Krystal Speed

About Krystal Speed

Experiencing growth or transition, but unsure where to start with your people strategy? I’m glad you’re here because I’m going to help you. Hello! I’m Krystal. I’m the founder of Your HR Strategist, an HR consultancy that helps leaders build and grow inclusive teams and workplace cultures where people thrive. With 17+ years in HR, I\'ve learned that sustainable growth isn\'t about adding more headcount—it\'s about building a strong foundation with clear strategy, intentional culture, and HR systems that help you find, retain, and engage exceptional employees who excel in their roles and align with your mission. Creating this foundation requires expertise, intention, and time. That\'s where my team steps in. Small business and nonprofit leaders partner with us when they\'re facing: Wrong people in key roles Critical tasks falling through the cracks Misaligned goals across the organization Teams that are overwhelmed and overworked Our solutions: Hiring Vip Day: In this eight-hour consultation, you\'ll walk away with a complete hiring strategy and system designed to help you attract and retain the right people as you scale. After our day together, you’ll receive a bespoke hiring playbook and six weeks of virtual coaching to ensure implementation success. Hiring Implementation Support: Our team manages your entire hiring process on a minimum 3-month retainer. This is ideal for organizations that want a full internal hiring process without doing the heavy lifting. We help craft a compelling employer brand that attracts top talent, provide an excellent candidate experience, and streamline the process so your team only needs to interview and hire. Onboarding Vip Day: During this four-hour session, together we’ll create a 90-day onboarding process that welcomes and trains your new employee and builds relationships across the team. Foundations Grantees: We partner with foundations to provide HR capacity-building services to their grantees. If you\'re a foundation program manager who recognizes that your grantees need stronger people systems to achieve their mission, we\'ll work directly with them. You can’t afford to continue overlooking your HR and work culture challenges. Let’s work together to create an environment where individuals put their passions to work, teams gel, and your organization can innovate and scale its impact. Let’s connect and get started! Book your free call: https://calendly.com/krystalspeed/discoverycall.

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Your Hr Strategist

   May 2018 — Present · Tulsa, OK, US

   I’m the founder and CEO of Your HR Strategist, an HR consultancy that helps leaders build and grow inclusive teams and workplace cultures where people thrive. I believe that everyone deserves to thrive at work! I help small businesses, nonprofits, and foundation grantees develop intentional culture and HR systems that help find, retain, and engage exceptional employees who excel in their roles and align with their mission.Our clients say that they genuinely feel that we are part of their team when collaborating with us. Our clients\' employees say that they\'ve never experienced an HR professional who truly wanted to talk to them, listen, and express care about them as a whole person.This feedback affirms my commitment to holding space for people to be their full selves at work. I believe in HR facilitating and nurturing communities of care in the workplace and centering the human in the experience.I believe workplaces can be transformational versus transactional and that people thrive when we see, treat, and intentionally plan with the perspective that they are people.Are you interested in creating an environment where individuals put their passions to work, teams gel, and your organization can innovate and scale its impact? Send me a message and let\'s chat! “What I appreciate about Krystal is she is direct, thorough and insightful. She\'s responsive and helps you come up with creative options. Her deliverables are top-notch. The resources we\'ve been able to create have been exactly what we needed. I am so grateful to have Krystal in my corner.” - Kelly B, The Contingent “The expertise and skills that Krystal brought to our team not only helped us manage our growth, but to strategize the development of our operations in ways that gave us the capacity to function at a whole new level. I am not exaggerating when I say that she is world-class in what she brings to the table.” - JR R, Missio Alliance

Education

• Vanderbilt University

  M.Ed

  2002 — 2003

• South Carolina State University

  Bachelor of Education - BEd

  1998 — 2002

• South Carolina State University

  BS

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Career Development
• Curriculum Development
• Event Planning
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Strategic Planning
• Community Engagement
• Fundraising
• Recruiting
• Talent Management
• Project Management
• Training
• Employee Training
• Employee Relations
• Non-Profits
• Leadership
• Organizational Development
• Community Outreach
• Public Speaking
• K-12
• Lesson Planning
• Volunteer Management
• Program Evaluation
• Social Media
• Nonprofits
• Program Management
• Social Networking
• Research
• Strategy
• Management
• Analysis
• Human Resources
• Team Building
• Process Improvement
• Project Planning