Build better systems. Develop stronger people. Prepare your workforce for what’s next.
PeopleOps Catalyst helps growing small and midsize businesses strengthen their People practices, improve how work gets done, and prepare employees and managers for an AI-enabled workplace.
Strategic, modern People Operations for growing organizations.
Our Services
People Foundations
Build practical, scalable People infrastructure so your growing business isn’t held together by what lives in people’s heads.
Examples:
• Onboarding and offboarding
• Employee lifecycle processes
• Performance management
• Manager tools and training
• People policies and SOPs
• Role clarity and expectations
• Employee development frameworks
• Practical compliance support
Workforce Optimization
Understand how work actually gets done so you can reduce friction, not just headcount.
Examples:
• Workflow and process mapping
• Clarifying roles and responsibilities
• Spotting bottlenecks and duplicate work
• Improving cross-functional handoffs
• Clarifying ownership and accountability
• Identifying opportunities to simplify work
• Highlighting tasks that may be candidates for automation
AI-Ready Workforce
Prepare employees and managers for an AI-enabled workplace.
Examples:
• AI opportunity and task assessments
• Identifying work AI may support
• Employee skill-gap assessments
• Upskilling and development plans
• Role evolution recommendations
• Manager guidance for AI adoption
• Responsible workplace AI guidelines
• Change-management support
PeopleOps Catalyst, LLC
PeopleOps Catalyst is a People and workforce effectiveness consultancy for growing small and midsize businesses.
I partner with founders and leaders who want clearer systems, stronger managers and more capable teams—but don’t want a traditional, policy-heavy HR approach.
My work focuses on:
• Building practical People foundations that scale
• Clarifying roles, ownership and expectations
• Improving how work gets done across teams
• Preparing employees and managers for an AI-enabled workplace
Technology should make organizations stronger and people more capable. I help you improve efficiency while investing in the people who help build your business.
Who We Help
We partner with organizations reaching the point where standard HR templates no longer cut it. You need systems that actually reflect how your team works.
The Organizations
Common Challenges
We specifically serve growing small and midsize businesses. Often, these are founder-led companies navigating the transition to professionalized structures, or firms with lean People teams that need a strategic catalyst to build scalable foundations without the heavy HR overhead.
- Critical processes living only in employees’ heads
- Unclear roles, ownership, and accountability
- Inconsistent management practices across teams
- Inefficient workflows or friction during handoffs
- Duplicate work and manual double-entry
- Weak onboarding or inconsistent employee lifecycle processes
- Difficulty scaling People Operations as the team grows
- Uncertainty about how AI will affect roles and employees
- Employees needing new skills as technology changes how work gets done
Start the Conversation
hello@peopleopscatalyst.com
Portland, Oregon
How We Work
(1) Diagnose
We look at how your team, tools and workflows actually operate today. The goal is to surface unclear roles, bottlenecks and People gaps that are slowing growth or creating risk.
(2) Design
We translate what we learn into a practical plan. That can include clearer roles, better manager tools, stronger People processes and ways to simplify how work gets done.
(3) Build
We help you put structure in place—playbooks, templates, workflows and manager resources your team can actually use in the real world, not just in a slide deck.
(4) Enable
We support leaders and employees as they adopt new ways of working, including communication, training and guidance so changes stick and people feel set up for success.