Groven Co
Growth. Proven. Groven.
Does your people function
need direction?
Groven Co. is built for scaling companies and start ups whose teams are growing faster than their people systems and are ready to remedy this by instilling formal and robust compliant HR functionality into the organization.
Is your company between 20 and 150 employees? Have you closed a funding round, or are close to it? Do you need VP HR input but aren’t yet ready to hire one full time in-house?
Then Groven Co. is the ideal fit for you.
Book Your Free People AuditWhat breaks when you
scale without structure.
The majority of companies between 20 and 150 people are running on informal systems and processes that sufficed when the company had single digit headcount but now are no longer functioning on a professional level. The risks this leads to are predictable and the costs significant.
Without structured interviews and consistent standards, you fill the same seat every six months while your competitors build teams that compound. Every bad hire costs 1.5× salary to fix and six months of momentum.
Your best individual contributor became a people manager with no training, no framework, and no support. That is not their fault — it is an infrastructure gap. It compounds every quarter they are in the role unsupported.
Without intentional onboarding, performance frameworks and values reinforcement, the culture you built gets diluted by every new hire. By 100 people, you are managing a culture you did not design.
When you are still the de facto Head of People at 80 employees, every people decision costs you time you do not have. Every hour spent on people problems is an hour not spent on the business.
California has the most complex employment laws in the country. A single misclassification. A missing meal break policy. An undocumented termination. The cost arrives as a lawsuit, not a lesson. PAGA claims alone can run into hundreds of thousands before you reach a courtroom.
What we build
Fractional HR leadership.
Why Groven
Designed specifically for rapidly growing companies, with a focus on navigating the complex Cross State employment regulations, with particular focus on California based start ups and US-operating teams remotely.
Our process
Three steps. No friction.
We map where your people function is today and identify the five things most likely to break at your next headcount milestone. No pitch. No obligation. Just useful.
If there is a fit, I send a clear proposal: what we will build, in what order, and what it costs. Typically a monthly retainer. Start with one month — no long-term lock-in.
You get a senior HR leader embedded in your business — without the full-time hire, the long onboarding, or the equity ask.
Our core services include
The founder
Michael Begner.
I am delighted to bring my 15 years of hands-on HR skillset and vast exposure to working across many different types of employment sectors, company types, and organizational sizes to help other companies reach their business and strategic goals.
I’ve had exposure across multiple countries and working environments, from multinationals to start-ups, which has allowed me to see first-hand what makes a company succeed through its people, and where companies tend to go wrong or fail to intervene early enough to build a strong people culture and optimisation.
I am thrilled to be able to use my expertise to help more companies succeed and hone their people strategy at such a critical stage of their growth journey. A company’s people are their strongest brand ambassadors and a successful company understands how to strategize its people for success.
Start with a free
People Audit.
No pitch deck. Leave knowing at least one thing that can be tackled immediately. The best leaders book before something breaks!