Frequently Asked Questions

Brixton Compass partners with mid-sized organizations, professional associations, and high-growth companies that need to elevate their people strategy, modernize HR practices, and build a skills-based workforce.

We typically work with CEOs, CHROs, and senior HR leaders who are navigating complexity—organizational redesign, strategic planning, growth inflection points, or workforce capability gaps—and need an experienced partner who can translate strategy into structure, systems, and skills.

Most organizations struggle with a fragmented, outdated approach to people and capability. This shows up as:

• No clear organizational structure or talent architecture

• Unclear roles and responsibilities

• Skills gaps that slow growth and overwhelm teams

• Reactive HR functions

• Low leadership confidence in their people data

• Broken or inconsistent performance management

• Lack of alignment between business strategy and workforce strategy
  
  

Left unaddressed, these issues create attrition, rework, inefficiency, disengagement, and stalled strategic execution.

Brixton Compass solves this by helping organizations build cohesive, skills-based talent systems that accelerate growth and improve work for everyone.

Brixton Compass integrates strategy, structure, and skills into one cohesive model:

• Strategy-led design: Using the company’s strategic objectives as the true north.

• Skills-based workforce transformation: Aligning roles, capabilities, and development to the work the business actually needs.

• Kolb experiential learning and capability academies: Helping organizations turn skills into real-world performance.

• Hands-on partnership: We work alongside your leaders, not as distant advisors.

• Practical frameworks: Tools you can actually use—job architectures, skill taxonomies, performance models, capability academies, and custom HR playbooks.
  
  

This creates an end-to-end transformation that is both strategic and operational.

Most organizations either:

• Patch together talent programs in a reactive way

• Buy generic HR frameworks that don’t fit their organization

• Continue using outdated job structures and performance practices

• Hire expensive consultants who don’t follow through on implementation
  
  

The result?
Inconsistent people practices, unclear expectations, misaligned teams, and low accountability.

We eliminate those patterns by building an integrated, skills-based system that drives execution and clarity.

While some firms focus on job architecture or organizational design, very few offer:

• A fully integrated, skills-based HR operating model

• Custom capability academies

• Deep cross-functional experience (finance, HR, operations, strategy, learning)

• A blend of consulting, design, systems thinking, and practical execution

Our clients repeatedly tell us:
“You connect everything in a way no other consultant has been able to do.”

Every engagement begins with the Strategic People Systems Assessment, a focused diagnostic that evaluates:

• Strategy alignment

• Job architecture & role clarity

• Skills inventory & capability gaps

• Performance management & development systems

• HR processes, governance, and technology

• Organizational structure and operating model
  
  

Within two weeks, you receive:

• A clear map of current-state challenges

• Prioritized recommendations

• A 90-day execution plan
  
  

This replaces traditional long discovery phases with fast clarity and actionable direction.

We offer three engagement structures depending on need and scale:

1. Project-Based Engagement (most popular)

For organizations needing a defined deliverable such as:

• Job architecture redesign

• Skills framework + capability academies

• Performance management modernization

• Organizational design or operating model
  
  

Projects typically range from $25,000–$120,000 depending on scope.

2. Fractional Strategic Talent Partner

Ongoing support for CHROs/CEOs needing sustained execution.
Starts at $6,500/month.

3. Advisory + Coaching Retainer

Best for leaders who need strategic guidance, frameworks, coaching, and oversight of internal teams.
Starts at $3,000/month.

We combine strategic clarity with practical implementation:

• Map strategy → structure → roles → skills → systems

• Build practical tools leaders can use immediately

• Create capability academies grounded in real business problems

• Establish a skills-based performance model

• Coach leaders on implementing new structures

• Train HR on sustaining the system
  
  

The result: a cohesive, strategic, skills-powered organization that executes faster and with more alignment.

Before:

• Disconnected HR processes

• Confusing roles

• No clarity on skills or expectations

• Leaders unsure how to manage performance

• Slow execution
  
  

After:

• A strategic, skills-based talent ecosystem

• Clear role expectations and job architecture

• Leadership alignment and accountability

• Engaged employees who know how to succeed

• HR operating model designed for scale
  
  

In short:
We turn people systems into a competitive advantage.