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We believe that the work we do matters. Strategic HR helps organizations to make smart, pragmatic, and fair people decisions. And when we build programs with transparency and equity, people thrive - and so does your business.
Employee Engagement & Organizational Effectiveness
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy and Measurement
Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI®) Qualified Administrator
Everything DiSC® Authorized partner: Workplace, Management, Productive Conflict, Work of Leaders, Sales Learning, Agile EQ
Culture Curation and Engagement
Organizational Design
Job Infrastructure Planning
People Initiative Measurement Strategies
Candidate and Employee Branding
Employee Value Proposition
Team Effectiveness Coaching
Talent Management and Compensation
Recruitment Strategy and Compliance
Performance Management
Succession Planning
Leadership Development Programs
Compensation and Compensation Management
Total Rewards Evaluation
Workforce Planning
Building and Managing Competency Models
Certified Executive Coach
Certified Hogan Assessments Advanced Interpretation
360 Assessment Certifications including Korn Ferry, Hogan, and Kaiser LVI
HR Technology, Analytics, and Service Delivery
Agile HR Service Delivery and Operating Model Support
Agile Project Management
HR Portfolio Management
Workforce Analytics and Metrics
HR Technology Projects
HR Operations and Process Improvement
Dashboard Creation and Maintenance using Tableau Analytics Platform
HR Technology Assessment and Implementation
Policy Review and Evaluation
HR Process Documentation and Review
HR Service Model/Organizational Structure Implementation
Heidi Garside
Principal Consultant and Leadership Coach
Heidi Garside is a former global HR executive who has led large, complex teams and built enterprise HR strategies across Talent Acquisition, Compensation, HR Operations, Talent Management, People Analytics, and HR Technology. She’s led inside Fortune 300 companies, privately owned businesses, and nonprofit organizations. Sheknows what it takes to lead at scale when the pressure is high and the path isn’t clear.
She brings rare dual credibility: deep experience coaching executives from the inside and sharp insight into the behind-the-scenes mechanics of leadership selection and compensation. She’s interviewed candidates for top-tier roles, advised senior stakeholders on leadership risk and readiness, and designed executive compensation programs for publicly traded companies. Whether you need help positioning yourself—or negotiating what you’re worth—Heidi knows how the system works and how to work it.
As a certified executive coach with an MBA and significant leadership and enterprise HR experience across both corporate and nonprofit sectors, Heidi works with individual leaders, teams, and organizations to strengthen leadership, drive organizational effectiveness, and build the kind of culture where people and performance thrive. Her work often includes leadership diagnostics, team coaching, process alignment, and strategic advising for change and growth initiatives.
Her mission is to build clear, courageous leaders who know their worth and lead like it—especially in systems that don’t always make that easy. She helps clients cut through noise, own their voice, and drive meaningful change without losing themselves in the process.
Through her firm, Think Hard Solutions, Heidi offers coaching, HR advisory services, and practical tools that help leaders and organizations move forward with courage, clarity, and accountability.