We provide expert administration and proactive support to ensure your HR functions are efficient and strategically aligned with your business goals.

• HR, Leave & Benefits Administration: Guidance on management of all employee programs, including FMLA/ADA tracking, payroll processes, and benefits administration. We foster positive employee relations and ensure day-to-day HR operations run smoothly.
• New Hire Processes: Hiring Team Training, Onboarding, Benefit Enrollment, and Orientation.
• Mentoring: Guidance for New Human Resource Directors or Managers.Mentoring: Provide guidance and support to newly appointed Human Resource Directors or Managers.

We provide fiscal and operational training, budget development, benefit reconciliations, and collective bargaining support and best practice reviews—boost efficiency and ensure long-term fiscal health and expert support for overworked fiscal and IT departments.

• Payroll Audits & Process Optimization: Comprehensive reviews of payroll cycles to ensure accuracy, tax compliance, and proper internal controls.
• Budget Development: Creation of single or multi-year staffing and/or technology budgets that align with revenue forecasts and operational goals.
• Benefit Bill Accounting & Reconciliation: Monthly auditing of insurance and benefit invoices against payroll deductions to eliminate overpayments and ensure data integrity.
• Vendor Contract Auditing: Reviewing recurring service contracts (IT, Benefits, HRIS) to identify cost savings and ensure service-level agreement (SLA) compliance.

Expert guidance for managing unionized environments while fostering stable labor-management relations.

• Bargaining Table Support: Provide financial calculations for financial proposals, draft land review language proposals, assist with bargaining sessions, mediation, and/or fact-finding preparation in coordination with your in-house negotiating team and chief negotiator/legal counsel.
• Positive Employee Relations: Consulting on engagement strategies to maintain a direct and productive relationship with the workforce.

Deep-dive internal reviews to ensure your organization is insulated from regulatory penalties and prepared for formal audits.

• Payroll & Accounting Practice Reviews: Internal reviews of wage and hour practices, FLSA classifications, and payroll accounting.
• I-9 & Immigration Documentation Support: Detailed internal review of Employment Eligibility Verification forms to ensure “audit-ready” files.
• Grant Compliance & Reporting: Specialized support for nonprofits and governments to meet documentation standards required by federal or state grants.
• Policy Alignment: Reviewing internal protocols against evolving mandates for final review by legal counsel.

Specialized operational support for Vermont School Boards and Superintendents to ensure compliance with Agency of Education (AOE) mandates and local statutes.

• HHB (Hazing, Harassment, and Bullying) Review: Expert internal review and administrative support for HHB investigations and procedural compliance.
• Budget Development & Management: Partnering with business managers to develop staffing and IT budgets for annual budget preparation and collective bargaining.
• Policy & Procedure Development: Assist with the development and review of local board policies and coordinating administration procedures aligned with Vermont statutory requirements.  Desk reviews for procedural complaints.  Independent hearing officer for student and/or employee matters.
• Supervision & Evaluation Training: Specifically for school administrators on distinguishing between instructional performance (evaluation) and misconduct (discipline).

Bridging the gap between human capital and technical infrastructure.

• Outsourced CTO Services: High-level technical leadership, IT infrastructure strategy, and digital roadmap development.
• Managed IT (MSP) Oversight: Acting as a “Client Advocate” to manage third-party IT vendors, ensuring security requirements and service level agreements (SLAs) are met.
• AI Integration & Governance: Developing “Acceptable Use” policies and identifying automation opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
• HRIS & Payroll System Implementation: Guidance on selecting and deploying software that integrates benefits, leave, and accounting.
• Data Privacy & Cybersecurity: Protecting sensitive data through enterprise-grade security protocols and disaster recovery planning.
• Project Management: Small and large-scale project planning, oversight, and management

Moving organizations from project execution to long-term excellence.

• Cross-Functional Project Leadership: Orchestrating initiatives that require a blend of HR, Finance, Technology, and Legal operational oversight.
• Leadership Mentoring: One-on-one mentorship for emerging HR, Finance, and Tech leaders to bridge the gap between technical skill and executive strategy.
• Business Operations Optimization: Analyzing workflows to improve efficiency and reduce “technical debt.”
• Outsourced Executive Partnership: Serving as a long-term strategic sounding board for business owners and C-suite officers.

• Management & Supervisory Training: Equipping leaders with a “Manager’s Toolkit” for performance coaching, documentation, and labor relations.
• Supervision & Evaluation Training: Specifically for school administrators on distinguishing between instructional performance (evaluation) and misconduct (discipline).
• Compliance & Technical Workshops: Sessions on documentation best practices, leave administration, and cyber-hygiene.