I work with founders and leadership teams who are growing faster than their people systems can keep up with. The surface symptoms vary: decision bottlenecks, managers facing burnout, hiring processes that produce the wrong shortlist, or a new AI in HR tool that nobody quite knows how to use responsibly.
The root cause is usually the same. The organisational infrastructure hasn't kept pace with the stage of growth. Through strategic HR consulting, people systems design, and Human Systems AI™, I bring calm, commercial thinking into the same room.
I help you build the foundations your next stage of growth actually needs, keeping humans firmly in charge of the decisions that matter.
FOUNDER & STRATEGIC HR ADVISOR
CPHR, SHRM-CP, and Chartered MCIPD span three countries — Canada, the US, and the UK. Combined with hands-on experience actually working in all three, and a Certified AI for HR Specialist designation, it's a depth of practical expertise that is genuinely rare internationally.
Most consultants talk about AI in HR. Michelle builds it. Human Systems AI™ is a proprietary methodology for designing ethical, bias-aware people tools. The ElleTree ROOTS Method™ underpins how everything is built. Real humans make every decision. Always.
Most businesses get advice from people who only see part of the picture. ElleTree HR Consulting connects people, systems, and commercial outcomes in the same conversation — the kind of integrated thinking usually reserved for businesses with a full executive team.
