Business-first people strategy for organizations scaling through complexity.
When Growth Exposes the Gaps
When companies scale, people decisions become business decisions. Hiring accelerates. Roles blur. Managers need stronger tools. Compensation becomes inconsistent. Leadership needs guidance that connects HR priorities directly to revenue, execution, and organizational performance.
Ninebark & Co. provides fractional HR leadership, strategic advisory, and project-based consulting for companies that need senior HR judgment but do not need a full-time HR executive.
Experience tied to scale, revenue, and execution.
With experience spanning business operations and HR leadership, Jeramy helps organizations design practical, scalable people solutions grounded in business outcomes.
10+ Years
Fortune 500 Leadership
Trusted Advisor to Executive Leadership Teams
Supported 3,000+ Employees Worldwide
Led HR for a $250M Global Software Business
Delivered $8M Through Operational Improvement
Jeramy holds the SPHR certification and brings an operator’s perspective to people strategy, connecting organizational decisions to customers, cost, execution, and revenue. The result is people infrastructure designed for the business as a whole, not just HR.
How Ninebark & Co. Can Help
Fractional HR Leadership
Senior HR partnership for organizations that need executive-level people leadership without immediately adding a full-time HR executive.
Strategic People Projects
Defined, project-based support for organization design, workforce planning, compensation, talent systems, manager enablement, change, or another specific people priority.
People Infrastructure & Operating Model Design
Practical support building the systems, processes, rhythms, and decision frameworks that help organizations scale with clarity.
Executive & Manager Advisory
Targeted guidance for leaders navigating people decisions, organizational complexity, team effectiveness, or sensitive leadership moments.
Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning
Support identifying critical roles, capability gaps, hiring priorities, and workforce risks, including employer and talent value proposition work when attracting or retaining key talent is a business priority.
HR Due Diligence Support
People-risk review for organizations preparing for investment, acquisition, expansion, or major organizational decisions.
How Ninebark & Co. can help
The business comes first.
That is what makes the people work useful.
Ninebark & Co. does not begin with an HR program. The work begins with what the company is trying to sell, build, deliver, or improve; who the customer is; where money is made or lost; and what work has to happen to execute the plan.
Only then do we decide what needs to change in the organization. Sometimes the answer is a workforce plan, a new role, stronger manager capability, or a clearer compensation structure. Sometimes the answer is less process, not more.
Start With the Business
Connect People Decisions to Execution
Build Only What the Company Needs
Understand the product, customer, revenue model, financial plan, and operating constraints before deciding what the people agenda should be.
Tie workforce, organization, talent, and leadership decisions to capacity, customer outcomes, cost, revenue, and the work that has to get done.
Use enough structure to solve the problem and support the next stage of growth. Do not add HR process simply because a larger company has it.
Ninebark is more than a name. It is our compass.
Jeramy is originally from Kentucky, where ninebark grows natively, and has long admired the plant’s resilience and adaptability. With its multiple stems, layered bark, seasonal transformation, and ability to thrive through change, ninebark reflects the values we bring to every partnership: strength under pressure, grounded flexibility, and growth without unnecessary complexity or dependence on perfect conditions.
Strong organizations should do the same. Growth brings pressure, change, and complexity. The goal is not to eliminate every challenge or add process for its own sake, but to build the leadership, capabilities, and people systems needed to remain resilient, adapt, and keep moving forward.
Ninebark represents practical strength, thoughtful growth, and performance through changing conditions. Those principles shape the work of Ninebark & Co.
What Clients & Leaders Have Said
VP of Operations
Fortune 500 Enterprise Power and Cooling
"I repeatedly state in public forums that Jeramy is the best HR thought leader I have ever worked with across my entire career. He's always thinking of things ahead of me, knowing what was coming from our transformation complexities, and proactively brought those to me for discussion."
Head of Talent Acquisition
Fortune 500 Technology Company
“The success of our hiring initiative was a direct result of his strong leadership, strategic partnership, and innovative approach. His ability to anticipate and remove barriers enabled the team to execute with speed and precision. It was a true example of how HR can operate as a business partner.”
Finance Executive
$2B Business Unit, Fortune 500 Technology Company
“His structured approach to integrating feedback early minimized rework and positioned the campaign as a benchmark for future global deployments. Jeramy played a critical role in defining commercial team roles during a major organizational transformation.”
VP-level Leader
Fortune 500 Technology Company
“He is very strong in guiding teams and facilitating effective discussions, creating a safe space for collaboration but also decisive action planning. He has left his mark and is widely respected by the teams and leaders he supports.”
Ready to strengthen your organization?
Whether you need fractional HR leadership, a defined project, or senior guidance on one difficult decision, Ninebark & Co. can help determine what the business actually needs. Contact Jeramy to discuss your organization’s people, HR, talent, or leadership needs.