Fractional HR leadership for navigating growth, transformation, and change.
Align Strategy. Build Culture. Drive Performance.
Culture drives business performance
Why BARING HR?
Growth puts pressure on every part of an organization—from leadership capacity and talent to engagement and organizational effectiveness. BARING HR helps you keep pace.
24%
of workers are productive.
- McKinsey, 2024
69%
of employees are disengaged.
- Gallup, 2025
23%
of U.S. adults live with a mental health condition.
- National Alliance for Mental Illness, 2024
BARING HR helps organizations improve productivity by aligning business strategy with culture, wellbeing and performance.
Client Profile
We work best with organizations that are growing faster than their infrastructure. You may be a fit if:
You have 50 to 150 employees and a demanding or stressful environment.
You're seeing burnout, turnover, or an unsustainable workload and want to understand the cause.
Your Leaders spend to much time managing people issues instead of running the business.
You have engagement or other HR data but aren't sure what it's telling you.
You offer wellbeing benefits but employees aren't using them or the results aren't clear.
You're preparing for a new stage of growth, investment, or transformation.
You're experiencing organization change, scaling rapidly or preparing for a new stage of growth.
You're not ready for a full-time CHRO—or you need additional support.
Scaling rapidly and hiring faster than you can support.
Spending too much executive time on people issues.
Experiencing leadership or organizational change.
Not ready for—or not yet convinced you need—a full-time CHRO.
What We Do
We align business strategy, culture and people initiatives to improve productivity and organizational performance.
Align Business Strategy
We translate your mission, values, and business objectives into an integrated people strategy, HR infrastructure, and initiatives aligned with your business goals. Every element of the employee lifecycle is designed to support organizational priorities and drive results.
Build Culture
We assess the health of your culture through employee engagement data and our wellbeing diagnostic, measuring the factors that influence how people feel, engage, and perform. We turn those insights into targeted strategies that strengthen wellbeing, leadership, and engagement to build a healthier, more productive workplace.
Drive Performance
We develop actionable strategies and a focused 90-day plan to address barriers to productivity and unlock your workforce's potential. By monitoring meaningful metrics and measuring progress over time, we help organizations improve performance and build a stronger foundation for profitability.
Services
We connect business strategy to HR infrastructure, leadership practices, and design initiatives that shape the employee experience—from hiring and onboarding through performance, development and engagement.
ASSESSMENT
Every engagement begins by understanding where your business is and where you're headed.We combine employee engagement data with a wellbeing diagnostic to evaluate the health of your culture, identify barriers to performance, and uncover opportunities to improve employee wellbeing, engagement, and productivity.
90-DAY ACTION PLAN
We turn assessment findings into a 90-day prioritized, actionable plan aligned with your business objectives. Wellbeing is our specialty, but recommendations are driven by your organization's needs and may also address leadership effectiveness, communication, accountability, talent development, and other engagement drivers.
MEASURE IMPACT & REFINE
We help you monitor progress using meaningful indicators of culture health, wellbeing, engagement, and relevant business outcomes. This enables you to evaluate results, refine initiatives, and sustain improvements over time.
FRACTIONAL EXECUTIVE-LEVEL HR SUPPORT
Fractional (part-time or temporary) HR executives are embedded directly into the leadership team and align HR initiatives with growth goals and ensure consistent execution across the organization. Fractional partnership enables companies to make faster, more confident decisions while avoiding costly missteps related to hiring, retention, and culture without the cost of a full-time hire.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
BARING HR offers targeted services that align business strategy, strengthen culture, and develop the people and capabilities that improve performance and drive sustainable growth:.
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Align Business Strategy
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Mission - Vision - Values
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HR Strategic Plan
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Build Culture
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Engagement surveys and action plans
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Employee resource groups
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Wellbeing initiatives
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Drive Performance
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Leadership and Talent Development
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Employee Career Ownership
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Succession Planning
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Executive Coaching
The BARING HR Performance Dashboard
Turn People Data Into Business Decisions
Our dashboard brings together workforce metrics—from critical vacancies and retention to leadership capability, and organizational risk. We track KPIs, compare results against industry benchmarks, and monitor trends so you can see where performance stands, what's changing, and where attention is needed.
How We Work
Our approach is tailored to your goals, resources, and stage of growth. We focus on the priorities that have the greatest impact and build solutions that fit your business. Performance improves when business strategy, HR infrastructure, and people are aligned.
Focused, Practical Solutions
We prioritize the changes most likely to address your challenges and support your objectives. We tailor our recommendations to your culture, workforce, and available resources.
Accountability for Progress
We establish clear objectives and relevant measures so you can evaluate progress, learn what works, and adjust your approach. Our focus is on meaningful improvements in culture and organizational performance.
Flexible Support. Consistent Philosophy.
Whether you engage BARING HR for a culture assessment, a defined consulting project, or ongoing partnership, our strategy remains the same: Align business strategy, HR infrastructure, and people initiatives.
About Us
Barrie Brian
Co-Founder and Executive HR Partner
Mobile 781.820.5071 EST
Barrie Brian is a strategic people leader, executive coach, and former Head of People with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations navigate growth, transformation, and change.
Her experience spans technology, biotech, digital health, and emerging-growth organizations, where she has partnered with CEOs, leadership teams, and boards to build and scale people strategies that strengthen leadership, culture, organizational effectiveness, and business performance.
Barrie is known for quickly getting to the heart of complex people and organizational challenges and translating them into practical, actionable solutions. She brings the perspective of a seasoned HR executive, the curiosity of a coach, and a deeply human approach to helping leaders and organizations perform at their best.
Ingrid Lederman
Co-Founder and Executive HR Partner
Mobile 617.448.9938 EST
Ingrid Lederman is a strategic HR and organizational development executive with 30 years of experience building the people, leadership, and organizational infrastructure required to succeed.
A three-time Head of HR, Ingrid has repeatedly been brought in to build HR functions from the ground up—transforming informal people practices into a scalable infrastructure that supports growth, strengthens leadership, improves accountability, and reduces organizational risk. Her experience spans emerging-growth, technology, and professional services organizations, including venture-backed and private-equity environments.
Ingrid combines strategic perspective with a highly practical, hands-on approach that aligns people strategy with business priorities and translates business strategy into the people practices, leadership capabilities, and infrastructure required to execute it.