Meet our talented team

We're Here to Set You Up for Success from Day One

Our team of HR strategy, people growth experts, and compensation gurus are ready to serve as your trusted thought partner, figuring out all things HR and employment law related.

We partner with you to build the think bridge between your business strategy and people strategy. We can't wait to work with you!

  • Missy Fulton
    Founder & CEO

    Missy Fulton is a creative global employer lawyer and strategic HR senior executive. She has dedicated her career to help dynamic businesses grow by creating that fourth leg of the table to solidify the business foundation. Having “seen it all” between government, private and public corporations and startups, Missy has a unique and vast array of knowledge about what works and doesn’t work for emerging companies to partner with any organization to set them up for success, get them out of systemic troubles, mitigate the risks going forward, and proactively plan for future growth. Missy holds a BA, summa cum laude, in Communications/Marketing from Suffolk University and her JD from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and 3 children. Missy enjoys kayaking and hiking, and is an avid home chef and creative mixologist.

    Missy is an Ambassador to American Cancer Society's ResearcHERS campaign to raise funds to support women scientists finding a cure for cancer. In addition, she is a member of the New England Women in Science (NEWISE) and volunteers as a business mentor for C-Sweetener, a not-for-profit mentoring platform dedicated to connecting female leaders on the path to the healthcare C-Suite, and Women In Bio's MAPS program providing mentorship for women in life sciences. Missy has curated an incredible network of trusted advisors through her partnership with CHIEF and ProVisors.

    Chameleon Strategies is founded on the core understanding that each organization evolves in its own distinct way. Understanding that distinction, Chameleon Strategies' offerings are highly adaptable, provide the flexibility, growth opportunities, and thought partnering to pivot talent management and people strategy needs based on a company's ever-changing business needs.

    Check Out Missy being recognized on LinkedIn's 5.27.2022 #FollowFriday: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robynaddis_followfriday-activity-6935958036675010560-6tFg?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web

    Check out Missy's recent interview with Ramani Varansi and Lioness Magazine: https://lionessmagazine.com/lioness-innovators-missy-fulton-thinks-you-need-a-people-strategy-now/

    And with Ben Geohegan: https://getmorehrclients.com/blog/growing-an-hr-business-in-the-us-qa-with-missy-fulton/

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    Megan Roth
    Strategic HR Advisor

    Megan Roth is a highly experienced and organized professional with experience in multiple industries including biotechnology, information technology, and the performing arts. She has 18 years of experience in successfully operationalizing startup companies, both in the profit and nonprofit sectors. Megan’s range of experience spans the areas of operations, program and project management, building strategic partnerships, and executive administration. She is passionate about working in dynamic and engaging startup companies and is driven by the desire to help companies build and grow. Her strengths lie in her ability to look at a process and envision ways to make that process as efficient as possible. Megan takes great pleasure in helping executives make the most of their time, so they excel in their work and not be bogged down by process. Her unique skill set comes from a varied and rewarding career as a professional musician. She has also been a freelance singer for the past 12 years, has run a successful music lessons studio for 17 years, and developed a non-profit performing arts organization, now entering its 7th season.

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    Anita Thomas
    Senior HR Strategy Advisor

    Anita is an experienced HR professional with over 15 years of working across multiple sectors including biotech, healthcare, education, social services, and transportation organizations. Anita’s strengths include collaborating with management and employees to provide a supportive working environment to both leadership and team members. Having received her Juris Doctor in Law, Anita is uniquely qualified to handle employment and labor law matters as well as HR strategy. Anita prefers to work with small organizations to assist in setting up HR processes, culture and provide direction as organizations scale and grow. Anita’s strengths include working with management and employees to provide a supportive work environment. From an operational standpoint, Anita has extensive experience in compliance audits, handbook and policy creation, leave and benefit administration and employee relations, as well as process improvement and full cycle recruiting. Anita’s holds her JD from Suffolk University Law School and is a certified Professional in Human Resources from HRCI.

