20+ years of ironclad experience
Professional foresight that guides you through complex business shifts
Founder and Chief Consultant-in-Arms
Kristin Halpin Perry
Hi – I’m Kristin.
I started Veraz Consulting because I see potential where most people see a challenge. The potential for start-ups and growth ventures to explode if they manage culture transformation, fast growth, and mergers & acquisitions properly is huge – but it’s hard to do without experience.
I’ve been transforming company cultures and their leaders to be business savvy and compassionate, resilient and flexible, and most importantly, integrity-driven, for 20+ years all around the globe. The “Veraz” approach to understanding where everyone is coming from has helped me wrangle ragtag groups into legendary teams, while making sure everyone from C-Suite executives to bright-eyed interns feel like part of a whole community.
The breadth of companies that I served ranged from small start-ups to large, publicly traded companies, in the high tech, software, IT, health and development industries. My curiosity led me to the life-changing international leadership experiences that gave me insight into the value of diversity in company culture that continues to guide me in my practice. Those experiences and challenges were where I solidified the importance of emotional intelligence, integrity and being grounded in authenticity as tenets of the ways I wanted to practice HR.
It was at those companies – where I served as Chief Talent Officer, Chief People Officer, and SVP Global Human Resources, respectively – where I truly learned how explosive growth affected people and organizations on fundamental, complex, and dynamic levels. And now, I apply my experience to “people problems” found in boardrooms, investment meetings, and start-ups like yours through consulting, board membership (currently at a start-up tech company), and executive coaching.
The truth I’ve come to know is that the growing pains are the same whether you’re a start-up or a well-established organization.
Your ability to manage change comes down to self-awareness, communication, understanding your business, and navigating through your unique culture. Learning how to deal with growing pains is an important step to gaining true wisdom as a leader and as a business.
I was determined to mold my own vision and philosophy for what human resources and people management really could be: not just a time-stamper or a rule-setter, but an authentic business leader, forward-thinking advisor, and a compassionate consultant with a strong moral compass.
What I’ve accomplished
- Building and transforming a dynamic strategy and high-performing teams to support multiple fast-growth software companies that have experienced global expansion, mergers and acquisitions and cultural transformations
- Completely transforming the culture, infrastructure, team and reputation of a $1B software company following a rocky acquisition
- Surviving and thriving through 4 acquisitions and mergers in 2 different industries – while keeping the morale of the employees high and hopeful
- Living overseas twice as an expatriate (London and Hong Kong) and creating the HR and People infrastructure, culture, and processes for the growth and scale of multiple multinational tech companies
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About Veraz
Veraz = truthful.
We believe that the truth will set you free, if you’re open-minded, curious, and compassionate enough to hear it.
We work with innovators and creators.
Rebels and technologists. Scrappy rule-breakers, risk-takers and leaders who don’t make other people’s (or their industry’s) mistakes just because that’s the way it’s always been done.
We believe that culture is grown with creativity, compassion, grit, and honesty.
And a lot of foresight. Strong, built-from-the-ground-up culture can help your team survive anything, and then persevere to absolute excellence.
Challenging business issues don’t intimidate us – they inspire us.
The best lessons we’ve ever learned – in life and in business – were the toughest. We’ve been at the helm of managing delicate and complex business issues in both public and private companies from start-up to enterprise, and get motivated when you get stumped.
Veraz helps you align your people with your purpose.
By providing an inspiring, innovative and nimble approach to Strategic Human Resources.
Our specialty is culture with a heaping side of strategy.
We help high-growth start-ups and more established companies with mergers and acquisitions, cultural transformations, executive leadership and transitional coaching, and Board of Directors advising to position them on a solid foundation to scale through change.
Our values
Ingenuity
We personalize our approach with each client through a creative, compassionate and imaginative approach.
Fortitude
We guide our clients to model courage, resilience, grit, determination and endurance through change.
Balance
We value stability, poise and steadiness with businesses and people.