HR Data Labs

About Us

We believe every organization deserves compensation programs built on real data — not guesswork. HR Data Labs combines three decades of practitioner experience with modern analytics tools to help HR teams work smarter.

Our Mission

Data-Driven HR. Without the Enterprise Price Tag.

Mid-size companies face the same HR analytics challenges as the Fortune 500 — but without the budget or in-house expertise to solve them.

HR Data Labs was founded to close that gap. We bring enterprise-grade compensation methodology, data analysis, and workforce intelligence to organizations that need it most — and we teach your team to replicate our process long after we're gone.

Our work spans three pillars: Consulting (compensation strategy and pay transparency), Media (the HR Data Labs Podcast, The HR Channel, and more), and Tech (AI-powered tools for HR practitioners).

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Data First Every recommendation is grounded in validated data. We don't guess — we analyze, model, and document.
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We Teach Our goal isn't dependency — it's capability. We build your team's skills alongside every deliverable.
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No Black Boxes Transparent methodology, clear documentation, and models you own. You always know why we recommended what we did.
Practitioner-Led Our consultants have built compensation systems at ADP, Watson-Wyatt, Towers Perrin, and Mercer. This is experience, not theory.

Leadership

Meet the Team

David Turetsky

Managing Consultant and Founder

David Turetsky is our Managing Consultant with over 35 years of experience in HCM, HR, HRIS, talent management, compensation, and people analytics, former ADP DataCloud chief product owner and award‑winning solutions leader, and host of the HR Data Labs podcasts and author of the HR Data Doodles comic series.

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Sushma Tripathi

Principal Consultant

Sushma Tripathi is a Senior Advisor specializing in HCM strategy, workforce operations, HR technology, and AI‑enabled transformation. She brings more than 25 years of executive experience as Avionté CPO/COO and Vice President of Strategic Advisory Services at ADP, and is a trusted partner to organizations modernizing their HR operating models.

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IBEJesus Prince

Principal Consultant

IBEJesus Prince is a distinguished consultant, founder of UnPuzzle Talent LLC, who “unpuzzles” complex organizational challenges by blending talent management, analytics, governance, and HCM technology to build equitable, high‑performing workforces and cultures of sustainable productivity and trust.

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Desiree Goldey

Sr Consultant

Desiree Goldey is an award-winning Talent Leader and Advisor with over 20 years of experience in talent architecture, recruiting operations, DEIB, and employer brand strategy, former Director of Talent Operations at ZRG Partners, recognized on the Noon AI Talent 100 and named a Top 10 Trailblazing Women Leader by The CIO Today, and co-host of the Talentless podcast and founder of Do Better Consulting.

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Ellen Gonzalez

Sr Consultant

Ellen Gonzalez is an HR, payroll, and HCM technology leader who blends deep hands‑on experience in compensation and benefits administration with large‑scale systems implementation and vendor management, making her a practical, solutions‑oriented partner for organizations modernizing their compensation and benefits programs.

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Angela Bailey

Principal Consultant

Human Resources Leader & Total Rewards Consultant with 25+ years of experience leading initiatives in HR strategy, compensation and benefits design, people operations, talent management, leadership development and project management. Recognized by Business First as One of the Top 20 HR People to Know in Louisville.

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What We Do

Three Pillars. One Mission.

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Consulting

Compensation strategy, pay transparency audits, job architecture, and salary structure design — delivered by practitioners who've done this at enterprise scale.

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Media

The HR Data Labs Podcast, The HR Channel, Brown Bag Lunches, and HR Data Doodles — content that helps HR practitioners stay current on compensation and workforce analytics.

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Tech

AI-powered tools including Workitecture.ai for job architecture, ConsultantClock for project tracking, and our Agentic RAG Pipeline for HR data intelligence.

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Let's Talk

Ready to Work Together?

Whether you're looking for consulting support, want to be a podcast guest, or are curious about our technology — we'd love to hear from you.