Miriam Rubin

Mar 19, 2025

Miriam has spent her career working in and with youth-serving organizations. She currently runs her own consulting firm, ezmay consulting, LLC where she supports organizations and the public sector in the following areas: priority and goal setting, change management, budget development and project planning, program implementation, change management, and strategic partnership building.

Prior to that, she served as the Budget Director for the Boston Public Schools, overseeing the development and management of the district’s $1.4 Billion operating budget. Previously, she led Boston Public Schools’ partnership work, coordinating with the 1000+ partner organizations supporting BPS to increase equitable access to high quality partnership opportunities.

Throughout her career, Miriam has developed expertise in supporting organizations to effectively scale their programs, design fee-for-service models, and strategically connect programmatic priorities with funding needs.

Rachel Platt

Mar 17, 2025

PLATTinum Consulting was founded by Rachel Platt in 2018. For over 20 years, Rachel has helped organizations and individuals achieve lasting success through strategic human resources leadership. Through her roles as a Chief Human Resources Officer, Vice President, and Regional Director in diverse corporate situations and industries, she has built her reputation based on her ability to develop pragmatic solutions to meet complex organizational and people challenges. Rachel creates relationships based on respect and a passion for challenging others to perform beyond expectations.

PLATTinum Consulting has the expertise to accelerate HR and human capital related projects in the areas of organizational design, employee engagement, leadership development, culture assessment and improvement, performance management, staff training, communications, talent acquisition, DEI/Belonging and employee coaching.

Select recent projects include:

• Culture assessment and focus groups to improve employee engagement
• Organization restructure to align with new strategic plan
• Facilitation of monthly manager/executive developmental training
• Creation of a performance management and rating calibration process
• Executive team alignment / leadership summit
• Launch of inclusion and belonging initiative that incorporates mental health and employee wellness
• Employee handbook revisions to align with regulatory changes and desired organizational culture
• Recruitment, interview, and selection process map for senior leadership hires
• Executive and career coaching

Rachel also serves as an external resource for several HR executives to implement best practices in handling complex HR processes or sensitive employee situations.

Rachel graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University with a Bachelor of Business Administration.  She has also attended Executive Education coursework at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Rachel is a both SHRM-SCP and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certified and is certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE.)  She is co-chair of the education committee for the Inclusion Allies Coalition and is an active member of Society for Human Resource Management.