Pay for outcomes, not overhead
Traditional HR and Talent Acquisition (TA) is a rigid, fixed cost.
Our fractional leadership model is the ultimate form of financial engineering, delivering maximum ROI. We deliver what you need when you need it.
We are not just big thinkers… we are big doers. We will ensure that every dollar spent drives direct business results.
Our Expertise
Praxeon Digital isn't just a name—it's our philosophy. Our rise to executive level positions is rooted in big thinking, lessons learned, and relentless pursuit of value added results.
Start-ups and small businesses need executives that can see the big picture, paint the big picture, and deliver the big picture.
We take the time to listen, observe, discover and then leap into action to build your foundation while you build the business.
We bring positive energy and the expertise to sustain the tailwind…
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Optimize & Modernize: We bring a proven methodology to your HR and Recruitment operations, utilizing AI and modern tech to create efficient, compliant, and digital-first systems and experiences. Remember - AI can enable faster candidate sourcing and assessments. Recruiters MUST be skilled and effective “talent agents” and closers.
Scale Smartly & Quickly: Whether you just won a massive deal or need to fix your foundation, we provide expertise in talent assessment, talent insights, search strategy and recruitment ability to level up internal talent and/or hire quality quickly and scale cost-effectively.
Culture & Brand: We strengthen your employer brand and internal communications, ensuring you attract transformational talent that aligns with your company culture.
Policy & Compliance: We can help you implement processes and best practices to ensure compliance with employment laws, regulations, and internal policies (manuals/handbooks are important).
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Boost Your Pwin: Increase your win probability with better intel and stronger teams.
Map the Competition: Deep-dive intelligence to outmaneuver incumbents and hiring of market makers.
Build Winning Teams: Strategic introductions to partners that complement your capabilities.
Lock in Key Hires: Secure the specific personnel needed to win that new contract or break into that new market.
Seamless Transitions: Whether going through M&A or you just won a new big contract, we have proven methodologies for best in place incumbent staff engagement, ensuring contract compliance is not an after thought, and ensuring operational continuity.
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More for Less: Boutique-style approach with more cost competitive fees
Trajectory-Altering Talent: We move beyond traditional search to identify and secure the rare, high-impact visionaries capable of fundamentally accelerating your company’s growth curve.
Strategic Talent Architecture: We partner to ensure you are cultivating talent pipelines, ensuring your organization is continuously primed for both immediate demands and future strategic growth.
How we partner with you
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Monthly Retainer (based on scope)
This is your foundation for success, bundling all essential HR and Talent Acquisition (TA) services into a single predictable, full spectrum support agreement - Recruitment & Recruitment Marketing, Talent Management/Employee Development, Performance Management, Executive Coaching, Total Rewards, Change Management, Systems and Digital Transformation, Communications and more.
A single, predictable 3, 6, 9, or 12-month package, ensuring consistent strategic oversight, delivery, compliance and operational excellence across the agreed upon scope areas.
Inclusive of full desk recruitment services for non Executive/Strategic Hiring.
Optional: Business development support (i.e. competitive intelligence, market research, partner networks), as well as P&L, operations, and back office integration. We are an extension of your growth team.
This offering is best for:
Growing firms needing senior growth leadership without full-time overhead
Start-ups and/or companies entering new markets that need experienced people leadership to navigate growth.
Organizations in transition—new ownership, scaling phase, etc.
Firms designing strategic growth capability for the first time or overhauling existing processes
Teams navigating leadership transitions or preparing for M&A
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Monthly Retainer + Search Hybrid Approach
Choose to augment your retainer for Core Partnership scope with Executive/Strategic Search for critical roles.
Embedding our fractional leadership via the Core Partnership lets us get to know the business and accelerates our ability to identify and hire leaders that perfectly align with your long-term vision and growth objectives.
Two Approaches:
Discounted Executive/Strategic Search placement fees (per search) when bundled with core.
Slight increase to retainer in lieu of per search discounted placement fees. We want to work within your fiscal capacity and help you grow!
This offering is best for:
Growing firms needing senior growth leadership without full-time overhead
Start-ups and/or companies entering new markets that need experienced people leadership to navigate growth.
Organizations in transition—new ownership, scaling phase, etc.
Firms designing strategic growth capability for the first time or overhauling existing processes
Teams navigating leadership transitions or preparing for M&A
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Retained Contingent (Performance Model)
Search-Only engagements
Flexible retained/contingent hybrid model - initial non-refundable retainer and the final fee contingent and (retainer subtracted) due upon successful placement.
All fees calculated based on offered and accepted annual salary of placed candidate.
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Hourly Consulting
Need focused help for a specific project or initiative? Our Hourly Consulting is available.
This model offers you flexible access to senior expertise, allowing you to tailor support exactly to your budget and tactical needs, without the commitment of a full-time role.
Minimum hours to be negotiated at onset of consulting arrangment.
Meet Greg
Greg St. Jacques
Founder & Principal
Former Global Talent Acquisition Leader at Walmart
Former Korn Ferry Executive Search Associate
Former Chief People Officer & Head of Business Development for Mid-Tier Government Contractor
Greg is a dynamic and experienced executive and founder who brings over 22 years of architected career experience spanning all facets of Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Operations and Business Development leadership. His unique value proposition lies in his ability to deliver executive-level results without the cost of a full-time hire, making him an ideal fractional HR/TA and consulting partner.
A Proven Architect of People and Growth Strategies
Greg’s career has been shaped by diverse, high-stakes environments, including change management and consulting roles at IBM, to key sourcing and search partner roles at Korn Ferry, globally impactful leadership roles at Walmart, and culminating in his role as Chief People Officer and lastly Head of Growth at Pyramid Systems, Inc.
Executive HR & TA Strategy: He has a clear track record of designing and implementing comprehensive people strategies, spearheading organizational design, and driving digital transformation in HR and TA. He architected career frameworks, employment branding, employee engagement campaigns, and agile recruitment processes at companies like Pyramid Systems.
Talent Acquisition Expertise: With deep expertise from leadership roles in Global TA at Walmart, PwC, and IBM, Greg specializes in designing sourcing best practices, overhauling and implementing scalable hiring processes, strategic and volume recruitment, and enable commercial grade candidate experiences (and the metrics to track).
Executive Search Acumen: His tenure at Korn Ferry and Dinte Executive Search, combined with his executive talent roles at Walmart, gives him robust expertise in executive search best practices and identifying high-potential professionals across all business lines.
Business Growth and Consulting: Greg’s leadership experience transcends HR/TA as he has also Growth and Business Development functions (responsible for developing a $500M+ pipeline at Pyramid Systems). Leaning on his depth of experience in executive search, Greg seamlessly transitioned into business development and transformed the market search, partner network access, and leveraging of technology (AI) for opportunity scouting.
This dual leadership in HR/TA and Growth ensures his counsel is data-driven and directly linked to achieving sustained business success.
Innovation and Impact
A recognized systems-builder and innovator, Greg excels at creating and optimizing HR/TA technology, including key roles in ATS selection, configuration and rollouts, CRM platform redesigns and optimizations, and the integration of platforms with APIs. He is a forward-thinking leader who quickly leverages new technology, including AI tools, to increase efficiency and speed to results.
Greg St. Jacques brings the agility of a consultant with the strategic depth of a global executive, making him the ideal partner to help clients build and scale their people and talent functions effectively.
Contact Greg
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