Fractional CHROs in Jacksonville Making Things Happen

Jacksonville Interim Chief People Officers to Know

Jacksonville is Florida’s sleeper success story. With a booming healthcare sector, growing fintech and logistics presence, and a vibrant community of middle-market and family-owned businesses, Jacksonville is scaling—and rethinking how leadership works in the process.

That includes a major shift in how companies approach HR. Increasingly, they’re turning to fractional Chief People Officers (CPOs)—strategic people leaders who operate part-time or on an interim basis—to lead culture, compliance, and workforce strategy through periods of growth and change.

At Digital Reference, we’ve identified two standout professionals helping Jacksonville companies build their people functions with precision, flexibility, and heart.

Our Selection Criteria

Every fractional executive featured by Digital Reference is evaluated based on:

✅ Active presence in the Jacksonville metro area
✅ Clear focus on fractional, interim, or embedded CPO/CHRO work
✅ Public-facing credibility (LinkedIn, website, firm bio)
✅ Experience supporting growth-stage, impact-driven, or complex orgs
✅ Alignment with our belief in referenceable, high-context operators

We look for leaders who don’t just fill a gap—they create real traction for the teams they support.

Jacksonville Fractional CHROs to Know

🔹 Angelique Hamilton

Fractional CHRO | People Strategist | Founder, HR Chique Group
Angelique is a mission-driven people leader who helps companies align business goals with inclusive, equitable, and scalable people strategies. Through her work at HR Chique Group, she partners with companies across industries to build strong HR foundations, guide executive teams through cultural transformation, and implement modern people operations practices that stick.

🔍 Specialties: Inclusive culture design, talent strategy, leadership development, DEI
📍 Based in: Jacksonville, FL

🔹 Anne White

Fractional Chief People Officer | Talent and Culture Architect | Founding Partner, Impact Lab
Anne is a founding partner at Impact Lab, where she delivers fractional people leadership to mission-aligned startups, nonprofits, and fast-growing businesses. With a background in both startup operations and strategic HR, she brings a systems-thinking mindset to everything from performance frameworks to leadership alignment. Anne works especially well with organizations building toward scale while staying true to their values.

🔍 Specialties: People systems, strategic hiring, HR infrastructure, founder coaching
📍 Based in: Jacksonville, FL

Why Jacksonville Is Ready for Fractional People Leadership

As companies scale or shift business models, HR becomes a critical lever—not just a support function. And while many Jacksonville companies may not be ready for a full-time CPO, they still need executive-level thinking to:

• Build scalable hiring and onboarding systems
  
  
• Retain top performers during cultural transitions
  
  
• Navigate hybrid or remote work challenges
  
  
• Integrate values and performance into leadership
  
  
• Align HR with strategic planning
  
  

That’s exactly where fractional CHROs deliver value—bringing just the right amount of leadership to match the company’s stage, pace, and budget.

What Makes These Leaders Stand Out

Both Angelique and Anne represent the best of modern people leadership:

✅ Strategic fluency with hands-on execution
✅ Clarity in coaching founders and leadership teams
✅ Inclusive, human-centered design of systems and culture
✅ Proven outcomes in both nonprofit and for-profit settings
✅ Referenceable, reputationally strong across clients and peers

They’re not here to maintain—they’re here to elevate.

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Final Word: People Strategy, The Jacksonville Way

Jacksonville companies are growing with focus—and that means building people systems that support not just performance, but purpose. Fractional CHROs like Angelique Hamilton and Anne White are already showing the way—helping organizations create inclusive, values-aligned cultures without overbuilding the HR function.

If you’re growing, evolving, or rebuilding—this is the talent model to look at first.

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