Hi, I’m Janelle. I care deeply about stewardship and the responsibility that organizations have to their communities, investors, customers, and especially their employee stakeholders. My work in HR, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) has fueled a wild, 17-year career that’s taken me from corporate board rooms in Times Square to classrooms in rural Kentucky to studying EV Pilots of big rigs in Los Angeles.

As an HR & ESG Consultant, I work with leaders of large-scale and hyper-growth stage organizations to help build sustainable cultures through:

ESG: program design, metrics, dashboard development, alignment to frameworks (SASB, TCFD, GRI), campaigns & comms, process flows
HR/People Strategy: compensation philosophy, leveling, performance management, job architecture, org design, metrics
HR/People Operations: development of policies, processes, audits, system implementation, HRBP work, onboarding, employee relations
Engagement & Culture: employee value prop, mission, vision, values, behaviors, engagement surveys
Training, Coaching and Programs: New Manager, 360 Feedback, DEI+Belonging
CSR Strategy: community engagement, philanthropy, collective impact, skills-based volunteerism, Social ROI, white papers

Informed by Critical Race Theory
Due to the legal implications of my HR work pertaining to policy, processes and people, I utilize the framework of Critical Race Theory in my service to clients. I studied CRT while obtaining my M. Ed. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The core tenets of CRT challenge us to examine the intersection of race and the law. This is invaluable as I lead clients through employee relations issues, employment policies, hiring practices, employment lawsuits and overall race matters in the workplace.

As a Certified Financial Coach, I help people build their financial legacy:

I am deeply devoted to the cause of the individual: to build a purposeful life that contributes to the whole of society in a meaningful way. I believe that one of the best ways to do that is to engage in work that is dignifying, and to steward one’s capital - financial, relational, career or otherwise - toward life’s purpose. Money is an important part of the equation.

Debt eradication: school, consumer & seemingly hopeless situations
Healthy money habits: budgeting, goal-setting, mindset, accountability
Planning for the future: entrepreneurship, ownership, family planning

Let's work together

Janelle Bechdol, M.Ed.

HR & ESG Consultant | Financial Coach | CurrenT Student at UCLA LAW School