A Step-by-Step Program to Systematically Improve Your HR Department
- A self-sufficient HR team that improves and optimizes your core HR processes
- Strategic projects that get done on time and on budget
- An HR training and coaching program that develops high performers and your HR leadership team
- A data-driven HR strategy that impresses your CEO and executives



McLean & Company’s systematic diagnostic programs collect feedback from your team and your stakeholders. Using our powerful analytic engines, we provide reports and dashboards that help your HR department make critical decisions.
Do-It-Yourself
Blueprints, Tools, and Templates
We offer you over 100 do-it-yourself project and process blueprints, developed by our industry experts to help our members save time and money when it comes to tackling their most important HR initiatives. Every best-practice blueprint uses the critical insights uncovered in our comprehensive research process to give you the roadmap to solving your HR problems. Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
We save you time creating critical HR documents and project deliverables with our massive, ready-to-deploy library of tools and templates.
Browse ResearchOver the Phone
Get unlimited phone access to our team of analysts to guide you through your most challenging HR projects. An analyst from the team who wrote the research spends time with you over the phone, at key project milestones, to advise, coach, and offer insight. The service is available across our entire range of projects and core processes.
Expert Analyst Access
For every project you start, we have an expert analyst waiting to help you execute best practices and stay on schedule. It’s on-demand project support when you need it the most.
See Member ReviewsExample Workshop
Create a Talent Strategy
Session 1
Identify Talent Implications of Organizational Direction
- Review strategic documentation
- Conduct a SWOT analysis
- Debrief HR Stakeholder Management Survey
- Debrief HR Management and Governance Survey
- Prioritize talent implications
Session 2
Determine Strategic Pillars and HR Outcomes
- Create strategic pillars
- Identify metrics to support pillars
- Create HR outcomes
Session 3
Evaluate HR’s Ability to Achieve the Outcomes
- Conduct a SWOT for HR
- Identify gaps to deliver HR outcomes
- Create initiatives and a timeline for implementation (as time permits)
- Review existing initiatives for alignment with new talent strategy (as time permits)
- Request a Workshop
Workshops
Onsite and Online Workshops
Our expert facilitators will help you complete a key initiative, work through critical project deliverables, and prepare your team. We use a learning-based approach to implement McLean & Company methodologies tailored to your unique situation.
Request a WorkshopWhy Workshops?
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Launch Your Top HR Initiatives at an Accelerated Rate
- Spend 3-5 online or onsite sessions with intense focus to collapse project timelines and make major project decisions.
- Use our proven methodologies to get your project done quickly, strengthen internal networks, and break down silos.
- Access the wide spectrum of project and process workshops available to help advance organizational priorities.
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High Value, Standard Pricing, No-Hassle Negotiating
- No-hassle negotiating and scoping, always a flat rate across all projects.
- Gain and share expertise over a variety of short, focused engagements, instead of one longer-term consulting project.
- High-value engagements, not long, runaway consulting projects that never end.
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An Intense, Collaborative Experience
- Use workshop materials that have been built on industry best practices.
- Work with highly rated facilitators with practical and strategic experience.
- Engage your executive stakeholders through team participation, healthy debate, and decision making.
- Extend your team by drawing on our analysts across a wide range of specialties.
Custom Consulting
Our Consulting Services provide you with expert practitioners and advisors throughout the duration of your engagement, enabling you to effectively outsource your HR initiative or project to those with the knowledge, skills, and tools to deliver quality-driven value. McLean & Company Consulting Services blends the insights of our more than 30,000 members with the market-approved talents and methodologies of our consulting staff to bring your organization a unique, powerful, and holistic professional services offering.

McLean and Company
Focus Areas
HR Strategy
Consulting
Strategy, Metrics and Governance
Talent Management
Consulting
Planning, Development and Management
Employee Engagement Consulting
Surveying, Reporting and Action Planning
Learning and Development Consulting
Training, Development and Coaching
HR Transformation
Consulting
Optimization and Technology
Best Practice Driven
Our HR consulting services and programs are designed on top of an extensive research library of HR best-practices, tools, and templates developed by analysts and consultants with decades of practical and advisory experience.
Best-in-Class Resources
Our analysts have decades of HR consulting experience. In addition, we support you with passionate project managers and consultants who are recognized members of professional associations.
Accelerated Engagement Delivery
Start your consulting engagement off with a boost. Leverage McLean & Company’s diagnostic tools and workshops to gain critical insights driven by data, not guesswork, and deliver consulting-quality results faster.
Vendor-Agnostic Advisory
McLean & Company operates with 100% vendor neutrality. Our comprehensive vendor landscape understanding enables our consultants and analysts to focus on solutions that are in the best interest of your company, not the vendors.
Long-Term Partners
With the McLean & Company membership at the forefront of our consulting offering, we engage with our clients throughout all of their HR needs. We include regular touchpoints, project follow-ups, ongoing advisory service, and account management so we’re always there when you need us.
Cultural Liberators
We’ve introduced cultures of innovation to a wide array of organizations, helping HR professionals move away from the monotony of operational oversight so they can maintain control while focusing their passions on driving strategic value.