Our founders have negotiated labor contracts, managed 30,000-person workforces across six continents and 30+ countries, and walked the floor at 5am on Saturday. We built this firm for industrial and manufacturing companies (PE-backed platforms, mid-market operators, and the executives who lead them) because that experience is exactly what this work requires.
Who we serve
We work primarily with manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services companies, and the leaders inside them. Our founders have managed HR at scale inside these environments. We know what breaks, why it breaks, and how to fix it before it does.
You’re scaling fast, integrating an acquisition, or executing against a value-creation plan that didn’t come with an HR roadmap. You need a partner who has operated at this pace before and can stand up workforce infrastructure, manage labor risk, and translate people strategy into outcomes your board and operating partners can measure.
See how we de-risk the planYou run a complex growing operation and your HR function hasn’t kept pace with where the business is going. You need senior counsel without a senior hire: someone who has managed workforce compliance, labor relations, and organizational design at scale and can plug in to the business quickly.
Get senior HR counselYou’re accountable for workforce decisions that shape the business including the HR processes that support the business. You need a partner who understands operations, speaks plainly about risk, and will tell you what your HR team may not be saying. We’ve sat in that seat and been accountable for results from that seat.
Get a straight read on your riskYou’re leading HR inside a unionized plant, a post-acquisition integration, or a workforce undergoing rapid change. You need a thought partner with deep labor relations, compliance, and transformation experience who has held your role in tough conditions.
Find your thought partnerThe founders
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Ellen Hudson is a human resources and organizational effectiveness leader with more than 20 years of experience building high-performing HR functions inside complex, operationally demanding organizations. Her career spans manufacturing, industrial, and large-scale service operations including Stanley Black & Decker, Cox Communications, and Charter Communications.
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Becky Beamish is a strategic HR and workforce advisor who helps industrial and manufacturing companies solve the leadership, labor, and workforce challenges that directly impact operational performance. She has led HR across union and non-union environments in more than 30 countries and supported workforces numbering in the tens of thousands.
Read Becky’s full bioWe use discovery calls to understand operational priorities, assess workforce challenges, and identify practical solutions that support business performance.
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