Where Modern HR meets Real-World Leadership
Our
Mission
To remove the HR burden from founders so they can breathe, offering senior-level, people-first HR leadership without the cost of a full-time hire.
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Founders supported
40 +
Years of combined experience
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Long-term contracts required
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HR documents built
This Is For You If…
You're the founder and you're still doing HR yourself.
You have 10-100 employees and no dedicated HR person.
You're growing and worried about doing something wrong.
You just had your first employee issue and realized you have no process.
You need to hire, fire, or restructure and don't know the rules.
You want senior HR leadership without a six-figure salary.
Our Services
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Essential HR
The Essential HR Package gives you a dedicated senior HR lead (with backup), unlimited advisory, compliant documentation, core policies, hiring support, and monthly check-ins to remove HR stress and reduce risk.
$3,500 per month
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Growth HR
The Growth HR Package includes everything in Essentials plus one day per week of hands-on support to build performance systems, provide coaching, strengthen culture, define roles, and offer strategic recruitment support.
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Scale HR
The Scale HR Package includes everything in Essential and Growth plus 1.5 days per week of embedded HR leadership to implement HRIS, build compensation frameworks, deliver leadership training, support multi-country compliance, and create customized templates and training programs.
$8,500 per month
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Project-Based HR Support
Our Project-Based HR Support is perfect when you don’t need ongoing HR partnership, but you do need a senior-level team to step in and deliver something important, fast and done properly. We deliver a defined project with clear timelines, expert execution, and zero long-term commitment.
Starting at $2,500
A short conversation.
Real clarity.
This isn’t a sales call.
It’s a focused conversation to understand where your people systems are helping, and where they may be quietly creating risk.
You’ll leave with, clarity on what actually matters right now, an honest assessment of gaps or pressure points, and a sense of whether we’re the right partner — or not
No prep required. No obligation.
What We’ve Built
The Problem: 80-person manufacturer. No HR function.
The Result: We delivered their employee handbook, offer letter templates, onboarding program, progressive discipline framework, and health & safety policy — all within 60 days
The founder stopped fielding HR questions and got back to running the business.
The Problem: Growing SaaS company, with no idea where to start.
The Result: SaaS company scaling from 15 to 50 employees across two countries. We built jurisdiction-specific policies for Canada and the US, designed a performance review system, created a compensation framework, and ran their first engagement survey.
They scaled without a single compliance issue.
The Problem: Professional services firm with high turnover.
The Result: We conducted exit interviews, identified the root causes, rebuilt their onboarding process, and implemented stay interviews.
Turnover dropped within two quarters.
Questions We Get Asked
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A full-time HR hire costs $80K-$120K+ in salary, benefits, and overhead, and you still need to manage them. We give you senior-level HR leadership at a fraction of the cost, with no recruiting, no onboarding, and no payroll burden. You get the expertise without the headcount.
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That's exactly what the Project-Based option is for. No long-term contracts required. We also work on a month-to-month basis for our retainer clients, you stay because it works, not because you're locked in.
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Yes. We support companies across Canada, the United States, LATAM, and the Philippines. We handle jurisdiction-specific, including province-by-province or state-by-state requirements.
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Typically within a week of signing. For urgent situations such as a termination, a compliance concern, an employee issue, we can start the same day.
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Most of our clients are between 10 and 100 employees. We specialize in companies that have outgrown the "founder does HR" stage but aren't big enough to justify a full-time HR department.
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Manufacturing, SaaS, professional services, healthcare, construction, hospitality, and more. HR fundamentals are universal, we adapt to your industry's specific compliance requirements.
Meet Mike and Stephanie
Mike is a dynamic leader with deep experience across SaaS, retail, manufacturing, and venture-backed startups. Recognized for his sharp insight, creative problem-solving, and modern approach, he helps founders move from chaos to clarity, strengthening culture, elevating leadership, and building systems that support sustainable growth. His work spans global organizations in Canada, the U.S., and the Philippines, with a focus on organizational design, high-trust performance, and aligning people strategy to business strategy. Mike brings energy, innovation, and a bias for action to every engagement.
Stephanie is a trusted HR leader with more than a decade of experience across healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, and professional services in Canada, the U.S., and LATAM. Known for her warmth, steady presence, and exceptional ability to bring calm to complex people challenges, she supports leaders through growth, change, and day-to-day team dynamics. Her work blends a deep understanding of human behaviour with the operational discipline needed to move organizations forward. Stephanie brings clarity, communication excellence, and thoughtful, grounded HR execution to every partnership.
Together, they built The People Group to give growing companies the kind of trusted HR partnership that feels like an extension of their team, grounded in clarity, integrity, and a shared commitment to helping people and businesses thrive.
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