Lance R.

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Fractional People Leader, Remote Workplace Specialist. 3x Growth x2.

As a consultant and advisor Lance has led broad remote workplace design initiatives and flexible policy development for enterprises, agencies, startups, and non-profits. As an in-house leader, he's overseen 3x growth with two companies, taking them from the tens to the hundreds of people.


Over the past 15 years, Lance has gained experience growing and leading distributed teams, and now partners with founders and executives to ensure their companies are winning when it comes to creating flexible w…

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Work

  • Mastering Remote Management Keynote - Idaho Dept of Labor

    Mastering Remote Management Keynote - Idaho Dept of Labor

    Taking the highlights from my 6-part "Mastering Remote Management" course, I created a 90-minute presentation and discussion for the Idaho Department of Labor leadership retreat. The event attendees included about 50 senior managers from across the state.


    The presentation was well-received and I captured this snippet of feedback:


    "Such an impactful presentation! Tons of gems were mined, and I’ve al…

    lancehrobbins.com
  • Scaling a Service Agency: Hiring Process Design

    Scaling a Service Agency: Hiring Process Design

    At XWP I led the desing and development of a hiring process that took a web service agency from 25 to 120. XWP is a completely remote company distributed across 6 contintnents. In the article below I open-sourced the process I implemented to achieve this.

    xwp.co

Experience

  • Provivi, Inc

    Provivi, Inc

    Fractional VP Human Resources

    Aug 2023 - Present

    Provivi is a biotech startup that is disrupting the pest control industry.

    • Partnering with the management team to provide an HR services to the company that is efficient and optimized for the distributed nature of the Provivi workforce.
  • Gala Games

    Gala Games

    Fractional Head of Remote

    Feb 2023 - Jul 2023

    A globally distributed gaming development company with about 400 employees.

    • Partnered with the People and Operations to lead 2 workshops focused on remote management skills
    • Developed a Communications Manifesto document for the all Galaxians
    • Supported development of an updated single-source-of-truth handbook
  • XWP

    XWP

    Director Talent Acquisition

    Dec 2019 - Jan 2023

    Web development service agency building custom enterprise solutions using WordPress technology.

    • Designed and implemented a comprehensive hiring process allowing the company to scale from 25 to 120 people in a 2 year period.
  • Distribute Consulting

    Distribute Consulting

    Senior Consultant

    Aug 2019 - Jan 2022

    Developing comprehensive strategies for remote workforces through training, community building, strategic partnerships, and consultation. Change management consulting and project management.

    • Developed flexible working policies for clients like Walter P. Moore, Pinellas County Florida, Crestron Electronics, Sincro Digital (Now Ansira).
  • XWP

    XWP

    Recruiter and Resource Manager

    Sep 2017 - Oct 2018

    Web development service agency building custom enterprise solutions using WordPress technology.

    • Sourced and coordinated talent to serve complex project. Team growth from 30 to 50.

  • Green Mountain Forestry, LLC

    Office Manager to COO

    Aug 2008 - Aug 2017

    Green Mountain Forestry is a reforestation service provider operation throughout the Southeastern United States. Green Mountain Forestry planted more than 40M seedlings during my tenure.

    • Led operations and company growth from 0 to 350 people.

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