Our Services
Whatever your people need, chances are we’ve helped a company navigate it before.
We work with mid-market and growing businesses in Iowa and across the U.S. that are ready to build something better for their teams. Every engagement starts the same way: we spend time getting to know your business, your people, and what’s actually going on beneath the surface. From there, we diagnose what’s needed, build a solution that fits, and stay to see it through.
If you’re not sure which service is right for you, that’s exactly what a conversation is for. And if we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you that too and point you toward someone who is.
Fractional HR Support
Your business needs HR leadership but you’re just not ready for a full-time hire (and you shouldn’t have to be.)
Fractional HR support means you get a dedicated HR partner without the overhead. We learn your business, show up consistently, and provide both the strategic guidance and the hands-on execution your team needs to grow. Whether you need us for a few hours a month or a more consistent partnership, we figure out what makes sense for where you are right now.
This is where most of our client relationships start. We come in, get to know your people and your challenges, and the work usually grows from there.
Good for growing companies that have outgrown winging it but aren't ready to bring HR in-house full time.
Change Leadership
Restructuring. A site closure. A leadership transition. Rapid growth. Whatever the change is, the hardest part is almost never the logistics. It's the people.
We help companies plan and execute complex transitions thoughtfully, making sure leaders are equipped before employees hear anything, that communication is clear and honest throughout, and that everyone on your team feels informed, respected, and supported from start to finish.
We've helped navigate some of the most high-stakes, emotionally complex transitions you can imagine. The companies that come out the other side intact aren't the ones facing the easiest changes. They're the ones that planned for the human side of it.
Good for companies navigating something big they've never been through before and leaders who don't want to figure it out alone.
HR Process and Program Design
Good HR processes don't have to be complicated. In fact, the best ones aren't.
We help companies build the HR processes, programs, and frameworks their teams actually need, sized for where they are and where they're going. Not the version designed for a 20,000-person corporation. Not a bloated system that takes three people to manage. Just the right processes, designed simply, so your team can focus on the work that matters.
This often includes performance management, onboarding programs, job architecture, compensation frameworks, and people programs that reflect your culture rather than a generic HR playbook.
Good for companies building their HR foundation for the first time or those whose existing processes have stopped working as they've grown.
HR Technology and Systems Support
Still running payroll on a spreadsheet? Using a PEO you've outgrown? Not sure what HR system your company actually needs?
We help companies get the right HR infrastructure in place. From evaluating and implementing an HRIS to launching in-house payroll, finding the right benefits plan, and transitioning away from a PEO when the time is right. We build it to be simple, sustainable, and sized for where your company is going.
This is genuinely rare work. Most HR consultants advise on strategy or administer existing systems. We build them from scratch, configure them correctly, and then help you define exactly what kind of HR hire you need to keep them running, so you're not paying a senior consultant rate for button-pushing forever.
Good for companies ready to bring HR in-house, move off a PEO, implement their first HRIS, or simply stop duct-taping their people operations together.
People Strategy and Organizational Design
Big-picture thinking about your people, your structure, and how to build an organization that grows without breaking.
This is the work that happens upstream of everything else. Before the messy situation, before the retention crisis, before the reorg that didn't go the way you hoped. We help founders, CEOs, and leadership teams think clearly about how their organization is structured, where the gaps are, and what needs to be built to support where the business is going.
Succession planning, org design, workforce planning, and people strategy. This is the work that prevents problems rather than just solving them.
Good for leaders who want a strategic thought partner to help them think through the future of their organization before it becomes urgent.
Leadership Coaching and Development
Most people become managers because they were great at their jobs. That doesn't automatically make them great at leading people. And when leadership is hard, everything else (culture, retention, performance, morale) gets harder.
We offer one-on-one leadership coaching for founders, CEOs, and managers who know they need a thought partner, a mirror, or someone who will tell them the truth. We call these mirror sessions: honest, direct conversations about intent versus impact, blind spots, and how to show up better for the people who work for you.
We also offer a six-course frontline leadership development program for companies investing in their managers. It's practical, human, and built for the real world, covering how to have hard conversations, give meaningful feedback, navigate change, and lead teams through growth.
Good for the leader who knows they need a partner, and the company that wants to invest in the people who manage their people.
Employee Relations and Difficult Conversations
Sometimes things go wrong. An investigation. A termination. A conflict that's been building for months. A situation nobody knows how to handle.
This isn't the work anyone loves. But it's some of the most important work we do, and we've done a lot of it. When something hard happens at your company, we help you navigate it with clarity, compliance, and care. We make sure leaders are equipped, processes are followed, and everyone involved feels heard and treated with dignity, regardless of how it ends.
We've seen every version of this, and we know how to hold the weight of it alongside you.
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Good for companies navigating a difficult employee situation and leaders who don't want to handle it alone.
Compliance with a Human Touch
All the things you're legally required to have that usually end up on a random shelf: Handbooks, job descriptions, policies, offer letters.
Here's the thing about compliance documents: they're written to check a box, not to actually communicate anything. We write them differently. We start by understanding your culture, your people, and what you actually want to say. Then, we make sure what's on paper reflects that.
A handbook written for your company is one your team will actually read. A policy that sounds like you is one people will actually follow. And almost every handbook engagement we take on leads to a deeper conversation about the company behind it.
Good for companies that need foundational HR documents done right the first time, and those whose existing documents haven't kept up with who they've become.
Custom Projects and Consulting
Have a people challenge that doesn't fit neatly into a category? Bring it to us anyway.
Some of our best work has come from a client saying "I'm not sure if this is an HR thing, but..." It usually is. And even when it isn't, we'll help you figure out what kind of help you actually need and connect you with the right person if that's not us.
Good for any leader with a people challenge they're not sure how to solve.
Not sure where to start?
That's exactly what a first conversation is for. We'll spend thirty minutes getting to know you and your business, asking questions, and giving you an honest assessment of what we think would help.