The Foundation Brain
When you partner with us, no matter for which of our services, you get a VP of People working with your business, alongside the rest of the Foundation team in your corner, contributing behind the scenes.
This allows you to unlock the Foundation Brain; tapping into the experience, knowledge bases & resources that come from designing, building & delivering progressive & impactful People practices for many of the most progressive companies worldwide.
What we do
Not all technology companies have the financial resources, capacity, or experience to tackle the challenges of scaling a business and driving performance.
A world-class People, Culture & HR operation is instrumental for this. We’ve built a blended service so companies get the experience and support—both strategically and day to day—that they need to build an exceptional business.
Advise
Advice & guidance from one of our VPs of People as and when you need it - for anything Strategy, People & Culture, HR or Leadership
You're a small company that either is thinking about your seed round or just closed it. You’re conscious you don’t have the expertise internally to build the structures, processes and culture you really want but realise that this is important to get right early. You’re too early to need a full-time People person. This service supports you and your leadership team.
- Strategic advice
- Advising on HR challenges
- Sharing of knowledge base
Engage
A fractional VP of People as part of your team to build & deliver your People strategy and to design & implement great practices to drive performance
You're planning on growing or have grown quite a bit recently. You realise there’s quite a lot to do internally, but don’t have the bandwidth, senior expertise or operational resources to design it or build it. You want to invest in some strategic support and operational delivery without the fixed overheads to get you moving in the right direction.
- Strategic advice
- Advising on HR challenges
- Sharing of knowledge base
- Deep Dive Discovery
- Creation of People Strategy
- Designing, building and implementing of People & Culture practices and processes
Embed
A fractional People team ranging from our VPs to our associates - leading on strategy, design, implementation & day-to-day running of your People Ops & HR
You’re professionalising your environment as you’re 50+ people. You recognise the need for a full people function as you want strategic and operational support. However, cost is still on your mind. We provide a blended resource model that solves this problem. At some point when you get large enough you’ll need a full-time people function and we’ll help you build it.
- Strategic advice
- Advising on HR challenges
- Sharing of knowledge base
- Deep Dive Discovery
- Creation of People Strategy
- Designing, building and implementing of People & Culture practices and processes
- Day-to-day management of People Operations
We can help with all of the following either at an advisory, engaged or embedded level…
Deep Dive Discovery
- “MOT” - exploring current to understand scalability & impact on performance
- People Experience Survey - feedback from your team
- Stakeholder 1:1s - uncovering priorities & challenges
- Leadership Team Workshop - aligning on what culture you need to mitigate challenges & achieve your goals
Organisational Design
- Organisation Structure
- Leadership team hiring & onboarding
- Culture Design
- Levelling
- Goal setting (company, team & individual)
Culture
- Values and behaviours
- Communications
- Employee engagement
- Wellbeing
- D&I - a lens of inclusion is threaded through everything we do
Talent Attraction & Acquisition
- Employer Brand
- Hiring processes
- Talent Sourcing methodologies
- Interview training
- Offers & Contracts
Performance
- Performance enablement
- Performance management
- Performance reviews
- Progression frameworks
Reward & recognition
- Pay philosophy
- Pay review process
- Pay benchmarking
- Benefits
Onboarding
- Designing onboarding practices
- Pre-start
- Day 1
- Months 1 to 3
Learning & Development
- Learning & development strategy
- Leadership & Management Development
- Career conversations
- One-to-ones
HR Frameworks
- Exits & restructures
- Policies & Processes
- People Data Capture
- Tooling eg: HRIS, ATS, etc