A strategic HR partner for businesses ready to scale their people.
The Montgomery Collective Group works with small and mid-sized businesses that don't yet have a full HR function — or need a specialist for a specific discipline. We design, implement, and optimize the people systems that drive growth, engagement, and resilience, acting as an integrated extension of your leadership team.
Compensation, benefits, talent, compliance, and leadership — delivered as an extension of your team, on a retainer, project, or fractional basis.
Explore Advisory Career Studio · For IndividualsRésumé, LinkedIn, and career strategy from an HR and compensation leader who screens real applicants and sets real pay.
Explore Career StudioPractical, data-driven HR across every discipline your business needs — aligned to your goals, your budget, and your growth.
Market-aligned pay, job evaluation, pay equity, and analytics that tie people spend to performance.
Design, benchmarking, vendor negotiation, and administration that attract talent while controlling cost.
Scalable recruiting playbooks, structured interviewing, and a candidate experience that wins offers.
Proactive policy, risk mitigation, and compliance across federal, state, and local regulations.
Manager coaching, leadership programs, and upskilling that build readiness and bench strength.
Demand forecasting, critical-role mapping, and pipelines that keep the business continuous.
Also: HRIS optimization & HR operations, and organizational culture & change management.
Ongoing HR guidance for your leadership team.
A defined engagement — comp overhaul, benefits redesign, or HRIS implementation.
Senior HR leadership during transitions, growth, or peak cycles.
Most résumé help comes from writers. Yours comes from an HR and compensation leader who screens real applicants and sets real pay — so your story is built to be seen, and chosen.
We map your goals and the roles you're pursuing.
Your story, written to be seen and chosen.
Revised together until it feels unmistakably you.
Custom & add-on services available upon request.
Now accepting a select number of clients.
Start Your ProjectHR & Total Rewards Strategist
Daquise Montgomery is the founder and principal of The Montgomery Collective Group. An HR and total rewards leader with more than 10 years of experience across banking, financial services, and public-sector education, she has built high-performing teams and modern compensation systems for workforces of every size — including a 4,400+ employee organization.
Her work pairs rigorous data with a genuine focus on culture: she designs pay and people programs that are equitable, compliant, and built to scale. Outside of HR, she is a professional flutist and a committed community leader.
Every engagement is built to move a number that matters to the business.
Analytics frameworks that speed decision cycles and tighten budget alignment.
Design and vendor strategy that improve value while holding cost discipline.
Hiring and onboarding systems that shorten ramp time and lift first-year retention.
Modernized policy and governance that reduce audit risk and sharpen clarity.
Tell us where your organization — or your career — is headed. We'll bring the strategy to get there.