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Why businesses in BC choose Judy Slutsky: senior-level HR leadership at a fraction of the cost of a large firm — and the assurance that the expert who scopes your work is the same expert who delivers it, every time.

With over 25 years of cross-sector HR experience in British Columbia — spanning private, public, non-profit, and Crown Corporation environments — Judy Slutsky brings a rare combination of operational depth, strategic fluency, and practical execution. Every engagement is scoped, led, and delivered personally by Judy. There is no hand-off to junior or mid-level staff once the contract is signed — the senior expertise present in the first conversation is present in every conversation that follows.

Who Judy Works With

Judy’s practice is purpose-built for organizations that need real HR expertise but don’t have the budget — or the need — for a full-time HR Senior Level Manager or Director. Her clients include:

• Small-to-mid-sized private sector firms (10–200 employees) across professional services, construction, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail
• Non-profit and social services organizations navigating complex workforce and labour relations challenges
• Crown corporations and regulatory agencies requiring senior-level organizational design and compensation expertise
• Growing companies undergoing ownership transitions, restructuring, or rapid workforce expansion — and organizations that are new to operating in BC and need a practitioner with deep, current knowledge of BC’s legislative environment, compensation markets, and sector norms
• Organizations with in-house HR staff — including office managers, administrators, or generalists carrying HR responsibilities — who benefit from a senior coach and framework-builder working alongside them
• Organizations with no formal HR function — Judy conducts a rapid assessment of the organization’s people practices, priorities, and gaps, then designs and implements the foundational HR programs the organization needs: policies, job structures, compensation frameworks, onboarding, and compliance. Where appropriate, she identifies individuals already within the organization who have the aptitude and interest to take on HR responsibilities, and coaches them directly to manage the program on an ongoing basis. The result is a functioning HR infrastructure owned and operated from within — built to a professional standard from day one.
• Remote and rural organizations across BC — including smaller communities, regional non-profits, Indigenous organizations, resource sector operators, and service providers in areas where qualified local HR talent is simply not available. Judy delivers the full scope of her services remotely, with in-person visits scheduled when the work calls for it.

Serving Remote and Rural BC — Without the Distance

Many communities across BC — in the Peace Region, the North Coast, the Cariboo, the Kootenays, and beyond — have strong organizations with real HR needs but no local pool of qualified HR professionals to draw from. Judy works with organizations throughout British Columbia, delivering the full scope of her services remotely through video consultation, shared documentation, and structured advisory sessions.

Where in-person presence adds genuine value — a stakeholder engagement process, organizational assessment, leadership session — Judy travels to the community. For organizations that cannot recruit or retain a full-time HR professional locally, the fractional model is a practical solution: consistent, senior HR support on an as needed basis, building a program that can be sustained from within over time. Geography is no longer a barrier to getting HR right and the right HR!

What Sets Judy Apart

Direct Access to 25+ Years of Accumulated Best Practice

When you engage Judy, you gain immediate access to a working library of HR frameworks, templates, benchmarks, survey instruments, job evaluation tools, policy suites, market compensation and organizational design models developed across hundreds of client engagements over two decades — all of it grounded in BC’s specific legislative environment, market conditions, and sector realities. This matters most to organizations that are either new to operating in BC and need a practitioner who understands this province’s distinct regulatory landscape, or organizations that have worked with larger consulting firms and found that the senior expertise present in the sales conversation wasn’t the expertise present in the work. Judy’s institutional knowledge base is not filtered through a team — it is applied directly, every time.

Scalable Engagement — From Advisory Hours to Full Project Delivery

Judy’s engagements are structured to scale with your needs: from a monthly advisory retainer supporting your existing HR team, to a full fractional HR leadership mandate, to discrete project delivery in compensation, policy, job or organizational design. You take as much — or as little — as the situation requires.

