Rethinking HR provides HR consulting for organizations with 25 to more than 4,000 employees. Led by Lisa Parra, the firm brings more than 20 years of hands-on HR experience to benefits, learning and leadership development, policy, HR operations, and employee engagement.
What Does an HR Consultant Do?
An HR consultant gives your organization experienced, objective HR expertise when you need it, without the cost of adding full-time staff. That can mean building a program from scratch, fixing one that isn’t working, or giving your existing HR team specialized help and extra capacity.
How Do You Build a Benefits Plan Employees Value and You Can Afford?
Start with what your workforce actually needs and what your budget can sustain, then design plans that balance both. A benefits package that looks generous on paper but doesn’t match your employees’ lives won’t help you hire or retain people, and one that outgrows your budget creates problems every renewal season.
Lisa creates and manages benefit plans from initial design through ongoing administration, so your benefits stay competitive, understandable, and sustainable.
How Can You Develop Better Leaders From Within?
Give new and developing managers structured training in the skills the role actually demands: leading a team, having difficult conversations, and making fair, consistent decisions. Promoting strong performers into management without that preparation is one of the most common reasons good employees struggle, and why the people who report to them leave.
Lisa designs and delivers training for developing leaders, and builds and manages broader learning programs, along with the learning systems that support them.
Are Your HR Policies and Procedures Clear, Current, and Consistent?
If managers interpret the same rule differently, or your handbook hasn’t been reviewed in years, they may not be. Clear, well-documented policies set expectations, reduce risk, and help managers treat employees fairly.
Lisa develops policies and procedures that fit how your organization actually operates and that managers and employees can easily understand and follow.
Where Is Your HR Operation Losing Time or Money?
An HR operations assessment answers that question by reviewing your programs, processes, technology, staffing, and budget to pinpoint gaps and inefficiencies. It’s often the best first step when HR feels stretched but the cause isn’t obvious.
Lisa’s assessments start with your workforce, strategic plans, and resources, and end with practical recommendations on what to fix first and how to plan for the next one, three, and five years.
How Do You Keep Good Employees From Leaving?
Retention improves when employees feel engaged, supported, and able to see a future with your organization. That means understanding why people stay and why they leave, then acting on it.
Lisa builds engagement and retention strategies grounded in your workforce data and what your employees actually value, not generic perks.
Who Is HR Consulting For?
HR consulting is a fit for growing companies that don’t yet have a full HR team, and for established organizations whose HR teams need specialized expertise or extra capacity for a project. Rethinking HR has supported organizations in healthcare, information technology, cybersecurity, construction, government contracting, manufacturing, civil engineering, telecommunications, nonprofit, and restaurant and hospitality.
When HR programs depend on your HR system, see how Rethinking HR also helps with HR systems consulting.
