I build better ways to work. And I took the scenic route getting here.
I’m an HR and HR technology professional with more than 10 years of experience working across private industry, federal programs, recruiting, HR operations, analytics and system implementation.
The professional version sounds neat when you put it in one sentence. The actual route involved horses, hospitality, government work, career changes, consulting, a lot of process maps and more cats than most corporate bios mention.
My dad ran his own consulting business, and I grew up watching someone turn knowledge into practical solutions for other people. I didn’t set out to follow that path, but somewhere along the way I ended up doing my own version of it.
People + systems + messy problems is pretty much my lane.
Keep Reading ↓Before HR, there were horses.
My first picture of adulthood looked nothing like an HR implementation. It involved horses, barns, animals and probably considerably less time staring at spreadsheets.
Farm life came first.
I grew up riding and competing with horses, with cats, a dog and barn life woven into everyday routines. Horses taught me patience, responsibility and how to adjust quickly when the thing with its own opinion weighs considerably more than you do.
Those years are still a huge part of who I am, which is why the bottom of this page eventually turns into a completely unnecessary Super Nintendo pet world.
Consulting was closer than I realized.
My dad owned his own consulting business. As a kid, I wasn’t studying his business model. He was simply Dad, working with clients and figuring things out.
Years later, I found myself working with leaders, untangling complicated processes and helping organizations turn problems into something people can actually use. Apparently I was paying attention after all.
Different jobs. A surprisingly consistent theme.
The industries changed. The problems I liked solving didn’t.
Operations & Hospitality
Where I learned quickly that work is rarely just about the task. It’s about people, expectations, competing priorities and what happens when the plan changes.
People, Process & Compliance
Federal and DoD work brought structure, policy, performance programs, recruitment, workforce data and high-stakes process improvement into the mix.
Systems Became the Connector
HRIS, analytics, workflow design and implementation gave me a place to combine what I liked most: understanding the people problem and then building a process or system that actually supports them.
Consulting & FoundHerHR
Today I work across HR technology and transformation while using FoundHerHR as a place to make HR, careers and complicated work problems feel a little clearer — and considerably more human.
I like the point where people and systems collide.
Process Improvement
I map the current mess, find where the friction lives and turn it into something people can consistently follow.
HR Technology
HRIS implementation, testing, data validation, analytics and configuration all make more sense when they’re connected to the real work people do.
Translation
One of my favorite parts of consulting is turning a complicated requirement, policy or technical problem into language people can actually understand.
Work is complicated enough already.
FoundHerHR grew out of my belief that useful HR doesn’t need to sound robotic, and useful career advice doesn’t need to pretend everyone followed a perfect five-year plan.
Careers change. Companies reorganize. Systems fail. Jobs disappear. People start over. I’ve experienced enough of those turns to care a lot about practical solutions that still remember there are human beings on the other side.
So this site gets to be both things: serious HR experience and a little magic. There can be federal compliance, HRIS implementation and process metrics on the same website that has pixel cats wandering around the footer.
Espurr & Ghost
Every small business needs strong leadership. Mine sheds.
SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Espurr
Gray tabby queen. Calm, observant and fully convinced she has been placed in charge of quality control.
INNOVATION DEPARTMENT
Ghost
White cat, green-yellow eyes and a much more experimental interpretation of workplace procedures.
Meet the Original Crew.
The professional biography ends here. The unnecessarily elaborate Super Nintendo tribute to the animals I grew up with begins below.
Welcome to the farm.
Hover over each animal to meet them. Click around to discover favorite things, questionable decisions and assorted farm chaos.
Childhood pets: permanently overqualified for supporting-character status.