Surviving Your First Year as a Consultant With Kristy Swegheimer

Blended Workforces at Work

IN THIS EPISODE...

An organization chooses a blended workforce as a strategic approach to achieve its business goals. This strategy combines full-time employees with temporary workers like freelancers, contractors, or part-time workers. The goal of this strategy is to create a workforce that is both flexible and varied, capable of adapting to changing needs and maximizing production.

In this episode, we discuss how this blended workforce strategy can add value to an organization with Kristy Sweghimer. In high-growth industries, she has been a progressive leader for 20 years in private, founder-led, and PE-owned organizations. She excels at guiding companies through mergers and acquisitions, creating cutting-edge leadership and talent development programs, and taking on problems directly.

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ABOUT KRISTY SWEGHEIMER:

Kristy Swegheimer is a Chief Human Resources Officer and a human capital consultant. With over 20 years of leadership in private, founder-led, and private equity-owned companies within high-growth industries, she is competent in guiding companies through mergers and acquisitions, creating innovative strategies for acquiring people and training leaders, and proactively addressing problems. She improves employee engagement, productivity, and corporate outcomes by coaching individuals to reach their full potential while also constructing teams and encouraging cooperation. Her career started in employment services in the late 1990s, and she progressed through leadership, recruiting, and sales. She learned from this experience how crucial it is to approach business leaders as clients to establish strong alliances and transform HR's function from administrative to strategic.

She is the driving force behind Redbrick Insights, a capital advisory firm that offers CHRO services, HR consulting, and talent acquisition services. Her purpose for creating her company is to offer solutions that give businesses strong foundations by aligning their workforce. Her skills and expertise expand on organizational design & development, HR policy & procedure development & implementation, talent acquisition, performance management, leadership development, and many more. She looks forward to meeting people and exploring how they can create the way for human capital success.

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WHAT TO LISTEN FOR:

1. How an external consultant can help you while you are running the business?

2. Why do you need to bring an HR partner into your organization as soon as possible?

3. How to locate ideal consultants for your company?

4. How can the onboarding process be a challenge?

5. Why is it important to embrace technology as an HR professional?

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FEATURED TIMESTAMPS:

[04.24] Kristy’s CHRO background.

[06.54] The value HR brings to a company.

[09.20] Kristy on locating ideal consultants.

[12.13] The difference between a corporate team environment and starting up your firm and consulting.

[16.00] Redbrick Insights and their services.

[18.54] Business development and what makes Kristy different from other consultants.

[24.06] On-boarding process and challenges.

[26.24] Signature Segment: Kristy’s LATTOYG Tactics of Choice: Leading With Stakeholder Savvy.

[27.12] The importance of using the right data.

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LINKS FOR:

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/kristy-swegheimer

Website - redbrickinsights.com

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR YOU:

• Overview: The Lead at the Top of Your Game Leadership Development Experience