Clarice De Chavez
People & Strategy Consultant

AI will reshape
your organisation.Your people decide
whether it works.

I'm Clarice De Chavez. Twenty years inside the decisions that build organisations — 5,000+ hires across three continents, in multinationals and in Germany's fastest-scaling fintechs. I now lead AI transformation for organisations: not the technology rollout, but the part that determines whether it holds — how people are led, structured, reskilled and trusted through the change.

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Clarice De Chavez
20Years' experience
5,000+People hired
3Continents scaled
7Corporates & scale-ups
Built & scaled teams at
N26PwCShellSolaris SEBillieOrigin EnergyNewcrest Mining
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Profile
Accredited Leadership Coach · Master Practitioner in NLP · Certified in Generative AI in HR

Two decades building organisations — now rebuilding them for AI

AI hasn't changed how organisations hire, lead and perform incrementally — it has rewritten the playbook. Some will adapt to how work is genuinely changing. Others will keep running what worked in 2019 and wonder why it stopped working.

I've spent my career on the inside of those decisions: hiring more than 5,000 people and scaling workforces across three continents, in multinationals like Shell, PwC, Origin Energy and Newcrest Mining, and in Germany's fintech scale-ups at N26, Solaris SE and Billie. I've built people functions from scratch, removed agency dependency entirely, and carried organisations through the kind of growth pressure that breaks most people strategies.

Then I rebuilt everything I knew — because experience only matters if you keep evolving it. Today my work sits where strategy meets adoption: leadership teams who have committed to AI and need the human architecture to hold. The technology is rarely the hard part.

01AI transformation with the people architecture built in
02People and talent strategy designed for the AI era
03Leadership coaching grounded in behavioural science and NLP
04Preparing leaders and workforces for what's actually coming
Accredited Leadership Coach · Master Practitioner in NLP · Certified in Generative AI in HR
University of Adelaide · Berlin, working globally
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Ventures
Two companies built on the same conviction — organisations rise or fall on the human decisions behind the strategy.

Founder & co-founder

Founder

The Talent Seed

My recruitment, strategy and coaching company — helping organisations build hiring engines that scale without agency dependency, and helping individuals navigate their careers with the same rigour.

thetalentseed.com Co-Founder

The Human-First Shift

People-Risk Intelligence. Helping leaders see people-risk before it costs the organisation — surfacing the quiet cost of performance that most dashboards miss entirely.

thehumanfirstshift.com
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The practice
Transformation leads, because it's where most of my work now sits. Strategy, coaching and organisational health are the layers that make it hold.

Four ways I work with organisations

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Workforce & AI Transformation

★ New for 2026Where most of my work sits

I lead the human side of AI transformation: the operating model, capability and trust that decide whether the technology delivers or quietly stalls.

  • Workforce transformation & change management
  • AI readiness across leadership & teams
  • Upskilling & reskilling for the new world of work
  • Human-in-the-loop design & ethical AI governance
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Talent & People Strategy for the AI Era

For scale & growth phases

The strategy layer most companies skip. I diagnose how you attract, hire and grow people — then rebuild it for how work actually functions now.

  • People strategy designed for the AI era, not retrofitted
  • Talent Value Proposition & employer brand
  • Hiring process design & job architecture
  • Data-driven sourcing channels & ROI tracking
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Executive & Leadership Coaching

Individuals & teams

Accredited 1:1 coaching grounded in behavioural science and NLP — for leaders stepping up, leading through change, or carrying more than they let on.

  • Individual leadership coaching programmes
  • Executive presence, influence & decision-making
  • Team coaching & leadership offsites
  • Career pivots, transitions & first-90-day coaching
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Hiring Engines & People-Risk

Founders & hiring teams

Build an in-house hiring function that doesn't depend on agencies — the model I've built inside multinationals and Germany's fastest-scaling fintechs — and see people-risk before it starts costing you.

  • Hiring functions built from scratch, agency dependency removed
  • Executive & specialist search when you need it
  • Organisational health & performance diagnostics
  • People-risk intelligence — the quiet cost of performance
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Engage
Fixed-scope products for individuals. Organisational engagements are scoped to you.

For individuals navigating their own move

Always free

The Navigator

Self-guided, at your own pace
€0
  • Six legs, twenty-four guided steps
  • Exercises that save as you write
  • A personal Logbook, emailed to you
  • Unlocked with your email address
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For career changers

CV, rebuilt for the move

When you're changing direction
€149 one-off
  • A 30-minute 1:1 positioning call
  • Rewritten for where you're going, not where you've been
  • Matching LinkedIn headline & About section
  • Two rounds of revisions included
  • Recruiter-tested by 20 years on the hiring side
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For big transitions

Full Navigator Plan

When the move is a real leap
€349 one-off
  • A 60-minute 1:1 strategy session
  • A complete, personalised roadmap
  • Milestones, skills to build & a 90-day action plan
  • Interview prep + networking plan
  • Everything in the CV rebuild, included
Build my plan

Everything else begins with a conversation

Transformation, people strategy, coaching and organisational engagements are scoped to your context — no packages, no pressure. Start with twenty honest minutes.

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Prices in EUR · other currencies at checkout · consulting quoted on scope
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Writing
Weekly, on Substack.

Shifts and Signals

I write a weekly newsletter on hiring, career transitions, organisational performance and leadership in the age of AI — exploring the quiet cost of performance, and the people-risk most organisations only notice once it's expensive. Written for people making real decisions, not for the algorithm.

See people-risk before it costs your organisation.

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Selected essays

All essays
01When Output Stops Measuring CapabilityPerformance 02The Quiet Cost #1 — Everything Looks FineThe Quiet Cost 03The Quiet Cost #2 — The Invoice No One SendsThe Quiet Cost 04The Quiet Cost #3 — Presenteeism: why it costs more than absenteeismThe Quiet Cost 05You Might Be Hiring the Right Person for the Wrong JobHiring 06Why Your Job Search Is Stalled (And It's Not a Skills Problem)Careers 07Everyone Is Using AI at Work. Almost No One Is Being Trained.AI adoption 08You're Measuring the Wrong Job NowPerformance 09The Career Rules Are Changing. Have You Noticed?Careers 10The Middle Manager as Translation LayerAI adoption 11The CV Is Losing Its SignalHiring
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Let's talk about what needs to evolve

Whether you're leading through change, rebuilding a people strategy, or navigating your own next move — start wherever suits you.

Book a conversationTwenty minutes, honest direction, no pressure. Connect on LinkedIn7,500+ followers · follow along and say hello. Shifts and SignalsMy weekly newsletter on hiring, performance and leadership.