HR Companies & HR Consultants in Glen Allen, VA

Tinker HR is a locally owned human resources consultancy serving Richmond and the surrounding Central Virginia region. Its clients are mostly small businesses and non-profit organizations that would not usually have professional HR expertise within reach.

The firm aims to take the burden of people-related problems off an owner's or director's plate, whether the need is a compliant set of policies, a hiring or retention challenge, or a difficult employee situation.

Help can be as light as a short phone conversation or as involved as working on site, and the firm fits its work to each client's budget and timeline.

Ways to Work Together

Organizations can pick the arrangement that matches their stage of growth:

• HR on Retainer: a flexible arrangement for companies that want to hand off HR tasks but are not ready for a full-time department. It covers projects, delicate employee matters, and strategy questions, with no long-term contracts and meetings available outside typical business hours.
• Fractional HR: senior, strategic HR guidance for teams that already manage the tactical side.
• HR As Needed: expert support for a defined project that the client wants completed.
• HR Foundation Package: a right-sized starting framework for businesses building their first HR basics.

Areas of Expertise

The service list is broad. It spans HR strategy, which the firm describes as a map linking current needs, future needs, and the steps between them, along with workforce planning, policy development, employee handbooks, HR audits, and operational reviews. Handbooks receive particular attention because poorly built ones can create legal risk. The firm also assists with compliance, wage and hour issues, workplace investigations, unemployment claims, job descriptions, and targeted recruitment, and it offers management coaching.

Pay questions are a frequent topic: how to stay competitive, how to design a bonus plan for a sales team, whether a position should be hourly or salaried, and how to build a job grade structure.

On benefits, the firm helps clients find a mix that supports retention without overspending, and it points to wellness programs as an inexpensive way to raise engagement. Training and development work begins with an assessment of workforce needs and can lead to programs on industrial compliance, growth for high-potential employees, or executive coaching.

Approach and Evaluation

Tinker HR starts by learning about the organization and its goals, then builds solutions around them rather than offering pre-packaged answers. A new relationship typically begins with an introductory consultation, which can include an HR Evaluation. This review looks at organization, recruitment, documentation, safety, and compensation, and it can also address questions unique to the company.

The report highlights strengths and problem areas, and clients can treat it as a roadmap for ordering their HR priorities. The firm has offered this evaluation at no charge for a limited time. Because it operates in Richmond, face-to-face meetings are possible, including at nontraditional hours.

Leadership

Brian Kinzie started the firm, and the business has operated as an LLC since 2016. A certified HR professional with roughly twenty years in the field, he has worked everywhere from tiny family-run shops to large multinational organizations, which gives him a wide perspective on how HR can move a company forward.

He is a Society for Human Resource Management member, and his degrees come from William & Mary and the University of Richmond. He says his greatest professional satisfaction comes from watching an organization reach its goals by aligning the company's needs with those of its people.

He has also been featured in a local real estate program and in Neighbors magazine.