Grow your team’s capability without growing your team.

HS Consulting helps overloaded learning departments in mid‑sized companies get more from the people and tools they already have.

How to recognize the work

You may already know an organization that sounds like this.

These are the sentences we hear in a first conversation. If two or three sound familiar, there is work worth doing.

Demand keeps growing, but headcount doesn't. We're expected to keep doing more with the same people.

Urgent work always wins. The projects that would actually make us better keep getting pushed back.

We have AI and other tools that could probably help us, but nobody has time to figure out how to use them properly.

Does this describe a team you know?

Introduce us!

Who you would be working with

A small practice, on purpose.

You talk to the people who do the work. There is no delivery team behind the curtain.

Hector Solano, founder and principal advisor at HSConsulting.
Hector Solano
Founder & Principal Advisor

I've spent more than a decade inside the systems organizations use to learn, share what they know, and get work done — in startups and in global enterprises. After enough years you stop seeing departments and start seeing one system with constraints in it.

How I work is simple to describe: warmth first, then candour. I want you to trust me enough that I can tell you what I actually found.

The technical side runs on the Microsoft 365 environment: automation, agentic AI, SharePoint architecture, and tooling built for your case rather than bought off a shelf.

Demand is growing fast. Can you keep up?

We help you find the capacity to make it happen.

1. Gartner (2025) ↩

What changes for you

With HSConsulting, four things start working differently.

Bottlenecks turn into capacity

We help you find hidden capacity. Your go-to people and resources stop being the only route to getting it done.

Knowledge outlives the people

Your team’s knowledge stops walking out with whoever happens to leave the team.

Technology earns its place

The platform or AI tool you pay for generates the desired impact. More room is made for new and impactful technology.

Modernization gets a number

You can put a figure on what the current way of working costs — so the next investment argues for itself.

Why HS Consulting?

Many modernization initiatives focus on solving isolating problems through technology. (And nowadays, technology expires fast).

HS Consulting is different.

We look at the system, not just the tool.

We identify what is actually limiting your team before recommending what to change.

We understand Learning Operations end to end.

From knowledge flow and learning delivery to governance, processes, and technology.

We connect strategy to implementation.

We don’t stop at recommendations. We help turn the right opportunities into working solutions.

We build for change.

Technology will evolve. We design modernization so your organization can evolve with it, not start over every time it does.

Capability Design

Six steps.

Every engagement runs the same sequence. What changes is the scope — and you set it with us at step four, before anyone commits to building anything.

STEP 1

Align

What is your organization trying to become, and which part of it are we working on?

STEP 2

Diagnose

We read the system through a fixed set of lenses — to understand it, not to pitch you something.

STEP 3

Design

What would the system have to look like to give you the outcome you named in step one?

STEP 4

Prioritize

Together we pick the moves that return the most for the effort. Scope is set here.

STEP 5

Modernize

We build it — automation, agentic AI, knowledge architecture, learning operations.

STEP 6

Validate

We measure against what we agreed at step four. If it didn't move, you hear it from us first.

Whiteboard sketch of the six-step Capability Design loop drawn as a hexagon: Align, Diagnose, Design, Prioritize, Modernize, Validate, with the HS monogram at the centre.
The loop, drawn the way it gets drawn in the first session.

Engagements

Four ways in, in the order most people use them.

Each stands on its own. None of them obliges you to buy the next.

Start here

Diagnostic

“Help us understand what's holding us back.”

Then

Roadmap

“Tell us what to modernize, and in what order.”

Then

Implementation

“Help us build it.”

Ongoing

Partnership

“Help us stay modern as things keep moving.”

Start with a conversation, not a proposal.

Thirty minutes. You describe where the friction is; I tell you honestly whether it's the kind of problem I'm built for. If it isn't, I'll say so and point you somewhere that better matches your needs.