Practitioner-built HR
We’ll make HR
make sense.
Helping HR professionals and business leaders navigate employee relations, compliance, and workplace issues with confidence.
Who we help
Start from your side of the desk.
Workplace issues rarely arrive with instructions. Whether you’re an HR professional navigating a difficult employee matter or a business leader facing an unfamiliar challenge, start from your side below. We’ll meet you where you are and help you move forward.
For HR & Employee Relations professionals
Build the skills and the paper trail.
On-demand training and editable toolkits from a practitioner who has run these processes for 17 years.
- Applied HR: Employee Relations in PracticeFive on-demand courses. 5 SHRM PDCs and 5 HRCI hours.
- ER toolkitsInvestigations, manager documentation, and ADA accommodation.
- Investigation summary reportFree when you subscribe to the Applied HR newsletter.Free
For business owners & leaders
Get the hard stuff handled.
When a workplace issue is too sensitive, too complicated, or too important to improvise, we step in.
- HR strategy sessionOne issue, one 60-minute conversation, a plan to leave with.
- Workplace investigations & ERComplaints, misconduct, discipline, and the documentation behind them.
- Fractional HRA senior HR leader on retainer, without the full-time hire.Limited
- Projects & leadership developmentCompensation, retention, HRIS, org design, and manager training.
Useful on either side
Crossing over is allowed.
The conduct course works for anyone who manages people, and the toolkits work whether you run HR or run the whole business.
Managing Conduct and Performance
Learn how to fairly manage your people and ensure your business is protected when you do.
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Ready-to-use toolkits
Handbooks, hiring, onboarding, leave, and investigations. Editable Word and Excel files with guides so you can immediately use them.
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“Laura is an excellent trainer, mentor, and role-model. We invited her back to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to present in our District Leadership Development Program several times because her sessions were impactful and very useful for our staff. Laura has an ability to connect with the room and deliver guidance people can use immediately.”Faith Durden, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Describe the unique situation you’re facing, and we’ll find a solution together.
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