Navigating People Strategy at Every Stage of Growth
I provide fractional HR leadership to growing companies, B Corps, nonprofits, and social impact organizations, building People infrastructure that scales with them.
That means confident people decisions, without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Let's talk about what your organization needs next.e Solutions for Purpose-driven Teams
Services
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HRIS (HR Information System) and PEO (Professional Employer Organization) selection and implementation, plus the broader HR tech stack (performance, engagement, compensation platforms). Compensation architecture, including leveling, market benchmarking, and pay bands.
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Recruiting strategy and execution, from sourcing through offer, with inclusive hiring practices built in like structured interviews, blind screening, and tailored job postings.
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In-person and virtual gatherings, communication frameworks, and the systems that keep teams working well across time zones and borders. Especially suited to teams navigating real cultural and geographic distance, not just remote logistics.
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Survey design and reporting, performance management (competency frameworks, goal-setting, reviews and feedback, manager training), policy development, B Corp certification, organizational assessments.
Who I Work With
Growing Companies
Certified B Corps & Climate Organizations
Small and mid-sized organizations scaling past the point where instinct and intention are enough.
Mission-driven businesses and organizations where the work itself, not just the culture, reflects your values.
Nonprofits & Social Impact
Organizations building infrastructure to support their people as seriously as they support their mission.
Remote, Hybrid, and Distributed Teams
Organizations working across locations, whether fully remote, hybrid, or spread across offices, that need culture and cohesion built by design, not proximity.
How Could We Work Together?
Focus: Team Performance
Your Goal: Teams that communicate clearly and collaborate well, especially across cultures or time zones.
My Approach: Diagnose the real dynamics at play, build adoptable frameworks that help people connect as humans first.
Our Result: A team that collaborates because they authentically understand each other.
Potential Services: Communication and conflict frameworks, team assessments, manager coaching, performance matrix and career tracks.
Focus: Recruiting & Hiring
Your Goal: Assemble the right team with intention rather than urgency.
My Approach: Design a hiring process that reflects your standards, then run it end to end.
Our Result: Roles filled with people who are a culture add, not just the fastest yes.
Potential Services: Full-cycle recruiting, hiring process and interview design, job architecture and role scoping, hiring manager training, employer branding and candidate experience.
Focus: Compensation & Pay Equity
Your Goal: Pay decisions that are consistent, fair, and easy to explain.
My Approach: A leveling framework built for your business, not a template.
Our Result: Pay decisions you can defend and employees can trust.
Potential Services: Leveling framework and job architecture, market benchmarking and pay bands, pay equity audit, manager training on compensation conversations.
Focus: Employee Engagement & Organizational Health
Your Goal: Leadership is connected to what actually happens inside the organization, not just assumptions.
My Approach: Design surveys and dashboards to surface real data, then translate findings into strategic, actionable decisions.
Our Result: An organization that catches problems early because people trust the feedback loop.
Potential Services: Engagement survey design, DEIB and team analytics, survey reporting, and leadership action planning.
Why work with me?
I bring experience building People & Culture functions from the ground up, at the executive table, across distributed and cross-border teams, to deliver practical, independent HR leadership that supports better people decisions.
My work is guided by one principle:
People do their best work when they're genuinely supported.
Supported people build durable organizations.
Meet Emily
I'm a People & Culture leader with 15+ years of experience guiding organizations through growth and change. I hold a SHRM-SCP certification and a graduate degree in Intercultural Leadership and Management, and I've spent my career applying both, most recently building a People & Culture function from the ground up as part of an executive leadership team, across a distributed team spanning more than a dozen states and countries. That work has meant helping people who come from different backgrounds, disciplines, and working styles actually understand each other, not just coexist.
My approach starts with the belief that supported people build durable organizations, so I design the frameworks, systems, and practices that make that support real.
