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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.