HR Strategist · Speaker · Co-Founder & CEO, Schreier Group

AmandaSchreier

Fractional Chief People Officer, MBA, SHRM-SCP, and the person who puts the human back in Human Resources. Talks, consulting, and workshops for companies that are done with “we've always done it this way.”

Also, allegedly, three raccoons in a trench coat.

Book Amanda to Speak Call (970) 591-4263 Breakout speaker · Oregon Business Conference 2027
Amanda Schreier, smiling, in a teal and black plaid shirt against a peach backdrop Johnstown, ColoradoNorthern Colorado · travels nationally
43organizations she's built HR infrastructure for, across 13 states
100+workplace investigations conducted and resolved
80%cut from recruiting and onboarding costs at a multi-state manufacturer
13+ yrshands-on and strategic HR leadership

Keynotes, breakouts & workshops

HR talks people actually stay in the room for.

Amanda speaks on people-first HR, company culture, and leadership for conferences, chambers, networking groups, and leadership teams. Candid humor, real receipts from thirteen years inside companies of every size, and strategies your team can actually use.

01

People-First HR You Can Run Monday Morning

The handbook nobody reads, the review nobody wants, and the open door nobody walks through all fail the same way. This is the people-first playbook that changes how a company feels on a Tuesday, built inside organizations from three-person startups to multi-state employers.

Flagship · 45–60 min
02

Corporate Culture Shouldn't Require a Hostage Negotiator

Conflict, mediation, and the conversations leaders avoid until they get expensive. Amanda has run more than 100 workplace investigations and sat in the room as fractional CHRO and executive mediator. This is what she's learned about fixing culture early, and how to tell a people problem from a systems problem.

Owners & leadership teams
03

Hidden Opportunities Sitting in This Room

The talk that started with an all-nighter: 36 business-intelligence snapshots for a single BNI chapter. Undersold advantages, referral ecosystems already in the room, and the one thing every member can update this week to become easier to refer. Built for chambers, BNI chapters, and networking groups.

Chambers & networking groups

Also available: half-day HR readiness workshops, leadership training for managers, and guest lectures for classrooms and associations.

Check Amanda's availability Sessions run 30–90 minutes; workshops run a half day. Next stage: Lebanon, OR · Feb 18–19, 2027

In her own words

Deadpan is a leadership style.

Amanda writes about HR, leadership, and entrepreneurship the way she talks about them in the room: plainly, without a wink, and on one premise she has held for thirteen years: great HR begins with trust.

Before I could even read an employee handbook, I already knew you weren't going to.
On a kindergarten photo, captioned #KindergartenHRcop
I like solving weird business problems and making work suck less.
On what she actually does
Pitch-slappers are welcome, but please understand that I respond with the energy I receive.
On her inbox
Accountability and kindness work best together.
Her leadership philosophy, in one line

More where that came from: follow Amanda on LinkedIn for HR, leadership, and a healthy appetite for corporate satire.

Consulting

Your fractional Chief People Officer.

Growing companies hit the same wall: the people side stops fitting in a spreadsheet. Amanda steps in part-time at the executive level to own HR strategy, compliance, culture, and the hard conversations, then builds the infrastructure so it runs without her. Senior HR leadership, no executive salary.

HR infrastructure & compliance

HRIS implementation, payroll administration, policies, handbooks, offer letters, employment-law compliance, and audits that hold up when someone actually reads them.

Employee lifecycle

Onboarding to offboarding: performance management, disciplinary action, terminations done right, and exit interviews you learn from.

Employee relations & culture

Workplace investigations, conflict resolution, mediation, leadership coaching, and engagement strategies that don't live on a poster.

Strategy & operations

Organizational design, restructures and workforce realignment, workforce planning, budgets, total rewards, and benefits strategy tied to where the business is going.

Workforce development

Leadership training, talent development, succession planning, and change management for teams in the middle of it.

Executive & board support

Corporate communications, presentation development, and executive advisement for founders and leadership teams.

