Human Resources
Senior HR Support for small to mid-sized companies
As your fractional partner, we take on the people side of your business, aligning your people, teams, and culture to deliver your corporate objectives. From the contracts and policies you need in place to the performance conversations that keep everyone moving, you get experienced HR support for only what you need, when you need it, and within your budget.
Is Fractional HR Support a Good Choice for You?
Fractional HR provides you executive expertise on an as needed basis. Senior expertise without the cost of a full-time hire.
You have between 2 and 50 people and want senior HR expertise in your corner.
You want contracts, policies, and onboarding that keep pace with your team.
You want performance, pay, and departures handled right the first time.
You want to stay onside with employment standards, OHS, and human rights.
You want a plan for developing your people and building your next leaders.
You want a culture built around your vision and a people strategy that drives results.
Where Small Companies Get Caught
The risk rarely shows up until you need a document, a process, or a decision framework that you do not have.
HAS THIS HAPPENED TO YOU?
A staff member is not working out, and you are unsure how to part ways fairly without creating legal risk for the business.
A strong employee resigns, and you realize a bit of structure and the proper support could have kept them on your team
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
You are setting pay and making offers with no framework, hoping you are being fair and consistent across the team.
Someone asks for a policy you do not have, and your handbook turns out to be a folder of half-finished documents.
Your People Strategy and Culture
Policy Development
Employment contracts, handbooks, and policies written for your province. Only the documents you need, nothing more.
HR support at every stage of the employee life cycle, built to drive your business results
Terminations
Correct notice, severance calculations, and required documentation. We guide you through each step of the conversation.
Onboarding & Exit
Clean processes to ensure new hires start strong; and every departure stays professional and well-documented.
Compensation
Pay bands and total rewards decisions built on a framework you can explain, so your team trusts how the numbers are set and why.
Performance
Development conversations and feedback in place of once-a-year reviews, with structure when conversations get hard.
Culture
Define the culture that fits your business vision, integrate multicultural and multigenerational teams, and build the people who carry it forward.
All of our policies, terminations, severance calculations, and template documents are vetted by employment lawyers in the relevant provincial jurisdiction. Nothing is AI-generated or adapted from US templates.
Work You Can Trust
What Sets Us Apart
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Provincial Standards
Every document is grounded in the employment standards and human rights legislation of your province, anywhere in Canada. Vetted and approved by employment lawyers.
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Executive Experience
Twenty-five years of senior and executive HR leadership, working directly on your business from the first call. No handoffs, no delegation, and no junior staff learning on your file.
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Right-Sized Support
Senior HR judgment without the overhead of a full-time hire. Support scales up or down as your business moves, so you only pay for what you need, when you need it.
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Practical output
You walk away with documents you can use and decisions you can act on, real tools rather than a report on a shelf. And with us on call, you are never navigating alone.
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Conflict, Handled
Conflict left alone costs you good people and drains the team around it. As certified coaches, we support your team to work through it themselves, without pulling in senior leadership.
What You Walk Away With
Support that lowers your risk and gives you a straight answer when a people question lands on your desk.
Documents that fit. Contracts, policies, and handbooks written for your business and your provincial standards
Confident Decisions. People decisions made quickly and correctly, keeping your business moving and your team performing.
Reduced Legal Risk. Practices that keep you onside with employment, safety, and human rights rules.
Tools you keep. Frameworks and prompts you carry into every employee conversation from here on.
A Partner On Call. You never face a tough people decision alone. Someone to bounce ideas off, test your thinking, and back or challenge your call.
Dawn Sweany | Co-Founder Rodina Ventures | HR Strategist and Business Performance Coach
Who You’ll Work With
Dawn Sweany spent 25 years in senior and executive HR leadership before co-founding Rodina Ventures, supporting organizations from small teams to a global company of 6,800 employees.
She knows what it feels like when a termination is looming, a strong employee is heading for the door, and the policies cannot keep up with the team. She has sat in that chair, in good years and hard ones.
You get an executive's judgment, a practitioner's toolkit, and a partner who has handled the hard conversations before.
Certified executive coach and practitioner in international and organizational culture.
25+
Years of Senior and Executive HR
6,800
Employees in her largest organization
Cross-Industry Perspective
Experience across technology, oil and gas, non-profit, agriculture, mining, legal, professional services, and more.
12
Countries, one global team
Not Ready for Fractional HR?
The HR Starter Kit
Not ready for fractional support, but want to stay onside with employment legislation? The Starter Kit is a complete people foundation, built to the requirements of your provincial employment standards. From the first day to the final day, and everything in between:
Attraction and recruitment, from the job description to an offer you can stand behind
Structured onboarding that gets new hires productive and builds trust from day one
A performance framework, so you are never improvising a tough conversation
Compensation and career development that keeps pay fair, defensible, and scalable
Termination and offboarding done right, with the documentation to close the door properly
Built to the employment standards of your province, wherever in Canada you operate.
Every document was developed by an HR professional with 25 years of senior and executive experience, and vetted by employment lawyers with expertise in provincial employment legislation. Professional-grade materials you can put to work
What people are saying
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"Dawn has been both my coach and advisor. My business is very people intensive and I appreciate how well she works with me to help me uncover my own solutions and ideas."
-Jackie Brett, Business Director, Dental Industry
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"What sets Dawn apart is her exceptional ability to create a judgment-free space. Her guidance has given me the confidence and tools to achieve my goals. Dawn's coaching is the investment I didn't know I needed. I cannot recommend her services highly enough."
-Katsina Whitechurch, Business Development, Construction
★★★★★
Working with Dawn has been one of the best decisions we've made for our business. She completely overhauled our company guidelines, helped us see gaps we didn't even realize were there, and worked with us to implement new policies. If you're growing and feeling the pressure that comes with managing that growth, Dawn is exactly who you want in your corner."
-Nicole Hudson, Owner, Township Cleaning Co.
Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime. If you’re feeling ready, go ahead and apply.
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No. We partner with recruitment firms who do that work full time and maintain deep candidate databases, so if you need to hire, we will connect you with the right people.
Once you are ready to make an offer, that is where we step in, aligning compensation, preparing a proper offer letter, and putting the employment contract in place.
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Fractional support is scoped to what your business needs, and the HR Starter Kit is priced as a flat package. Most clients start with a discovery call so we can size the right fit before anything begins.
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If you have two or more people, employment rules already apply to you. Many clients bring us in well before they would think to hire an HR person, which is the point at which structure is easiest to put in place.
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Documents sourced online carry real risk if you cannot be certain how they align with your business, your staff, and your provincial legislation. Our HR Starter kit holds templates, frameworks, and best practices written to provincial employment standards, and each document is customized with your company branding.
The 90-minute consultation is what makes them yours, we walk through how each one applies to your business and how to use it.
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Yes. We work with small, volunteer-run groups such as swim clubs, animal rescue societies, and curling clubs, which carry the same employment, safety, and human rights obligations as any other employer.
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We lay out what we would handle first, how much time it is likely to take, and what it costs. There is no pressure to commit on the call. You set the time, the budget and the pace at which we work.
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Definitely! At that size you may be ready for in-house HR, and we can help you build that function, or provide senior support alongside it.