Francisca I. Foye, MBA

Francisca I. Foye is the founder of Massilva Consulting, a strategic HR and people advisory firm based in Franklin, Massachusetts, where she helps growing, multi-state organizations build and scale their people functions. She founded the firm approximately six years ago, drawing on more than a decade of experience leading HR across startups and expanding organizations. Throughout her career, Francisca has held senior HR leadership roles, including Director and Vice President positions, giving her broad experience guiding companies through growth, operational change, and increasingly complex people needs.

Her background includes leading HR for remote and distributed organizations, modernizing people operations, implementing HR technology, strengthening leadership practices, and helping companies build more scalable infrastructure. These experiences shaped the practical, hands-on approach she brings to Massilva’s clients today.

Francisca believes the strongest organizations treat HR as a core business function, not simply an administrative one. Through Massilva, she partners with founders and executive teams to align people strategy with business goals, standardize operations, strengthen compliance, and build the foundations needed for sustainable growth. Her work spans scalable people operations, leadership development, recruiting strategy, multi-state compliance, HR technology implementation, AI-enabled solutions, and post-acquisition integration.

At the heart of Francisca’s practice is a commitment to modernizing how organizations think about HR. She helps companies transform the people function into a strategic advantage, one that equips leaders with better insight, strengthens the employee experience, and supports stronger business decisions. Her work is especially impactful in organizations that are building a formal HR function for the first time or have outgrown the systems and processes that once supported them.

Francisca holds an MBA with a concentration in Organizational Leadership from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration in Human Resources Management at National University, and writing her dissertation on the influence of employee engagement in remote working companies.

Beyond her professional work, Francisca is guided by a belief in action over perfection, a mindset she shares with women entering the industry and aspiring entrepreneurs. She encourages others to move forward with their ideas, remain open to learning, and avoid allowing endless planning to stand in the way of meaningful progress.

Looking ahead, Francisca is committed to helping organizations reimagine HR as a strategic driver of business success while expanding Massilva Consulting’s impact across growing companies in the United States and beyond. Outside of work, Francisca enjoys spending time with her family and creating lasting memories with her daughter. She especially loves New England summers, whether exploring coastal towns, visiting local beaches, discovering parks and farmers’ markets, or simply enjoying time outdoors together.