People advisory
Organizational design, compensation and leveling, workforce planning, leadership succession, and the People systems that support scale.
People strategy · Workforce intelligence · Executive search
Build the workforcebehind the ambition.
The Hire Good helps ambitious companies build the people, capabilities, and systems behind what comes next.
Our point of view
Hiring is only part
of the problem.
The harder question is whether an organization understands the human capability required to deliver its plans.
We connect People strategy, recruiting, and workforce intelligence—so leaders can build now and see the risks ahead.
Consulting
People leadership for consequential moments.
Fractional People leadership
Experienced People leadership during growth, transition, transformation, or while you build the permanent function.
Executive & technical search
High-context search for consequential leaders and specialized talent—grounded in the work, not pedigree shortcuts.
Workforce intelligence
Capability mapping that reveals critical expertise, knowledge gaps, talent risks, and what the organization will need next.
Selected experience
From early-stage startups to complex, scaling organizations.
Twenty years spanning People leadership, technical recruiting, executive search, and workforce strategy.
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About Darla Horn
A recruiter’s eye.
An operator’s perspective.
Darla Horn is a People and talent executive with 20 years of experience building functions, leadership teams, and organizations from the ground up. She founded The Hire Good to solve the People and workforce questions that hiring alone cannot answer.
Research & writing
Follow the thinking behind the work.
Signals tracks evidence of the labor and capability crisis. Darla’s Substack explores work, technology, AI, and being human.
Work with The Hire Good