G&C Glover & Co.
About · Glover & Co.

The practice is new. The work behind it isn't.

I'm Erin Glover. I spent thirteen years inside HR departments watching good businesses strain against structure they'd outgrown — and I started this practice to get to them earlier.

SHRM-SCP 13 years in-house Hartford, CT Fifty states
Erin Glover, founder of Glover & Co., smiling, in front of a wall of bookshelves.
Erin Glover · Founder & Principal
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Three very different companies, one recurring problem.

I've built HR inside a manufacturer, a lender growing fast enough to be acquired, and a Fortune 500 insurer. Different industries, different sizes, different decades of history — and underneath, the same thing kept surfacing. The structure had stopped matching the business, and nobody had noticed until it started costing people.

That's the work I do now, on purpose and from the outside, before it gets expensive.

LegrandManufacturing

Plant floors, shift work, and long-tenured teams. Where I learned that a policy nobody can follow at 6 a.m. on a Tuesday isn't a policy — it's a liability with nice formatting.

Cardinal FinancialLending · through acquisition

High growth, then an acquisition. I watched what happens to roles, reporting lines, and morale when two structures are pushed together quickly. Most of what I know about integration, I learned here.

TravelersFortune 500 insurance

Scale, rigor, and the discipline of doing things defensibly. It's where I sharpened the diagnostic habit — asking what's actually causing this before anyone redraws a single box.

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I grew up here, left for eight years, and came back on purpose.

Born in Waterbury. Moved to Simsbury in 1994, to a house my parents still live in. UConn, class of 2013 — my dad got there first, class of 1980, and wore the tie to prove it.

Then Charlotte, for eight years. That's where I met Andrew, who is from Georgia and had opinions about Connecticut before he'd ever set foot in it. We moved back in 2022. He's since been to Pepe's, developed an appreciation for a New England fall, and the rest is history.

The leaving matters as much as the coming back. I know what this state looks like from outside it, and I chose it anyway. When I say I want to work with Connecticut businesses, it isn't because they're the ones nearby. It's because they're the ones I came home for.

Erin in cap and gown at her 2013 UConn graduation with her father, who is wearing a UConn Huskies tie.
UConn, 2013. My dad beat me there by thirty-three years — class of 1980 — and dressed accordingly.
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Before I wrote the policies, I worked under them.

My first job was the TJ Maxx in Granby. Later there was LOFT, and years of serving — Friendly's in Avon, Outback, a restaurant on campus at UConn.

So I've been the person the schedule happened to. I've been coached by someone who was handed a management job with no preparation and no support, and who was doing their honest best with none of the tools. That wasn't their failure. Nobody had built anything underneath them.

That's the thesis of this whole practice, and I learned it from the receiving end. Most people problems in a small business aren't people problems. They're structure problems wearing a person's face.

It's also why the Concierge exists at $149 a month. Not every business that needs real HR can fund a project, and I wasn't willing to build a practice that only shows up for the ones that can.

The owner of a fifteen-person shop deserves the same quality of thinking as a company with a people team.

See what's in the Concierge →
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The rest of it, since you're here.

Four cats, all rescues. Three came through CT Cat Connection in Windsor — a no-kill shelter run entirely by volunteers, placing something like four hundred cats a year. If you're looking for a cat, start there. I'll happily talk your ear off about it. The fourth is Phoebe, who I adopted down in North Carolina and who made the drive north with us.

Andrew and I spend most weekends somewhere small and local. A brewery in New Britain, an inn in Litchfield, dinner somewhere with a tin ceiling. I am a serious and slightly unreasonable person about pizza. These are the businesses I'm talking about when I talk about Connecticut businesses — I'm in them constantly.

Three cats posed on the stairs — a black-and-white tuxedo, a calico stretched across a step, and a calico sitting at the bottom.
The three we adopted from CT Cat Connection, holding the stairs. Phoebe, our fourth, came home with us from North Carolina and declined to be photographed.
Erin and Andrew at Alvarium Beer Co. in New Britain, brewing tanks behind them.
Alvarium Beer Co. in New Britain. Andrew's shirt is a cat in space, which tells you most of what you need to know about our house.
Erin and Andrew at The Abner Hotel in Litchfield, in a room with mustard-yellow walls.
The Abner in Litchfield. Most of our weekends look roughly like this one — somewhere small, somewhere in Connecticut.
Erin and Andrew at The Laurel, under pressed-tin ceilings and schoolhouse pendant lights.
Birthday dinner at The Laurel. Pressed tin, good light, worth the reservation.
Erin and Andrew in a booth at Frank Pepe's with a mushroom and sausage pizza between them, Andrew holding up a slice.
Pepe's. Andrew is from Georgia and wore a Panthers shirt to a Connecticut landmark, which I've decided to forgive. He's a convert now — that took one pie.

If any of that sounds like someone you'd want in your corner, let's talk.

No pitch and no pressure — just a real conversation about what you're dealing with. I'd rather ask you questions than assume I already know the answer.

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