Granya Gormley
People are at the core of every successful business. I help founders and executive teams build the leadership, culture, and people infrastructure needed to scale with confidence, drawing on more than 25 years of experience guiding growth, transformation, and organizational change.
Strategy that shows up in the numbers
Granya connects people strategy to measurable business results. These two engagements illustrate how she works:
Built the HR function from the ground up at a fast growing company, growing the organization past 1,400 employees in under two and a half years while maintaining a positive, high trust culture.
More than 25 years of HR leadership experience spanning fast-growth startups, founder-led organizations, private equity-backed companies, and global enterprises, including HR due diligence, organizational design, and post-merger integration.
Building people strategies that scale with business growth
Granya Gormley is a fractional CHRO and people strategy advisor with SRVHR, based in Austin, Texas. With more than 25 years of human resources leadership experience, she helps founder-led and private equity-backed companies build the people infrastructure, leadership practices, and organizational strategies needed to support sustainable growth. Having led HR through every stage of the business lifecycle, from early growth to large-scale expansion, she brings a practical, executive-level perspective shaped by decades of hands-on leadership.
The strongest cultures are built one deliberate decision at a time, not by accident.
Throughout her career, Granya has built HR functions from the ground up, scaled organizations from emerging businesses to global enterprises, and guided companies through periods of significant transformation. She has led multiple mergers and acquisitions, overseeing HR due diligence, organizational integration, and cultural alignment from both the acquiring and acquired sides. Her experience spans founder-led organizations, high-growth companies, and private equity-backed businesses, giving her firsthand insight into the unique challenges leaders face as organizations evolve.
A trusted advisor to executives and leadership teams, Granya has successfully navigated large-scale organizational change, including rapid workforce growth, restructuring initiatives, leadership transitions, role consolidation, and post-acquisition integration. She combines strategic vision with practical execution to help companies strengthen culture, develop leaders, and create scalable people systems that support long-term business success.
Most businesses don't stall because of their market. They stall because of people.
You already know your people drive your results. You just don't have the time, or the in-house expertise, to build the systems that get the most from them. That's where I come in. As your fractional CHRO, I install proven talent strategy and HR systems that are repeatable, scalable, and built for your business.
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At the intersection of business growth and people strategy, helping founder-led and investor-backed companies build the leadership, culture, and organizational infrastructure needed to scale successfully.
Scaling Founder-Led & PE-Backed Companies
Partnering with founders, executive teams, and investors to build scalable organizations, professionalize people practices, design operating structures, and navigate the complexities of growth while preserving the culture and vision that made the business successful.
M&A Due Diligence & Integration
Leading HR due diligence, organizational integration, and cultural alignment throughout the M&A lifecycle. Experience includes supporting both acquiring and acquired organizations, ensuring people, processes, and leadership teams come together successfully.
Strategic People & Business Partnership
Serving as a trusted advisor to founders and executive teams, aligning people strategy with business objectives, growth plans, operational priorities, and long-term organizational goals.
Change Management & Transformation
Guiding organizations through restructuring, leadership transitions, role consolidation, workforce growth, and business transformation with a focus on communication, engagement, and long-term organizational health.
Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning
Designing talent strategies that ensure organizations have the right people, capabilities, and leadership pipelines in place to meet current demands and future business goals.
Talent Acquisition & Retention
Creating recruiting, onboarding, retention, and employee engagement strategies that attract exceptional talent and foster a workplace where people can do their best work.
The challenges that quietly cap your growth
Attracting and retaining the right people?
The talent who can actually drive your business results, and the systems to keep them.
People processes that don't run efficiently?
Hiring, onboarding, performance, and pay that should run like clockwork, but don't.
A culture that's undefined, or dividing the team?
Misalignment and disorder that quietly erode engagement and profit.
If any of these sound familiar, you're not alone. Businesses of every size face them. Granya is ready to help you overcome them.
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