Human Resources Strategy for High-Growth Environments
Transformational and tailored human capital guidance for startups, scaling companies, and M&A environments — helping leaders hire thoughtfully, reduce risk, strengthen people practices, and elevate outcomes.
Senior, embedded guidance without the overhead of a full-time executive.
Structured interviewing and talent strategy that protects culture and pace.
Clear counsel through compliance, performance, and sensitive matters.
Experienced, Direct, and Practical
Lane Human Capital Group is a trusted advisor to CEOs, founders, executive teams, finance leaders, and private-equity stakeholders across startup, high-growth, M&A, domestic, and global environments. Our work spans talent acquisition and management, total rewards, HR operations, employee relations, organizational development, compliance, performance management, and employer-brand initiatives that have helped organizations earn Top Workplace recognition.
With more than 20 years of hands-on experience as a transformational human-resources consultant and senior HR leader, founder Melisa Herbert pairs strategic insight with practical execution to align people decisions with business objectives.
Melisa Herbert
Founder, Lane Human Capital Group
SPHR · SHRM-SCP
“Let’s not make the easy difficult, or the difficult impossible.”
Advisory Services
Day-to-day senior HR guidance for founders and lean teams, including people operations, policy foundations, employee relations, compliance, manager support, and outsourced HR coverage when a company needs full-service support without a full internal function.
Interview structure, evaluation rubrics, candidate experience, hiring-manager coaching, and consistent decision practices that help teams hire thoughtfully and consistently.
Clear counsel on performance management, documentation, investigations, conflict resolution, terminations, accommodations, leave, and employee-related risk.
Systems selection, HR administration, HRIS, onboarding, offboarding, state-tax compliance, FLSA, overtime, minimum wage, remote-workforce operations, and vendor selection for platforms such as Rippling, Gusto, ADP, BambooHR, Paycor, and Workday.
Employee handbooks, HR policies, procedures, compliance workflows, manager toolkits, and practical documentation that creates clarity without slowing the business down.
Compensation planning, benefits strategy, pay-for-performance models, internal mobility, engagement, retention, employer brand, and rewards programs aligned to business stage and budget.
Employee resource groups, engagement activities, all-hands meetings, leadership retreats, company-goal setting, leadership alignment, and culture-building programs that connect people to the business.
Workforce planning, organizational design, due diligence, post-merger integration, restructuring, leadership alignment, and change management for domestic and global teams.
Modern approaches to structure, workflows, budget alignment, and responsible AI automation to reduce friction, improve efficiency, and help teams scale business priorities with discipline.
People at the Center
Inclusive, engaged cultures are not an afterthought — they are how strong companies attract, develop, and keep great people. We help leaders build environments where diverse teams feel heard, supported, and set up to contribute.
Who We Support
Fractional or fully outsourced HR support, foundational policies, payroll, benefits administration, HR system decisions, and practical manager guidance.
Hiring-process discipline, people operations, policies and procedures, performance routines, SROs, engagement activities, leadership alignment, and scalable talent practices.
People integration, organizational clarity, workforce planning, risk review, total-rewards alignment, company-goal setting, leadership retreats, and change support.
Core Values
Clear, honest guidance with no hidden agendas.
Thoughtfully adapted solutions that fit the business, not one-size-fits-all playbooks.
Your priorities drive our work.
We do not make the easy difficult, or the difficult impossible.
Our actions consistently match our words.
How We Work
Collaborate
We work through deep collaboration and industry context so guidance fits the business, customer needs, company goals, and stage of growth.
Clarify
We translate risk, compliance, hiring, performance, and people-process decisions into clear, easy-to-apply guidance.
Solve
We identify gaps before they become larger issues and build policies, processes, and people practices leaders can implement.
Elevate
We help teams make informed decisions, align leaders, build stronger foundations, and create engagement rhythms that support the culture they want to sustain.
Contact
Complete the form and a member of our team will contact you within 24 hours to schedule your consultation.
Our HR support is customized, on-demand, and designed to scale alongside your business, so you only pay for the services you need, when you need them.
We take the stress out of HR. More than strategic advisors, we become an extension of your team by handling the day-to-day execution, allowing you to stay focused on growing your business.