HR Compliance & Policies
Employee handbooks, policy development, and HR audits that help you stay on top of federal and state employment law — wage & hour, paid leave, FAMLI, Equal Pay, and more.
Grand Junction, Colorado
Practical HR for growing businesses.
Two Rivers Employment & Consulting helps growing companies hire well, stay compliant, and build workplaces people don’t want to leave — without the overhead of a full HR department.
What we do
From your first hire to your toughest conversation.
Ongoing fractional HR support or one-time projects — scoped to fit small and mid-sized businesses.
Recruiting & Hiring
Job descriptions, compliant postings, candidate screening, structured interviews, and onboarding plans that set new hires up to succeed — and to stay.
Training & Development
Manager fundamentals, harassment prevention, and leadership development — delivered in plain language your team will actually put to work.
Employee Relations & Investigations
Impartial workplace investigations, conflict resolution, and performance management support for the moments when situations get complicated.
Why Two Rivers
Two rivers. One confluence.
Grand Junction sits where the Gunnison meets the Colorado. We took our name from that confluence because it’s a good picture of employment done right: the needs of a business and the people who power it, flowing in the same direction.
We’re rooted in Grand Junction, and it shapes how we work — practical, personal, and plain-spoken. Employment law moves fast wherever you operate, and what works for a big-city enterprise rarely fits a growing business. We bring right-sized, plain-language HR to teams wherever they call home.
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Compliance expertise
Employment-law compliance knowledge across federal and state lines, from the FLSA to Colorado’s FAMLI — applied to how your business actually works.
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Right-sized support
Fractional HR that scales with you. Get the function without the full-time salary.
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Plain language
No jargon, no boilerplate. Advice you can hand to a manager and see used the same day.
Who you’ll work with
Meet Michelle.
Michelle Olson, SHRM-CP · Founder & CEO
Michelle’s career began with helping people find work — guiding service members, military spouses, and veterans into civilian careers, then helping neighbors at the Mesa County Workforce Center get back to work. That start set her compass: better workplaces, for employees and employers alike.
Over fifteen years, almost all in Western Colorado, she has done HR from nearly every angle — recruiting for a fast-growing manufacturer, coaching supervisors on a plant floor, partnering with managers at city hall, then leading a five-person team supporting 750-plus employees across 11 sites. She has built policies from scratch, brought six entities onto one HR system, and worked through acquisitions, layoffs, and plenty of hard conversations — all while helping employers stay on top of employment law.
Michelle founded Two Rivers Employment & Consulting to bring that experience to small and mid-sized businesses: seasoned, fractional HR support without the cost of a full HR department. She holds a master’s degree in Human Resources from Colorado Christian University, is SHRM-CP certified, and is a past president of SHRM Western Colorado, where she remains an active leader.
Get in touch
Let’s talk about your team.
Tell us what you’re working through — a hire, a handbook, a hard conversation — and we’ll map out the next step together.
Prefer email? info@tworiversgj.com — or
book a time directly.
Based in Grand Junction, Colorado — supporting clients on site and remotely, wherever you are.