Fractional HR & people leadership
A strategic partner who rolls up her sleeves. I help growing businesses navigate the hard decisions, get HR right, and build a team that moves the business forward.
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When people work becomes business-critical
Maybe HR still lands on your desk. Maybe your team needs a seasoned partner. Or a sensitive situation needs careful handling. PeopleOS brings the leadership and practical support to help you move forward with confidence.
01 / Where I can help
The policies, conversations, and decisions that shape how your company works.
Get the essentials in order, with a partner who understands how they fit your business. Handbooks, policies, onboarding, offboarding, and practical guidance for a growing workforce.
Work with employment counsel where legal interpretation or specialist advice is needed.
Align roles, reporting lines, and leadership responsibilities with where the business is going. Navigate reorganizations and reductions in force with thoughtful planning, clear communication, and careful execution.
Make pay and advancement decisions you can explain. Build a compensation philosophy, salary bands, benchmarking approach, and promotion process that balance talent needs with business realities.
Give managers a clear way to set expectations, evaluate performance, and develop their teams. Run review and calibration cycles, identify future leaders, and plan for critical roles.
Bring experienced, independent judgment to sensitive workplace concerns. Structured interviews, careful documentation, and clear next steps, with discretion throughout the process.
Make the tools you already have work better together. Simplify recruiting coordination, onboarding, reporting, and follow-up with useful automation and AI, while keeping sensitive decisions with people.
02 / Experience in action
Experience as an embedded fractional partner and an in-house people leader.
Uscreen / Fractional leadership
Supported a reorganization and reductions in force, then helped build the frameworks for compensation, succession planning, promotions, and performance calibration.
Tropic / VP of People
Built recruiting infrastructure, compensation frameworks, and performance management through a period of rapid growth and the company’s Series B.
TaskRabbit / People operations & culture
Led people operations and culture for a distributed workforce across the US and Europe, including international compliance and the transition to remote work.
She made hard decisions when they were needed, but did so with transparency and empathy you don’t typically see.
Dave CampbellCEO & Co-Founder, Tropic
03 / Working together
An ongoing partner to you and your leadership team. I own the people priorities, work alongside your team, and follow through on the details.
For businesses that need senior HR leadership without a full-time executive.
A defined challenge, a clear scope, and work that gets delivered. Compensation, performance cycles, handbooks, organizational change, or an investigation.
For a specific need that calls for experience and execution.
A sounding board for decisions that shouldn’t sit on your shoulders alone. Practical guidance for founders, leaders, and existing HR teams.
For teams that need judgment, perspective, and a plan.
A more capable people function
AI is part of how I work. I use it to reduce repetitive coordination, organize information, and help teams make better use of their existing systems.
That creates more room for the work that depends on experience: coaching leaders, navigating sensitive issues, and making thoughtful people decisions.
Read my approach to AI in HR
04 / Meet your partner
I’ve spent my career at the intersection of people decisions and business decisions.
I’ve been the first HR hire, led international people operations, supported acquisition integration, and served as VP of People at a growing technology company.
Today, I bring that experience to founders and leadership teams through PeopleOS. I stay close to the business, ask the difficult questions, and do the work alongside you.
Let’s start with your business
If you know you need help with HR but aren’t sure what that should look like, let’s talk. We’ll discuss your team, the challenges in front of you, and where support would make the biggest difference.
Book a 30-minute conversationA practical starting point. No prepared brief required.