HR Business Consulting

Mergers & Acquisitions

Our M&A expertise will help you thoroughly understand the critical people-related aspects of an acquisition, empowering you to ensure talent retention and cultural alignment post-merger.

Business Integration

Our business integration services help you streamline operations and foster collaboration across newly combined entities, reducing redundancies while preserving key talent.

Organizational Design

Our organizational design services will help you determine how to best layer your workforce, all to maximize productivity and important metrics like revenue per employee.

What is HR business consulting?

HR business consulting empowers organizations to deeply understand the opportunities and threats of potential acquisitions, how to maximize employee satisfaction and productivity post-merger, and how to best layer staff to optimize organizational success.

Kim Nowell, Kwan Partners, HR Consulting

Why choose the Kwan Partners?

When you choose to hire the Kwan Partners for your HR and people strategy needs, you’re choosing a firm that prioritizes building a lasting, high return partnership with you.

Our team, led by Kim Nowell, works hard to understand your organization’s unique strengths and opportunities deeply, and then utilize our expertise and knowledge to deliver the best results possible.

What Our Clients Say

I’ve hired Kim to lead our annual planning, team building, and management training sessions, and she has exceeded our expectations every single time. Our senior management team consists of high-performing individuals who are not always open to outside guidance—but Kim quickly earned their trust and respect. Her ability to engage even the most skeptical leaders brought our team closer than ever before.

Thanks to Kim:

- Our managers are more effective and aligned
- Communication has improved dramatically
- Silos have been broken down
- And most importantly, we've connected on a deeper, more personal level

Not one person in any of the sessions Kim has conducted had anything negative to say about her; in fact, quite the opposite. Even those generally adverse to these types of events sang her praises.

I highly recommend Kim to any organization looking to energize their leadership team, set clear goals, foster accountability, and build a strong culture of collaboration and communication across the company.

- Steven Bis – President & CEO, International Water Guard

"Kim is a true business partner - equally versed in general business and people matters. I recently had the opportunity to work with her on a complex business integration project where we were asked to solve multiple domestic and international issues in short order. Her expertise and attention to detail proved invaluable.

Kim’s consulting practice offers numerous highly valued leadership training courses - chief among them is leadership boot camp. We had 18 of our middle managers attend a six month program this year - timely, well designed and professionally delivered. I highly recommend the program to those wanting to measurably strengthen the skill set of their key managers."

- Alan Hubbard, Chief HR Officer, Signia Aerospace

"Kim is a pragmatic business partner who focuses on opportunities and problems like a businessperson, not a “personnel administrator." She is a quick study who puts that knowledge to work for the business. There is nothing she won’t do – she’s hands on.”  

- Craig E. Hamway – CEO, Pearl Holdings

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