Growing Organizations Need HR Experts

We help Canadian startups and small businesses leverage Modern HR strategies to build dream teams and achieve growth goals.

Action
Plan

We align with your growth goals.

Proven
Processes

We only use battle-tested strategies.

True
Partners

We act in your best interest.

Exceptional
Quality

We make brilliant things.

Shared
Joy

We love to see you succeed.

We’ve Reimagined Outsourced, Fractional HR

We put a seasoned expert—one of our brilliant Senior HR experts—in your corner for as long as you need them. They’ve been in your shoes before, and know that you probably need help with:

  • Hiring and retaining top talent.

  • Compliance with new laws and regulations.

  • Spending less time on HR decisions.

  • Maintaining a winning culture as you scale.

  • Delegating to Elevating.

Why Fractional HR?

Reactive, cold, call centre-style HR companies are out. At Castle HR, our HR experts work proactively to understand your goals and create and implement the best custom, modern HR strategies and solutions!

We aim to Maximize

  • Profits

  • Retention

  • Productivity

  • Founder Happiness

We aim to Minimize

  • Hidden Costs

  • Turnover

  • Growth Plateaus

  • Stress

Our People, Your People

The talent behind our success

Our team is carefully selected for their experience, culture alignment and passion for helping companies like yours achieve their goals.

Tom Nickalls, Founder & Chief Executive Officer - Castle HR

Tom Nickalls

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
He/Him

Tom, is a two-time founder and has been leading sales teams for over a decade. At one point in his career, he was terminated in an unprofessional manner. Since then, his mission has been to help forward-thinking small and medium businesses create custom HR strategies for today’s workforce.

Robyn Leduc, HR Head - Castle HR

Robyn Leduc,
CHRL

Head of Human Resources
She/Her

Robyn is a strong advocate of modern HR and has been a Human Resources Professional for over 10 years, working in a broad array of sectors from construction to technology. She prides herself on her ability to align the needs of humans with the needs of businesses to create strong partnerships.

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Warren Ip

Head of Customer Success
He/Him

Warren has a strong track record of helping small and medium-sized businesses establish a path to success and working with them to achieve a positive ROI. He understands the importance of understanding and championing the needs of each client.

MaryLisa Forsyth, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

MaryLisa Forsyth

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

MaryLisa is a pioneer HR professional with over 30 years of HR management experience, mostly working in the public sector. Her specialties are transformational leadership, team building, managing change, and building labour relations strategies.

Lindsay Schultz, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Lindsay Schultz

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

Lindsay is a Senior HR Professional with over 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors. She is a small business owner with a strong background in conflict management, training and development, and evaluating core HR processes.

Anna Boshoer, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Anna Boshoer,
CHRL

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

Anna is an HR professional with over 10 years of experience in management, consultant and recruitment roles. Prior to HR, she worked in adult education and retains her passion for learning through coaching, mentorship and personal development initiatives. 

Mike Daser, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Mike Daser,
PHRi

Senior HR Business Partner
He/Him

Mike is a senior HR professional with over 10 years of experience who has gained a wealth of knowledge and expertise in various HR functions, including talent acquisition and HR policy development. A true generalist, he is passionate about creating an environment where every employee can thrive.

Jackie Gilkes, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Jackie Gilkes

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

Jackie is a senior HR professional with over 25 years of experience supporting leadership teams across multiple industries. She has spearheaded multiple HR Departments from nothing to fully functioning business partners with a seat at the head table.

Dana Dobiasova, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Dana Dobiasova, CPHR, RPR

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her/Elle

Dana is an HR professional with over 10 years of experience in both private and public sectors and a variety of industries, for both provincially and federally regulated companies. She is a huge advocate of coaching people up rather than out.

Stephanie Burns, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Stephanie Burns

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

Stephanie is an HR professional with 10 years of multi-faceted experience. She considers herself a true Generalist, with a keen interest in Employee Relations, Performance Management, Talent Acquisition and Contract Management.

Shelley Sebastian, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Shelley Sebastian

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

Shelley is a senior HR professional with over 25 years of experience in a variety of leadership roles. She thrives when working closely with business leaders to develop and implement the HR systems that will help their company scale. 

