HR Companies & HR Consultants in Hamilton, OH

Mobley HR Consulting, also called MobleyHR, is a small training and consulting practice based in the Cincinnati area. Thomas (Tom) Mobley founded it. He holds the SPHR and SHRM-SCP credentials, teaches as a university professor, and is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's MALER program. The firm focuses on teaching: it helps human resources professionals prepare for certification exams, and it provides HR and leadership training for staff, managers and HR teams.

Certification preparation

Exam coaching is the center of the business. Candidates for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP can join an eight-week cohort that meets online through Zoom on Thursday evenings. Each week's material is delivered as short narrated slide decks of about twenty to thirty minutes, six per session, along with practice quizzes and glossaries.

Enrollees also get a companion book with online practice questions and a Google Classroom space. Mobley moved the main content to recorded form after several cycles in which live lectures made participation hard to sustain.

Live meetings now center on weekly discussion and on shaping a study plan around each person's needs, and the change added roughly six hours of study time.

The course follows the competency and knowledge framework published by SHRM, and its eight sessions are organized like this:

• Behavioral clusters: leadership, interpersonal skills and business skills, covering ethics, equity and inclusion, networking, negotiation, communication, consulting and analytics
• People domain: HR strategy, recruiting, engagement and retention, learning and development, and total rewards
• Organization and workplace domains: how the HR function is structured, employee and labor relations, workforce and technology management, global workforce issues, risk and corporate social responsibility
• Legal domain: the history of labor law, union organizing, collective bargaining, wage and hour rules, family leave and workplace safety

Material is being revised for the 2027 exam, following SHRM's own content changes in 2025. The program is aimed at people with under six years in HR who meet the eligibility rules for either exam, and it also serves as a broad introduction for anyone curious about the function.

Those pursuing the HRCI PHR or SPHR can choose a self-paced, prerecorded option made up of sixteen sessions of seventy-five minutes, with slides and practice quizzes, available as soon as someone registers.

Workshops and corporate training

Outside exam prep, the firm offers courses and workshops intended to help HR leaders refine processes and strengthen communication and engagement within their teams. The goal is learning that participants can put to use right away in their own workplaces. Training may take the form of workshops, seminars, college classes or online sessions. Examples include:

• DiSC assessments
• Emotional intelligence
• HR fundamentals for supervisors

As more employers urge or require their HR staff to be certified, the practice also builds customized corporate prep programs, which can be run online, in person or as a hybrid.

Track record and community work

Mobley reports more than three decades of teaching HRCI and SHRM prep and says he has used the present format since 2018. He cites work with nearly 250 HR professionals from across the country and a pass rate of at least 88 percent among those who tested, including several groups where everyone passed.

He notes that fewer than 15 percent of HR professionals are certified and that exam pass rates run between 50 and 70 percent, so he presents preparation as a way to stand out.

His university role connects to HR Succeeds, a University of Cincinnati effort that arranges student internships, runs a jobs board viewed by more than 200 students, and has taken young professionals to the SHRM national conference. He also puts part of the profits from his certification courses toward scholarships for students. Organizations seeking a training-focused partner rather than a full-service HR provider will find that is where this firm concentrates.