Agile HR Consulting
Are you developing a more adaptive, agile and resilient HR organisation? We are equipping your HR teams to to thrive in an ever-evolving business landscape. You’ve come to the right place when you need experienced support in…
- Refreshing your ways of working
- Adopting human centric design and mindset in HR
- Updating your HR strategy
- Redesigning your HR operating model
- Maximizing HR operational excellence
- Adopting AI into HR
- …or experienced HR leader facilitators for any HR workshops, events or planning sessions!
Our services - Build the future of work with us!
Modernise your HR approach with the support from our experienced HR leaders.
Agile coaching for HR
Get it right from the start!
Bring confidence into your Agile HR teams, and get this new way of working running well. Ensure your teams are not slipping back to the previous ways of working through our professional and experienced coaching.
- Kick off Agile HR teams
- Improve efficiency and wellbeing in more mature Agile teams
- Unblock agile HR teams, improve agile practices
- Bring human centered design into your HR teams
- Support for your in-house Scrum Masters and HR product owners
- Implement Agile team steering through JIRA, Kanban boards, setting up KPIs
Agile transformation in HR
From managing activities to delivering value
With our guidance your HR leadership team will scale agile across HR in the right order, with the right mindset. We’re the full stack Agile HR partner to guide you through the change.
- Agile HR leadership team development and coaching – leaders need a new mindset!
- Set up quarterly prioritisation and steering in HR.
- We’ll facilitate your big room planning events in HR.
- Evaluate Agile HR maturity through our assessment
- Design the change roadmap and scale an Agile HR model stepwise.
- Guiding you through HR’s role in Business Agile transformations
HR Strategy
Co-create that engaging north star with your team!
Establish clear frameworks and establish clear steering across your work streams to keep your team focused on what truly matters.
- We facilitate inclusive HR Strategy processes. Your people will feel alignment and clarity turning the strategy into goals and value streams.
- Let’s setup a quarterly planning and portfolio management in HR, to allow for having flexibility to meet business needs, and ability for resource re-allocation.
- Redesign and update your HR operating model and team structures to deliver more value, removing those silos!
- Set up your KPIs and reporting across HR teams, bringing transparency and enabling self-management in teams.
HR workshop facilitation and speakers
Engaging events facilitated by experienced and engaging HR leaders.
Planning a kick-off, workshop or any kind of session for your HR team? We’ll bring energy, inspiration and new content!
- Workshop facilitation for HR in any format and for any group size (in person, hybrid or fully remote)
- We’ve facilitated everything in HR: from big picture workshops such as vision and strategy, to operational efficiency, prioritisation and value stream mapping. We’ve done innovation workshops, hackathons and design sprints in HR. People analytics and AI workshops.
- We use interactive facilitation methods, such as gamified learning and Lego Serious Play, Agile collaborative activities and exercises so that participants stay active and engaged throughout the sessions.
Artificial intelligence in HR (AI in HR)
AI is the future of work both in the organisation and in HR
Establish clear frameworks and priorities for the adoption of AI in your company Usually HR people are careful and don’t think they have what it takes to understand AI. We speak the language of HR, and can help you enable AI adoption and capability build across your HR team.
- Facilitation to co-create the AI in HR strategy and roadmap.
- Prioritisation workshops for AI adoption in HR.
- Training HR folks in AI on introduction, practical and development level.
- Define the ethics of AI in HR and AI at work with our help.
- Set up your AI in HR KPIs for recording operational efficiency gains.
Operational Excellence in HR
Zoom in for efficiencies, cost saving and automation
Some HR folks can’t see the forest for the trees, being too deep into the details of their own role, loosing sight of the end-to-end value delivery chain. Some of them forget that they’re actually developing services for human beings. We’ll get you sorted!
- Facilitation of Lean Service Development workshops
- Combine human centered design to focus on user experience in your HR technology or HR/IS programs.
- Improve operational excellence through end-to-end value stream mapping and identifying top value improvements
- Cut HR process waste through lean HR process development
- Make smarter budgets, utilise resources and people’s time more effectively and identify cost saving actions.
Snapshot of our case studies
Customer: Thales
Customer: Global corporation in the hardware industry with 50.000 employees
Customer: VERO – Tax Authority in Finland, 3000 employees
Who we are?
We are that consultancy that we wanted as HR leaders. A trusted partner who doesn’t need hand holding. We’ll activate your team to thrive on their own. We’ll bring that structure and focus, aligning your team to bring their best.
Agile HR Community leverages the experience of consultants and coaches who are active HR leaders themselves. All of our trainers and consultants were first our customers!
Unlike traditional consultancies, our goal isn’t to clock in as many hours as possible, we won’t be spending time on irrelevant power points. Our unique model focuses on delivering maximum value in the least amount of time, living up to the Agile beliefs.
Explore a few of our people’s stories below, and check out of Team page for more profiles .
Riina Hellstrom
With over 20 years of experience as a CHRO and HR Director, I bring a wealth of expertise to complex changes and situations.
Founder of Agile HR Community and Author of the international Amazon bestseller “Agile HR”.
I work hands-on with clients to reshape the future of HR. I’m deeply engaged in driving large-scale change across global organizations, facilitating HR strategy, crafting new operating models, and guiding through the transformative potential of AI in HR.
Kate Rand
I’ve served as Chief People Officer for dynamic growth companies, and now I’m the CEO of a startup in the fashion industry in the UK.
HR Most Influential Practitioners 2021 and Mogul top 100 CHROs 2023.
I lead certified Agile HR classes and support organizations in adopting human-centered design in HR. Balancing my roles allows me to stay connected to the evolving landscape of HR while fostering meaningful change in the industry.
Jeff Entrop
As the Delivery Excellence Lead at a major international bank, I’ve been spearheading an Agile HR transformation and driving continuous improvement over the past eight years.
Agile Enterprise coach, Certified Business Coach and professional facilitator
It’s a joy to extend this expertise to the Agile HR Community’s clients, where I do training and coaching, primarily supporting our clients in Australia
We've trained professionals at
“This course has completely de-mystified agile HR for me. It is highly practical and has provided me with a wealth of tools and approaches to deploy when designing or improving people services or products. I feel much more confident in my approach having been on the course.”
Kate Taylor
HR Business Partner at National Deaf Children’s Society
Our programs score 4.5/5 with our participants
“The program has been a game changer for my way of thinking in both agile and non-agile situations. I could not recommend it enough, no matter what experience you have with Agile or HR!”
Georgia Barden
Strategic People Partner at Bupa
Industry Recognised Memberships
As proud members of SHRM and CPD, we are committed to aligning our courses with the standards of these prestigious accrediting bodies to offer you valuable course credits for your professional development.
Looking for in-house Agile training?
Our programs are loved by HR professionals, because of our hands-on learning, helping them to immediately adopt Agile practices and lead Agile in their organisations.
