About Me
I’ve been a people leader at four venture-backed companies that scaled to unicorn+ status
(Palantir, Instacart, One Medical, InVision) where I built and led the people team through hypergrowth.
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I advise CEOs, People Leaders, and Venture Capital Firms to bring those learnings to companies
around the world. I specialize in helping Series A to C companies scale their people functions
while creating world-class cultures.
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Client industries range across Enterprise SaaS, Fin Tech, Health Tech, eCommerce,
On-Demand, People Tech, Data Analytics, Cyber Security, Real Estate, and more.
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Clients are supported by top VCs, including Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners,
Sequoia Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Felicis Ventures,
SemperVirens Venture Capital, and more.
Areas of Expertise
People Leadership Advisement
I advise organizations on all aspects of their people and culture roadmap. I specialize in helping companies build strong people operations foundations, avoid expensive mistakes, and plan for the future. We can dive deep into compensation and benefits, performance management, manager development, internal communications, and more.
Distributed Work
As teams become more globally distributed, I'm here to advise on your company's communication and collaboration norms, centralized tools to enable a highly engaged and productive workforce, and other virtual-first best practices. I bring 20+ years of experience building globally distributed teams as an operator and 40+ advisory clients since.
People Technology
I also advise founders building in the people technology space as a product advisor in areas such as product development, sales, marketing, and customer success. I also support my corporate clients on their HR tech stack decisions as they scale, having been the people tech SaaS decision-maker at four high-growth unicorns.
Remote Work Playbooks
Learn How to Build a Thriving Distributed Workforce
I built these playbooks for companies that:
Want to build best-in-class people
programs but don’t know where to start
Want to use my tactical secrets to
leapfrog the maturity of their people programs, moving faster and making fewer mistakes
Are self-starters and can use
the playbook as a guide to build programs internally
Are feeling stuck and need fresh ideas
Testimonials
Shelby is the ideal mix of thought partner and hands-on company builder. She uses her experience scaling Invision, one of the preeminent distributed companies, to empower founders building world-class teams. Shelby’s knowledge is an invaluable resource for companies adapting to a remote-first world or those starting out distributed from day one.
- Luke Beseda,
Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
My Clients
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