Fractional HR Consulting · Remote
You grew past the point
where you can do HR yourself.
I am Pate, and I give small and mid-size businesses senior human resources judgment — handbooks, hiring, compliance, the hard conversations — on a fractional basis, and entirely remotely.
Louisville · Cincinnati · Lexington · Indiana — and anywhere the work can be done remotely.
Where I work
- Louisville
- Cincinnati
- Lexington
- Indiana
Every engagement is delivered remotely — video, phone and email — so distance never decides who gets good HR advice.
Senior HR help,
without the hire.
Most small businesses reach a point where people questions stop being occasional. Someone needs a handbook. A manager needs to have a conversation they have been putting off. A new hire needs a first week that actually works. Suddenly the owner is the HR department, on top of everything else.
That is where I come in. I work with businesses as a fractional HR consultant: you get the judgment of an experienced HR professional applied to your situation, for the hours you actually need, without the cost and commitment of a full-time hire. The work is done remotely, which means it fits around your operation rather than the other way around.
The businesses I work with are usually past the point where the owner can carry HR alone, but not yet ready for a full HR department — often somewhere between ten and a few hundred employees.
How I help
Six of the things small businesses most often ask for. Most engagements start with one of these and grow from there.
Employee Handbooks & Policies
A handbook that reflects how your business actually runs — written so your managers can use it, not just file it.
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Hiring & Onboarding
Job descriptions, interview questions and a first week that gets someone productive instead of confused.
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HR Compliance Guidance
Straight answers on the HR rules that apply to you, so decisions get made before they become problems.
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Employee Relations & Difficult Conversations
Someone to think it through with before the conversation, and a clear path through it afterwards.
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Day-to-Day HR Support
An HR person to ask, for the questions that are too small to hire for and too risky to guess at.
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Manager Coaching & Training
Turning the person who was your best technician into someone who can actually manage a team.
Read moreWhat working together looks like
A call about what is going on
Tell Pate how many people you employ, what has come up, and what you would like off your plate. No obligation, and no jargon.
A short list of priorities
You get a plain-spoken picture of what needs attention first, what can wait, and what it would take — so you can decide with real information.
The work, done remotely
Handbooks written, hiring steps built, questions answered. You get senior HR judgment on call, without adding a full-time salary.
Built for the business that outgrew doing it themselves.
If you are signing offer letters, fielding complaints, and wondering whether your handbook would hold up — and you have no one whose job it is to know — this is for you.
- You have employees, but no HR department.
- You have a manager doing HR on the side, badly or reluctantly.
- You are hiring quickly and want the basics right the first time.
- You want a straight answer before you make a decision.
Tell me what is going on.
A short note is enough. Say how many people you employ and what you are wrestling with, and Pate will come back to you with a straight answer on whether he can help.
Prefer to talk it through? Call (502) 601-1278.
Inquiries go straight to Pate’s phone, so nothing sits in an inbox.