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You are the HR department. And everything else.

Something is always on fire, and people strategy is the thing that never makes it to Monday. Ellice brings twenty-eight years of director-level HR judgment to your organization, at the fraction you actually need.

Ellice Edey, HR and governance principal at Contour North.
Sound familiar?

When a leader calls about their people, it usually sounds like this.

HR is whoever has timePayroll runs and the files get kept, but nobody is actually thinking about our people a year out.
The sensitive thingSomething came up with a person or a team, and I cannot be the one to handle it. But right now, I am.
The quiet exitsGood people keep leaving, and the exit interviews never quite explain why.
Twenty-eight years, inside the room
28
Years leading people strategy
5,500
Largest workforce supported
400%
Lift in recognition participation
Public and privateA provincial legislature, Crown corporations, Indigenous governance, and industry. She has sat in every kind of room.
Recognition that sticksRecognition-program participation lifted 400% by putting the right technology behind it. Canadian HR Awards finalist.
Certified facilitatorMBTI, DiSC, Five Behaviors, Lumina Spark, TKI, and more. MBA, CPHR, C.Dir.
What changes
Your people become a strategy, not a scramble.

Director-level HR judgment in your corner, without the director-level salary. The hard calls get made well, the culture gets built on purpose, and you get back to leading instead of firefighting.

Where Ellice strengthens

The whole people function, done well.

Not a policy binder. The judgment and the systems that make a small organization a place people want to stay.

People strategy & workforce planning

A people plan that ladders up to the business, so HR stops being a cost centre and starts being a lever.

Compensation & total rewards

Pay and rewards that are fair, competitive, and built to survive board scrutiny.

Culture & engagement

Building the culture on purpose, and measuring honestly whether it is working.

Recruitment & hiring

Hiring for how people actually think and solve, not just their pedigree.

Performance & succession

Feedback that actually helps, and a bench so leadership is never a single point of failure.

HR systems, process & AI

The systems and analytics that make a lean HR function run like a big one, with a human on anything that touches people.

How an engagement moves

Nothing hidden. Four stages.

Something concrete in your hands at the end of each one.

01

Listen

Your people, and the pressures on them, in your words.

You getThe real picture, not an org chart.
02

Map the terrain

What is actually driving the turnover, the tension, or the risk.

You getAn honest read of your people risk.
03

Chart the route

A people plan with owners, dates, and priorities.

You getHR that ladders up to the business.
04

Walk it with you

In the room for the hard conversations, not just the plan.

You getDelivery, not a binder.
Free guide

The Fractional HR Readiness Guide

How to tell when you need director-level HR, what it should cost, and what to hand over first. Plain, practical, no jargon.

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Start a conversation

Tell us where it hurts on the people side.

The first conversation is free. Bring the thing you have been putting off. That is usually the place to start.