The HR work has outgrown the team.
You need experienced leadership, additional capacity or specialized expertise alongside the business.
A few questions. A clearer idea of what you need. Transparent pricing at the end.
Grounded Fit assessment
Set your headcount
How many employees does your organization have?
Pinpoint your needs
Select everywhere your business is feeling pressure right now.
How involved do you need us to be?
Choose the one that fits best.
Your actual monthly investment will depend on the mix of leadership, expertise, and capacity the work requires. Grounded will confirm the right model with you before any engagement begins.
Want to see how the Fractional model works?
Usually, something has changed.
Sometimes it's growth. Sometimes it's turnover, a gap in leadership, or work that's outpaced the team already in place. Either way, something needs attention.
What worked before isn't keeping up.
People issues are taking time away from running the business.
The team needs leadership, capacity or expertise it doesn't have today.
Payroll. Hiring. Benefits. Technology. Accountability. Maybe several of them.
What do you need right now?
You don't have to know what kind of HR support to ask for. Start with what's happening in the business.
We need someone experienced at the table.
Step into the leadership gap, work alongside your team, and help move the people side of the business forward.
Fractional HR leadership · Executive support · HR strategy · Team leadership
We've grown. What got us here won't get us through what's next.
Put the right structure, systems and practices underneath the business without building more than you actually need.
HR infrastructure · Roles and accountability · Policies · Technology · Benefits and compensation
Something works. Just not very well.
Get underneath the processes, systems and work that take too much effort, create risk or simply aren't working the way they should.
Payroll · Benefits · Hiring · HR operations · Technology and automation · Process improvement
The business is changing. The people side needs to change with it.
Bring experienced leadership and capacity to acquisitions, investment, restructuring, rapid growth and other moments of significant change.
M&A · Organization design · Workforce transitions · Change management · Restructuring
One leader doesn't have to know everything.
Your Grounded leader is backed by specialists across payroll, benefits, compensation, HR technology, HR operations, M&A, organization design and change. You get the leadership, capacity and specialized expertise the work requires, without hiring it all yourself.
For PE-backed companies, and the sponsors behind them.
More capability doesn't have to mean more fixed overhead.
Grounded can add experienced leadership, capacity and specialized expertise around a lean team, then flex as the needs of the business change. Grounded can also support a portfolio company directly, or step in where a sponsor needs experienced HR leadership, a rapid assessment, or focused work to stabilize and strengthen the people side of the business before a transaction, exit, or other significant change.
Without another permanent layer.
Without hiring every specialty.
As priorities and structure change.
What this looks like in practice.
They needed someone to run today while building tomorrow.
A global organization had a critical people function that had grown reactively. The work had to keep running, but the function also needed a clearer strategy, structure and way of operating.
Grounded stepped into interim leadership and day-to-day operations while simultaneously assessing and redesigning the function, strengthening the team, policies, processes, supplier governance and measurement along the way.
You shouldn't have to choose between keeping the work running and making it better.
They had an HR leader. He needed more capacity behind him.
A PE-backed company was operating with a lean team through significant cost pressure and organizational change.
Grounded stepped in alongside the existing HR leader, adding experienced capacity across workforce analysis, organizational change and the day-to-day work that needed to keep moving. As priorities shifted, the support flexed with them.
Sometimes fractional support isn't about filling an empty seat. It's about putting more capability behind the leaders already there.
Not sure what you need?
That's exactly what Grounded Fit is for.
Tell us a little about your business and what's happening. We'll help you see where Grounded could fit and what that support typically costs.
Transparent pricing. No sales call required.