Consulting & coaching
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Equipping your HR teams to to thrive in an ever-evolving business landscape. When you want to take ownership of your outcomes, progress, and actions yourself, we are your partner.
If your team aims to enhance ways of working, embrace lean and agile practices, maximize operational excellence, transition to quarterly prioritization, incorporate Artificial Intelligence, AI into HR services, or revamp your HR operating model, you’re in the right place.
Our services
1. HR Strategy & HR Operational Excellence
Do you need to align your HR and business strategies? Want to run a whole new HR strategy design process? Many HR leaders face challenges with balancing annual planning with short term planning and steering models. In addition, teams want to do inclusive planning, but lack the know-how to facilitate it effectively. Perhaps you would need help with supporting your HR Business Partners, who must grow to become true strategic partners?
Establishing clear frameworks, setting goals, and organizing work streams are essential for keeping your team focused on what truly matters. Inefficient processes, inadequate tools, and the absence of actionable plans can hinder your ability to drive meaningful change. In times of cost-saving, cutting operational inefficiencies becomes critical.
Did you already establish your HR KPIs? How about utilising data and analytics, leading to confidence in measuring HR success and leveraging data to make more informed decisions?
We facilitate the People & HR strategy processes, lead the People stream within broader business strategy efforts, and plan the implementation roadmaps for HR strategies. Additionally, we’ll help you establish program-level steering and effective ways of working while building clear and impactful HR strategy communication
We offer expertise in developing and implementing KPIs in HR to effectively guide your teams, measure performance and drive results. Additionally, we specialize in crafting and executing people analytics and AI strategies in HR, ensuring that your organization leverages data-driven insights for smarter decision-making.
We will help your team improve efficiency across HR through Lean HR operations development, prioritization support, and cost-saving actions. Our approach streamlines processes, optimizes workflows, and identifies key areas for reducing expenses, ensuring that your HR function operates at peak efficiency while delivering maximum value to your organization
We collaborate closely with CHROs and HR leaders to refine strategies, enhance communication, and provide structure, particularly during challenging times. Recognizing that traditional HR teams often lack specialized skills in areas like AI, Agile methodologies, human-centric design, analytics, and digital transformation, we bring these critical competencies to the table. Our extensive experience, coupled with our expertise in budgeting, planning, program management, and digital tools, provides the strategic strength that many HR teams need but don’t always possess. Additionally, we offer personalized coaching and upskilling for HR executives, empowering them to lead with confidence and drive impactful change.
2. Agile HR coaching
Agile teams encounter similar blockers and challenges, they have similar needs in different stages of maturity, and we know them inside out. Whether your need is to kickstart a new agile HR team successfully, improve the maturity in an existing team, unblock teams that have some troubles, or improve performance and efficiency in a team, we’ll coach it. Does your Scrum Master or Product owner need support? Want to implement JIRA in HR?
Are your HR leaders truly onboard with “going agile?” Do you need to start quarterly prioritisation across HR, but it seems overwhelmingly difficult? Need experienced structure and facilitation for your big room planning in HR? We’ve been doing this for quite a while, we know what works and what doesn’t.
We’ll not just help you with your current need, we can foresee the next steps in building the Agile model across your HR operations.
By combining upskilling with team coaching, we help establish the team’s structure, cadence, and backlog management. We facilitate team events and drive continuous improvement through retrospectives. Our coaching focuses on building value and structure, with the goal of quickly stepping back, leaving behind a self-sustaining, high-performing Agile team that excels in their work
We elevate teams by implementing holistic and structured approaches to user-centricity, release planning, backlog refinement, and experimentation. Our focus on feedback and data-driven decision-making empowers teams to enhance their facilitation skills and deepen their product ownership. We guide and challenge teams to achieve higher levels of performance and accountability. By installing key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, we enable teams to become more self-driven and autonomous in their Agile journey
Paradoxically, one of the main blockers to Agility is often the leaders themselves. We work closely with HR leadership teams to shift behaviors, focus, and leadership styles, empowering Agile HR teams to thrive. Our guidance covers prioritization, capacity planning, resource allocation, value delivery, and KPIs, bringing transparency and trust to the operating model. This transformation enhances the ability to react, steer, and drive sustainable success.
We plan, prepare and facilitate big room planning, PI-planning, or quarterly planning events in HR, with up to 100 participants. These can be hybrid or in-person events.
As your HR team transitions to quarterly planning, you’ll encounter key questions around value streams, metrics, capacity, and team structures. Determining which items to prioritize in each portfolio, managing dependencies and blockers, and balancing existing products with new initiatives and operational demands are all crucial aspects of establishing effective Portfolio Management in HR. Implementing a solid portfolio approach for a medium-sized HR team typically takes 9-12 months. We’re here to upskill your team and guide you through this process, ensuring a smooth and successful transformation
3. Transformations and HR Operative models (ALT)
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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
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