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Areas of Expertise:
HR Advisement for Business Owners
HR Strategy
Recruiting
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Initiatives
Employee Engagement & Retention
Culture Development & Initiatives
HR Systems, Workflows, & Advisement
HR Onboarding & Employee Documentation
Benefits, Worker's Compensation & Insurance
Investigations & Corrective Actions
Organizational Development
Strategic Business Advisement
Our Company Values:
Fierce Accountability
Faith-full Flexibility
Agility & Resiliency
Continual Curiosity
Brevity & Perspective
Our Story:
Where We Started...
As sisters, we often joke that we were destined to be business partners from the beginning (a fact proven in the development of more than three companies to date). We believe that growing businesses through building quality teams is in our blood. In fact, we grew up in the "people" business working alongside our mother, Lynne, who owned a successful recruiting firm in Denver for more than forty years.
Over the past fifteen years, we've helped business owners cultivate effective teams to carry forward concepts, products, and services to fruition.
CALEY VAN CLEAVE
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Whether navigating new growth strategies or landing top talent, she has worked hands-on with business leaders finding valuable solutions for most of her career. Prior to co-founding Iridium Consulting Company, Caley served as the Vice President in two previous award-winning consulting and search firms. In both companies, she supported clients in identifying new approaches to their businesses and teams. In addition, Caley has successfully coached professionals across all levels of an organization to effectively advance their careers.
She serves as a speaker and workshop administrator on human capital strategies, career development skills, soft skill development, the energy industry, and other key topics for private organizations, associations, and educational institutions. As an active member of the community, Caley served as President of the board of the Colorado chapter of the Women’s Energy Network (WEN), an international organization of 6,800+ women professionals who work across the energy value chain. Caley received the Denver Business Journal's Top 40 Women in Energy award in 2020.
Caley is a Colorado native that can often be found mountain biking, hiking, or traveling outside of the office.
WHITNEY VAN CLEAVE
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Whitney has worked with organizational leaders across industries to identify new techniques to improve business processes, manage human capital resources, and revamp marketing & sales strategies. Before establishing Iridium Consulting Company, Whitney led technical recruiting initiatives, human capital strategies, and marketing projects for clients at two previous award-winning firms. In addition, she has held multiple leadership roles in marketing and communications, which allows her to implement new technologies and strategies to serve our client’s dynamic needs.
Whitney has served on the board of the Denver chapter of Young Professionals in Energy (YPE), a national organization devoted to facilitating the advancement of young professionals in the energy industry. She also served as the Director of Marketing for the Colorado chapter of the Women's Energy Network (WEN), an international organization of 6,800+ women professionals who work across the energy value chain.
Whitney can usually be found fly fishing or rambling around the Colorado mountains where she grew up in her free time.
Welcome to Iridium...
Iridium is a rare element that is thought to have arrived on earth via asteroid thousands of years ago. It is extremely resilient and able to withstand highly corrosive environments which has led to its use in the production of spacecraft parts, airplane spark plugs, and other industrial goods. Looking back on that first conversation about starting a new firm, we realized that helping people is at the core of who we are as individuals. Our cumulative experiences have entailed a wide variety of environments, through which we have both learned and developed a set of skills that are incredibly useful in powering amazing things.
Meet the rest of our Iridium team...
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