Not a shared call-center rep. Not a solo hire you have no way to evaluate. A team member who's yours, with an experienced HR executive standing behind every decision they make.
The Model
- Your business gets a dedicated HR professional, embedded full-time in your organization, who grows with you and knows your people by name.
- Every judgment call — a termination, a leave request, a policy question, a difficult conversation — is backed by direct access to Thriven's founder and her HR leadership experience.
- You're not choosing between fully outsourced and distant, or in-house and unsupervised. You get the presence of an internal hire with the oversight of a seasoned HR executive.
Why It Works
For the Business Owner
Most leaders have no way to evaluate whether their HR person is actually doing a good job. Thriven's oversight model builds quality control directly into the structure, so you're never guessing.
For the Employee Experience
Your team gets a real person to walk up to, not a ticket queue — while getting the benefit of decisions informed by real, high-stakes HR experience.
For Growth
As your business scales, your dedicated HR professional scales with it — continuously mentored and developed rather than left to figure it out alone.
Backed by Real Experience — Shantel P. Moreno, Founder
Nearly 17 years of HR leadership spanning three very different environments — a rare combination most HR professionals never get.
Federal Government — Central Intelligence Agency (2010–2025)
Senior HR Executive for a 15,000+ employee federal agency with a complex, multi-location workforce spanning domestic and overseas assignments. Led enterprise-wide HR transformation, full-cycle recruiting, HRIS administration, and workforce analytics at a scale and complexity few HR leaders ever operate in — under real compliance stakes and real pressure.
Nonprofit Sector
HR Director for a growing nonprofit organization, building a full HR function from the ground up — onboarding, benefits, performance management, and culture — proving the ability to build, not just maintain, an HR infrastructure with lean resources.
Private Industry
Currently engaged as Fractional CHRO for a private-sector company, leading a full-scale HR transformation — from communication infrastructure and employee relations to organizational design and performance management architecture — for company executive leadership. A live, in-progress example of the Thriven model already at work.
This isn't theoretical expertise. It's judgment forged across three environments where HR looks completely different — highly regulated federal bureaucracy, resource-constrained nonprofit, and private-sector business — exactly the range a growing mid-sized business needs someone to have seen before.
Your business gets the dedication of an in-house hire and the judgment of a 17-year HR executive — without having to build that combination yourself.
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