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One size Solution
Does not work for all!
We anticipate, identify and solve HR problems before they take hold. We help build leadership that stays ahead.

Embrace What’s Unique

Your mission, goals, values, and competitive context are unique to your company. The tool-sets we apply — recruiting strategies, performance management, culture development, HR administration, compensation design, or org structures — will honor and adapt to that which is special and distinctive to you and your organization.

Build Partnership

We are in it with you. We will share your aspirations, hopes, failures, and triumphs. Yes, we will advise. But we are also there working alongside you to deliver on that advice. We are optimizing operators who partner with you, not consultants who just leave you with a remix of their standard recommendations.

Drive Growth

You face constant, unforeseen challenges while trying to reach your next level of success. Sometimes, required adjustments to your leadership, culture, and strategy can seem overwhelming. We will be there to make sure your people and people-related practices adapt to those emerging challenges and are aligned with your long-term targets.

HR Leadership

When your HR organization needs hands-on interim leadership due to an unanticipated exit, the need for department renovation, or new leadership to carry you through a downsizing or growth spurt, we are there. Full or part-time, we can help you bridge the gap.

HR Policies, Administration, and System Implementation

We make the difficult easy, whether by producing context-sensitive policies, supporting system implementations, refining internal processes, or managing the introduction of new programs — we are there to support your HR operational needs.

Data-Driven Leadership

Could you be more successful if you could ask everyone “How is it going?” with the merger, new product, reorganization, or global expansion? And ask in a way that you really understand what they are saying, regardless of whether they number in hundreds or hundreds of thousands? Regardless of where they live or the language they speak? Could you be more successful if every month you could see trends in engagement, commitment, or productivity of all employees –by division, department and manager? As companies grow, it is harder to keep people connected between units, or even between management levels within a unit. HR Futures will help you keep communication open, ideas flowing, and leadership closely linked to ebb and flow of your most valuable assets –  the commitment and innovative energy of great employees. We make tangible the challenge of managing intangible assets.

Executive Advising

Even the most successful executives need occasionally to pause and examine where they are so as to move forward more effectively. They might be challenged by changing goals, radically different competitive threats, a new CEO, or simply be starting a new job and want to get gain beachhead to move forward as quickly as possible. Our job is to provide the resources for such executives to help them leverage strengths, manage weaknesses, and nimbly move through the landmines that can populate any organizational landscape. Executive advising calls for extensive and honest feedback, tools to constantly improve, and a trusted confidant with whom you can make it happen. 

We will install tools to enable an on-going conversation between employees and senior management, one that “pulses” employees to quickly bring emerging issues to your attention and provide a continuing assessment of your progress. You can use this system to converse with a limited group of employees or everyone at once. And your employees can be entirely candid because they know we protect their identity. Our tools are entirely web-based and require nothing of your IT department. You can be up and operating in days.

Presentation and Public Speaking

Reignite the passion in your audience. Dr. McElfresh delivers high-impact presentations to executive groups, professional associations, and corporate teams. Most can be given as an invigorating keynote, a conference presentation, or an all-day, hands-on workshop with walk-away tools and individualized plans for building on the foundation given.

For general management, such talks include: > Managing Virtual Organizations: Making Global Work    Work > The Profit Machine: Growing and Keeping Talented    Employees > 2015: Preparing for the New American Workplace > Master Fear and Uncover Hidden Opportunities HR-specific topics include: > Developing an HR Strategy: Alignment on What    Matters > The Business Case for HR – aka, Running HR as a    Business > Innovative HR Metrics, ROI and Analytics > HR Benchmarking and Best Practice Analysis

Litigation Consulting

The HR Futures litigation consulting practice provides multidisciplinary, independent dispute advisory, investigative, data acquisition/analysis and forensic accounting services to the global business and legal community. Our team supports clients facing high stakes litigation, arbitration and compliance investigations, and regulatory scrutiny. The Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice helps clients, who are facing legal disputes, protect enterprise value by quantifying damages and providing expert testimony in a range of dispute situations, intellectual property, professional malpractice, lost profits, valuations, breach of contract, purchase price disagreements, business interruption, environmental claims, construction claims and fraud cases; employing forensic accounting and complex modeling expertise to unravel complex financial transactions;

independently gathering and analyzing critical information; offering industry‐leading electronic evidence services that identify, preserve and collect relevant, structured information and analyze complex data within enterprise systems.

Merits rewarded here!
Simply put, people matter! Your people, your human capital, are the single most important driver of growth in intangible value. And your HR operations should be a key player in increasing in the value of your human capital.
And it all starts with finding and keeping the right talent.
Merits rewarded here!
Simply put, people matter! Your people, your human capital, are the single most important driver of growth in intangible value. And your HR operations should be a key player in increasing in the value of your human capital.
And it all starts with finding and keeping the right talent.

Find and keep the best possible employees by providing the best possible benefits.

We make recruiting and retaining the best people for your company easier by assisting you in identifying and assembling benefits packages for the employees you have and the employees you want to have.
You’ll gain peace of mind when you have less turnover, less wasted time, and fewer costs associated with a revolving door.
Transforming data with intelligence
The time is now. The demand for skills in analytics and data science has reached an all-time high. Everywhere, organizations are building advanced analytics practices to drive business value, improve operations, enrich customer experiences, and so much more.

We maximize your investment with robust, deep-dive targeting capabilities and sophisticated data sources identify and analyze your ideal audience for messaging that works. Based on your goals, we collaborate to create a champion campaign to find customers you may have missed.

Data-Driven Leadership
Could you be more successful if every month you could see trends in engagement, commitment, or productivity of all employees –by division, department, and manager?
As companies grow, it is harder to keep departments connected between units, let alone people in management. HR Futures will help you keep communication open, ideas flowing, and leadership closely linked to ebb and flow of your most valuable assets – the commitment and innovative energy of great employees.
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Executive Advising
Even the most successful executives need occasionally to pause and examine where they are so as to move forward more effectively. They might be challenged by changing goals, radically different competitive threats, a new CEO, or simply be starting a new job and want to get gain beachhead to move forward as quickly as possible.
Our job is to provide the resources for such executives to help them leverage strengths, manage weaknesses, and nimbly move through the landmines that can populate any organizational landscape.
Results-driven business leaders.
Business growth requires complex, rapid, make-or-break decision making. At HR Futures, we provide you with specific insights, strategies and leadership development you need to make better decisions and achieve better results. Fast-track your growing company to get ahead and staying there.
Business coaching benefits at a glance

  • Problem-solving sessions with a peer team of chief executives, presidents and business owners
  • Monthly in-person leadership coaching session with a Vistage Chair, an unparalleled resource for the small business owner
  • Professionally facilitated peer groups with a seasoned Vistage Chair
  • Up to four annual, small-group workshops lead by Vistage expert speakers
  • Connectivity resources, including an online best practices library, seminars and member conferences
Whether you’re making your first hire, choosing a benefits plan or creating company values, the decisions you make will have a long term impact on your culture and ability to succeed. There’s no need to go it alone. By blending the art and science of HR, we develop the tools and strategy that are right for your company. Choose only what you need, when you need it.