What that looks like in numbers, from the roles behind the resume:

  • 3 weeks → 5 daystime-to-fill, while cutting recruiting and onboarding costs by more than 80%
  • 6 hrs → 2.5 hrspayroll processing time after an HRIS and process overhaul
  • 30 daysto recruit, hire, and onboard the entire workforce for a newly launched facility
  • 100%unemployment compliance through multi-state restructures and organizational redesigns
  • 4 statesof workforce transitions managed through one company's transformation
  • 2,400+employees at the largest employer she has supported; the smallest was a first hire

Industries she's worked inside: ManufacturingStartups & small businessFood & beverageIT & SaaSPharmaceuticalArts & entertainmentReal estateNonprofitsHigher educationOil & gasHVAC & industrialMarketing agenciesGovernment & economic development

Systems she has run: ADPDayforcePaycomPaychexUKGSAPOracle CloudAcumaticaPeopleSoftClickUpSalesforceMicrosoft 365Google Workspace

Book a discovery call Call (970) 591-4263 Engagements run as monthly retainers. Book the call and she'll tell you honestly whether you need her.

The story

Flatwoods, Kentucky, to the front of the room.

“Around here you'll find HR, leadership, entrepreneurship, business growth, and questionable analogies.”

Amanda grew up in eastern Kentucky and got to business school the long way: through a clarinet. A music degree from Morehead State, a Master of Music in performance from East Carolina, and a decade of first-chair work with symphonies and wind ensembles from Florida to North Carolina, with concert tours through Brazil and Spain. Then the MBA, specializing in human resource management, from the University of South Florida.

The businesses came alongside. With her husband and co-founder, Todd, she has incubated and launched ventures that now stand on their own: a boutique bakery, an axe-throwing venue, a saloon-style bar, an immersive escape-room brand, and the first public virtual-reality experience in the Kentucky–Ohio–West Virginia tri-state. She owned and ran Butte, Montana's first live escape game.

On the corporate side she built the HR function from the ground up for a Tampa gaming company, served as Director of HR for a 49-location supermarket company with more than 1,000 employees (and sat on its ESOP, People, and Risk Management committees), led HR through a four-state transformation at a multi-state manufacturer, and served as fractional Chief Human Resources Officer and board member for a nonprofit economic-development foundation. Along the way: the SHRM-SCP, and a Colorado real estate broker's license for good measure.

Her leadership style has not changed across any of it: meet people where they are, set clear expectations, and hold the line on both. She believes the best organizations win because employees understand the mission and leaders are equipped to support their teams, and that every decision should reflect integrity, fairness, and service.

Today she runs Schreier Group with Todd from Johnstown, Colorado: co-founder and CEO, the people side of a family firm that helps small businesses grow without losing themselves. She still plays a gig or two a year. The rest of the time it's Baby Shark for her son, which she calls cringe-worthy and he calls a hit.

Amanda Schreier, portrait in warm duotone
MBA · SHRM-SCP · Master of Music · first chair, when they need a feisty one

Amanda is one half of Schreier Group, a Northern Colorado business advisory firm run by two founders who still read their own inbox. Strategic advisory, people operations, and done-for-you systems for owners who want to grow without losing themselves.

Start where every owner starts: the free Business Checkup. A straight look, no pitch.

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Straight answers

The questions people ask before they book.

What does a fractional Chief People Officer actually do?

Gives a growing company executive-level HR leadership without an executive salary. Amanda steps in part-time to own HR strategy, compliance, hiring and onboarding systems, performance management, employee relations, culture, and the hard conversations, then builds the infrastructure so it runs without her.

Does Amanda speak at conferences and company events?

Yes. Keynotes, breakout sessions, panels, and workshops on people-first HR, company culture, and leadership for conferences, chambers of commerce, networking groups, and leadership teams. She is a breakout speaker at the Oregon Business Conference 2027 in Lebanon, Oregon (February 18–19, 2027). Sessions run 30 to 90 minutes; workshops run a half day.

Where is Amanda based, and does she travel?

Johnstown, Colorado. She works in person across Northern Colorado and the Denver area, travels nationally for speaking and consulting, and works virtually with clients anywhere in the United States.

What kinds of companies does she work with?

Small businesses, startups, and growing organizations, from a first hire to multi-state employers with thousands of people, across manufacturing, food and beverage, IT and SaaS, pharmaceutical, arts and entertainment, real estate, nonprofits, higher education, oil and gas, HVAC and industrial, agencies, and government and economic development.

How do I book Amanda?

Book a time directly at cal.com/schreiergroup, or call the Schreier Group line at (970) 591-4263, which is staffed day and night. Leave what you need and Amanda calls you back.

Talk to Amanda

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