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For HR Generalists and Specialists in the first 1 to 3 years.
Build confidence around employee relations, basic compliance, hiring, and how to actually have the hard conversations.
Real World HR Advisory
Practical HR leadership, coaching, and toolkits for small businesses and people leaders who need real answers, not theory. Built from 20+ years of senior HR experience across construction, tech, entertainment, and global growth.
When a business grows past 30, 50, 100 people, the informal "we figure it out" approach stops working. You need real HR judgment in the room, but you don't need a six-figure executive on the books yet. That's where I come in.
Most small businesses don't fail at HR because they ignore it. They fail because they import textbook frameworks that don't fit their stage, their margins, or their people. Fractional HR through Real World HR Advisory means I sit alongside the business, diagnose what is actually broken, and build only what the business needs to run cleanly.
Most HR people learn by stumbling through hard conversations no one prepared them for. Coaching shortens that curve and gives you a senior partner to think out loud with.
Whether you are stepping into your first HR Generalist role, navigating your first executive table, or quietly trying to figure out if HR is even the right path, one-on-one coaching gives you a private space to work through it. No judgment, no jargon, no performance.
For HR Generalists and Specialists in the first 1 to 3 years.
Build confidence around employee relations, basic compliance, hiring, and how to actually have the hard conversations.
For HR Managers and senior generalists moving into leadership.
Manage up, influence without authority, run investigations cleanly, and present to executives without losing the room.
For HR Directors and Heads of People preparing for VP and CHRO roles.
Strategic positioning, board-ready communication, building HR infrastructure from scratch, and navigating PE or high-growth environments.
Every toolkit started as something I built inside a real HR function for a real business problem. No textbook templates. No filler.
Manager-ready scripts, prep worksheets, and follow-up templates for the conversations no one wants to have.
View on Payhip →30-60-90 day plans, welcome packets, manager checklists, and feedback loops that don't get skipped.
View on Payhip →Review templates, calibration guides, and feedback frameworks built for small teams that don't have time for theater.
View on Etsy →A real handbook structure with policies you'll actually use, not 80 pages of legal copy no one reads.
View on Etsy →Not every team has a budget. Some HR things should just be free, especially for the people doing the hardest jobs with the least support.
One page, four scripts, ready before your next 1:1.
What to do in week one when you've just been promoted.
Discreet, lawful, humane. Everything in the right order.
How to handle the raise conversation without making it weird.
MS, Human Resources, Villanova University
BBA, Nova Southeastern University
Bilingual (English & Spanish)
"I built this practice for the people I have been: the small business owner without an HR partner, the new HR generalist with no playbook, and the manager about to walk into a conversation they've never had before."
I've spent 20+ years building HR functions inside companies most people only read about. Magic Leap at peak hypergrowth across six countries. Mosaic Companies. NBCUniversal. Booker Software. Vault.com. And now, a PE-backed multi-brand construction platform where I'm building HR infrastructure from scratch across 16 states.
I've sat across from CEOs, founders, employees in crisis, and boards that don't understand HR. I've designed compensation programs, navigated F-1, J-1, H-1B, and O-1B visa work, run investigations, integrated acquisitions, and rebuilt benefits in places where the previous answer was always "we'll figure it out later."
Real World HR Advisory is where I bring that experience to small businesses and HR professionals who need a senior partner, not another vendor.
Also available for speaking, workshops, and leadership offsites. Reach out below.
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Most engagements start with a 30-minute discovery call. No deck, no pitch, just a real conversation about what's working, what isn't, and whether I'm the right fit.