Turning your people strategy into measurable results.
From embedded HR partnerships for growing SMEs to strategic advisory for enterprises and PE-backed portfolio companies. We build the people engine that drives your business forward.
Building the people engine for enterprises, scale-ups and PE-backed companies
We sit alongside CEOs, founders, CHROs and PE operating partners as their trusted people partner. Not as auditors. Not as report-writers. As builders, embedded into the leadership team for the duration of the work, owning outcomes alongside our clients.
Organisation Design and Workforce Strategy
Operating model, structure, role design, span of control, headcount planning, and workforce strategy aligned to the business plan. Particularly relevant for PE-backed portfolio companies executing value creation plans and businesses restructuring post-M&A or pre-exit.
Executive and Leadership Development
Executive assessment, succession planning, board effectiveness reviews, executive coaching, and bespoke leadership programmes, accredited where appropriate (ILM, CIPD, AC, EMCC) and always grounded in the realities of the business.
People Strategy and HR Transformation
HR operating model design, digital transformation, employer brand, total reward strategy, talent acquisition transformation, and the systems and processes that make people strategy operationally deliverable at scale.
Culture and Change
Culture diagnostics, values activation, change architecture for transformation programmes, post-acquisition integration, and the leadership behaviours that make culture real. Grounded in evidence-based business psychology.
Learning and Capability
Learning and Development, our bespoke programme design and delivery practice. Leadership cohorts, technical capability academies, manager-as-coach programmes, and apprenticeship-levy-funded pathways where they fit the strategic objective.
Connecting the pillars
The most valuable engagements connect two or three pillars into one programme: an organisation redesign that lands a new leadership team, supported by a culture programme and a leadership academy. That is the work that genuinely moves the business.
Discuss your needs →Stay compliant. Build the business.
Embedded HR partnership for growing UK businesses of 20-250 staff. Senior HR practitioners who embed into your business on a fractional or retained basis, strategic when it matters, operational when it counts, and always available when something goes wrong.
Employment law, Right to Work, IR35, UK GDPR, policies
Employment Law and ERB Readiness
Full review and rebuild of employment contracts, offer letters, statements of particulars, and policy frameworks against the Employment Rights Act and the Employment Rights Bill changes. We close the gaps that surface at Tribunal, during ACAS Early Conciliation, and in commercial due diligence.
Right to Work and Immigration
Independent audits of your Right to Work check process, share codes, document retention, follow-up checks. Sponsor licence support, salary threshold reviews, and the practical process changes that establish your statutory excuse and keep it intact.
Payroll, IR35 and HMRC Compliance
Payroll compliance reviews, off-payroll working determinations, National Minimum Wage audits, holiday pay calculations post-Harpur Trust, and auto-enrolment pension compliance that quietly fails in two-thirds of growing businesses.
Equality, Diversity and UK GDPR
Equality Act compliance, reasonable adjustments, harassment investigations under the new positive duty, gender pay gap reporting, and UK GDPR alignment, privacy notices, DPIAs, subject access request processes, and employee data governance.
Policy and Handbook Development
Employee handbooks, grievance and disciplinary procedures, family-friendly policies, flexible and hybrid working policies, whistleblowing, anti-bullying, equal opportunities, modern slavery statements. ACAS Code-aligned and written in plain English.
Compliance Health Check
Our most common entry point: a fixed-fee, two-week diagnostic that surfaces every material risk across employment law, Right to Work, payroll, data protection and policies, and prices the fix. Clear findings, clear next steps.
Book a Health Check →The practical, daily infrastructure that keeps people productive
Employee Lifecycle
Onboarding, probation reviews, contract changes, internal moves, settlement agreements, exits, handled cleanly, documented properly.
Performance Management
Annual review frameworks, objective-setting, performance improvement plans, capability and probation reviews under the new Bill rules.
Employee Relations
Grievances, disciplinary cases, investigations, ACAS early conciliation, settlement agreements, handled discreetly and within the law.
Reward and Benefits
Salary benchmarking, bonus design, equity and EMI schemes, benefits review, pay gap analysis.
HR Systems and Process
HRIS selection (BambooHR, HiBob, Personio, Workday), digital file management, leave tracking, reporting dashboards.
TUPE, Restructure and M&A
Pre-deal HR diligence, TUPE consultations, redundancy programmes, integration planning, the high-stakes work where mistakes are most expensive.
Flexible commercial structures that fit your stage
Compliance Health Check
First-time engagement; pre-audit; pre-investment; pre-deal. Two-week fixed-scope diagnostic that surfaces every material risk and prices the fix.
Retained HR Partnership
Businesses of 20-150 staff needing day-to-day HR. Monthly retainer, rolling agreement. Your dedicated senior consultant, embedded and available.
Fractional HR Director
Scaling businesses needing senior strategic input. 1-2 days per week, minimum 3 months. Embedded into the executive team, reporting to CEO.
Project and Advisory Days
Specific compliance, restructure or M&A projects. Fixed-scope or day-rate engagement. Senior expertise for defined deliverables.
Embedded Transformation Programme
Multi-pillar programmes: org redesign, leadership academy, culture change, HR transformation. 6-24 month embedded delivery with quarterly governance.
Fractional Chief People Officer
Scale-ups and mid-market enterprises needing CPO-level expertise without the full-time cost. 1-3 days per week, minimum 6 months. Reports to CEO.
Your HR function should be identifying risks early
Learn why proactive risk identification is the most valuable thing your HR function can do, and how a strategic HR partner helps you stay ahead of issues before they become problems.
Compliance is the cheapest insurance you will ever buy.
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