WE BUILT THIS
BECAUSE GOOD ENOUGHwas costing everyone.
Do Better Consulting is a talent and career advisory firm for founders, talent leaders, and senior professionals who are done navigating real decisions with generic advice.
THE WORLD OF WORK
GOT TOO COMFORTABLEwith things that don't work.
Hiring that looks busy but breaks teams. Careers that look impressive but feel misaligned. Talent strategies that sound right in a presentation and fall apart in practice. Leadership advice that changes nothing.
Do Better was built to replace all of that with something more useful: honest diagnosis, real strategy, and the kind of direct conversation that most people in this industry have stopped having.
We work with founders who are scaling too fast on the wrong people. Talent leaders who know exactly what's broken and can't get anyone to listen. Senior professionals who have built real careers and somehow become invisible in a market that should be finding them.
The name is not accidental. Good enough is a choice — and we're not interested in making it.
"Most early-stage founders don't have a hiring problem. They have a growth architecture problem. Hiring is just where it shows up first."
ONE MANDATE.
EVERY ENGAGEMENT.Replace chaos with clarity.
Every engagement — whether it's a founder rebuilding their hiring process, a talent leader trying to get leadership aligned, or a senior professional rebuilding their market presence — runs on the same principle. We don't recycle frameworks. We don't deliver decks that live in folders. We diagnose what's actually broken and build what actually fixes it.
HONEST DIAGNOSIS
We tell you what we actually see — not what's comfortable to say. If the problem isn't what you think it is, we say that. If the solution is simpler than you expected, we say that too.
REAL STRATEGY
Not a template applied to your situation. Not a framework built for someone else's org chart. Strategy that's specific to your stage, your goals, and the actual constraints you're working inside.
DIRECT CONVERSATION
The uncomfortable truth is usually the one nobody's said yet. That's the conversation we're built for. Every session, every engagement, every call — we say the thing.
Desiree Goldey
Founder & CEO, Do Better Consulting
Serving clients in Austin, TX and remotely across the United States.
Desiree Goldey doesn't believe in hiring for hiring's sake. She believes in building the systems that make great hiring inevitable.
Based in Austin, Texas, Desiree Goldey has spent nearly a decade doing the work most organizations don't realize they need until it's too late — building the recruiting infrastructure, operational frameworks, and people strategies that allow high-growth companies to scale without losing what made them worth joining.
That work has a track record behind it. She has led teams of 50+ recruiters across 40+ client accounts, delivered 18 executive placements in six months, increased recruiter productivity by 30%, and improved first-year retention by 32%. Not through luck or hustle — through deliberate system design. She has worked with organizations from Series B startups to $200M+ global talent advisory firms across SaaS, healthcare, finance, and GTM.
She currently serves as a Senior Consultant at HR Data Labs and a strategic advisor to RoundOne.ai — an AI-powered candidate screening platform built to bring consistency, speed, and human-centered intelligence to the first round of hiring. Her advisory work sits at the intersection of talent strategy and responsible technology: helping organizations adopt tools that augment human judgment rather than replace it.
She co-hosts the Talentless podcast — unscripted, honest conversations with recruiting and HR leaders about what it actually takes to build talent functions that work. She is also a contributing author in My Life, My Legacy, a published anthology rooted in the belief that the most powerful leadership starts with personal truth.
Do Better Consulting is an extension of everything she's built and observed and fixed. The name says it plainly: there is a better way to hire, a better way to lead, and a better way to show up in a market that isn't seeing you clearly. That's the work.
Outcomes from client engagements across pre-seed startups to $200M+ organizations — built through deliberate system design, not luck or hustle.
DIRECT.
INCLUSIVE.
Unafraid to say the thing.
Do Better has always been a vocal, unapologetic advocate for inclusive hiring, equitable leadership, and workplaces that are designed to work for the people inside them — not just the people at the top.
That's not a marketing position. It's the reason the firm exists. The same clarity we bring to hiring strategy and career positioning, we bring to the harder conversations about who gets seen, who gets hired, and who gets to lead.
We work with the whole picture — not just the process.
- — 2024 Top HR Innovator
- — Brainz Magazine Executive Contributor
- — Most Inclusive HR Influencer Designation
- — Talentless Podcast — Co-host
- — RoundOne.ai — Strategic Advisor
- — HR Data Labs — Senior Consultant
- — My Life, My Legacy — Contributing Author
DIRECT. INCLUSIVE.Unafraid to say the thing.
DEIB at Do Better isn't a policy. It's the reason the firm exists. We build hiring systems that evaluate people on what they can actually do — not on proxies or the comfort of familiarity.
Remote first. Flexible by design. No midnight emails, no manufactured urgency. We model the workplace culture we advise our clients to build.
We hold ourselves to the same criteria we hold our clients to. Honest, consistent, accountable — or we haven't earned the right to advise anyone else.