The engagement

From assessment to the boardroom

One model that carries HR strategy from diagnosis through delivery, then into ongoing governance. Every engagement starts with the assessment, because a roadmap written without one is guesswork.

01 — ASSESSMENT

Where you actually stand

A rigorous read on your HR function today — culture, process, systems — measured against where the business is headed, not industry averages.

  • Stakeholder interviews and policy review
  • Benchmarking against comparable organizations
  • A findings report leadership can act on immediately
02 — STRATEGIC ROADMAP

A plan built to be used

Priorities, owners, and dates — not a slide deck. A roadmap sized to your budget that survives contact with the business.

  • Quick wins separated from multi-quarter change
  • Budget-aware sequencing and defined metrics
  • A leadership alignment session to confirm the plan
03 — IMPLEMENTATION

In the room until it's done

We don't hand off a plan and disappear. Our team stays embedded through rollout, solving problems as they surface.

  • Hands-on program support and manager coaching
  • Change management and internal communications
  • Regular checkpoints against the roadmap
04 — BOARD PARTICIPATION

Governance-level judgment

A senior HR voice in board and leadership meetings — for the people decisions too important to guess at.

  • Recurring board updates on culture and workforce risk
  • Counsel on major people decisions — M&A, restructuring, leadership transitions
  • Experienced HR judgment without a full-time hire

Workforce & People Strategy at board level

Our HR advisors bring culture, talent risk and workforce strategy into governance conversations, informed by the same assessment and roadmap work done with your team.

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New markets

Opening an office is a culture problem wearing a compliance costume

The paperwork is the part everyone plans for. The part that decides whether the office still exists in two years is whether anyone there feels like they work for the same company as you. We handle both, and we are candid about which one is harder.

The country landing checklist

What we work through with you
Before you commit

Decide, then sign

  • Country shortlist scored on talent depth, cost, language and time-zone overlap
  • Entity versus employer of record, costed over three years rather than three months
  • Employment law read: notice, probation, termination, severance
  • Salary benchmarks and the benefits that are statutory versus merely expected
  • An honest view of what your current culture will and will not survive
First 30 days

Stand it up

  • Country lead defined, sourced and interviewed with you in the room
  • Local recruiters, universities and communities worth knowing, introduced
  • Contracts, payroll and benefits live and tested with a real payslip
  • Onboarding rewritten for local norms instead of translated from headquarters
  • Working agreements: hours, holidays, meeting times that respect both offices
First 90 days

Make it a team

  • Office rituals that start locally rather than being exported from head office
  • A calendar built on local public holidays and the months the country stops
  • Team activities, offsites and the budget that makes them actually happen
  • A feedback channel back to headquarters that someone is accountable for reading
  • Retention read at 90 days, while a bad hire is still fixable

Culture is the part that does not translate

August in Spain. Works councils in Germany. Dutch directness a US manager reads as hostility. Consensus in Japan that looks like delay from Chicago. We name the specific frictions your team will hit, before they turn into resignations in month five.

Office culture, built locally

A new office inherits whatever you fail to design. We help set the rituals that make it feel like somewhere people belong: how the week opens, how wins get marked, how the office relates to headquarters without being run by it.

Recruiting in a market you do not know

The best candidates in Warsaw or Lisbon are not on the job boards you use at home. We bring the local recruiters, university relationships and professional communities worth knowing, and tell you what a strong CV looks like there.

Team activities and belonging

Offsites, onboarding weeks, and the small recurring things that decide whether a remote office feels like a branch or an outpost. Including the ones that work in that culture rather than the ones that work in yours.

The first leadership hire

The country lead sets the tone for everyone hired after them, and hiring that role remotely from headquarters is where most expansions quietly go wrong. We define the role and sit in the interviews.

Employment law that binds you

Notice periods, probation, termination and severance differ sharply by country. We tell you what you are signing up to before the first offer goes out, not after a dispute.

Entity or employer of record

The right answer depends on headcount, timeline and how permanent the presence really is. EOR that looked cheap at two people rarely still does at fifteen, so we cost both properly.

Pay and benefits that land

A competitive offer in Warsaw looks nothing like one in Austin. Benchmarks, statutory benefits, and the ones nobody legislates but everybody expects.

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