HR Companies & HR Consultants in Center Valley, PA

Oxford Rose Consulting, which also operates under the name Oxford Rose Collective, is a human resources and business consulting firm in Center Valley, in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. It is a division of The Andever Group, LLC. The firm works with founders, executives and growing organizations of many sizes.

Its local service pages cover Allentown and Philadelphia as well as New York City, Newark and Trenton, and it also supports clients elsewhere in the United States virtually. It suits leaders who know where they want to take their people strategy but lack the time, in-house expertise or budget to get there alone.

Services and engagement options

Clients can hire Oxford Rose for advisory consulting or bring in one of its professionals as a contractor. Work can be a short project, an ongoing relationship or leadership of a strategic initiative. The main service areas are:

• Strategic HR consulting, including HR audits, role clarity, workforce and succession planning, job classification, pay and benefits alignment, and help with restructuring
• Fractional and interim HR leadership, including a part-time Chief People Officer or CHRO, project-based HR work and coaching for internal HR teams
• HR compliance help, such as federal and state audits, wage-and-hour and leave-law guidance, recordkeeping reviews and required training like harassment prevention
• People operations, including employee lifecycle planning, handbooks, performance management systems, and onboarding and offboarding
• Talent acquisition strategy, including improving the hiring process, interview training for managers, competency profiles and employer branding
• Culture and change management, inclusion training and psychological safety workshops
• Executive coaching and leadership development, using DISC and MBTI assessments with debrief sessions

The firm also sells packaged programs. HR Foundations for Founders & Startups helps early-stage companies set up compliance basics and a people strategy before they hire heavily. New Manager Onboarding gives new supervisors a 90-day plan, feedback training, legal basics and ready-made templates.

How the firm works

Projects follow the firm's four-step method: Discover, Design, Develop and Deliver. First, the team reviews the client's current people, policies, culture and risk. Next, it builds solutions together with the client instead of handing over generic documents. It then trains leaders and staff to put those solutions into practice. Finally, it tracks results and adjusts as needed. Prospective clients can book a free 45-minute first meeting, and the website offers a free HR strategy quiz and other downloadable resources.

Leadership and background

The firm was founded by Janell Snipes, who holds a master's degree in Human Resources Management and the SHRM-CP certification. She has more than 25 years of leadership experience. Her career started in higher education and student affairs, then moved into talent management and HR generalist roles.

For the past ten years she has led HR as a Director of Human Resources and sat on executive leadership teams. She has worked with nonprofits, durable goods and chemical manufacturers, municipalities and colleges. She has also partnered with many departments, including engineering, IT, finance, R&D, supply chain and municipal offices such as police and fire.

The firm says its values include honesty, open communication with clients and strict confidentiality. Its mission statement is faith-based. Buyers who want senior-level HR guidance without hiring a full-time executive may find its mix of fractional leadership, compliance work and coaching a good fit.