Services
Here’s what we do.
Laborde Consulting helps you un-complicate your growth. We help with the “everything else” part so that you can spend more time building your product or service.
Available as project-based or fractional. Contact us to learn more about fractional pricing.
Recently funded? Early or later stage? Growing fast?
We can help.
See our tailored offerings below.
Choose your path.
Fractional Partnership
You’re thinking about collaboration. You’re growing and need to lay down the train tracks faster than the speeding train behind you. You’re ready to build infrastructure and invest in People leadership, but maybe you don’t want to hire a formal Head of People just yet.
That’s where we come in: we partner with you to be your fractional People lead, embedded within your team and helping build thoughtful processes and an intentional culture so that your people grow with the company. We’re there for you on retainer, serving as true partners to leadership.
The Fractional Partnership package includes:
A month-to-month, flexible partnership where we serve as your People leadership.
Regular advice, custom process buildout, and invaluable partnership as you build your business.
An embedded presence within your team to help foster culture and build exactly what you need.
It’s perfect for:
Early stage or rapidly growing startups and organizations that want People leadership but not full-time.
Startups that have not yet hired an HR professional, and want true partnership with an expert to grow their team the right way.
It can include things like:
Foundational process buildout, like setting up benefits for the first time.
Strategic planning, ensuring you grow with intention.
Coaching and employee relations, for the tricky situations.
It costs:
Monthly retainer dependent upon client needs and availability. Contact us to learn more, and mention the Fractional Partnership package.
The Lean Startup
You’re funded. You’ve got that first big cash infusion, and this is your moment to scale up. But with all that growth has come a few headaches: maybe you don’t have a lot of your processes written down, you’re struggling to hire as quickly as gaps are arising, or administrative overhead is now taking away from the critical work of building your groundbreaking idea.
That’s where we come in: we give you a plan for how to grow based on where you’re at.
The Lean Startup package includes:
An assessment of your small/growing organization with general recommendations for what needs to happen next.
Tailored advice on improving 1-2 critical functions such as performance management, engagement, job definitions, etc.
It’s perfect for:
Small, early stage startups gaining traction that don’t have a lot formalized just yet, but now need a little bit of extra help.
Organizations within 1-4 months of first or second round funding, or those experiencing rapid growth at any stage.
It can include things like:
Growth plans for specific functions of the company.
Focused feedback on improving your processes or approach.
Goal-setting and establishing metrics.
It costs:
Starting at $5,000 with additional customization available, tailored to your needs.
Growth Phase
You’re growing. Your product or service has hit the market, you’re about to raise (or just raised) your next round, or the business is now becoming bigger than you imagined with sudden growth. But now, you’ve had to step back and think about the everything else part! How do we forecast what roles we’ll need to hire for? Is a People department needed? What does more formal structure and career pathing look like? If you’ve asked any of these questions, Growth Phase is perfect for you.
We focus on tailoring a growth plan to your specific industry and trajectory, clarifying priorities and ensuring a great employee experience.
The Growth Phase package includes:
A detailed organizational diagnostic that assesses your whole organization and its existing processes.
A tailored, holistic plan for how to grow your organization sustainably in conjunction with your business goals.
It’s perfect for:
Nonprofits, later stage funded startups, and organizations with revenues under $10 million.
If you’re not in a period of growth and want an outside assessment on where gaps may exist.
It can include things like:
Assessing all facets of the organization and how it creates its product or service.
Gathering feedback from employees on how to continue to improve.
Building a concrete action plan for the future growth of the company.
It costs:
Starting at $10,000 with additional customization available, tailored to your needs.
Process Audit
You’re improving. Your organization may be newer or more established. It’s undergoing a period of change, or is preparing for one. You want to tidy things up and improve one major process, function, or department.
We help you take a focused look at this one area, examining your existing structures and collaborating with you to make improvements in line with your vision.
The Process Audit package includes:
An outside perspective and deep dive into one area or behavior of your organization.
An assessment to show where gaps exist, with a report giving you a concrete plan of action for improvement.
It’s perfect for:
Organizations of any size looking to make targeted improvements.
For example: onboarding processes, handbook or policy improvements, performance management systems, compensation structures, etc.
It can include things like:
A deep dive into one specific aspect of your organization.
An outside perspective on established processes and how to grow or improve them.
It costs:
Starting at $2,500 dependent upon size of organization, tailored to your needs.
AI Briefing
You’re thinking about AI. Your organization wants to stay current, and is assessing new tools. You might want to automate some things, but keep the rest of your focus on people. There isn’t a concrete plan for how to use AI yet, but you want to learn more.
We’ll take a broad look at your organization and its existing processes, and provide you an honest assessment of if and where AI makes sense. Too many organizations are needlessly changing successful processes in an effort to chase trends — don’t be one of them.
Our AI Briefing package will help you thoughtfully consider if it makes sense to integrate AI into your workflows, and also identify how the problems you want to focus on could be solved in other ways.
The AI Briefing package includes:
A candid assessment of if AI makes sense for your organization, so that you don’t waste time or money chasing trends.
A detailed look at how new or updated tools could solve inefficiencies while bolstering existing team members.
It’s perfect for:
Organizations of any size thinking about AI, but unsure of how to use it.
Companies looking to learn more about what is — and isn’t — feasible to use AI for.
It costs:
Dependent upon size of organization. Contact us to learn more.