People Infrastructure Consulting

Benefits
Design

We work hard to understand the needs of your employee population and then develop benefits options to meet their needs, all in a highly cost-effective manner.

Total
Rewards

Our team can help you design salary and admin tools for base compensation plus short and long term incentive payments.

HRIS & Payroll Design

We leverage cutting edge technology to help identify, design, and implement world-class HR systems.

Employee & Labor Relations

Our team can assist you with policy, compliance, contract negotiations, and labor relations, and we can do so across multiple business sites and international borders.

What is People Infrastructure Consulting?

People infrastructure consulting is the process of helping an organization build out the proper HR foundations for managing their workforce, all to maximize productivity and organizational success. It involves creating scalable systems, processes, and strategies that maximize the satisfaction of employee populations.

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
- 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 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

Kim is an exceptional leader who brings tremendous impact to any organization. Over the past five years, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with her as she helped transform how we engage with our people, design our organization, and deliver meaningful benefits to our teams.

Her expertise in talent strategy, organizational design, and employee experience has consistently kept us operating at a high level. Just as important, Kim has been a trusted partner to me and our executive team—bringing sound judgment, confidence, and a genuine commitment to building strong teams.

Any organization would be fortunate to have Kim shaping and leading their people strategy.

- Robbie Atkinson, CEO, Medical Manufacturing Technologies (mmt)

"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

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