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Fractional Chief People Officer

Executive-level HR expertise without the full-time commitment

As your business scales, the stakes rise, and your team expands rapidly, people challenges begin to consume more of your executive team’s time than actual business strategy. 


To navigate this, you require high-level expertise, but you may not yet be prepared for a full-time executive role. What you need is an experienced Chief People Officer (CPO) who can help shape your people strategy in alignment with your commercial goals— embedded on a regular cadence with the flexibility to suit your needs. 


As a Fractional CPO and Strategic HR Consultant with a background in world-class organisations such as Formula 1, Dyson, Boden, and DHL, I adapt my expertise to fit the agile demands of ambitious mid-sized companies.  I step into your business to build your people infrastructure and partner with your leadership team to drive commercial success. 

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What I Offer

Fractional CPO

Senior HR expertise without the high full-time cost

You get experienced, executive-level leadership only for the hours or days your business actually needs.


Flexible support that scales with your business 

You can easily increase or decrease your HR support as your company goals and budgets change.


An objective view on your company culture

An outside perspective helps you see blind spots, improve team dynamics, and align your team with your business goals.


Trusted advisor for your current leaders

Your senior team gets an experienced partner to help them manage difficult people situations and lead with confidence.

Strategic Advisor

Optimising leadership team effectiveness

Group workshops and alignment sessions designed to improve communication, fix fractured team dynamics, and build high-trust leadership teams.


Transforming internal HR capability

Evaluating and reshaping your current HR team structure, processes, and systems to ensure they actively support your wider commercial strategy. 


Designing impactful culture strategies

Mapping out the specific leadership behaviours, corporate values, and internal structures needed to align your workplace culture with business goals. 


Building scalable talent frameworks

Creating clear career progression pathways, succession plans, and retention strategies to protect your competitive advantage. 

Executive Coach

Accelerating personal and professional growth

Giving leaders a confidential space to explore their capabilities, challenge blind spots, build greater self-awareness and reach their full performance potential. 


Navigating leadership role transitions

Supporting professionals as they step into new roles, helping them manage expanded responsibilities and establish early credibility. 


Improving team dynamics through team coaching

Providing shared frameworks to resolve communication gaps, building high-trust, cohesive, and collaborative working units.


Continuous real-time application

A series of structured conversations to unpack workplace challenges, building practical tools you can immediately apply to drive team performance.

How I Add Value

CEO Advisory

Organisation Effectiveness

Organisation Effectiveness

Think of me as a confidential sounding board and experienced strategic partner for you and your key leaders, to ensure your entire executive team operates at its absolute best. 


Together, we will map out future company structures and capabilities required as you scale, smoothly manage high-stakes transitions, and—when complex, sensitive people challenges arise—we will work out options, resolve them, and ensure clear, careful communication back to the business. 

Organisation Effectiveness

Organisation Effectiveness

Organisation Effectiveness

It’s not easy ensuring that your teams are set up to achieve their goals, but gosh it is important. Think of this service as a health check for your company structure. 


By looking at where people might be stepping on each other's toes, we can clear up who owns what and break down silos between departments that cause inefficiency. From there, we figure out what skills are missing and build straightforward talent development and performance plans  so everyone knows exactly what winning looks like  

Commercial People Strategy

Organisation Effectiveness

Commercial People Strategy

Sometimes your existing HR team just needs a little extra firepower. By partnering with them as a mentor, we tackle the biggest challenges and elevate their strategic impact from the inside out. 


Together, we’ll strip out the clunky processes slowing you down and ensure your HR tech actually works for you. By designing practical initiatives around culture, talent, and engagement, we will build a lightweight, high-performance environment where your people can genuinely do their best work.  

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER - 3 Flexible Models

Fractional CPO

Perfect for growing businesses undergoing rapid headcount expansion, cultural dilution, or operational bottlenecks


The Cadence: 

1 to 2 days per week


What’s Included:

  • Active membership in your Executive Leadership Team meetings.
  • Lead and deliver strategy priorities such as organisational design, talent strategy or leadership effectiveness.
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Perfect for growing businesses undergoing rapid headcount expansion, cultural dilution, or operational bottlenecks


The Cadence: 

1 to 2 days per week


What’s Included:

  • Active membership in your Executive Leadership Team meetings.
  • Lead and deliver strategy priorities such as organisational design, talent strategy or leadership effectiveness.
  • Implementation of HR transformation including operating model and lightweight tech ecosystems to automate admin. and improve service.
  • Direct leadership of your people function to scale up team capability and capacity.


Best For: 

Scale-ups needing an experienced executive to build a permanent, high-performance engine.

Strategic Advisor

Perfect for CEOs who need an executive sounding board, guidance for leaders, and/or mentorship for HR


The Cadence: 

1 to 2 days per month


What’s Included:

  • Direct monthly strategic review sessions with the CEO/Founder.
  • Executive coaching and capability building for your internal HR Manager/Director.
  • On-demand advice on sensitive leadership chall

Perfect for CEOs who need an executive sounding board, guidance for leaders, and/or mentorship for HR


The Cadence: 

1 to 2 days per month


What’s Included:

  • Direct monthly strategic review sessions with the CEO/Founder.
  • Executive coaching and capability building for your internal HR Manager/Director.
  • On-demand advice on sensitive leadership challenges, restructures, or team effectiveness. 


Best For: 

Companies with a functional HR team that would benefit from senior commercial direction.

Executive Coach

Executive Coach

Perfect for investment in key leaders to unlock their performance potential and strengthen the leadership team.


The Cadence: 

Tailored programme (3-6 months)


What’s Included:

  • High-impact, 1-on-1 coaching to up-skill key leaders and prepare them for rapid scale.
  • Leadership Alignment - bridge gaps between business strategy and company culture.
  • Gu

Perfect for investment in key leaders to unlock their performance potential and strengthen the leadership team.


The Cadence: 

Tailored programme (3-6 months)


What’s Included:

  • High-impact, 1-on-1 coaching to up-skill key leaders and prepare them for rapid scale.
  • Leadership Alignment - bridge gaps between business strategy and company culture.
  • Guide the executive team on behavioural improvements to build team cohesion and trust.


Best For: 

Fast-growing teams experiencing culture dilution, or businesses navigating critical leadership transitions.

Empowering people and organisations to navigate transformation with clarity, confidence and purpose.

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