How does your organization need to evolve?
The easiest time to put the right building blocks in place for your organization is before significant growth, before patterns and culture set in. Maybe it’s not the right time for a full-time senior-level hire for People & Culture (aka Human Resources). Hiring a Fractional Head of People enables you to access the strategic expertise and senior partnership at a fraction of the cost and commitment.
Fractional Head of People engagements are with Julia Velloso. If I’m fully booked, I’d be happy to connect you to others in my network.
Timing
The right time to bring on a Fractional Head of People may be when:
You’re 50-100 people, poised for further growth, and wanting more intentional focus and strategy on how you grow People & Culture
You’re growing beyond 20 people (the number that can “sit around a table”), especially when you anticipate growing at least 50% YoY.
You’d like senior-level partnership in thinking through organizational design, offsites, and strategic work
You have a temporary need to fill, either due to specific initiatives or to fill the gap left by someone on leave
“You can have the best strategy and the best building in the world, but if you don’t have the hearts and minds of the people who work with you, none of it comes to life.”
What does a Fractional Head of People do?
HR strategy & planning
Plan for growth - org design, succession planning, talent management
Hire well - review and improve talent acquisition, retention, employer brand
Help people succeed - feedback and review processes, healthy feedback culture
Develop people - build and deliver trainings to support current and future skill needs
employee relations & engagement
Start well - thoughtful onboarding processes to help joiners build confidence and succeed
Navigate challenges - expertise to tackle issues or coach investigations and team member concerns
Track progress - leverage tools to measure engagement and communicate our plans and progress
PEOPLE OPERATIONS & COMPLIANCE
Documentation is our friend - Create buttoned-up playbooks, handbooks, policies, and procedures
Inspire trust with solid compensation and benefits administration
Proactive data - Capture and analyze the right data (metrics, analytics); invest where it counts (Total Rewards)
Let’s Build Your Team Together
Our Impact
““[Our] Team is so grateful for the time and effort you put into our offsite. You have helped to guide us down a clearer path to successful communication and collaboration as a team!””
“When I first got to Airbnb, the marketing leadership team need a lot of help in terms of collective understanding of each other, psychological safety, vision and purpose. Julia worked with me to develop a robust and effective leadership team development program. She led the design of the program and co-facilitated all of my offsites. In a few short months I’m proud to say that the marketing leadership team at Airbnb became one of the most respected in Silicon Valley. Thanks in a huge part to Julia.”
“Thank you for hosting the workshop today. I really appreciate the opportunity to step back and reflect in a constructive way. I’m certainly more conscious of how I want to frame my work (and non-work) goals and how I can shape the path onward.”