HR consulting that builds the culture and systems to help businesses keep their best people, so company growth doesn’t cause burnout.
What happens when culture can't keep up with growth?
Growth is outpacing your people systems
You added headcount faster than you added structure. Onboarding is improvised, roles are fuzzy, and everyone's making it up as they go. What worked at 10 people is breaking at 40.
Your best people are quietly checking out
No one's quit yet, but engagement has gone flat and you can feel it in meetings. You know burnout is coming before it shows up in an exit interview.
Your managers were promoted, not trained
Great individual contributors, first-time leaders, no real coaching. They're managing by instinct, and the team paying the price of that learning curve.
Culture is something you talk about, not something you can point to
Your values are opaque and not applied. Nobody could tell you how they show up in a hiring decision or a hard conversation this week.
You are too busy putting out fires to build anything
Every people problem gets solved and re-solved the next time it happens, because there's no system. You're the institutional memory, and that doesn't scale.
Results That Speak for Themselves
32-Point Net Margin Recovery
We diagnosed where the practice was losing margin, including lost capacity from clinician turnover, then put in place a new compensation strategy and stay interviews, working alongside the owner so the changes stuck. Net margin improved by 32 points from June to August.
From Ad-Hoc Pay to Documented Salary Bands
Replaced a scaling rental company's ad-hoc pay decisions with documented salary bands, job levels, and pay transparency that the leadership team now runs independently.
Zero Clinician Turnover, Two New Hires
Built a new people structure and career ladders for a growing therapy practice. After losing two clinicians before the engagement, the team has had zero turnover since and added two new hires.
Yarrow Leadership partners with people-centered businesses to build the leadership capacity, people systems, and team performance that turn potential into results.
We bring the rigor of organizational science and the directness of seasoned business acumen.
Whether you're scaling fast, navigating change, or building a culture that can outlast any market, we're the partner who helps you achieve your business goals.
Building cultures to outlast any market and turn potential into results.
Team Performance
We build trust, communication and alignment so teams perform at their best.
Services
HR Consulting
We design the people practices and infrastructure that let people-centered organizations scale with integrity.
Executive Coaching
We partner one-on-one with leaders to sharpen their capacity, confidence, and impact.
Why are we called Yarrow?
We were inspired by what the yarrow plant does for its habitat. The yarrow plant doesn't dominate the landscape, it strengthens it. A natural healer, a soil stabilizer, a magnet for pollinators, it works in relationship with everything around it, making the whole more resilient.
That's our work too: clear roles instead of assumed ones, feedback instead of annual surprises, leaders who hold people accountable as part of maintaining trust.
Business challenges don’t get fixed by trying harder. They get fixed by building differently.
“I cannot emphasize enough how helpful I have found her tools!”
Terezia
“Sara shared her expertise in hiring and people operations and built efficient systems for my practice. Best of all, it was actually fun to collaborate with her!”
Mary Kate
“Clients gain a strategic partner who brings clarity to complicated situations, moves work forward, strengthens leaders, and leaves organizations better than she found them.”
Golda