Senior fractional HR advisory for organizations navigating growth, change, and leadership complexity. Built in, not bolted on.
Begin →HR should be the most trusted function in any organization. Right now, it is often the least. That is the problem I built Obsidian Edge to solve.
Tola Fadina — Founder & Principal
I have spent nearly two decades in HR at some of the world's most complex organizations: FedEx, Visa, Meta, JLL. I have sat in rooms where layoffs were announced, where restructures were designed, where decisions were made that changed people's lives.
And I know what it costs when people stop trusting it.
I bring the perspective of large-scale organizations into lean environments, so smaller teams can scale with intention, not guesswork. I help leaders see what they are too close to see.
Revenue and humanity are not in competition. Fairness does not come from programs. It comes from how decisions are made every day.
Your Head of People, without the full-time overhead. A senior-level partner embedded in your business. People strategy, compensation clarity, performance infrastructure, and policy development. I come in close, learn the culture, and stay until the work is done.
For founders, executives, and senior leaders navigating complexity, transition, or the gap between where they are and where they want to lead. Not therapy. Not cheerleading. Honest, rigorous partnership grounded in nearly two decades of enterprise HR experience. Clarity precedes momentum.
Most offsites create energy. These create resolution. I design and facilitate sessions that get leadership teams aligned on priorities, clear on roles, and honest about what is not working. Then we build the structures to address it. I help leadership teams have the conversations they would otherwise avoid.
Thought partnership for senior HR and People leaders carrying too much alone. A trusted second brain for the decisions that matter: pressure-testing, prioritizing, and moving with precision.
ROOTED is Obsidian Edge's proprietary framework for how organizations hire, develop, and make decisions. It is not a program. It is not an initiative. It is structural, embedded into how a business thinks and leads.
In practice, this includes talent systems, manager capability, decision-making norms, hiring architecture, and leadership accountability.
Embedded, sustainable, and built to scale.
Every engagement begins with an intentional discovery conversation, not a sales call. The goal is to understand the real problem, not the presenting one. Most organizations know something is off. They may not know exactly what, or why, or where it started.
I ask the questions that surface what has been missed, because you are too close, too busy, or too far into a pattern to see it clearly. I have seen these patterns before. I know what to look for.
Not a packaged solution. Not a one-size-fits-all retainer. An engagement shaped around your real situation: exactly where you are, not where you think you should be.
There is a moment between where you were and where you are going. It does not always have a name. It rarely has a roadmap. The Season Between is Obsidian Edge's dedicated offering for high-performing women navigating that space.
Through the S.E.A.S.O.N.S.™ Framework and guided workbook, this is where recalibration happens. Not through performance. Through clarity and doing the work.
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