HR Partnership Built Around What Your Organization Actually Needs
Fractional HR leadership for growing organizations that need experienced guidance, added capacity, or a trusted partner to help navigate the people side of the business.
Whether you need ongoing HR partnership, senior-level support for your existing team, or help through a specific challenge, Stone & Branch meets you where you are and helps you figure out what comes next.
Flexible HR Support, Without a One-Size-Fits-All Model
Not every organization needs the same level of HR support. Some need an experience partner at the leadership table each month. Others already have HR staff but need senior guidance. And sometimes, there’s simply a project or situation that requires expertise you don’t have internally.
Ongoing senior-level HR support without adding a full-time HR executive.
I work alongside your leadership team as an extension of the organization — advising on people decisions, supporting managers, strengthening HR practices, navigating employee issues, and helping your HR function keep pace with the business.
Best for: Growing organizations that need consistent, experience HR leadership but don’t need — or aren’t ready for — a full-time senior HR hire.
Fractional HR Partnership
Senior HR expertise when your existing team needs another level of support.
Already have HR? I can partner with your HR professional or leadership team to provide coaching, strategic guidance, additional capacity, trainings, or expertise for complex situations.
Best for: Organizations with internal HR resources that need senior-level backup, coaching, or specialized support.
HR Advisory & Team Support
Focused support when something specific needs to get done.
From HR assessments and compliance projects to HRIS implementation, leadership development, restructuring, process improvement, or organizational change, I can step in for a defined need and help move it forward.
Best for: Organizations facing a project, transition, growth period, or challenge that requires experience HR leadership without an ongoing engagement.
HR Projects & Organizational Change
What’s Getting in the Way of Better?
People problems rarely stay neatly inside HR. They affect leadership, operations, growth, culture, risk, and ultimately the business itself. My work may start with an HR challenge, but it doesn’t stop there.
Here are some areas we can tackle together…
HR Leadership & People Strategy
When the people side of the business has become too important — or too complicated — to handle “as needed”.
Maybe you’ve grown beyond informal HR. Employee issues are becoming more complex, managers need guidance, documentation is inconsistent, compliance questions keep coming up, or leadership simply needs someone experienced to call before making a difficult people decision.
I can help with:
Fractional HR leadership and ongoing HR partnership
Employee relations and workplace concerns
HR assessments and compliance reviews
Policies, handbooks, documentation, and SOPs
Performance management and corrective action
Recruiting, onboarding, and retention
Compensation, benefits, and HR practices
Multi-state employment considerations
HR systems, infrastructure, and HRIS
Building or strengthening your internal HR function
You might need this if:
“HR keeps landing on my desk, and I’m not sure we have the right structure — or expertise — in place anymore.”
Leadership & Manager Development
When good employees become managers — but no one taught them how to lead.
Your managers may know the business inside and out, but managing people requires a different skill set. Difficult conversations get avoided. Expectations aren’t clear. Employees receive different answers depending on which manager they ask. And eventually, leadership spends too much time putting out fires.
As your HR partner, I can help strengthen the people leading your organization through:
Manager coaching and development
Practical leadership tools
Difficult conversations and employee issues
Communication and accountability
Performance management
Team effectiveness
Role and responsibility clarity
Succession and leadership planning
You might need this if:
“Our managers are great at what they do. Managing people is where we’re struggling.”
People Systems & Organizational Effectiveness
When work is getting done — but it’s harder than it should be.
Growth has a way of exposing what used to work. Responsibilities overlap. Processes live in someone’s head. Employees create workarounds. Communication breaks down between teams. Leadership becomes the bottleneck for decisions that shouldn’t require leadership at all.
I help identify the people, structure, and process issues getting in the way and build more practical ways of working through:
Organizational and HR assessments
Role clarity and accountability
Workflow and process reviews
SOP and documentation development
Organizational structure
Communication and handoff improvement
Identifying gaps, duplication, and inefficiencies
Turning informal practices into scalable systems
You might need this if:
“We’re getting everything done, but it shouldn’t be this difficult.”
HR Support Through Growth & Change
When the organization is changing faster than your people practices can keep up.
Growth can also expose problems that weren’t noticeable when the organization was smaller. Roles change. Teams expand. New leaders come in. Responsibilities shift. Systems stop working. And sometimes the organization simply outgrows the way it has always operated.
Change isn’t always growth, either. Restructuring, acquisitions, leadership transitions, workforce changes, and difficult organizational decisions all require thoughtful people leadership.
I can help with:
Workforce and organizational planning
Organizational restructuring
Change management
Acquisitions and workforce integration
Leadership transitions
Roles and organizational design
Preparing HR practices for growth
Identifying organizational risks and gaps
Communication and implementation planning
You might need this if:
“We’ve grown, but our people practices and structure haven’t grown with us.”
Already Have HR? I Can Help There, Too.
Fractional HR support isn’t only for organizations without an HR department.
Sometimes an HR coordinator, generalist, or manager needs an experience sounding board. Sometimes leadership needs additional perspective for a sensitive employee situation. And sometimes the internal team simply doesn’t have the capacity to take on another major initiative.
I can work alongside your existing HR team to provide senior-level guidance, coaching, project support, additional capacity, or an outside perspective when the situation calls for it.
Your HR team stays your HR team. I help make them stronger.