Fractional HR & Business Advisory

Senior HR leadership, measured in outcomes.

I build people strategies that match where the business is actually going, then deliver against them. Twenty years leading People and Culture at Walmart, Apple, Starbucks, Amazon, the LCBO and Loblaws. Now I work directly with owners and executive teams.

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20+ years enterprise HRMBA, Queen'sCHRL & CHRPCanada & US, global experience
Sal Mazzarelli, Fractional Head of HR
Twenty years of People & Culture leadership across
Walmart
Apple
Starbucks
Amazon
LCBO
Loblaws
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People and Culture leadership across Walmart, Apple, Starbucks, Amazon Logistics, LCBO, and Loblaws, plus multi-site healthcare and global digital retail operators.

I bring the judgment of someone who has done it at Walmart, Apple, Starbucks, and Amazon, with the agility to deliver in your context, at your scale.

Sal Mazzarelli · HR & Business Advisory
Work with me

How can we work together?

Pick the one that sounds like your business.

What I do

The work, in plain terms.

Most engagements are some combination of these, sequenced against what the business is trying to achieve.

Role clarity and organizational design Structure, spans, reporting lines, and who decides what. The work that stops everything routing back to you.
Compensation planning and design Pay philosophy, bands at every level, incentive design, and annual review cycles that hold.
Talent development and retention Building capability, succession for the roles that matter, and keeping the people you cannot afford to lose.
Compliance, labour law and safety Employment standards, employee and labour relations, investigations, and the risk nobody is watching.
Leadership development DiSC and Life Styles Inventory facilitation, leadership team sessions, and coaching for managers promoted without support.
Strategic people priorities People priorities set against the operating plan, sequenced and owned, so HR work supports the business rather than running beside it.
How it works

Four steps, and the first month matters most.

Most fractional HR engagements spend ninety days diagnosing. I move faster, in a deliberate order.

01

Listen

Your priorities, your leaders, the HR work already in motion. I resist the urge to fix anything in week one.

02

Frame

A people strategy tied to your business priorities, not a generic HR roadmap. One page you would be happy to take to a board.

03

Align

We agree on sequence, urgency, and owners. Disagreement surfaces here rather than halfway through execution.

04

Deliver

Stabilise whatever is burning, then ship the first visible win. You should see something real inside thirty days.

A few things I am proud of

Work that moved the business.

None of these were solo wins. Each one was delivered with the leaders and teams behind it.

$2BRevenue supported

Market HR lead for more than forty Walmart stores and seven thousand associates, supporting over two billion dollars in annual revenue.

$20MCompensation

Led the tiger team behind a national hourly wage redesign at Starbucks Canada, delivered ahead of schedule. Recognised with the Bell Ringer Award.

27.7MPeak season

People strategy through peak at Amazon Logistics Canada. Volume rose 18% year over year and the team finished first in North America.

500+Stores

Built and rolled out a labour risk curriculum across Canada, delivered alongside operations rather than at them.

+20Points of engagement

Engagement up twenty points in twelve months across a unionised supply chain network, with grievances down twenty percent at the highest risk sites.

Let's talk

Thirty minutes is usually enough to know if I can help.

You tell me what is going on. I tell you whether I can help, and if I cannot, who I think can. Both outcomes are useful.