The Startup HR Operating System

HR is the heart of high-performing startups

What separates unicorn startups from those that reach 7-figures and plateau isn’t necessarily their product or go-to-market strategy. It’s their people. By attracting and hiring the right people for every role and building a scalable HR function in your company, you can turn HR into rocket fuel for your company’s growth.

Most HR courses teach you how to implement HR practices in isolation. This masterclass takes a fundamentally different approach by showing you how to align every HR decision with your company’s strategic objectives. This course will give you the same playbook I’ve used to scale 7 and 8-figure companies to 9-figures.

In this course, you will…

Build a lean HR function from the ground up

From registering as an employer to avoiding common pitfalls, this course will give you a foundation for establishing a lean HR organization within your startup that empowers every employee for success.

Develop an employer brand and culture

You’ll develop a compelling employer brand, culture, and recruitment operation to find, hire, and retain top talent. You’ll also get frameworks for defining, articulating, and evangelizing your company culture. 

Design an organizational structure primed to scale

Design organizational structures based on strategic capabilities and competitive advantages, with clear decision frameworks for when to evolve your organizational structure.

Learn how to offer perks beyond ping pong tables and free pizza

Free food and candy walls are nice, but that won’t make your company “great to work for” or help you attract top talent. You will learn how to prioritize impact over nice-to-have and build a cost-effective and sustainable benefits program.

Avoid costly pitfalls that come with growth

The road to 9 figures is lined with pitfalls like job title inflation, poor leadership development, and misaligned performance metrics. You’ll learn how to identify, avoid, and fix each one.

Build your ideal HR tech stack

Select the ideal HR tech stack that meets your startup’s immediate needs while being primed for future growth, with templates for vendor evaluation and selection.

Course modules and structure

This course is broken down into a series of modules to walk you through an HR operating system designed for growth and scalability. The course is designed to help you where you need it most, so feel free to take modules out of order.

• Introduction to the course
• HR Foundations: Establishing HR at your company
• Leading with strategy
• Elevating HR in your organization
• Designing your ideal organization structure
• Workforce management
• Building a remarkable and compelling culture
• Hiring for key roles in your startup
• How to effectively manage employee performance
• Managing employee career progression and growth
• Compensation, pay, and rewarding employee performance
• The optimal HR tech stack
• HR budget management

You’ll also get

Beyond the above modules, this course is chock-full of content, including:

• 10+ hours of instructional videos
• Ready-to-use templates
• Written assessments to gauge progress and test your knowledge
• Guest instructors to share insights about their fast-growing company

Who this course is for

There’s more to scaling successfully than investing in product-market-fit, marketing, or sales. To put your company on the hypergrowth track, you need an HR operation and people ops infrastructure that equips your company to attract and retain the right talent for every position.

This course is ideal if you are:

• A founder/acting HR or HR leader in a startup, and you genuinely care about building a best-in-class team and culture.
• You have 50-250 employees, and you struggle to build a hiring practice in your company that attracts the right people
• You want HR to be the rocket fuel for your company’s growth and the difference maker in your long-term success.

Meet Your Instructor

Nahed Khairallah

15 years of experience in HR, Consultant to startups, Big 4, and Tier 1 firms.

50% of startups that hit the 7-figure mark fail within their first five years.

It’s not poor product-market fit. It’s not a lack of marketing or sales strategy; they wouldn’t get as far as they did without those. The reason these companies fail is due to poor business decisions and people practices.

Since 2011, I have helped more than 150 companies in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa grow from 7-figure to 9-figure businesses by supercharging their people practices.

I’ve worked in and around HR for over 15 years. I’ve served as an advisor to Big 4 and Tier 1 management consulting firms, written test questions for SHRM certifications, and I now advise and create content for ambitious founders and HR leaders.

My clients have ranged in size from 50 to 60,000 employees and revenues from a couple of million dollars to more than $20 billion. Now, my goal is to help every startup founder and leader get HR right the first time and make HR a growth accelerator for their company.

FAQs

Can I take this course if I’m a founder?

While this course is comprehensive, it’s designed to be digestible and give you the freedom to skip around to the content you need most. Busy founders can certainly take this course to receive actionable advice in the moment as they build an HR function in their company.

What if I’m brand new to HR?

This course is specifically designed for HR leaders at a startup, whether or not they are experienced in the role. You will get a foundational understanding of how to stand up HR effectively in your company that will attract the right talent and drive your company’s growth.

I work full-time (at a busy startup). What is the time commitment for this course?

To consume all the content and go through the assessments will likely take 40 hours in total, but this is a course you can take at your own pace and skip around as needed. Whether you go through in brief sprints or binge the entire course, I’ve designed it to add value however you consume it.

How long will I have access to the course material?

You’ll have lifetime access to the course, including updates and all related materials. This is your guidebook and roadmap for HR that scales your company, and I encourage you to reference it often.

What if I need help implementing what I learn?

If you need a bit more than a DIY solution, then I encourage you to check out my consulting offers, where I work in-depth with companies to help them build a scalable HR function and grow.

Do you offer a money-back guarantee?

If, after 30 days, you aren’t thrilled with this course, I will refund your payment 100%, no questions asked. Simply send me an email to request your refund within 30 days of purchasing. All I ask is for your feedback.