Strategic HR Advisory & Consulting Services
I collaborate closely with clients to craft customized plans that address their specific objectives and challenges.
Whether it's a few hours of advising each month or up to 15 hours per week of hands-on consulting support, our partnership effectively supports the scope and needs of the project.
My approach is highly personalized
Advising
Solutions-focused sessions to help you
achieve your goals and grow as a leader.
Whether you’re navigating the people function for the first time, guiding the team through a transition, or looking to broaden your HR expertise, I am here to support you.
Consider me your trusted “phone a friend” and sounding board, committed to translating business objectives into effective people strategies. My focus is on fostering the growth of emerging talent and boosting the potential of seasoned leaders.
Typically catering to Series A to public companies, sessions are one-hour, bi-weekly meetings to ensure you make steady progress toward your goals.
Consulting
Strategic advice and hands-on operational support to drive tangible results and enhance team development.
Whether you’re striving to complete a crucial project, seeking senior-level expertise to augment your team, or aiming to improve leadership and team dynamics, I am your expert resource.
Consider me a seamless extension of your people team, focused on providing strategic insight and operational support to boost your organization’s impact.
Primarily desired for later-stage, pre-IPO, and public companies, my consulting services include up to 15 hours per week of committed support.
Areas of Expertise
People Strategy
Crafting strategies that align with business objectives, developing people roadmaps, setting metrics, building and integrating a people team, and preparing board materials.
Performance and Talent Management
Building high-performance cultures, designing and implementing performance and compensation programs, fostering talent development, and retaining top talent.
Organizational Design
Scaling for growth (or the opposite), structuring and reorganizing teams, managing business strategy shifts, and navigating team transitions (including international teams).
Organizational Development and Culture
Enhancing values and culture, engagement analyses with matching action plans, promoting cross-cultural teamwork, and helping foster inclusive environments.
Leadership Development
Coaching executives, assessing talent and succession planning, enhancing manager effectiveness, and developing leadership programs.
Business Partnership
Building effective relationships with senior leadership, implementing and refining HRBP models, and deepening strategic mindset and business acumen.
What it’s like to work with me
Tess Singha, Chief People Officer
“Working with Tanja for the past few months while serving on the executive team at Whatnot has been an amazing experience! Tanja is extremely thoughtful, brings a high level of intelligence and integrity to our conversations, and has a sense of humor that brings a bit of levity to even the toughest problems. Based on her experience advising so many other companies and C Suite executives, she is an excellent sounding board and integrates seamlessly with any People team. She brings significant experience to the table and also understands a wide range of complex business issues/environments.”
Caitlin Schlakman, Chief People Officer
“Partnering with Tanja has been invaluable! She is easily able to advise on both strategy and also work through the minutiae of complicated People challenges. She brings a thoughtfulness and practicality that only comes with having built so many programs in house and having seen first hand how organization's needs grow, change, and evolve over time. Her breadth of experience means there's almost no question she doesn't have a perspective on, and every time we feel smarter having her insight embedded in our approach.”
David Hanrahan, Chief People Officer
“I've had the good fortune to work with Tanja both as peer, leader, and in her consulting capacity and wouldn't hesitate to recommend her services. Tanja is stylistically very adaptable and astute at understanding the diverse perspectives of each leader she engages with and is incredibly sharp at designing and delivering highly effective solutions that are tailored for the culture and circumstances of the organization she is working with. Tanja is all about impact, as well, so I highly trust her instincts and proposals as far as being targeted for moving the needle on the things that are most important to the client.”
Justine Fenwick, Head of People