ABOUT US

Where Real HR Begins

The HRM Collective was born from a shared frustration with traditional HR - the checkbox mentality, the performative culture work, the templates that don't account for the messy reality of leading people.

We're experienced HR executives who've sat in the rooms where hard decisions get made.

Meet The Team

Ami Graves

Founder & Voice of The HRM Collective

Ami is a seasoned Chief Human Resources Officer and trusted advisor to executives navigating complex people and leadership decisions. With deep experience across technology, professional services, and global organizations, she has spent her career sitting at the intersection of business strategy and human impact. 

Ami is known for bringing clarity to messy situations - whether that’s navigating executive dynamics, scaling organizations without breaking trust, or helping leaders see the downstream consequences of their decisions before they show up as risk. She is the creator and host of the HR Misfits podcast, where she brings candid, grounded conversations to the leadership issues most organizations avoid.  

Her approach is business-minded, human-centered, and unapologetically honest. Ami doesn’t believe HR exists to police leadership - she believes it exists to make leadership better.

For speaking engagements, connect directly with Ami at ami@hrmcollective.com or www.amijograves.com. You can also find her on LinkedIn where she actively shares insights and engages with the HR community.

LaToya Davis

Enterprise Perspective & Strategic Thought Partner

LaToya brings a current, enterprise-level lens to the Collective, with experience advising senior executives inside large, complex organizations. Her background includes supporting C-suite leaders across corporate functions, navigating organizational risk, and leading through moments where reputation, trust, and leadership credibility are on the line.  

She is a trusted voice for pressure-testing decisions against real-world enterprise dynamics - where politics are real, consequences are public, and missteps are costly. LaToya’s strength lies in helping leaders understand how decisions land at scale, long before they become headlines or HR crises. 

Within the Collective, LaToya serves as a strategic thought partner bringing clarity, context, and an unfiltered enterprise perspective to the conversations that matter most.

LaToya brings enterprise HR expertise and grounded leadership perspective. The best way to connect with her is on LinkedIn or latoya@hrmcollective.com 

Marci Coppola

Leadership Advisor & Client Experience Lead

Marci is a leadership advisor, former senior HR leader, and founder of Seshen Coaching & Wellness, where she works with executives, leaders, and teams navigating change, complexity, and personal leadership growth. She holds an MBA in Strategic Leadership, is an ICF ACC Certified Coach, and is certified in change management.

After years inside organizations, Marci now brings that experience into deeper advisory and coaching work, helping leaders align how they lead with who they are. With extensive experience partnering with senior leaders, she has shaped organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, and leadership development across complex environments.

She is particularly skilled at holding space for the human side of leadership decisions: trust fractures, team tension, burnout, identity shifts, and moments of inflection.

Marci brings depth, grounding, and rigor to the Collective’s client experience, ensuring that insight translates into meaningful leadership action. Her work is thoughtful, challenging, and deeply human - without being soft or performative.

Marci offers transformational coaching focused on wellness, clarity, and personal growth through Seshen Coaching and Wellness - Seshen Coaching & Wellness

If you’re ready to do deeper inner work alongside your professional journey, Marci creates space for meaningful change. marci@hrmcollective.com

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Our Values

These aren't aspirational posters on a wall. They're the standards we hold ourselves to every time we step into a room with a client - and the lens through which we approach every conversation, every decision, and every piece of counsel we offer.

  • Honest Over Comfortable

    We say what leaders need to hear, not what feels safe to say. Real counsel means telling the truth even when the room would prefer a softer answer.

  • Judgment, Not Just Frameworks

    Every situation is different. We don't reach for a playbook when what's needed is experience, context, and the courage to sit in complexity.

  • People Decisions Are Never Neutral

    Every call - including the decision to wait - has a human consequence. We take that seriously, and we help leaders take it seriously too.

  • Empathy with Backbone

    Caring about people doesn't mean avoiding hard conversations. The most human-centered leaders are also the most direct. We model that and expect it.

  • High Trust, High Stakes

    The most important conversations happen behind closed doors. We earn the right to be in those rooms by protecting confidence, showing up with integrity, and treating every client situation as if it matters - because it does.

  • We translate insight into action.

    Awareness alone doesn’t change organizations. We turn clarity into action, decisions, and follow-through.

  • We hold both the business and the human.

    Performance and people are not competing priorities. The breakdown happens when leaders don’t know how to navigate both. That’s where we operate.

  • We operate at the level of leadership, not optics.

    We’re not here to polish messaging or manage perception. We work where decisions are made and where they break down.

OUR TEAM

Qualified. Certified. Dedicated.

Our qualifications go beyond certifications (though we have those too - industry credentials and advanced degrees included). We've spent careers working alongside executives and senior leaders navigating complex, cross-functional organizations, matrix structures, start-up chaos, high-pressure pivots, and everything in between. The industries change. The stakes don't.

Ready for Real Counsel?

If you’re navigating a high-stakes people decision, we’ll help you think clearly and move quickly. Seats in the Advisory Council are limited, and not every request is accepted.

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