The Context
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A rapidly growing, national telecommunications infrastructure and utility company
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A decentralized HR model spanning corporate and 40+ operating subsidiaries
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Significant workforce growth, complexity, and field-based labor demands
Executive leadership was asking a clear question:
How do we come together as One HR to support growth, safety, and performance?
The Objective
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Bring Corporate HR and Subsidiary HR leaders together as one connected team
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Create a shared understanding of the organization’s history, direction, and future
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Validate a 3–5 year human capital path forward
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Surface opportunities, challenges, and misalignment — without rushing to solutions
The Approach
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10 confidential pre-summit interviews with HR leaders from across corporate and its subsidiaries
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A three-day, in-person leadership summit designed and facilitated by Hive Partners
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Dialogic leadership tools to slow thinking, expand perspective, and deepen trust
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Collective intelligence exercises to ensure every voice was heard
What We Explored Together
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The organization’s HR and enterprise history — and how it shapes today’s decisions
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Leadership expectations directly from the CEO, COO, and CHRO
Interview themes highlighted:
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Strategic role of HR
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Corporate vs. subsidiary alignment
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Leadership development, data, and workforce planning needs
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A deep dive into the four pillars of its Human Capital Strategy
What Emerged
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Strong pride in HR’s evolution from transactional to strategic
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Clear appetite for becoming One HR with shared purpose, not fragmented execution
Recognition that growth requires:
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Better alignment
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Better data
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Stronger leadership pipelines
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Honest acknowledgement of headwinds, capacity constraints, and execution risks
Broad agreement:
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This work matters — and we cannot do it alone
How Hive Partners Showed Up
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Designed space for truth-telling without blame
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Helped leaders resist the urge to jump to solutions
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Created clarity without prescribing outcomes
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Captured collective input as strategic data, not opinions
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Left ownership exactly where it belongs — with the HR leadership team
Where Things Landed
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A shared foundation for a unified HR strategy
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Clear next steps owned by internal leadership
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A stronger sense of trust, alignment, and momentum
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One team, better equipped to move forward — together
Key Takeaway
Growth doesn’t break organizations. Misalignment does.
When organizations scale quickly, HR is often asked to:
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Do more
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Move faster
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Support everyone
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…without the space to align first
At Hive Partners, we help leadership teams:
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Step back from execution
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Create shared understanding
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Align before committing to a strategy
Because alignment is not accidental. It’s designed.
