HR, People and Leadership Advisory

Better workforce decisions start with the function behind them.

The HRER helps growing organizations design and elevate employee relations, own the HR workstream for systems and operational change, put AI to work on workforce data with human judgment in charge, and strengthen the judgment of the leaders making people decisions.

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The problem underneath the cases

Most employee relations problems do not begin as cases. They begin with unclear expectations, delayed decisions, and managers who need better support. The HRER helps organizations address what is happening now and build the function needed for what comes next.

Does your organization have the employee relations function its next stage requires?

Featured program

The ER Practice Partnership

Employee Relations Practice Design, Elevation and Embedded Leadership.

The HRER helps organizations build, strengthen, or temporarily lead the employee relations function while improving the workforce decisions, systems, and manager practices around it. Two engagement paths, one continuum. Start with the build, or bring in embedded leadership from day one.

Path one

Practice Design and Elevation

Assess the current ER function and design the operating model that fits your next stage.

Intake and triage that managers actually use
Governance and decision rights
AI-supported reporting that shows patterns, not just counts
Case management technology and AI tool support
Manager equipping and escalation standards

Path two

Embedded ER, Operations and Leaves Leadership

Fractional senior leadership for organizations that need ongoing decision authority now.

ER decision authority on live cases
People Operations oversight
Leaves and accommodations leadership
Systems and AI implementation support
Manager guidance and AI-supported trend reporting week to week

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Additional ways The HRER helps

Advisory for the decisions around the function.

Your technology is producing more workforce data. Is it helping you make better decisions?

HR Systems, Operations and Leaves

HR workstream ownership for implementations, workflow design, requirements, adoption, employee lifecycle operations from onboarding to offboarding, leaves and accommodations process design, and deciding what AI should handle and where a person must review.

Systems and operations

Leadership Advisory and Coaching

Executive counsel, manager judgment, difficult conversations, performance leadership, leading teams whose work AI is changing, and coaching for People leaders building a function.

Leadership advisory

Strategic and Project Advisory

Focused guidance for complex People decisions, organizational change, or a defined transformation need, including AI-supported workforce analysis that moves you from case reporting to workforce intelligence.

How we work

Why LeShanda

Built the function, then led the systems and decisions around it.

LeShanda Davis brings nearly 20 years across Employee Relations, People Operations, HR systems, Leaves and Accommodations, and workforce strategy. She has done this work inside complex organizations, not around them.

Meet LeShanda

Built or centralized employee relations functions inside major banking institutions, a top five staffing firm, and major technology platforms.
Led high volume, international employee relations work across complex, multi-state and multi-country workforces.
Owned the HR workstream for enterprise implementations, including HR Acuity, ServiceNow, Workday, Sparrow, and Unum, among others.
Senior People leadership for major companies across technology platforms, global banking, staffing, technology hardware, and IT services.

Start here

One complex People decision. A clear next move.

A 90 minute Strategic Advisory Session for a specific workplace, leadership, employee relations, People strategy, or AI and workforce issue. You bring the situation. You leave with a clear read and a recommended path forward.

Strategic Advisory Session $350

90 minutes on Zoom. Booked and paid directly. Best for one decision that needs senior judgment now.

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