Expert HR Leadership for Modern Workplaces

Portrait of Danielle Laurent, Founder and CEO of Founder’s HR Lab

Founder’s HR Lab delivers full-cycle fractional HR services, HR outsourcing and fractional CHRO solutions tailored for startups, small businesses, and mid-sized companies.

Led by Danielle Laurent—an Air Force veteran and seasoned HR executive with expertise in SaaS, cybersecurity, and MSP sectors—our firm helps leadership teams align people strategy with business goals. From talent development, organizational design, and recruiting fractional HR to full payroll and HR compliance, HR policy handbook creation, and strategic HR compliance checklist guidance, we equip growing companies with scalable human resources support.

Let’s partner to build a workplace culture that attracts top talent, embeds strategic HR metrics, and drives business performance.

What we do Specifically

We provide Strategic Human Resources Executive Integration, a hands-on, fractional CHRO approach that embeds expert HR leadership into your business. From HR operations setup and people analytics to compliance oversight, talent acquisition strategy, and culture alignment, we deliver scalable solutions tailored to your growth stage.

WhO DO WE WORK FOR

We partner with startups, small businesses, and mid-sized companies that are ready to scale and understand the value of structured HR. Our ideal clients are growth-focused leaders who want to attract and retain top talent, strengthen HR infrastructure, and align people strategy with long-term business goals.

Values

Confidence Through Knowledge

We lead with confidence because we’ve done the work. Our team combines HR expertise, business acumen, and intellectual curiosity to solve real-world challenges. Whether it’s navigating complex compliance, anticipating workforce needs, or advising leadership on growth strategy, we deliver knowledge that drives results.

Genuine

We show up authentically—transparent, ethical, and grounded in doing what’s right. Clients trust us because we lead with humility, act with integrity, and bring warmth to every interaction. In HR leadership and advisory, what you see is what you get—and what you get is a trusted partner.

Humanist Approach

We believe business is human. Every decision, challenge, and success starts with people. That’s why we prioritize empathy, emotional intelligence, and relationship-building in everything we do—from talent development and culture alignment to executive HR consulting.

Why we are different

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We Help You Scale, Because We Understand How Growth Actually Works.

Your business evolves fast, your HR strategy should too. We integrate executive-level HR services with the pace and complexity of high-growth companies. From early-stage SaaS startups to scaling cybersecurity firms, we bring full-cycle HR systems that keep your people aligned and your business accelerating.

We align your structure, workflows, and hiring plans with product and sales goals.
We streamline operations using HR systems that accelerate growth, not slow it down.
We keep it lean, removing fluff and focusing only on what drives measurable results.

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Your Team is Great. But Everything Still Runs Through You.

Founder’s HR Lab helps you shift from founder-led to leadership-driven. We design team structures, accountability systems, and HR strategies that support engineering, product, and sales growth—so your company scales without relying solely on you.

You’ve hired great people, but you’re still the bottleneck.

• You’re solving every issue because no one else owns outcomes.
• Your team is capable, but they’re not yet leading.
• Every major decision flows through you, which slows growth.
• Without clear systems and leadership depth, scaling stalls.

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Full-Time HR Firepower. Fraction of the Cost.

You need strategic HR support, but every option feels like a trade-off:

Do it yourself – And get buried in HR tasks that distract from product, customers, and growth.
Hand it off to someone on your team – And watch their productivity drop as they juggle HR work they weren’t hired for.
Hire a junior HR person – And wait (and wait) for them to build the experience your scaling company needs.
Hire a full-time HR executive – And blow past your budget before you’ve even built the foundation.

Founder’s HR Lab gives you senior-level HR consulting, people strategy, and leadership enablement without the full-time cost. Get the impact of a Chief People Officer—minus the overhead.