People Services

Founders and Execs (including HR) often struggle with managing all the people/talent-related aspects of their day-to-day. They’re trying to run a successful business and it can be challenging to grow a business and make the best people team decisions at the same time. Just Ask Erika provides Founders, Execs and HR/People leaders with guidance and coaching. Erika can help you make informed decisions about how to lead and grow your talent. No topic is too big or too small.

Designing an organization that aligns with a company’s identity and what makes it successful means making thoughtful and sometimes difficult decisions along the way.  Managing change and understanding how business decisions impact staff are important components of how leaders can build trust with their employees.  

Erika has decades of business partnership and change management experience, including a Masters in Org Development that you can lean on when change is imminent, arguably all the time in a modern day organization.

The strategic process of identifying, attracting, developing, and retaining talented individuals within an organization.

Erika will partner with you to build out strategic programs in support of your talent and guide you every step of the way.

Manager and Leadership enablement play a central role in the success of organizations. Building this capability is crucial and a worthwhile investment. Erika can help you define manager expectations, craft leadership competencies, and support your manager community with relevant coaching and training.

People Ops contributes to organizational success and growth by optimizing various aspects of the employee experience and HR processes. Erika can help you focus on positive and productive work environments, employee engagement, and aligning your organization's people strategy with its overall business goals. This includes evaluation of your HR tech stack, HR programs and processes related to talent acquisition, onboarding, talent development, engagement, performance management and employee relations.

Navigating workplace concerns, sentiment and general employee relations can keep you up at night. Erika has been involved in her fair share of complex employee and workplace situations and can help you navigate the gray areas as a sounding board, advisor and coach.  She has experience in both union and non-union environments.

Ever consider a four day work week? Trying to make sense of your engagement survey scores? Want to improve on your DEI efforts? Whatever the challenge, Erika can be your creative partner in designing innovative approaches to enhancing your company culture and improving engagement.