Chris Deaton, SPHR

Chris Deaton is an accomplished and dedicated Senior HR/OD Consultant, with proven success building and implementing stage appropriate and scalable human resources functions in start-up, early-stage development and midsize companies – within the parameters of funding, time-to-market, and other internal and external realities.

He is a hands-on HR/OD practitioner partnering with leadership and staff of independent and venture backed client organizations on-site and off-site to:

• Strategically Plan – creating one vision, one direction
• Communicate – ethically and timely, building a common culture of creativity, innovation, quality, empowerment, accountability and customer satisfaction
• Organize – aligning people and processes to the way the work must get done
• Execute – managing individual and team performance for organizational effectiveness and growth
• Recognize and Reward – building and maintaining strong, scalable HR programs and business processes to support the attraction and retention of talented people
• Develop for Performance – designing and implementing formal and informal training and development opportunities, enhancing individual performance to drive organizational competitiveness