Fractional & HR Consulting

Work with us to implement your vision.

With over 14 years of experience leading, building, and nurturing teams in mission-driven organizations, we bring a people-first, results-driven approach to every engagement. Our work is centered on strengthening organizational capacity by aligning recruitment, onboarding, leadership, and communication with your mission and values.

Empathetic, strategic communication is at the core of our work. We specialize in developing customized solutions to fit your unique needs.

Our Talent Support Services

  • Fractional Talent Partner

    As your Fractional Head of Talent, we can help you fill gaps, strengthen your teams, and prepare for the future.

    Fractional leadership provides expert talent leaders for a fraction of the cost and time. Whether you need interim leadership or ongoing strategic support, we partner with organizations to design and implement people systems that drive retention, engagement, and long-term success.

    We can help you: build replicable recruitment systems, hire and onboard for key HR/People roles, develop customized onboarding processes for new hires, amplify your talent strategy, and more.

  • Leadership & Talent Development

    Practical, human-centered training and coaching programs for leaders to strengthen their skills, build trust, and lead with tools and empathy.

    We’ve coached over 400 leaders on advancing their skills in management, communication, feedback, conflict, burnout resilience, and much more.

    Our programs are unique to your needs and grounded in over 15 years of experience leading trainings for teams.

    We additionally offer individual coaching as part of group training programs or group coaching packages.

  • Conflict Resolution

    We help teams navigate sticky challenges, build healthy communication habits, and strengthen workplace culture through facilitation, mediation, and unique agreements. We provide customized conflict and communication programs to address the unique needs of your teams.

    Interpersonal communications are of the upmost important in todays world. Unfortunately, we can all get in our own way. We all have our own relationships to tension, conflict, and miscommunications.

    Conflict is inevitable; disconnection is not. We help your teams build strategies for engagement and processes to connect to collective agreements and purpose.

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Our Client’s Words

  • Alexander Léger-Small, Pantry Manager at the Northampton Survival Center

    After years of dormancy, Jessye brought our Program Committee back to life!

    Jessye worked directly with me to recruit new members and to begin the process of helping the Committee find its voice. Her specific, organization-based focus gave me the feeling that our Program Committee was the most important thing on her agenda. As I stepped into the staff leadership role on this Committee for the first time, Jessye’s calm, funny and approachable style brought a real spirit of collaboration and mission-focused problem solving - which is exactly what we needed.

  • Rev. Jo Murphy, Executive Director of UU Mass Action

    Jessye's training provided both personal support while also being rich in a presentation of different frameworks and approaches to leadership. Jessye was an excellent facilitator who both held and challenged the group.

  • Samba Diallo, Executive Director of the AIDS Project of Southern VT

    Do yourself a favor and schedule time to meet with Jessye. Her approach is to understand you and get to know you before telling you what you need to do, that made a huge difference for me. Understanding your strengths and skills, then helping you enhance them. We tend to doubt ourselves a lot of times, but Jessye was able to help me understand it is okay to have doubts and questions, but gave me the resources needed to move past them.

  • MB, Workshop Participant

    Wonderful. Informative and suggestive without judgment. It was helpful to have the visual aids to keep as reminders after leaving the seminar and going back into the world. I think more than other similar workshops, I will leave with mechanisms of keeping what I learned "alive" in my daily life.

  • Elena Sokolow-Kaufman, Executive Director of the Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition

    Jessye is extremely thorough, organized, and responsive. She approaches challenges very thoughtfully and strategically, and is willing to spend the necessary time with her clients to make sure she fully understands their needs. As an Executive Director of a very small nonprofit, I have found Jessye to be a valuable thought leader as well.

  • Heidi Nortonsmith, Executive Director at the Northampton Survival Center

    [Jessye] very quickly identified some needs that she could apply her professional expertise to, including guiding the board through a strategic visioning exercise, and helping us identify board resources and training to support our diversity, equity, and inclusion goals…Jessye brings a steady, holistic, and inclusive mindset to her work in guiding others with a refreshing absence of ego or territoriality. She motivates teams to work well together on achievable steps toward a shared vision.

  • Nicole Nelson, LICSW at Fenway Health

    Jessye’s training was fabulous; there was a super helpful balance of theory and practical skills. I walked away from the training with a better sense of what my areas of growth are as a new supervisor and learned some tangible skills to use with my supervisees, as well as strategies to use in my own supervision with my manager.

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