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As a small start-up with employees and consultants spread across the US and the globe, USA Rare Earth looked to OrgShakers to assist the company in a rapid transition from a handful of employees and consultants to 35+ employees in less than twelve months.

The OrgShakers team went above and beyond to deploy internal resources as needed and source external ones when outside expertise was needed.

The OrgShakers model is one that has proven incredibly helpful for a growth focused and geographically dispersed company such as USARE. From accountability metrics to post-COVID hybrid work challenges to employee separations to benefits and corporate policies, OrgShakers has proven to be highly flexible and effective in their work for us.

I would highly recommend engaging them for your HR needs.

When the Philadelphia Parking Authority decided to modernize its HR function and services, it opened a competitive request for proposals process to seek qualified offerors to fulfill this need.  As a result of this process, OrgShakers was selected for their expertise and advice.  The OrgShakers team was professional and knowledgeable; they quickly built a rapport with us and took the time to understand our business and organizational culture. Through their guidance and advice, we have been able to successfully implement multiple HR-leading practices. Following our engagement with OrgShakers, we’ve adeptly presented matters through a best practices lens, leading to a transformative shift in our organizational culture and enhanced overall effectiveness.

Elevate K-12 was in need of immediate interim HR leadership to help lead us through rapid growth and transition in people operations and talent acquisition. We urgently needed traction in developing a talent pipeline and strategy, as well as a thought leader to navigate and execute the arising HR challenges for a company like ours growing at 3x revenue YoY.

OrgShakers’ People Director, Brittany Burton was a fantastic addition to our team. She jumped right in and led and took charge of not only managing our current processes but also building a high-performance collaborative team. She brings great energy to an organization and impacts company culture in a huge way.  Her thought process offered alternative solutions that we would not have thought of on our own. It was refreshing to have a high caliber HR leader’s guidance to help shape and mold our People Team.

For a hyper growth company like Elevate K-12, our needs for talent and leadership evolves every 12 months. OrgShakers’ structure of having an interim high performing leader join our team helped us immensely with our growth needs in the right timeline! I don’t think we would have scaled without them and will highly recommend them and their team to any hypergrowth scaling startups like ours.

OrgShakers’ People Director, Natasha Santos, has been a trusted partner for nearly a year now. She is especially diligent on matters of compliance and accountability, in addition to being a knowledgeable counselor on employment law and best practices.

Natasha picked up what we really needed very quickly, and with her professional demeanor, supported action that we needed to take immediately. I wasn’t sure about fractional roles, but she contributes, clarifies, and communicates as if she is working with the team onsite in the office, and is always available when we need her for priority issues and deliverables.

In addition to fulfilling the policy, compliance, recruiting, and employee relations aspects that we have needed in a People Director, Natasha is just a pleasure to work with and is always willing to lend a hand when we need anything at all. We have come to rely on her guidance and judgment, and certainly her willingness to help us in so many ways!

Karen Cerrato’s exceptional contributions as an HR executive have been crucial to our company’s growth. She has taken the right approach by first understanding the company’s values and culture, followed by its processes and people. This thoughtful progression has made her indispensable, showcasing her remarkable ability to grasp business challenges and strategies. Karen’s proactive nature and open communication with both executive management and frontline employees further highlight her leadership. There’s no doubt that Karen is one of the most essential professionals to have in our team, as she helps us pave the way for success. 

OrgShakers People Director, Natasha Santos, spearheaded an HR audit for our organization and she is helping us implement some of the key findings.  This is taking place in the midst of a transformation of our business and the implementation of a new strategy. 

In this dynamic environment, Natasha has been exemplary in quickly understanding our shifting priorities and has led the HR function magnificently to accelerate the implementation of this new strategy. 

Natasha is very responsive, is an excellent team player, is very resourceful, and brings depth to her recommendations through her experience and her deep subject matter expertise.  It has been a pleasure to work with her.

David Fairhurst’s mentorship has empowered me to lead with confidence, clarity, and authenticity, enabling me to inspire and motivate my team to achieve exceptional results.

His impact on my professional development and our business outcomes speaks volumes about his exceptional and varied abilities. I wholeheartedly recommend David to anyone seeking transformative coaching or mentorship that yields tangible results.

The two words that sum up OrgShakers for me are ‘proactive’ and ‘expert’ – in my experience of working with the team, there is a strong tempo and drive for action that helps to facilitate change within an organization. It has always felt like a true partnership whereby the whole team are genuinely interested in the success of you and your business.

OrgShakers have extensive first-hand experience of the unique challenges facing HR teams in franchised organizations. This experience has informed the work they’ve done with us to create online tools that make it simpler and easier for our franchisees to access and deploy centrally developed HR resources at a local level. And through the effective communication of data-driven insights, they’ve helped us positively influence the mindset of our franchisees across a range of business-critical People issues.