A steadily growing professional services firm which had just merged with another sizable firm was facing a succession dilemma. Their long-standing Managing Partner was ready to scale back and succession planning was not in place. Their top producer as well as a couple other partners were interested in the Managing Partner role. However, the incumbent…
The HR job market has never been this competitive or as fast moving as it is today. Our client presented a complex and time-sensitive requirements list… Chief HR Officer experience, successful transformation of the function within the healthcare and/or education sectors, Master’s degree, executive presence, and a diverse slate of candidates. And, complete the search…
The Superintendent of a 3,000 employee public school system had just been notified of the HR leader’s resignation after a short tenure. The organization was in the early-mid stages of a pivotal and very public transformation. Rapid development of HR capacity was integral to the organizational success and had been interwoven into the Operating Plan.…
A privately held, international, highly matrixed manufacturing conglomerate set a path for expansive growth and development of a hybrid structure corporate center from a formerly decentralized, holding company structure. They needed to find the right VP, HR and Organization Effectiveness for a successful growth strategy. Due to the prior challenges they had faced, The HRC…
One of the largest, global insurance companies had completed a recent, sizable merger and was actively looking to implement artificial intelligence (AI) to a much higher degree. They recognized that to effectively integrate the organizations and implement AI, they would need to complete a significant amount of strategizing, organizational redesign, executive coaching, change management, and…
A rapidly growing, global high tech manufacturer with strong R&D function, had been operating quietly and growing moderately on a sizable campus in Connecticut. Due to shifts in locations of production lines and substantially increased demand for products, their staffing needs were about to skyrocket from a level of thirty-five hires per year to sixty…
Sought out by the General Counsel who wanted to assure this new business owner of HR compliance for this established firm, we were also queried about our ability to help them create job descriptions and an employee handbook. In gathering information from the CEO, we learned that work was being bottle-necked with the owner’s directive…
The HRC was brought into a Fortune 500 utility to transform the performance of two dozen business line-supportive HR professionals and managers, most of whom were operating as transactional service providers. We conducted individual interviews with HR and non-HR executives to understand the organization’s needs and resistance to gains through HR. In partnership with the…
The Human Resource Consortium has devoted decades of its work to: unify organizations; create engaging cultures that serve as a compelling, competitive, strategic advantage; and develop organizations to become talent magnets. An organization’s culture is the single-most difficult and longest term competitive advantage an organization can create. Its culture must adeptly align with the organizational…
While reflecting on the start of this year’s holiday season, it’s brought to mind some additional thoughts on the topic of resilience. Since the Pandemic, many have been reading, learning, discussing, strategizing, and supporting this topic. Based on my personal and professional life experiences, I’ve come to believe that helping others to develop resilience is…