Surviving Your First Year as a Consultant With Kristy Swegheimer

IN THIS EPISODE...An organization chooses a blended workforce as a strategic approach to achieve its business goals. This strategy combines full-time employees with temporary workers like freelancers, contractors, or part-time workers. The goal of this strategy is to create a workforce that is both flexible and varied, capable of adapting to changing needs and maximizing production.In this episode, we discuss how this blended workforce strategy can add value to an organization with Kristy Sweghimer. In high-growth industries, she has been a progressive leader for 20 years in private, founder-led, and PE-owned organizations. She excels at guiding companies through mergers and acquisitions, creating cutting-edge leadership and talent development programs, and taking on problems directly.------------Full show notes, links to resources mentioned, and other compelling episodes can be found at http://BlendedWorkforcesAtWork. (Click the magnifying icon at the top right and type “Kristy”)If you love this show, please leave us a review. Go to http://RateThisPodcast.com/blended Be sure to:Check out our website at http://BlendedWorkforcesAtWork Follow Karan on LinkedIn, X, and InstagramFollow SDL on LinkedIn, X, and InstagramABOUT SHOCKINGLY DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP (SDL):This podcast is brought to you by Shockingly Different Leadership, the go-to firm companies trust when needing to supplement their in-house HR teams with contract or interim HR, Learning, and Culture experts to assist with business-critical People initiatives during peak periods of work. Visit https://shockinglydifferent.com to learn more.-------------ABOUT KRISTY SWEGHEIMER:Kristy Swegheimer is a Chief Human Resources Officer and a human capital consultant. With over 20 years of leadership in private, founder-led, and private equity-owned companies within high-growth industries, she is competent in guiding companies through mergers and acquisitions, creating innovative strategies for acquiring people and training leaders, and proactively addressing problems. She improves employee engagement, productivity, and corporate outcomes by coaching individuals to reach their full potential while also constructing teams and encouraging cooperation. Her career started in employment services in the late 1990s, and she progressed through leadership, recruiting, and sales. She learned from this experience how crucial it is to approach business leaders as clients to establish strong alliances and transform HR's function from administrative to strategic.She is the driving force behind Redbrick Insights, a capital advisory firm that offers CHRO services, HR consulting, and talent acquisition services. Her purpose for creating her company is to...