Human Resources
Senior HR Support for small and mid-sized companies
As your fractional partner, I take on the people side of your business, from the contracts and policies to the performance, culture, and decisions that keep it moving. You get experienced HR support. Only what you need, when you need it, and within your budget.
Is Fractional HR Support a Good Choice for You?
Fractional HR is for companies who need senior HR expertise without 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 healthy culture and a people strategy that drive business 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.
Three Focused Paths
VOICE
Be heard, on purpose.
For people whose ideas are worth hearing, exploring, and acting on. Your voice is strong, but is not getting the recognition it deserves. We work on changing that, whether your habit is to hold back or to push too hard.
For professionals ready to increase visibility, influence, and leadership presence.
ASCEND
From technical expert to leader
For technical experts stepping into leadership, and for anyone moving from peer to leader. Leading people is a skill set of its own, and you can build it deliberately. We help you lead with confidence from your first day in the role.
For technical experts stepping into leadership for the first time.
RESET
Find your footing and make the move
For people going through career disruption or transition. The ground has shifted under you, and the next move is not obvious yet. We turn that moment into a deliberate step toward what you actually want next.
For professionals navigating significant career transition.
How the Intensive Works
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Structured Self Work
You complete practical exercises between sessions to surface patterns, clarify thinking, and prepare for meaningful coaching conversations, so your session time goes further.
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Live 1:1 Coaching
Each session is tailored to what came up in your work. These are not check in calls. They are focused working sessions designed to challenge assumptions, build clarity, and move your forward.
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Real-World Application
The real work is built around the actual situations you face at work, the conversations you need to have, and the challenges are you are navigating right now.
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Measurable Progress
Each intensive includes tools, checkpoints, and tangible outputs so progress is visible and measured, and growth is something you can see and build on.
What makes an intensive different
Most coaching starts with conversation.
Leadership Acceleration Intensives combine structured self-work, executive coaching, and real-world application to create meaningful progress in a specific leadership moment.
Each intensive is built around your actual situation, not hypothetical scenarios or generic frameworks. You complete structured exercises, reflections, assessments, and practical tools between sessions. Your coaching sessions are then tailored to what surfaced, creating a focused cycle of insight, action, and accountability.
The result is not just greater awareness. It’s measurable progress, practical tools, and a clear path forward.
Structured
Every intensive follows a defined framework designed for a specific leadership challenge. Assessments, workbooks, exercises, and coaching sessions build on one another to create momentum.
Accelerated
A concentrated format designed to create meaningful movement in weeks, not years. Each intensive combines focused coaching with deliberate action to accelerate growth and results.
Practical
The work is grounded in your real conversations, real decisions, and real leadership situations. No generic exercises. No hypothetical case studies.
What you walk away with
By the end of intensive, you will lead in a way that is authentic to who you are, with an approach that fits your unique style, along with the habits and tools to keep building on it.
A leadership approach that fits you. Built on your strengths and your real context, ready to use.
Habits you have practiced. New behaviours tested on real situations before the intensive ends.
A firm read on your next move. You leave knowing where you are headed and how you will get there.
Tools you keep. Frameworks and prompts you carry into every hard conversation from here on.
Future Plan. A 90-day go-forward plan to keep building momentum after the intensive.
Dawn Sweany and Andrew Buzinsky | Founders
Why Rodina Ventures
Leadership challenges are rarely theoretical.
They happen in real conversations, difficult decisions, career transitions, team dynamics, and moments when the stakes feel high.
At Rodina Ventures, our coaching is grounded in both executive coaching expertise and decades of real-world leadership experience. We understand the pressure because we’ve lived it.
Executive Leadership Experience
Leadership experience at the executive and CEO level across organizations ranging from start-ups to global enterprises.
Certified Executive Coaches
Professional coaching methodologies, assessments, and frameworks combined with practical application.
Cross-Industry Perspective
Experience across technology, oil and gas, aerospace, agriculture, finance, professional services, and more.
Founder snapshots
Our role is simple:
To help leaders move through important moments with greater clarity, confidence, and capability.
Dawn Sweany
MBA, Certified CoachBusiness coach and HR consultant helping leaders navigate growth, visibility, influence, and organizational complexity. Former executive leader within a global organization of 6,800+ employees.
MBA, CPA (CMA), P.Eng.Andrew Buzinsky
Executive coach, advisor, and business leader with 30+ years of experience leading growth, transformation, and innovation. Built and scaled a business unit to $120M in revenue and 500 employees across nearly a dozen countries.