Maggie Weinzapfel
Maggie embeds with organizations ranging from early-stage startups to 2,000-person institutions, often in highly regulated industries like higher education, financial services, federal contracting, and accredited career schools where compliance stakes are high. She steps in alongside leadership and stretched HR teams to tackle the compliance work companies know needs attention but have not had the capacity to fix, whether that means turning an overdue I-9 process into an audit-ready system, building a sustainable Affirmative Action Plan from scratch, or standing up onboarding and recruiting workflows for a business with no prior HR structure. One client watched her methodically clear a year-long backlog of untouched compliance priorities, including their Affirmative Action Plan, employee handbook, I-9 records, and annual regulatory filings, one piece at a time. Compliance gaps do not faze her; untangling them so leaders can breathe easier is the part of the work she genuinely enjoys most.
What Maggie Does Best
- Building HR from zero: She builds foundational HR structure for founders and small leadership teams, creating the practical SOPs, compliance habits, and everyday systems a growing business needs to scale without rework down the road.
- Strengthening existing HR functions: She embeds alongside internal HR teams to tighten processes that have become reactive, handling workflow redesigns, Affirmative Action Plan frameworks, I-9 audits, and policy updates so HR can get ahead of the business instead of playing catch-up.
- Senior backup for stretched HR teams: She takes ownership of time-intensive projects like workplace investigations, recruiting pushes, and handbook overhauls so the internal HR leader can stay focused on strategic priorities.
Recent Engagements
- 70-person federal government contractor, geospatial and IT services • Project HR / Extend HR • Ongoing: While basic HR processes were in place, leadership knew they had federal contractor compliance gaps they simply did not have the internal bandwidth to resolve. Maggie brought their I-9 and E-Verify records into full compliance, updated labor law postings, completed required federal reporting, and built a repeatable calendar and framework so nothing slips going forward. With compliance on solid ground, she now backs up the team on day-to-day payroll and benefits support.
- 15-person adtech startup, performance audio advertising • Project HR / Extend HR • Ongoing: Operating with almost no formal HR structure, the leadership team needed clear processes as they hired across multiple states. Maggie built straightforward SOPs for recruiting and onboarding, rolled out an employee handbook, and audited and registered state payroll tax accounts across every state where team members lived. Leadership and employees gained clear, consistent practices and peace of mind on multi-state compliance.
- NACCAS-accredited, Title IV postsecondary career school (medical aesthetics), multi-state campuses • Total HR • Ongoing: After the finance leader who had been covering HR departed, the school needed an embedded HR partner to step in and stabilize operations. In her very first week, Maggie spotted and fixed a Nevada overtime calculation error, cleaned up I-9 compliance gaps, and kicked off a full handbook audit. She also replaced manual commission data entry with a clean payroll upload workflow and is automating benefits syncs through their HRIS, taking administrative weight off the campus directors' plates and rebuilding employee trust.
Prior Experience
- Employment Manager • Public Higher Education Institution (Southern Indiana): Led hiring, onboarding, payroll data management, policy revisions, Affirmative Action Plan administration, staff performance evaluations, and the rollout of a new applicant tracking system across the university.
- Recruitment and Onboarding Manager (previously Recruitment and Onboarding Specialist, HR Assistant) • Regional Financial Services and Credit Union Organization: Directed full-cycle recruitment and onboarding as the organization expanded into multiple new states and grew from roughly 200 to 700 employees over five and a half years.
Education
- M.S., Business Administration, University of Southern Indiana • 2019
- B.S., Business Administration, University of Southern Indiana • 2015
Outside Work
Maggie is from Southern Indiana and still finds a long walk past the cornfields relaxing. She almost always has a fun drink in hand (matcha or an iced coffee are her go-tos) and loves spending her free time with her family, listening to true crime podcasts, and enjoying a quiet solo stroll through her favorite local shops.
Meet the rest of the team
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Beau Graves
Ryan Hutchins
Ryan founded Peak Business Valuation, a national firm that delivers 1,100+ business valuations and 150+ equipment appraisals a year. He works with business owners who are buying, selling, or growing — and need to know what they actually have. His focus is quality, accuracy, and making sure the number means something.
Jason Parr
Jason has spent 30 years going deeper into one discipline while most firms go broader. He joined Peisner Johnson in 1996 and built his career there learning every service line, working through every kind of situation, and eventually becoming President and CEO. The Sales Tax People has completed 35,000+ projects for companies ranging from regional mid-market businesses to large multinationals. His clients are CFOs, controllers, and the accountants who serve them, usually calling when the exposure has already been building quietly for months. He'd rather you call before that point.
You've Got the Vision.
We've Got the Fractional
Team to Build It.
A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.
You've Got the Vision.
We've Got the Fractional
Team to Build It.
A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.
You've Got the Vision.
We've Got the Fractional
Team to Build It.
A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.
You've Got the Vision.
We've Got the Fractional
Team to Build It.
A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.