A fine, an audit, or a letter arrived
Something informal finally caught up with the company, and now it has a deadline attached. The first job is finding out how far it goes — it is rarely just the one thing that surfaced.We start with: a full picture of where you’re exposed, what has to be fixed before the date, and what can wait.
Your HR lead just left, or is about to
Resignation, extended leave, or a role that never got backfilled. Work stops, nobody knows what was in flight, and hiring a replacement takes months you don’t have.We start with: coverage from day one, so the function keeps running while you decide what the permanent answer looks like.
You have HR, but nothing is getting built
The same issues keep surfacing in leadership meetings. Not because anyone is failing — because the day-to-day fills every hour, and building always loses to running.We start with: the two or three things that keep coming back, and we build them properly so they stop coming back.
The company outgrew how it’s been doing things
You hired your way from 100 to 400. Nobody wrote down what the jobs are, there is no path up, and the handbook describes a company that no longer exists.We start with: roles, levels, and what each one is accountable for. Everything else — performance, promotion, pay — depends on that being written down first.