Testimonials

"As my HR partner Gabrielle's short job description was to help me scale the business, develop the global talent in the organisation, and coaching and support my own journey to my next role. She was fantastically successful in that mission. Over the next few years we built a world class global commercial engine that then proved critically important to the company’s success during the Covid period. Gabrielle’s superpower is her ability to drive strategic HR outcomes while taking the broader organisation with her. She was my thought partner and consultant while also driving the team dynamic and strategic project outcomes. I consider myself incredibly lucky to have worked alongside Gabrielle during this ‘purple patch’ of my career. I continue to look for new opportunities to bring her back to my team."

“Gabrielle was an invaluable partner to me and my team as we managed the day-to-day challenges associated with leading a complex R&D organization of more than 1500 people in 20 plus countries. Gabrielle possesses a wealth of knowledge and experience that increases the effectiveness of the leaders she supports.  Her skills made a significant and deeply positive impact on a strategic level as well – this was especially visible when we made several acquisitions, closed one of our sites and restructured the R&D organization.” 

“Gabrielle offered critical thinking throughout the business transformation of Informatics within Applied Biosystems. The business was challenged to reinvent itself and drive step-function change involving people, product and legacy processes. Ms. Merritt offered innovative ways to explore alternatives, evaluate and reconcile various viewpoints, and move synergistically forward. Although the subject matter was challenging, her insights and expertise turned what otherwise could have been insurmountable into a means to improve cross-functional communication, teamwork, focus, and ultimately business performance.”

“Gabrielle is one of the most talented and skillful HR practitioners that I have had the privilege of working with. She has strong analytical skills and possesses a wealth of knowledge and experience with people, organization structure and processes. These capabilities enable her to quickly diagnose problems, develop recommendations, and work with senior leaders to implement creative and high impact solutions which drive organizational effectiveness and business results. Gabrielle has successfully managed many company-wide change initiatives including the program management of several merger and acquisitions, global system implementations and functional restructures involving thousands of people and millions, even billions of dollars. She did an outstanding job managing both the operational and strategic aspects of each one of these undertakings. Gabrielle is also an excellent coach and mentor. Her insight, ability to build rapport, and engender trust enable her to give candid and specific feedback which markedly improve the skills of the leaders she supports.”

"Gabrielle is a dedicated HR professional, who is truly an expert in her field, with an outstanding ability to access business challenges and recommend highly appropriate and effective results-oriented solutions. Her focus is on truly understanding the business and driving strategic business success by applying her vast knowledge. Gabrielle has demonstrated that she possesses and utilizes one of the most expansive and leading edge HR toolkits and approaches of any HR professional I know, and is capable of applying them seamlessly and with ease to achieve impactful and desired outcomes. Her traits of creativity, influence, and collaboration, along with her breadth of experience, enable her to make significant contributions in many areas, including leadership coaching/counseling, learning and development, organization design, teambuilding, HR leadership, HR effectiveness/efficiencies, and HR strategy. In addition to all of Gabrielle’s strengths described above, she is a pleasure to work with as she is inspiring, honest, respectful, trustworthy, and has the highest level of integrity of anyone I know. I would be truly honored to work with and/or for her again at any time in the future. I highly recommend Gabrielle and am very confident that she will be very successful and sought-after due to her highly valuable skills and expertise and her bottom-line ability to deliver."

"I have had the distinct pleasure of working with Gabrielle at three different companies over the course of ten years. She is quite simply the Gold Standard that I compare all other Human Resources professionals against. She is warm, humorous & engaging while at the same time thorough, detail oriented and tough. She is an effective partner to the business, inspiring thought leader within the HR organization and trusted confidant to leaders & employees alike. She’s the best HR Pro I’ve worked with in my career, hands down."