Build the runway to drive business results
We partner with organizations to enhance teams, leaders and people-systems that boost business results by aligning strategy, goals, culture and talent. From onboaring to retention, we provide solutions across the employee lifecycle, collaborating with our clients to develop strategic roadmaps and implementation plans that foster employee trust and have lasting impact.
Our unique approach:
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Begins with a holistic assessment, providing a 360-degree view that highlights opportunities and mitigates potential roadblocks,
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Relies on data-driven insights and meaningful stakeholder engagement to inform decisions,
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Delivers practical, high-impact solutions that help you achieve your business goals.
How We Help Our Clients
1:1 Coaching & Consulting
Solve targeted business and people issues, for C-Suite, Executives and HR Leaders
Manager & Leadership Development
Build great leaders who build high-performing teams
Performance Management & Career Development
Increase employee capacity through clear expectations & feedback
Employee Engagement
Maximize employee satisfaction and productivity
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Create an inclusive environment where all employees can thrive
Who We Are
Founded by Silicon Valley experts in People and Organizational Development, People Runway brings 40+ years of experience in leadership, culture, talent management, and building people programs and systems that drive business growth.
We leverage our individual expertise and collective experience at Google and other high-growth companies to solve nearly any challenge.
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Candice Reimers
Partner
Dr. Candice Reimers brings 20 years of expertise in research, people analytics, and learning and organizational development. With over a decade at Google, she built people programs and processes during high-growth phases and through significant change, and has worked with companies from 10 to 300,000 employees. Her doctorate is from the University of Pennsylvania and she teaches in the UC Davis MBA program.
Shravanti Chakraborty
Partner
Shravanti Chakraborty specializes in people strategy, organizational design, culture, (DEI) diversity, equity and inclusion, leadership and team development, and HR infrastructure for scaling organizations. With over 20 years of experience in high-growth environments like Google and Dell, she has led people operations, organizational development, and DEI initiatives. Most recently, she served as Chief People Officer at Coursera.
We believe
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Trust is at the core of everything.
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Investing in culture, people and structures early drives better long-term business results.
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HR can be a force for good.
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How we work
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Practical and results driven: We drive for actions that yield the greatest tangible impact.
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Partnership: We partner with you to understand your culture and goals and co-design the best solution.
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Customized, Nimble and Scalable: We build light-weight processes that are designed for your specific context and can scale with your company.
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Honest and direct: We practice radical candor in every interaction.
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Data-driven: We analyze data to identify core issues and measure our results.
Client Testimonials
VP of People, Global Transportation Company
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I've worked with People Runway at both of my last two companies, and in both cases they delivered on complex projects beyond my expectations. They consistently produced high-quality, highly customized work products under a tight timeline - they really reduced the stress of delivering on key projects. We've partnered on leveling and compensation overhauls, team-wide training and development programs, and interview guides, and in every case the work was top-notch. I'd give People Runway my highest recommendation, and I'd love to work with them again.
VP of Engineering, Healthcare Company
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People Runway has a very unique ability to look at organizational problems through the lenses of the various stakeholders as a group as well as the individuals. If you would like to shift your team or organization into a high performing one and need insights about how to reach that elusive next level, People Runway can guide your quest with the keenest insights in a professional manner. After an initial assessment, they changed the organizational conversations to enable us to execute at a level I did not think possible.
Head of People, Global Education Technology Company
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People Runway helped us set up our core people processes and culture, starting with performance management, career pathing to leadership development and succession planning. They have unique strategic vision, and at the same time, can roll up their sleeves and execute. Their deep HR expertise, combined with a data driven approach, set us up to track and measure progress. Their foresight enabled us to weave concepts like diversity and equity right into the design of our programs, which lay down a strong foundation early in the evolution of our company.
Founder & CTO, Global Travel Company
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People Runway was instrumental in helping with our HR strategy and executive training. Their disciplined data-driven process is what’s so unique and effective about their approach. We ran into multiple difficult decisions around org structure but People Runway provided a structured process to align various teams to come to a decision using employee and benchmark data as the foundation. That’s often easier said than done when multiple teams have their own goals unique to their functions... People Runway’s broad experiences in HR management and their interpersonal skills are great resources to tap into in dealing with any sort of day to day people management and alignment challenges.