Why Choose Rainey Strategic Advisors
Fractional and interim HR leadership for organizations and one-on-one coaching for leaders - from someone who spent over two decades actually doing the job.
People Strategy & Executive Coaching
For more than twenty-five years, my work came down to one question:
How do you move a business forward through the people in it?
Not around them, not in spite of them – through them. How you build the strategy, the structures, and the conditions where people do their best work, and the business wins as a result.
That’s the space that has always excited me: leveraging people, equipping them, motivating them, connecting them to each other and to the work that matters, then celebrating when the people and the business succeed together.
Most of what gets in the way of success comes down to lack of connection.
Between leadership and the team.
Between the people strategy and the business strategy.
Between what a leader intends and what their systems actually reward.
The work is finding those gaps, though sometimes it isn’t a gap at all, but a place where something more is needed, or something different, or something that was never built in the first place. Once you can see it clearly, you can start to close the distance.
That’s the work I do now with companies and leaders in growth, transition, and reinvention. Sometimes it’s strategy. Sometimes it’s naming what’s not working. Sometimes it’s building what’s missing. And sometimes it’s sitting across from one leader who’s carrying more than they can quite put into words.
However it starts, the work always comes back to the same place: the people, and what becomes possible when they’re truly aligned with the business.
That’s the work I do now with companies and leaders in growth, transition, and reinvention. Sometimes it’s strategy. Sometimes it’s naming what’s not working. Sometimes it’s building what’s missing. And sometimes it’s sitting across from one leader who’s carrying more than they can quite put into words.
However it starts, the work always comes back to the same place: the people, and what becomes possible when they’re truly aligned with the business.
What Working Together Looks Like
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For Individual Leaders
Confidential one-on-one coaching from someone who's actually been there.
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For Organizations
Interim HR leadership, a clear-eyed diagnostic, or a broader people strategy.
Why Leaders Bring Me In
25+ Years of Building Strategy at Scale
I spent more than two decades at Dave & Buster’s, growing from recruiting coordinator to head of HR. We scaled from 26 locations to nearly 250, and from about 3,000 employees to more than 23,000. Multiple acquisitions. Public and private cycles. Five CEOs. A pandemic. The kind of scale where there’s nowhere to hide. You live with every decision you make, and you answer for it.
At heart, I’ve always been an operator who found my way through HR. I can sit in a strategy conversation, a P&L review, and a discussion about a hard people decision in the same afternoon, because to me they were never three different conversations. HR was never paperwork. It wasn’t compliance, or parties, or investigations. At its best, it has always been about one thing: driving business strategy, through people.
Let’s Connect
If something here is landing — for your company or for you as an individual leader — the next step is a short intro form. Tell me what you’re navigating.