HR Companies & HR Consultants in Park City, UT

Expedition HR is a human resources consulting firm headquartered in Park City, Utah. It serves growing businesses that employ people but have no in-house HR function, so personnel questions tend to land on an owner or office manager. It also supports organizations that already have someone handling HR and want more expertise behind their teams and systems.

Its advice draws on Utah and federal employment law, and its site features praise from a small nonprofit agency and from a fundraising consultancy.

Services and programs

The central offering is the HR Subscription, which the firm likens to a streaming service for HR. Subscribers receive on-demand guidance from an advisor who learns their business, plus round-the-clock online access to ready-made forms, checklists and other resources. Because the firm does not track consulting hours, clients can reach out whenever a question arises without worrying about running out of time. The firm positions this against PEOs, payroll-software add-ons and hourly consultants. The full lineup includes:

• HR Subscription: continuing support for process questions, tough conversations, terminations, employee issues and legal compliance
• HR Basecamp: an eight-week foundational program, also referred to as the HR Jumpstart, that ends with a prioritized roadmap and accountability check-ins
• Trainings and speaking: keynotes, breakout sessions and workshops delivered by the founder, including a signature session on difficult conversations
• Selected services in Spanish

Basecamp is organized around eight pillars: recruiting and onboarding, employment law basics, pay structures, handbooks, benefits, HR systems, recognition and engagement, and training practices, along with the review of how employees perform. Participants complete a short video assignment, under an hour, before each live session, which leaves meeting time for applying ideas to their own organization.

Managers can optionally add live team sessions on discipline, legal basics, supervisory skills, interviewing and building trust. Graduates are meant to leave with the working knowledge of an HR generalist. The program suits office managers, operations leaders, new HR staff and executives at smaller companies.

Approach and specialties

The firm calls employee performance problems its "Zone of Genius." It addresses them with coaching and progressive discipline, and tries to prevent recurrence by setting expectations from onboarding onward and formalizing regular reviews. Other situations it helps with include personality clashes, so-called high-performing jerks, harassment and discrimination claims, problematic workplace romances and the risk of wrongful termination suits.

Prospective clients should note the limits. Expedition HR is neither a recruiter nor a payroll processor, and it distinguishes consulting, which means expert advice, from outsourcing, which means taking over tasks. Instead of handling administration for clients, it equips them to do it themselves. That includes a proven nine-step hiring process designed to help employers choose well the first time.

Background and team

Founder and CEO Jill Shroyer holds the Professional in Human Resources certification and has nearly two decades of experience in several industries, beginning in hospitality, where she earned a reputation for handling difficult situations.

She wrote Conquer Sticky Situations, which presents a five-step formula for tough talks, and has appeared on podcasts including Shameless Mom and Brave Women at Work. Advisor Kelli Parker developed her passion for supporting people during her time at Chick-fil-A.

Lillie Phillips, who coordinates operations and marketing, previously ran her own ice cream shop for five years and worked in tech sales operations.

The company lists humor, gratitude, active listening, simplicity, straightforwardness and a human-centered outlook among its values. It reports more than 70 five-star Google reviews and over 10,000 HR questions answered, and it donates part of its revenue to animal rescue organizations.