SHARP PEOPLE STRATEGY
FOR START-UPS & SCALE-UPS
HUMAN JUDGEMENT. AI SPEED. ZERO DRAMA.
CORE SETUP PACKAGES
PERSONAL CAREER COACH
ON/OFFBOARDING CONSULTATION
MANAGER's TOOLKIT
ABOUT ME
My name is Anca and I keep seeing the same movie play out:
A startup grows fast. Momentum is high. Culture is great because everyone just gets it. Then you hit 30, 40, 50 people, and suddenly things start breaking.
Hiring takes three months instead of three weeks. Top performers quietly burn out. Founders are stuck in every decision because no one knows who owns what. Someone asks "What's my career path here?" and there's no good answer. Compensation becomes a mess of individual negotiations, and suddenly you've got pay gaps you didn't mean to create.
That's where I come in.
I've spent 15+ years building People systems, across corporations, SaaS startups, and global remote teams. I've scaled teams from 50 to 160, hired across the globe and 14 different countries, rolled out HRIS platforms, and designed performance frameworks that leaders actually use (not ones that gather dust in a Google Drive).
Outside work, I'm raising two teenagers, which has taught me more about grit, resilience, and doing essential work that goes unacknowledged than any corporate training ever could. With teens, drama is inevitable. Everything is a crisis. Emotions are high. That's just the reality.
In my People work? No drama required. I'm not here for office politics, ego management, or turning straightforward problems into theatrical productions. I work fractionally because most companies at this stage don't need a full-time VP of People. You need someone who can diagnose what's broken, build what's missing, and leave you self-sufficient, or help you get the right Head of People.
I'm not selling you software. I'm not pushing my favorite framework. I assess your reality and build lean, practical systems that fit your stage and culture, not corporate bloat that kills startup energy.
My philosophy is "Build while you run". I ship solutions. I seize momentum. And I'm completely dedicated to the projects I'm working on, because half-finished People work creates more problems than it solves.
If your company is scaling and your People infrastructure is held together with hope and good intentions, let's fix that.
MY WORK
What makes me different?
→ No Drama
Direct advice. Transparent pricing. Fast results. You won't get corporate talk, inflated timelines, or surprise invoices. You'll get: "Here's what's broken, here's how we fix it, here's what it costs, here's when it's done."
→ Built for Adoption
One-page policies your team will actually read. Scorecards that fit in a spreadsheet. Workflows that take 10 minutes to learn, not 10 hours. If your team won't use it, I won't build it.
→ Data-Driven, Not Data-Paralyzed
HRIS/ATS setups that give you the metrics that matter—not vanity dashboards. Async tools that work across time zones. Competency based hiring.
→ Operator Mindset
I don't just design systems and hand you a deck. I build them, implement them, train your team to run them, then hand over the keys. You own it. I move on. That's the model.
MY
CLIENTS
Companies and Start-ups I've powered internally, before launching myself in consulting.
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Wecheer (Swiss start-up. SaaS)
Scaled People Ops from 30→60 across 14 countries
HRIS rollout (admin -20%), hiring velocity +25%, retention +17%. Tech scale-up.
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Hanna Instruments R&D (Italian-American Global Manufacturer Analytical Instrumentation)
Reduced Turnover -15%, onboarding ramp-up +20%
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ArcelorMittal (Multinational Steel Manufacturing Corporation)
Managed L&D Programs on site and internationally -
Axway (French-American Global Software Company)
Scaled the team from 50→130,
THE NO DRAMA PROMISE
SYSTEMS YOUR TEAMS ADOPT
SPEED WITHOUT SHORTCUTS
NO POLITICS NO EGO
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
ZERO BS
