BLUECHIP PEOPLE STRATEGIES
Data-informed.
People-decided.
Independent evaluations, leadership development, and senior HR judgment, for the boards, executives, and owners who have to stand behind the result.
Which chair are you in?
Choose your role to find a starting point.If your CAO's evaluation were challenged tomorrow, what would you have on paper?
When the big calls get made in your organization, what carries them?
When did someone on your team last tell you something you didn't want to hear?
How did the people file end up on your desk?
OUR APPROACH
YOUR ORGANIZATION. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
One of these probably sounds familiar.
You're a council, board, or commission chair. Annual evaluation season is approaching and you want a process you can trust (one the board, the leader, and the public will stand behind).
You're a CAO, executive director, president, or general manager. It's been a while since you had a structured performance conversation with your board, council, or commission. You'd like a clear read on where you stand and what the next twelve months look like.
You're an owner or founder. The team has grown past what one person can hold in their head. You'd like senior HR judgment in the room, for the hires, the hard conversations, and the supervisors carrying the growth.
You're the one holding the people file. HR by profession, or finance or operations by default. The policies, the hard conversations, and maybe the executive's evaluation all route to you. You'd like senior backup in the room without a full-time hire, or someone external to hold the evaluation process so you aren't in the middle of it.
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
Four ways we work with you.
Governance Evaluations
Preventative Governance for the Council-CAO or board-executive relationship: an Annual Governance Review, wrapped in the year-round rhythm that keeps council and CAO aligned between evaluations, so drift gets caught while it's still small. Starts with a Governance Health Check.
Learn more →Leadership Academies
Senior leaders who finish measurably stronger than they started, and can see it. Nine-month, in-person leadership development cohorts for senior leaders in government, post-secondary, and public agencies. One full day per month, September through May. Eight to twelve participants per cohort, designed so leaders learn alongside peers in comparable roles. Each cohort begins and ends with a leadership assessment, so participants can see how they've grown.
Learn more →Embedded HR Retainers
Senior HR judgment in the room for the decisions that shape your next chapter, without a full-time hire. Senior HR thinking embedded inside your organization. Two tiers: Essential Advisory and Strategic Growth.
Learn more →Assessments
A clear, validated read on how a person, a team, or the organization actually works. Validated psychometric assessments and an organizational diagnostic. Used inside major services or available on their own.
Learn more →THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE JUDGMENT
Why we're built for this work.
BlueChip brings together a few different kinds of experience that don't usually sit in one place.
An undergraduate degree in education. A Master's in coaching. Years of senior HR experience (training and development, recruitment, investigations) inside complex organizations, where good people decisions show up on the bottom line. A track record of building and delivering wide-ranging leadership development programs. Twenty years of high-stakes decision-making, using data to make better decisions under pressure, with money and ego on the line. Post-secondary teaching. Public-sector administration.
That cross-domain background matters because evaluating senior leaders is rarely a single-discipline problem. It's part performance review, part political navigation, part risk management. BlueChip brings all of them to the table.
Five free assessments.
Choose one that fits your situation. Each takes under ten minutes.
Governance Health Check
How defensible is your board's evaluation of its CAO, CEO or Executive Director?
Start the assessmentOrg Pulse
A quick check on the health of your organization.
Start the assessmentDecision Quality Index
A look at how you make decisions when you're under pressure.
Start the assessmentThe Workplace Read
What's happening at work, and what can you do about it?
Start the assessmentThe Supervisor Blind Spot
Your supervisor archetype, and an area you may be overlooking as a leader.
Start the assessmentTHE NEXT CONVERSATION
Where to go from here.
Book a Clarity Call
You know the situation. You want a working conversation with someone who'll tell you the truth and map next steps. Fee credited against the first invoice if you engage.
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