An HR Practitioner,
Not Just a Consultant
I am a business-minded HR leader with 15+ years of experience helping organizations align people, culture, and performance to drive business results.
Effective HR partnership starts with understanding how the business operates. That is the perspective I bring to every engagement, whether supporting a 30-person startup or a 1,000+ employee organization.
Not Ready for Fractional Yet?
Start with a Focused Project.
Some companies start with a targeted project before moving to ongoing fractional support. Every engagement below is designed to deliver immediate, measurable value.
Evaluate where your HR stands today, identify compliance gaps and operational risks, and receive a clear current-state to future-state action plan.
Compliant, culture-aligned policies your team will actually read and use, built from scratch or modernized from what you already have.
Clear, accurate role definitions that attract the right candidates, set performance expectations, and support defensible compensation decisions.
Define what great looks like at every level so you can hire, develop, promote, and have performance conversations with clarity and consistency.
Replace outdated annual reviews with a continuous feedback culture built on clear expectations, ongoing conversations, and documented growth throughout the year.
Evaluate, select, and lead the rollout of the right HR technology for your stage so your people data is clean, accessible, and actually useful.
Assess whether your 1099 contractors are being misclassified as employees, identify legal and financial exposure before regulators do, and build a compliant framework that protects your business.
Audit current pay structures, identify compression or equity gaps, and build salary bands that are defensible, competitive, and aligned to your growth stage.
Redesign reporting structures, spans of control, and team layers during growth, acquisition, or leadership transitions to support operational efficiency.
Build a structured first-90-days experience that reduces early turnover, accelerates time to productivity, and sets the tone for your culture from day one.
Diagnose where your culture is today versus where it needs to be and build a practical roadmap that leadership will actually commit to and execute.
Support companies entering Latin American markets or managing bilingual workforces with culturally fluent, senior-level HR leadership in English and Spanish.
Results That
Speak for Themselves
Maria helped us build people systems that scaled with our business while protecting our culture. Practical, thoughtful, and incredibly effective during rapid growth.
Maria's guidance on compliance, performance, and leadership decisions gave us clarity and confidence during a critical phase of growth.
Working with Maria feels like having a seasoned internal HR leader without the overhead of a full-time hire. She brings structure, calm, and real results.
Ready to Simplify Your HR?
Let's Talk.
Book a complimentary 30-minute discovery call to explore whether fractional HR leadership is the right fit for your company, before people issues slow your growth.
Limited monthly availability to ensure senior-level support for every client.