Fractional HR leadership for navigating growth, transformation, and change.
Your business is only as scalable as your people infrastructure.
BARING HR helps CEOs and leadership teams turn people strategy into business performance—with experienced fractional HR leadership and people data that drives better business decisions.
Why BARING HR?
When growth outpaces your people infrastructure, performance suffers.
of workers are unproductive.
24%
Source: McKinsey, 2024
69%
of employees are disengaged.
Source: Gallup, 2025
58%
of employees are likely to leave without
professional development opportunities.
Source: Gallup, 2025
Growth puts pressure on every part of an organization—from leadership capacity and talent to accountability, engagement, and organizational effectiveness. BARING HR helps you build the people infrastructure required to keep pace.
Our Dashboard
Our AI-enabled Strategic Dashboard gives leaders a clearer view of the people factors affecting business performance.
We track the metrics that matter—from critical vacancies and retention to leadership capacity, engagement, workforce capability, and organizational risk—so you can see what's changing over time, why it matters, and where to act.
Client Profile
Preparing for a new stage of growth, investment, or transformation.
Scaling rapidly and hiring
faster than your HR
infrastructure 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
We work best with organizations that are growing faster than their people infrastructure.
We build the people infrastructure required for your next stage of growth.
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Reduce people-related risk before it becomes costly.
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Create clear roles, expectations, and decision-making across the organization.
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Give leaders the tools and support they need to manage effectively.
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Plan for talent needs and build the workforce capabilities required to achieve business goals.
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Build the foundation for sustainable growth—not just short-term solutions.
We turn rapid growth into
sustainable business performance.
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Align workforce strategy with your business goals and growth plans.
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Strengthen leadership capability as the organization becomes more complex.
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Improve retention, engagement, and productivity of critical talent.
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Build scalable talent and organizational practices that grow with the business.
We help maintain momentum through leadership transition and change.
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Provide experienced HR leadership when a key people leader departs or a leadership gap emerges.
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Bring stability and continuity during periods of growth, restructuring, or transformation.
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Quickly assess priorities, mitigate people risks, and establish a clear path forward.
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Give CEOs and leadership teams the capacity to focus on the business while critical people issues are managed.
BARING HR improves organizational performance, productivity, and profitability by translating your mission, values, and business strategy into every stage of the employee lifecycle.
ATTRACT
Hire and onboard the talent your business needs.
ENABLE
Create the environment, tools, and leadership practices that help people perform.
RETAIN
Strengthen engagement, rewards, development, and the employee experience.
DEVELOP
Build leadership capability and succession strength.
PERFORM
Connect individual goals, accountability, feedback, and performance to business results.
We build the people infrastructure that drives performance.
Work With Us
Every engagement begins by understanding
where your business is and where you're headed.
DIAGNOSE
Identify what's getting
in the way of growth.
A focused assessment of your people systems, leadership, organization, and risks—with a practical roadmap for action.
BUILD
Put the infrastructure
in place.
Build the HR systems, processes, leadership practices, and organizational capabilities your business needs.
LEAD
Add senior HR leadership without adding a full-time executive.
An embedded fractional HR partner works alongside your CEO and leadership team.
STABILIZE
Keep the business moving
through transition.
Interim HR leadership when a key executive leaves, goes on leave, or the organization faces significant change.
If your organization is ready for the next stage of growth, contact us
to discuss the people, leadership, and organizational issues that could accelerate your business.
About
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.