We've been on your side of the table.
We've led HR inside large, complex organizations. We've owned the operations, transformations, technology, vendors and teams, and lived with the decisions long after implementation.
That experience shaped how we built Grounded.
Enterprise experience without the enterprise consulting model.
Where can we help?
When the way HR works needs to change.
We help HR leaders rethink how work gets done across the function, from strategy and structure through service delivery and day-to-day operations.
HR strategy · Operating model · Shared services · Service delivery · HR operations · Roles & accountability · Process design · Governance · Vendor strategy · Metrics & performance
When technology should be making HR better, not just different.
We help leaders make smarter decisions about where technology, automation and AI belong, and make sure the operating model, processes and people evolve with them.
HR technology strategy · Platform optimization · Workflow · Automation · AI-enabled operations · Implementation · Governance · Human assurance
Automating a process doesn't eliminate accountability. It changes where accountability needs to sit.
When the programs employees rely on need to work better.
From payroll and benefits operations to compensation and vendor performance, we help strengthen the programs, processes and partnerships that have to work every day.
Global payroll · Payroll operations · Benefits · Compensation · Vendor management · Controls & governance · Process improvement · Employee experience
Employees experience these programs one person at a time. The operation has to work at scale without forgetting that.
When the business changes shape, the organization has to change with it.
We help leaders make deliberate decisions about structure, work, roles and workforce through growth, transactions, restructuring and other significant business change.
Organization design · Workforce strategy · Workforce planning · Roles & capabilities · M&A due diligence · Integration · Restructuring · Workforce transitions
An org chart can show you where people sit. It can't tell you whether the organization will work.
When the decision has been made. Now it has to work.
We help turn strategy and design into operating reality, staying close through implementation, change and stabilization rather than treating go-live as the finish line.
Program execution · Program leadership · PMO · Implementation · Change management · Stakeholder readiness · Stabilization · Capability transfer
We know what happens after the recommendation.
Because we've been responsible for what happens next.
The people helping shape the answer stay involved in making it work.
People, process, technology, data, vendors and governance aren't afterthoughts.
One senior operator when that's enough. A broader team or specialist expertise when it isn't.
Clear ownership, knowledge transfer and sustainable ways of working are part of the engagement, not closeout activities.
The work rarely fits neatly in a box.
Neither do we. Grounded brings together the experience the work requires, from senior HR leadership to deep functional and geographic expertise.
The operation couldn't stop while the function was being rebuilt.
Grounded stepped into a critical HR operation that needed immediate stability while its structure, roles, processes and service model were being redesigned.
Operational leadership · Operating model · Organization design · Process · Vendor governance · Implementation
You shouldn't have to choose between running today's operation and building tomorrow's.
The org chart was only the beginning.
Grounded worked alongside HR and business leadership through significant organizational change, bringing together organization design, workforce data, role clarity, leadership support and execution.
Organization design · Workforce analysis · Change · Leadership support · Execution
The org chart is only one part of organization design. The real work is making the organization function.
Payroll concerns were creating compliance risk and frustration for the business.
Grounded brought in specialized international payroll expertise from our network to help address the work where that experience was needed.
Global payroll · In-country expertise · Operations · Controls · Problem solving
Bring us the problem.
You don't need to have the scope figured out. Tell us what you're trying to solve, change or build. We'll bring the right Grounded experience to the table.