Marcy Wahlquist
Marcy embeds with small and mid-sized businesses, especially hands-on trades, manufacturers, and creative production teams, where people work closely enough that everyone knows everyone by name. The CEO who brings her in usually has fifty competing people tasks on their desk and no time to figure out which one to tackle first. Marcy's superpower is stepping into a vague, overwhelming problem, breaking it down into clear, manageable steps, and getting it done. On any given Monday, her favorite thing to do is take a lingering HR headache off a leader's plate and hand it back finished.
What Marcy Does Best
- Breathing new life into outgrown HR processes: When an organization's HR practices have gone stale or only exist in dusty folders, she rebuilds them into compliant, practical workflows that managers and employees actually use every day.
- Supporting employees from first day to last: She keeps the entire employee lifecycle running smoothly, bridging the gap between clean back-office administration and making sure people genuinely feel supported on the job.
- Benefits and HR research that leads to clear decisions: When leadership has an open question, especially around benefits options or policy benchmarks, she digs into the research, distills the trade-offs into plain language, and brings back clear options instead of a pile of open browser tabs.
Experience
- HR Manager and Administrative Assistant • Full-Service Marketing and Creative Agency: Stepped in to rebuild and run HR and C-suite operations after the prior HR department was dissolved, managing payroll, open enrollment, executive coordination, light accounting, and day-to-day employee support.
- Event Operations Coordinator • Fine Arts Museum and Cultural Institution: Kept public and private events running smoothly by translating event contracts into clear operational setup plans, welcoming guests, and managing facility security and administrative records.
- Production and Safety Supervisor • Fine Art Foundry and Manufacturing Studio: Led shop-floor production quality and workplace safety, fine-tuning ceramic slurry formulas, streamlining kiln operations, and managing inventory and safety compliance for a hands-on manufacturing team.
Credentials
- aPHR, HR Certification Institute • 2024
Outside Work
Marcy loves drawing portraits (digitally, in paint, or with whatever medium is nearby) and has a knack for taking salvaged materials and turning them into something brand new. She also powerlifts in her free time; nothing extreme, she says, though she is pretty proud of her numbers.
Meet the rest of the team
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.
David Mink
David founded Avalaunch Media in 2012 and built it into one of the fastest-growing marketing agencies in the country: 50 people, 8 figures, clients like Red Bull, GoPro, and Microsoft. After working with hundreds of companies, he kept seeing the same pattern: businesses with a real marketing leader get results. Those without one waste time and money. That's why he built the first fractional CMO, agency-backed solution and why he joined Ampleo.
Dana Calder
Dana Calder embeds with founder-led and private equity-backed companies of 20 to 200 employees, especially across SaaS, fintech, and mission-driven industries, at the stage where they have outgrown figuring HR out as they go. At Amplēo HR, she steps in alongside leadership when managers need real coaching, performance conversations have become uneven, and executives are spending too much of their week putting out people fires instead of building the business. She replaces reactive habits with practical people systems that fit the rhythm of the company, moving effortlessly between big-picture strategy, leadership coaching, and hands-on execution.
Ryan Purser
Ryan Purser has helped companies secure hundreds of millions in debt and equity financing, and specializes in forecasting, financial models, KPIs, and the system upgrades that make them all work. He spent nearly a decade in finance, operations, and eCommerce at Cricut, leading the finance team through a $280M IPO, and has optimized SaaS and hardware-enabled tech companies, run global operations and supply chain, and built BI teams from scratch.
Reagan Berkley
Reagan Berkley brings 15+ years of HR and People & Culture leadership, most recently as VP of People & Culture at a global commercial real estate analytics and financial technology firm, where she cut time-to-hire from 87 days to 45 while lifting candidate satisfaction by 40%. At Amplēo HR, she embeds alongside executive teams and internal HR leaders to give growing companies the senior backup they need to get ahead. She specializes in talent acquisition strategy, employee retention, and manager development, turning practical people programs into lasting structure and measurable business results.
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.