Augmented HR Consulting · California Community Colleges

Your HR team, augmented.

Gable Tucker builds AI tools for community college HR departments and trains HR and classified staff to use them — a progressive path from first prompt to custom tools running in your district's own AI environment, led by a consultant who has sat on your side of the desk.

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The AI Practice

A progressive path, not a one-day workshop

Most AI training ends when the trainer leaves. Gable Tucker takes your HR department and classified staff through three stages — each one building on the last — until your team is working with tools built for your district, in the AI environment your college already has.

Prompting Foundations

Hands-on training in AI prompting for HR professionals and classified staff — practical sessions built around the real documents and tasks your team handles every day, plus clear guidance on where AI helps and where it shouldn't be used.

Building GPTs & Agents

Your staff learn to create their own custom GPTs and AI agents — reusable assistants for recurring HR work like drafting correspondence, summarizing files, and preparing routine documents — so the gains stay after the training ends.

Specialized Custom Tools

Side-by-side assistance designing and building specialized tools for your district's specific needs — created inside whatever AI environment your college has access to, so they fit your security, licensing, and governance requirements.

Built, not just taught

AI Tools for Community College HR

Gable Tucker also builds ready-to-use AI tools designed specifically for the community college HR environment — shaped by two decades of doing the underlying work by hand.

Purpose-built for CCC realities: merit systems, CBAs, Title 5, Ed. Code
Tools for employee relations, classification, and day-to-day HR workflows
Deployed in your district's own AI environment

Consulting Services

The traditional work, done well

Alongside the AI practice, Gable Tucker delivers the consulting services districts have always needed — informed by years of writing and administering the policies and studies themselves.

Classification & Compensation Studies

Market-based compensation analysis and classification review designed for merit-system and non-merit districts alike.

Total compensation & benchmarking studies
Internal equity and salary-structure analysis
Classification descriptions and studies

Process & Policy Consulting

Modernizing the policies, procedures, and systems HR runs on.

Board policy & administrative procedure drafting and updates
HR process review and workflow improvement
HR technology and case-management implementation support

About the Founder

Richard von Kolen, J.D.

Founder & Principal

Richard von Kolen has spent more than 21 years in California public higher education human resources, with senior roles across all three systems — the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges. He most recently served as Associate Vice President of Human Resources for Long Beach Community College District, and before that as Director of Employee & Labor Relations for the Los Angeles Community College District, the largest community college district in the nation.

His career includes negotiating nine collective bargaining agreements and numerous MOUs, resolving more than 100 grievances, authoring dozens of board policies and administrative procedures, and leading HR technology implementations. Most recently, he has built AI tools designed specifically for the community college HR environment and trained HR and classified staff in AI prompting, custom GPT creation, and workflow redesign — the practice that led him to found Gable Tucker.

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