The Helia Library

Every challenge you're facing, someone has navigated before. Get going today with our practical tools, honest insights, and real stories from humans who've been there — all designed to help you move from stuck to solution.

Featured Articles

Library
Nina’s People Manager Job Description
Nina’s People Manager Job Description

Welcome to managing people! You might be new to managing employees and people management is a big job. Although every team will have their own best practices around management, here’s a general set of guidelines about managing people and what’s expected of that role (including some required things!). Saying the unsaid things!!!!

Read More →
Nina’s Layoff Guide
Nina’s Layoff Guide

This is a guide for HR and People Operations staff who are responsible for project managing layoffs and want to do it fairly and thoughtfully. It’s especially designed for smaller teams where you might be the only HR person at your company and are new to layoffs. If you’re a leader or manager who wants to do better in laying people off or is new to the process, this might also be useful for you.

Read More →
Helia’s Why Interview Template
Helia’s Why Interview Template

The Why Interview is your recipe for finding people who'll truly thrive at your organization. This focused early-stage conversation digs beyond skills and experience to uncover a candidate's true motivations and alignment with your mission. Instead of just checking boxes on skills and experience, this approach helps both you and the candidate figure out if this is truly a YES before investing more time in the process.

Read More →
Reaching Out to Others: Jesse's Job Search Strategy
Reaching Out to Others: Jesse's Job Search Strategy

Jesse Noonan turned her job search into a relationship-building journey, sending regular updates to her network that strengthened connections AND opening doors. (Co-founder Jess LOVED receiving them and responded to almost every single one, including celebrating when she landed her job!!!).

Here's how she did it—so you can build your own version!

Read More →

View All Articles

Meet our Contributors

Collective
Dianna Tremblay
Dianna Tremblay

My favorite kind of project is: People come to me for gaining clarity, connecting dots and conversations, and being a creative problem solver that gets things done. I also see myself as a professional pep talk giver - we need more of those in our lives.

Read More →
Shannon Riordan
Shannon Riordan

My favorite kind of project is: the kind where we’re building something from scratch—and you can feel the lightbulb "aha" moments. People come to me for clarity, words that are actually useful, and stories that resonate. They trust my experience, appreciate my positivity, and like that I don’t take myself too seriously—I genuinely enjoy what I do, and it shows.

Read More →
Claire Bernson
Claire Bernson

My favorite kind of project is one where you can come to me for branding and design that actually makes sense for who you are and what you're trying to do. Whether you're starting a new project, re-branding an old one, or just need someone to help your "thing" look as good as it deserves to, I'm good at translating "I know what I want but I can't quite explain it" into something visual!

Read More →
Nina Jacinto
Nina Jacinto

My favorite kind of project is one where you get to design processes or improvements that will benefit your staff. Getting to think through "What are we trying to solve for" and finding the right type of architecture and implementation to strengthen your people operations makes me practically giddy.

Read More →
Rachel Kleban
Rachel Kleban

My favorite kind of project is… Building Leveling Frameworks, of course! I love the work of collecting information and then synthesizing it into a tool that works for the team and culture.

Read More →
Sebastian Johnson
Sebastian Johnson

My favorite kind of project is… Working with philanthropists to develop strategy and deepen connections

Read More →
Sophia Zisook
Sophia Zisook

My favorite kind of project is… Taking an informal, messy idea or process and operationalizing it - in a way that makes a better experience org wide - and saves folks time and headaches.

Read More →

All Articles