Customized Services & Solutions

We design tailored engagements for our clients ensuring our work is differentiated to their unique context.

Strategic Partner

Accelerate results by gaining a trusted and tested deputy, enabling the time and space for executives to lead. Need to define or clarify your vision and priorities? Preparing to launch a new project? Wish you could offload some of the strategic oversight to someone? Unsure how you could possibly distribute the work? We can be your decision framer, project manager, and change agent all in one.

  • Fractional/Interim Leadership Capacity

  • Strategic Planning

  • Coaching & Advising

  • Goal Setting & Action Planning

  • Change Management Strategy & Execution

  • Leadership Team Design

  • Strategy and Project Management

Executive Recruitment & Hiring

Design and lead recruiting and hiring processes that reflect your organizational values while cultivating high-caliber talent.

  • Executive and Senior Level Full Cycle Search

  • Recruitment & Talent Pipeline Strategy

  • Hiring Process Audit & Design

  • A la carte Sourcing, Job Profile Creation, Interview Design, and more

  • Coaching & Support for Job Seekers

Organizational & Talent Development

Define or enhance your organization’s operating principles and talent philosophy to optimize engagement and results.

  • Evaluate and (Re)Establish Operating Rhythms

  • Fractional/Interim Leadership Capacity

  • Talent Strategy Audit & Design

  • Competency Framework Design & Implementation

  • Leader, Manager, and Individual Contributor Training & Advising

Unsure where to begin? We offer complimentary needs assessments to illuminate how we can partner to achieve your goals.

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  • "Erin is my go-to talent development thought partner. She has an uncanny ability to bring simplicity and ease to work that might otherwise feel hard or complex. With Erin you get great work that deeply considers your org's context - never cookie cutter. I have engaged with Erin in different work settings, and her value has always been to make my team's talent work - and our organization - stronger. I couldn't recommend Erin highly enough! "

    Sarah Brody

    Director, Human Resources at The Education Trust

  • "Erin has proven to be a trusted thought partner offering candid and strategic consultation in addition to running an efficient yet thorough hiring process. She is deeply committed to all phases of the recruitment process and leverages her existing skillset to understand the role you are recruiting for from all sides. Knowing that I can hand over a critical search to Erin has been a gift."

    Bridget Jancarz

    VP, Network Impact at StriveTogether

  • "Erin acted with dedication, flexibility, and willingness to plug in anywhere and everywhere to make it happen for us this year. I am so excited about the team we're fielding going into this school year and she bears the credit."

    Will Gardner

    Founder, Alma del Mar Charter Schools

  • "Your partnership helped me identify the best process to collect opinions, synthesize themes, and arrive at recommendations for the organization's continued success and growth. Your professionalism and commitment to the project were beyond reproach and quite refreshing. As the project wrapped up, I was left feeling confident in the next steps needed to facilitate a seamless and positive leadership transition over the coming year."

    Dr. Deidra Rausch

    Founder and Executive Director, The Cabin

  • "Erin helped me grow my confidence and skills in managing others in ways I could never have anticipated. She worked to help me build a strong team culture and shape my own managerial style to serve those with whom I work. The things I learned from Erin are at the center of my work today."

    Emily Gilbride

    Executive Director, Romero Academy Network

  • "Thank you so much for the consistent and transparent communication. I very much appreciate it; it's one of the things that has made being in the {organization's} hiring process an unusually fun and easy experience."

    Anonymous

    Recruitment Candidate

  • "Erin has been, and remains, a key recruiting partner and consultant for us. She grasps the complexity of our vision, our culture, and values and as a result has delivered exceptional, diverse candidates every time. "

    Bridget Jancarz

    VP, Network Impact at StriveTogether

  • "Erin helped us design our district staffing process and tools that enabled us to increase equity, efficiency, and rigor when hiring. Additionally, she embedded herself as a member of our team and provided support that helped us monitor our progress, address barriers, and optimize opportunities. "

    Dr. Ross Turpeau III

    Director, Talent Aquisition and Staffing at Cincinnati Public Schools

  • "As a candidate, I felt highly valued. You had a way of holding a neutral position as recruiter while also making me feel fully seen and valued in the process."

    Anonymous

    Recruitment Candidate

Project Samples

Summarized from real client engagements

  • Retained by a national nonprofit to add strategic capacity to the VP, People Experience on projects spanning performance management strategy, competency framework build-out, succession planning, manager training, and onboarding process for a largely distributed organization.

  • Hired by the Executive Director to provide executive capacity. Designed and operationalized a holistic consultancy aimed at informing, investing, and supporting businesses toward the adoption of equitable & inclusive policies and practices. Entrusted as strategic lead on defining and operationalizing key priorities, envisioning and fine-tuning the engagement cycle. Managed internal operations and communications. Engaged with key local and national stakeholders in the Executive Director's sted to increase brand awareness and support business development.

  • Partnered with the Director of Talent to set the strategic direction for the talent department at the district. Designed and facilitated training for central office employees to build knowledge and skills on effective goal setting, progress monitoring, talent development, and managing team effectiveness.

  • Led the Executive Director and Leadership Team through a short-cycle strategy and action planning engagement. Conducted surveys and focus groups of key partners to inform the landscape analysis. Facilitated a cadence of meetings to envision, design, and define core priorities and strategies for the organization. Outlined an implementation roadmap for execution and sustainability. Supported change management efforts through the design of a communication and engagement playbook.

  • Sought out by a national nonprofit to lead national recruitment campaigns and full-cycle hiring processes. Through an ongoing partnership we have yielded thirteen senior-level placements. Cultivated high-caliber diverse talent yielding a finalist pool that was over 60% diverse for each role. Retention of new hires after two years exceeded 80%.

  • Provide 1:1 support to job seekers through a suite of a la carte services tailored to individual needs. Recent engagements have included resume review, networking guidance, sourcing for open positions, interview preparation and coaching.

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