Curns Consulting
As your organization grows and evolves, there is no more important resource to manage than your people. Their skill set and individual motivation to do their best work every day is your secret weapon.
We will help you make the right decisions about those things that have real impact on your business:
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the processes and technology your employees use
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the work environment you create
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the pay and benefits you offer
Through a people-focused approach, we can help you balance sales, operations, and finance to achieve outstanding results and have an engaged workforce.
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We help businesses make the right calls every situation, every day.
Bio
Laura Curns, founder
Laura is an accomplished and results-driven business advisor with a proven track record of achievement in human capital management, global technology deployment, M&A, and strategic planning. During her 23 years with Aon Hewitt and Alight Solutions, she advised companies of all sizes and industries on technology optimization, cost containment, HR program design, talent acquisition and onboarding, sales training, and performance management.
Laura is a practical advisor who leverages her analytical and strategic skills to help clients rethink their people practices to innovate and scale for the future. The end goal is always to help you and your business be better.
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"Throughout my career, I have watched companies of all kinds make decisions (or avoid decisions) that had real impact on their people. Today’s tight talent market leaves no room for mistakes when it comes to managing the team. I want to bring my 23 years of experience to help grow your business and engage your workforce."
What We Do
Our services are customized to meet the specific needs of each client. We work collaboratively throughout the entire process and guarantee measurable results. Contact me to find out how we can help today.
HR Strategy
What does your team need to look like next year? In three years? What skills must they have? We will help you formalize a practical people plan that defines what is needed to drive team engagement and performance for the company you are today and want to be in the future.
HR Technology and Vendor Management
Do you have the technology you need? Do you have partners that really help you with hiring, payroll, healthcare, 401k or insurance? We can improve the performance and service from those you work with today or help you find new partners that meet your needs.
Talent management
Today’s biggest challenge for businesses is finding, hiring and retaining the right team. We will help you formalize an employee value proposition to position your company to prospective employees. We can help you re-engineer hiring, onboarding and performance management processes to optimize results from team and managers.
Mergers & Acquisitions
As your business expands, it is critical to build internal alignment as you combine entities. We can help you build and execute integration plans across benefits, HR processes and technology as well as the change management plan necessary to inform and engage all impacted.
Leadership Development
Managers are often the most unpredictable yet impactful resource you have in your business. Basic problem-solving, conflict resolution, team building or coaching can have a big impact. We can provide 1-on-1 or group training to help your team improve their management skills.
Staff Augmentation
Do you simply need extra hands with deep HR expertise to help you execute a project or meet higher short term demand on your team? We can fill that talent gap to ensure your deadlines and priorities are met.
Client Management & Sales Best Practices
Does your team have good client management practices? Can they create a sales pitch that resonates and show value to your clients? We can help a team understand the client management life cycle and how to build proposals and decks that will resonate and drive results.
Custom Projects
Don't see exactly what you need? Just ask! If it relates to the people, process or technology of HR, we can help!
Recent Projects
At Curns Consulting, we want to know you, your business and where you hope to be in the future. We've helped clients tackle real issues and move forward better and stronger than before. Here are recent projects and results.
Rethinking How You Work
A non-profit facing quick growth needed to rethink how they were organized and getting work done every day. We began by capturing the current state - what was being done to deliver on today's mission and by whom. We then defined a new future state - an organizational structure with new roles and responsibilities to better manage the increased demands expected as they grew. Finally, we led an leader retreat to begin the change management required for this transformation.
Bringing Experience to Your M&A
A sizable acquisition with a quick closing date meant additional experienced staff was needed to get the work done. We executed their M&A strategy to hire 700 employees in 90 days, including setup and testing across payroll, onboarding, and applicant tracking technologies. We developed a vendor assessment process to assist technology reimplementation and contribution corrections to avoid IRS compliance penalties for late funding. Negotiated 100% reimbursement of client’s implementation fee and month of free administrative costs due to vendor errors.
Managing Your People Through Change
When a company grows, roles must change and skill sets must expand. This was the challenge of another services client looking to execute a five year, multi-state expansion plan. Their challenge was defining what that meant for their people, their processes and their existing technology solutions. Providing over the shoulder advisory support to senior leadership, we developed an employee engagement strategy to complement the multi-year business transformation plan already underway. This included focus on the talent management needs to clarify current and future skills what skill sets are needed, how best to upskill the current team and what performance management practices are needed to ensure measurement and progress.
Contact Me
Have a particular issue you’re trying to address?  Contact us today and see what we can do for you.
Atlanta, Georgia 30341
678-982-5922