Why Fractional HR Is a Best Practice — Not a Compromise

The most effective HR support model for small and mid-sized organizations is not a full-time hire — it is access to senior expertise, applied at the right moments, in the right depth. Fractional HR is now widely recognized across BC’s private, public, and non-profit sectors as a deliberate and strategic choice: it delivers executive-level HR leadership without the overhead of a permanent salary, benefits, and infrastructure cost that a full-time HR Director would require.

Judy’s fractional model is also uniquely suited to organizations that already have someone doing HR work — whether that is a dedicated HR generalist, an office manager with HR responsibilities, an operations coordinator, or an administrator handling recruitment and policy. In these situations, Judy works alongside that person rather than around them. She provides the strategic framework, the best-practice standards, and the senior judgment that elevates the quality and confidence of the HR work being done internally.

This coaching and mentoring dimension is one of the most valued aspects of Judy’s practice. Many organizations find that their internal HR person has operational knowledge and may be motivated to do the work –  but operating without adequate tools, templates, legislative grounding, or senior guidance. Judy builds the frameworks  – and coaches the internal team to own and sustain them.

The result is an organization that becomes progressively more capable over time, not one that stays dependent on external support.

Whether your organization has no HR function, a partial one, or an established team looking for senior reinforcement — fractional HR with Judy is designed to meet you exactly where you are.

 Impartial, Arms-Length Perspective

As an external consultant, Judy provides objective, politically neutral guidance on your most sensitive HR decisions — investigations, restructuring, performance management, and leadership transitions — without the internal bias that makes those conversations difficult to navigate from the inside.

Reducing Organizational Risk

Unmanaged HR is one of the most significant and underestimated sources of organizational risk. Poorly structured employment practices, outdated job descriptions, compensation not in line with market, inconsistent policy application, gaps in documentation, misclassified employees, inadequate performance management, or a single mishandled workplace investigation can expose an organization to human rights complaints, employment standards violations, wrongful dismissal claims, and reputational damage.

For many small and mid-sized organizations, risks may go unaddressed not because leadership is indifferent — but because the capacity to address issues before they escalate may be limited.

BC Legislative Expertise You Can Count On

Judy maintains current, working knowledge of the BC Employment Standards Act, Workers Compensation Act, Human Rights Code, Pay Transparency Act, Labour Relations Code, and occupational health and safety frameworks — keeping your organization compliant and ahead of regulatory change, not scrambling to catch up.

Core HR Services

Sector Experience Across British Columbia

Judy’s cross-sector depth is among the broadest of any independent HR consultant practising in BC today:

Selected Client Engagements

A sampling of the organizations Judy has served as a Senior Fractional HR Consultant:

ICBC: Organization Design Specialist led job evaluation and org redesign across multiple divisions of a 6,000-employee BC Crown Corporation.

E-Comm 9-1-1: Overhauled approximately 150 union and excluded job descriptions and developed a company-wide Career Framework aligned to a Mercer compensation review.

BC Real Estate Association: Full-scope fractional HR engagement: compensation review, policy development, performance management, employee engagement, and 24-month HR roadmap.

Kornfeld LLP: Embedded fractional HR leadership on a 20-hour/week retainer — policy manuals, performance frameworks, JDs, and employee relations for a prominent Vancouver business law firm.

VRS Communities Society: Multi-phase Management Organizational Redesign Project: 60+ job descriptions, point-factor job evaluation, salary structure, organizational design, and change management plan aligned to a 2024–2029 strategic plan.

InBC Investment Corp.: Fractional HR advisory for a BC government Crown corporation — policy, compensation governance, career pathing, and engagement for a lean, senior professional organization.

Alka Pool Construction: Multi-year fractional engagement: HR infrastructure from the ground up, compensation benchmarking, 21 JDs, policy manual, and ongoing advisory.

UBC & UBC Bookstore: Over 12 years of senior organizational development advisory services, including strategic vision development and HR alignment.

Have you been thinking about this for some time?

Let’s just talk to see if we’re the right fit.

Judy offers an initial consultation at no charge — so you can assess the fit before making any commitment.

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