About Alyson

I’m a People Operations professional with experience supporting fast-moving, growing organizations where the People function has to be both practical and scalable.

My background spans the employee lifecycle, including onboarding and offboarding, HR systems and employee data, leaves, immigration, benefits administration, compliance, performance processes, and the day-to-day operational questions that come with supporting employees and managers. I’ve worked in complex environments with distributed teams, hourly and salaried employees, and rapidly changing business needs.

Before moving into People Operations, I spent several years in clinical research at Stanford and Columbia. That experience shaped how I work today: I’m naturally analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable taking something complicated, figuring out how it actually works, and creating structure around it.

I like looking at a messy situation, identifying what the company actually needs, and creating a solution that is useful without being unnecessarily complicated.

I partner with founders and lean People teams that need experienced support—whether that means putting foundational People systems in place, strengthening managers, taking ownership of an important People initiative, or simply providing an outside perspective on a difficult People decision.

My goal is to help growing companies build the People practices they need for the stage they’re actually in.