I’ve been a People Leader at four companies that have scaled to unicorn+ status (Palantir, One Medical, Instacart, and InVision) where I built and led the people team through hypergrowth.

I now advise CEOs, People Leaders, and Venture Capital Firms to bring those learnings to Series A-C startups around the world.

I specialize in helping companies build a strong people operations foundation, design best-in-class employee experiences, avoid expensive mistakes, and plan for the future. Companies tend to bring me on when scaling their people team post-financing, making key decisions around their people team roadmap, and/or designing a thriving globally distributed culture.

I’ve iterated for 20 years on best practices to stay at the forefront of people and culture innovation. Now, every startup can take advantage of what the highest-performing, most well-funded startups do as they navigate various growth stages. Check out my various playbooks covering topics such as People Team Hiring, People Tech Systems, Remote Onboarding, Remote Performance, Getting Started as a Consultant, Getting Started as a Product Advisor, and more at shelbywolpaconsulting.com. Location-based pricing is available for those outside of the US.

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