Your HR Partner
for Startup and Scale
Katie is the CEO and Founder of Startup Your HR. For over 10 years, Katie has been a noteworthy leader in the HR space. You may know her from her work as the Founding Liaison of the Nashville Hacking HR chapter, but Katie can also be credited with her contributions to Nashville Entrepreneur Week and Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resource Management.
She holds an MBA from Union University and has completed doctoral work in human resource management at Capella University. She currently lives in Nashville and when she's not keeping busy with her awesome clients, you can find her playing video games with her family of all boys.
What Clients are Saying...
Proven Efficiency
"It has been an absolute pleasure working with Katie Parker on some of our company’s HR needs. Not only was she able to help us manage and respond to a bevy of qualified candidates, she recommended and implemented new processes that took our overall hiring experience to the next level. On top of that, we were able to extend an offer and onboard our top candidate well before our self-imposed deadline. I’d recommend her services in a second!"
Guidance and Strategy
“Katie was very instrumental in helping us to define our internal org structure, and was able to guide us through the process of coming up with a hierarchy that fit where we were at and where we were moving. In addition, she was able to help us come up with the relevant roles and promotion tracks necessary to support the new structure in a way that took our existing resources into account.”
Success through Culture
“Katie designed every aspect of our internship program and was instrumental to its success. She handled intern selection, onboarding, and the format of the program. With her help, we hosted 2 cohorts of interns that were diverse and added so much value to our early startup work.”
The Problems We're Solving...
Startups and small businesses do not have the expertise or capacity to handle the complex challenges that come with scaling a business.
We're in the trenches with you the whole way, facing challenges and change head on.
Bringing HR in-house is expensive and often premature for a fluctuating workload.
With us, you pay for what you need when you need it. We can even adjust our focus with you every month all while keeping your cost a fraction of a salaried HR employee.
Guidance on and the implementation of people projects is essential for growing a team sustainably.
We customize services to align with your strategic goals and make recommendations with your culture in mind.