THE ENTRY POINT

Advisory Call

Ninety minutes on one decision, plus a written one page recommendation within 48 hours. The options, the trade-offs, and the traps. £650, fixed.

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THE CORE WORK

Diagnostic

A structured read of what is actually happening inside your organisation. What the culture rewards, what it tolerates, where trust has broken, and whether the change you are planning will hold. Scoped and priced per engagement.

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BACKGROUND

Seventeen years

Seven years as People Director in a complex regulated infrastructure business. Restructures, workforce redesign, TUPE, M&A and divestments in a heavily unionised environment, alongside a multi-year HR transformation including an award winning Oracle HCM implementation.Before that, ten years across public health and retail, including executive reward, succession and governance through Remuneration and Nomination Committees, and leading large service organisations through sustained change.Most of that time was spent on decisions that could not easily be reversed, with people who had to live with the consequences.I now work independently, on the problems I find interesting rather than running a function.

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WHO I WORK WITH

Situations, not job titles

Founder-led businesses making decisions they have not made before. Mid-market organisations going through structural change. Boards that want an independent read on an acquisition before they commit to it.Sometimes that is a first senior hire, a first team structure, opening a second site, or handling a downturn without wrecking what has been built. New to most leadership teams. Not new to me.The title varies. Usually the CEO, MD or FD. Sometimes the HR or people director, bringing in design and diagnostic capability their own team is not built for.

HOW IT WORKS

Short and finite

Time bound engagements with a defined end. No retainers, no programme, no ongoing HR function. I diagnose, recommend, and hand it back to you. Where you need hands to deliver it, I will point you at people I would use myself.

THE APPROACH

Plainly put

You get what I actually think, in writing, including the parts that are awkward. Most of the value is in naming the real problem rather than the one you were told about.