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    Cheryl Lake
    Strategic HR Advisor

    Cheryl has over 30 years of human resources management experience. As either Head of HR or Head of Compensation and Benefits departments, Cheryl has been responsible for the full depth and breadth of people needs, from market valuations, performance management, to employee relations and training and development. She has designed and implemented world-wide compensation structures, programs, and policies, well as designed Total Rewards and benefits packages, including bonus and equity programs. In addition to her Masters in Organizational Behavior, she has been a Certified Compensation Professional through World at Work for over 25 years, and SPHR certified through the Society for Human Resources.

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    Natalie Lentz
    Strategic HR Advisor

    Natalie has over 20 years of experience in many facets of Human Resources. She studied at Rutgers University, where she earned a dual Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Dance (via Mason Gross School of the Arts). After graduating Magna Cum Laude, she began her career, spanning several industries and locations. Along the way, she gained expertise in many functional areas of Human Resources, including a strong foundation in employee relations. She has built and led HR departments through the business life-cycle, with a hands-on and strategic approach.

    Smart, creative, thoughtful and unpretentious, Natalie utilizes her natural strategic mindset to synthesize information and connect dots. This allows for clarity in improving system and workflow efficiency, as well as, positive workplace culture transformation.

    As a Philadelphia native, Natalie worked and lived in the tri-state area most of her life. Then, she was introduced to the beautiful and welcoming Eastern Shore of Maryland. In 2017, she relocated there with her family. In her spare time, Natalie loves to sail, paddleboard and offer dance/yoga wellness class instruction in her community.

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    Christine Wood
    Strategic HR Advisor

    Christine has over 15 years of global compensation strategy and design experience spanning executive, board and broad-based compensation. Christine has worked within organizations as a human resources leader across total rewards, equity administration, business partnerships and HR operations with a broad spectrum of industry experience including biotech, financial services and technology. Her experience as an advisor includes Board Committee advisory, compensation philosophy definition, organization compensation framework development, short and long-term incentive plans, equity grant policy and guidelines, participant program communications, severance and retention programs. Christine is a graduate of the University of Arizona, a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), a Certified Equity Professional (CEP), and is a member of WorldatWork and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP).

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    Daniel Wellner, HR Intern

    Hailing from Pennsylvania (just outside of Philly), Daniel Wellner has joined the Chameleon Strategies team as an HR intern. A junior at Vassar College, Danny is majoring in Psychology with a minor in Education. He has a passion for all things human resources/people related, driven by his desire to understand people and develop strategies that enhance employee engagement and organizational success. At Chameleon Strategies, Danny leverages his psychology background to help streamline HR and talent acquisition processes, making them more efficient and scalable, as well as focusing on initiatives that boost employee engagement and reduce employee burnout, strengthening employer branding, and creating initiatives that make companies more attractive to recruit, retain, and reward talent in biotechs. Danny’s goal is to help design strategies that foster employee satisfaction while positioning companies for long-term success.

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO

At every position we’ve taken as senior HR leaders and employment counsel, we walked into costly messes that could have been prevented if there were a few critical things in place to set the company up for success.

We walked into some near disasters as well, such as misclassified employees at time of hire causing huge cost overruns, out of compliance handbooks creating real time legal risk, employee leaves of absence being mishandled affording employees false legal protection, outside legal counsel who took their eye off the ball and generated risk, or variable compensation plans that demotivated literally everyone on the management team who wasn’t included.

In each of these situations the challenges could have been prevented with knowledgeable HR and legal partnering with the business leaders.

Early to mid-stage life sciences and high tech leaders recognize a significant gap in their important business foundation -- the smart, legal and efficient way to build their human capital infrastructure without investing in in-house HR or overpriced employment lawyers.

To address this critical need, we launched Chameleon Strategies, LLC a unique Consulting Practice offering Real Time On-Demand senior level HR and Employment Law expertise specifically for Life Sciences Companies!

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