Irene Jackman, HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Irene Jackman,
CHRL, CEC

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

Irene is a senior HR professional with over 25 years of experience in a variety of leadership and teaching roles. One of her specialties is turning complex situations into intuitive and applicable solutions for the people involved. 

Shaida Gani, Senior HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Shaida Gani

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

Over the past 20 years, Shaida has built her career on a single principle – ‘work smarter’. She enjoys analyzing inefficient procedures and then collaborating with others to solve the root cause of the issue at hand.

Kathryn Edwards, Senior HR Business Partner - Castle HR

Kathryn Edwards, MBA, MEd

Senior HR Business Partner
She/Her

Kathryn is an award-winning HR professional with 20+ years of experience in global HR leadership. She specializes in change management and organizational transformation.

Viviana Santa, HR Admin - Castle HR

Viviana Santa

HR Admin
She/Her

Viviana recently graduated from Western University with an Honour Specialization in HR and Management. While studying there, she served in leadership roles in multiple student organizations. 

Lyndsy McDonald, Content Manager - Castle HR

Lyndsy McDonald

Content Manager
She/Her

Lyndsy is a content producer extraordinaire who spent some time freelance copywriting after stints in chiropractic, personal support work and the beverage industry. She enjoys bringing Modern HR to the masses. 

Dan Sluckin, Sales Development Rep - Castle HR

Dan Sluckin

Sales Development Rep
He/Him

Dan has a background in environmental science and extensive knowledge of sales. He has also tried his hand at entrepreneurship, learning many valuable lessons about a variety of industries along the way.

Wayne Tobacco, Sales Development Rep - Castle HR

Wayne Tobacco

Sales Development Rep
He/Him

Wayne is passionate about sales and providing a personable experience to all prospects. He has a proven track record of crushing quotas in-person and over the phone. He is driven to exceed expectations and excited to be a part of the Castle HR team!

Frequently Asked Questions

Fractional HR empowers you to concentrate on business growth by placing HR responsibilities in expert hands, ensuring a solid support team is built for your venture without the overhead of an internal hire. We’re proactive here at Castle HR – meaning we focus on building modern processes and a phenomenal team to support you… rather than solely reacting to specific HR challenges. 

CEOs and non-HR employees can only tackle HR tasks for so long! Once you’ve scaled (and encountered a few HR messes along the way), backtracking can be tough. Further, implementing modern HR strategies can elevate your business to its peak potential! 

Outsourced HR support is pivotal for aligning your team’s talents with your business goals, ensuring everyone is in the right seat to fuel company growth. We blend modern strategies with your vision to build a powerhouse team.

Castle HR is more than just your run-of-the-mill outsourced HR firm – we provide a comprehensive, fractional HR subscription service, partnering you with a senior HR professional tailored to your business needs. We work with you until you’re ready to make your first internal HR hire; then, we pass the baton.

We take a holistic, expert approach to your HR landscape and growth goals. We tackle Foundational HR (this includes things like custom employee handbooks and values creation) as well as advanced strategies in talent acquisition, modern performance reviews, leadership training, and dynamic onboarding/offboarding and more. We align our tools with your business trajectory, ensuring effective HR support from a senior-level HR Professional at a fraction of the cost.

Castle HR is not an a la carte HR service. While we aren’t a forever solution, we work with most clients for months (typically 12-18) to create and implement custom, modern HR solutions for their business. With that said, we don’t do one-off HR emergencies.

We are neither recruiters nor do administrative work (such as payroll and benefits). 

We recommend investing in HR consulting once you've achieved product-market fit and your business shifts focus from validation to growth, typically between 15 to 75 employees. This is the optimal window to enhance team development and operational efficiency, setting a solid foundation before possibly transitioning to in-house HR at larger scales.

Note that if your headcount isn’t within the stated range, but you feel you’d benefit from our services, we still welcome you to book a call; there are no bad questions, and we may still be able to work with your company.

Book a call with Castle HR to discuss how our HR services can benefit your team of 10-50 people.

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