I Get It
Engaging your workforce and navigating employment law – especially in California, are two of the biggest Human Resources pain-points for business owners. Evenstar HR is dedicated to alleviating your employment stressors with three C’s:
Compassion infused expertise to strengthen the employee/employer relationship
Compliance within your Human Resources programs
Confidence in your ability to empower a productive workforce
Do you need an Evenstar to guide you through the HR cosmos?
How I Help
At Evenstar HR, healthy communication strategies highlighting accountability and respect are woven into each service to inspire employee engagement.
I offer:
Documentation. Clarify employment rights and responsibilities and reduce your liability with compliant HR documents and policies. From entry/exit forms to employee handbooks, I can help you create documents tailored to reflect your culture, your industry, and the law.
‘The Evenstar Package’ is a popular place to start: personnel record management guidance, custom employee handbook, entry/exit forms, competency-rich job description template and performance protocols.
Training. Boost productivity and ensure your teams understand how to comply with policies and statutory regulation. I love to provide down to earth, interactive presentations and training to your employees based on your needs. Presentation topics include Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Building a Positive Culture, S.M.A.R.T. Goals, and beyond.
Are you doing everything you can to keep your good employees? A customized supervisor training could move the needle on ensuring a positive culture and productive relationships.
Coaching. Professionally develop your teams through individual or group coaching sessions. Sessions are designed for management and emerging leaders. Coaching is instrumental to succession planning and retaining your top talent.
A coaching program is typically twelve 90-minute sessions bi-weekly. Clients apply coaching tools to current performance goals and work relationships.
Testimonials
“Melinda’s HR guidance is beyond helpful. She empowers us to make personnel decisions with confidence. We’re glad we have Evenstar HR on retainer.”
Lauren Stack, Administrative Coordinator Humboldt Sacred Roots
“Ms. Pedersen provided UIHS with much needed HR management expertise at a time when we were recruiting for full-time, senior-level, professional staff. The combination of exemplary communication skills and technical expertise allows her to immediately focus on a problem and quickly and effectively resolve complex issues.”
David Rosen, CFO United Indian Health Services, Inc.
“I appreciate Melinda's HR support related to COVID-19 and the workplace. I feel really thankful that I have Melinda to reach out to in these not so easy times!”
Deanna Dick, HR Manager Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate
“After our first workers compensation claim - thankfully small, we knew we needed to shore up our employment liability on multiple fronts. In short order, Melinda helped us put compliant and safety-specific programs in place: handbook, hiring documents, job descriptions and a 600+ page IIPP!”
Mark Moore, President Iaqua Construction & Logging, Inc.
Let’s Connect
You can engage with Evenstar HR by project or retainer basis – a valuable option for smaller businesses without dedicated HR staff. I am here to help and will get back to you right away.
About Melinda Pedersen
I am a seasoned Human Resources professional advising start-up, nonprofit, and private businesses in Humboldt County and beyond. I have a deep enthusiasm and commitment to the dual-fold HR mission: protecting and empowering both the employer and the employee within an organization.
Living on the spectacular Redwood Coast, I balance work with self-care, family time and community engagement. Harkening back to my Peace Corps experience in Senegal, I lead the Arcata chapter of the international nonprofit, Together Women Rise. I am passionate about self-discovery tools and am a certified facilitator of the Transformation Game from the Findhorn Foundation.
Beyond helping Evenstar HR clients, I am an HR Advisor for the North Coast Small Business Development Center (SBDC), an Allied Industry Business with Humboldt County Growers Alliance (HCGA) and a volunteer advisor to Redwood Women’s Foundation. I received my PHR certification from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and maintain my HR expertise with memberships in HRCalifornia and the North Coast Employers Advisory Council.
