hr consulting & senior business partner support
MAP HR Consulting brings deep expertise across the full spectrum of HR, helping to optimize your HR function and drive meaningful value for your organization. Services include:
HR Audits & Action Planning– Comprehensive assessments with targeted recommendations and implementation plans
HR Strategic Planning– Design, plan, and implement strategies aligned with your business goals
HR Department Design– Build, strengthen, or complete overhaul of your HR function
HR Operations & Process Improvement– Audit current systems, develop new frameworks, improve efficiency
Benefits & Compensation – Analyze and benchmark, design competitive packages, support implementation
Performance Management– Create and implement competency models, evaluation tools, and feedback programs
Talent Management – Strategy and support for talent acquisition, onboarding, retention, offboarding
Organizational Development– Identify challenges and opportunities, assess organizational health, and implement strategies that enhance performance, engagement, and alignment with business goals
Employee Engagement & Workplace Culture – Develop strategies and initiatives that foster a positive, high-performing culture including design and analysis of engagement surveys with actionable insights
Training & Development– Customized design and delivery of HR training for all organizational levels
HR Technology – Assessment, selection, and implementation of HR technology solutions
hr outsourcing
Whether you have a fully developed HR function or are starting from the ground up, MAP HR Consulting offers flexible, tailored solutions to meet your needs:
In-House HR Support – Serve as your in-house HR department, managing day-to-day HR responsibilities
Interim HR Leadership – Provide interim or ongoing HR leadership to support your organization through growth, change, or transitions
hr Advising
MAP HR Consulting provides real-time expert support and guidance to help you navigate your toughest HR challenges:
Strategic Advisement for leaders on critical HR issues
Coaching for HR leaders and team members
Employee Relations – Support and issue resolution
Workforce Transitions –Support and guidance for terminations and reductions in force
hr COMPLIANCE
MAP HR Consulting provides compliance and risk management services to protect your business by reducing risk and ensuring compliance:
Compliance Audits – Multi-state compliance audits and corrective action planning
Employee Handbook and Policies – Audit, development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance
Training – Compliance training and education
meet michelle
MICHELLE A. PLANTY, MA, SHRM-SCP
Michelle is the founder of MAP HR Consulting and a seasoned HR strategist with 25+ years of experience in human resources management. She helps organizations optimize their people strategy to drive engagement, enhance performance, and achieve meaningful business outcomes.
Michelle is recognized as a trusted partner and has held senior HR l
Michelle is the founder of MAP HR Consulting and a seasoned HR strategist with 25+ years of experience in human resources management. She helps organizations optimize their people strategy to drive engagement, enhance performance, and achieve meaningful business outcomes.
Michelle is recognized as a trusted partner and has held senior HR leadership roles in a diverse range of professional services firms across the United States—from a start-up boutique law firm to a rapidly expanding large law firm and a mid-sized economic consulting firm. Her leadership approach is rooted in identifying business needs and designing innovative HR solutions that accelerate organizational growth and performance.
She is an expert in evaluating and optimizing HR strategy, structure, and programs to strengthen engagement and improve organizational effectiveness. Throughout her career, Michelle has played a key role in designing and executing HR strategies that align people practices with business objectives. She has led the development of best-in-class initiatives across the HR portfolio, including performance management systems, benefits and compensation programs, and engagement and wellness initiatives. Michelle has overhauled recruiting functions to increase offer acceptance rates and embedded processes that reflect and reinforce company culture. She has also built coaching and leadership development frameworks that support career progression, leadership growth, and the retention of top talent. Her efforts consistently cultivate environments that encourage individual development, foster community, reward contributions, and elevate overall organizational performance.
Michelle brings a hands-on, solutions-focused consulting style to every client engagement. She partners closely with clients to identify and implement tailored strategies that enhance employee engagement and organizational capability.
Her consulting expertise spans the full scope of strategic human resources management. This includes assessing and aligning HR structure, strategy, and programs with organizational goals; designing and implementing initiatives that strengthen culture, connection, and performance; delivering training programs that enhance leadership capability and support development at every level; mitigating risk and ensuring compliance through the thorough auditing, development, and maintenance of Employee Handbooks, HR policies, and workplace practices; and providing ongoing HR management and leadership guidance.
Michelle holds a Master of Arts in Human Resources Management from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Syracuse University. She is a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and is certified in CCL’s 360 Assessment.
MAP HR Consulting is proud to celebrate its five-year anniversary! Thank you to all our clients, colleagues, and friends! We look forward to continuing to provide top-notch HR services in the years to come!