Expertise as a trusted advisor and sounding board for leaders navigating ambiguous, high-stakes people decisions. Brought in to support and manage cross-border U.S./Brazil/Latin America/Global teams, and get the Human Resources harmony right while still moving fast.
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Policies, employee handbooks, and HR infrastructure built from the ground up, designed for companies moving fast without an HR function yet. In my fractional practice, a from-scratch HR portal and a 20+ policy handbook cut employee inquiries to the HR helpline by more than half.
As more companies build engineering and operations teams in Latin America & Brazil, HR has to bridge both worlds: culture, compensation, and compliance on both sides. I've managed HR through a cross-border acquisition in São Paulo (Motorola's integration into Google), built compensation and benefits structures for a Brazil market entry (Glanbia), and led regional HR across 6 Latin American countries (Samsung).
Pay structures that are competitive and defensible, in the U.S. and across Latin American markets. My compensation and organizational redesign work has delivered over $1.3M in workforce cost savings without sacrificing retention.
Workday and other HR systems, planned and delivered on time as headcount scales. I led a 100%-on-time regional Workday implementation at Hitachi Vantara.
I'm Leonard Pinto. I've spent my career building and running HR inside global companies, long enough to know that most people problems don't arrive labelled as HR problems. They show up as a team that's quietly disengaging, a comp band nobody can defend, a hire that went wrong for reasons no one wants to name. That's the work I do now, for companies that aren't big enough to have someone like me on staff.
Scaling fast and building your HR function as you go? Reach out directly: leonard@evoluahrhub.com