR experts can enhance your team.

     

      • Temporary coverage for an employee on leave
      • Filling a gap in your team

        Working with your existing team, we also serve as consultants for larger initiatives.

         

          • Hiring for one or multiple positions
          • Revising job descriptions
          • Crisis management & conflict resolution
          • Creating an onboarding process that fosters belonging
          • Developing learning programs
          • Presenting at retreats, meetings, or professional development sessions
          • Hosting HR, finance, and leadership workshops
          • Values-Aligned Leadership training for HR professionals
          • Designing an employee wellness program
          • Assessing your benefits offerings
          • Revising your Employee Handbook
          • Strategy and advisement for transforming HR

          Finally, we partner with your leadership for long-term transformation:

            • Building human-centered practices for leaders
            • Designing an equitable and inclusive hiring process that includes everything from writing the job description, interviewer bias training, holding equity-focused conversations about candidates, and more.
            • Creating a performance management system based on partnership between leadership and employees
            • Conducting a pay equity analysis
            • Creating a values-aligned compensation philosophy
            • Creating equitable compensation structures and pay scales
            • Building advancement re-onboarding programs for new and transitioning leaders
            • Training leaders in performance management
            • Building a succession plan
            • Creating human-centered HR policies
            • Strategies for enhancing employee engagement
            • Ongoing support through leadership coaching

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