Applestone Consulting provides fractional executive services and strategic project support for people operations. Since 2020, we’ve worked with pre-seed through series C companies in the climate space, supporting them on everything from recruiting to org design to culture strategy. We focus on people operations for climate tech because we believe it’s critical to the future of humanity.
Your company will inspire the world. Applestone Consulting makes sure that you get the people part right.
Hey there, I'm Danielle Applestone, a serial entrepreneur and Materials Science PhD in Berkeley, CA.
I’m driven to help startups scale by leveraging my incredible network and 20+ years of experience founding startups across multiple industries.
Through Applestone Consulting, I work as a fractional startup executive (COO, CPO), a thought-partner for CEOs on high-level strategic work, and a builder of people ops infrastructure for long term success.
Hi, I’m Joseph Wharton, a generalist who loves working on operations, project management, user and employee education, and content creation.
I manage client programs and run operations for Applestone Consulting.
My joy in work comes from empowering teams, setting up solid systems and structure, and executing on the incredible variety of people ops projects we encounter.
