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    • Home
    • About
      • Vision and Philosophy
      • Meet Angela Heyroth
      • Partnership Approach
    • Services
      • Practice Areas
      • Talent Attraction
      • Learning and Growth
      • Culture and Engagement
      • HR Strategy and Structure
      • Freelance Mentorship
      • Keynotes and Speaking
    • Portfolio
    • Media
      • Articles
      • Podcasts etc
      • Brochures
    • Giving Back
    • Connect
Talent Li
  • Home
  • About
    • Vision and Philosophy
    • Meet Angela Heyroth
    • Partnership Approach
  • Services
    • Practice Areas
    • Talent Attraction
    • Learning and Growth
    • Culture and Engagement
    • HR Strategy and Structure
    • Freelance Mentorship
    • Keynotes and Speaking
  • Portfolio
  • Media
    • Articles
    • Podcasts etc
    • Brochures
  • Giving Back
  • Connect

Practice Area: HR Strategy & Structure

Drive Operational & Strategic Excellence

Evolve Your HR Function & how you lead it

Running HR and talent management can be a lonely place. This mentorship-style service (sometimes called "consigliere") provides you with a safe space to feel heard, to vent, to ideate, to pressure test decisions – all with someone who’s been in your shoes and gets where you are coming from. Angela will partner with you to advise on solutions (the what) and importantly on the approach (the how) so you’ll feel equipped, prepared, supported.


Additionally, she can help guide the development of your HR/People team strategic plan as well as your team's HR transformation.  Based on your organizational needs and team capabilities (current or aspirational), she can redesign your HR operating model and team roles, to maximize your HR team’s efficiency, contributions, strategic approach, aimed towards delivering increased business value and impact. Your team will appreciate that she can speak their language and truly understands the HR function as an insider.

Examples of Work Angela Can Complete in this Practice Area:

  • Advise and guide Chief People Officer and HR leaders on approach, thought process, stakeholder management, change approach, and program development
  • Prep your talking points and decks; discuss watch-outs prior to an important executive meeting or session
  • Pressure testing ideas or decisions before implementation
  • Build out HR team purpose, goals, scorecards and accomplishment summaries
  • Assess current HR team effectiveness and aspirations
  • Design HR team organization and roles, organize HR team meeting structure and cadence
  • Facilitate HR team offsites, team building sessions, and skill building workshops

Case Studies

Explore real case studies from past engagements Angela has worked on in this practice area

Case Study_CPO Roadmap_Healthcare (pdf)

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Case Study_HR Operating Model_Engineering (pdf)

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Case Study_HR Team_MedDevice (pdf)

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Highlights of Past Results

Using proprietary scorecards, assessed maturity of HR function and capabilities of team, resulting in full change-over of team and up-skilling of function


Restructured Talent team to be fully integrated across functions, leading to high engagement scores and increased development opportunities for staff; created team vision, established protocols and traditions


Transformed the operating model of HR team to be more agile and scale growth relative to organizational needs 


Established HR team annual priorities, goals, and focus areas for presentation to the CEO and board, linking to macro organizational objectives


Completed a new leader assimilation for a new-to-role head of HR, facilitating discussion with HR team about leader's style and approach to accelerate outcomes


Facilitated discussion with HR team about evolving role of HR and their place in that change, leading to new mindset and strategic approach


Advised CEO on creation of new Chief People Officer role, on candidate selection, and on the initial onboarding plan; came alongside and helped the new CPO for their first 90 days to ensure success

Sample Testimonial

 "Angela has helped me significantly. Her advice and recommendations are always spot on and I have always found Angela accommodating and responsive. She also is a very good listener and follows up with a measured response."


Richard A, COO and Head of People Ops - Aerospace company

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How will Angela approach This work?

Angela will collaborate with you as a designer, facilitator, or advisor, offering tailored solutions, structured support, and expert recommendations to enhance your employee experience. You can invest in a continuous retained relationship for long-term needs or opt for a time-bound connection for short-term projects, with her commitment to ensuring you shine through a talent-centric, solutions-based partnership.

Learn More About Angela's approach and style

Keep Exploring Angela's Practice Areas

Angela partners to design, facilitate, or advise on experiences that attract candidates to your brand, and selection processes that are effective and efficient  

Learn About our Practices in Talent Attraction & Acquisition

Angela partners to design, facilitate, or advise on experiences that onboard, develop potential, identify successors, and accelerate performance and career growth 

Learn About our Practices in Learning & Growth

Angela partners to design, facilitate, or advise on experiences that propel feelings of belonging and inclusion, appreciation, and connection to the company 

Learn About Our Practices in Culture & Engagement

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TALENT CENTRIC DESIGNS, a registered trade name of TLD Solutions LLC, is a boutique HR consulting firm headquartered in the Denver, CO metro area (with a satellite office in South Carolina's lowcountry), designing custom programs and experiences for companies of all sizes across the talent management lifecycle, because every company deserves access to the experiences which attract and grow their people to drive deeper engagement and therefore improvements in performance, productivity, and profitability.    And, through a project, retained, and on-demand approach, that access comes with the agility, scalability, and cost effectiveness that are needed today.   Founder Angela Heyroth brings 25 years of leadership and HR executive experience, with a unique background of architecting programs across all areas of talent management.  Areas of practice include talent attraction and employment branding, talent acquisition and selection, onboarding and orientation, leadership development, hi-po identification and acceleration, succession planning, culture transformation, employee recognition programs, employee engagement, and retreat/offsite meeting design. Keynote speaking is an additional offering on topics ranging from culture and the employee experience, to talent attraction and talent acquisition, and extending into succession planning, workforce planning, and engagement.  


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