How it works
The importance of your People function cannot be overstated. It is the engine of growth and competitive advantage. Finding the right executive to lead it, such as a fractional Chief People Officer (CPO), Chief of Staff, Head of Talent, or Head of Learning & Development, is a pivotal decision. Your people leader must not only understand the complexities of HR and Employment law but also act as a strategic partner who can scale your culture, optimise performance, and align talent with commercial outcomes.
Each of our fractional leaders brings a unique background, expertise, and different approach to leading businesses. We encourage you to check out their profiles below to find the perfect strategic fit.
Found the Right Fit?
If you've browsed our list and found a fractional whose profile and expertise align perfectly with your business needs, the next step is straightforward. Please get in touch via the contact form provided. We will then handle the initial arrangements and facilitate a prompt introduction between you and the chosen fractional executive to discuss your project.
Not sure what you're looking for?
If you're unsure exactly what role you need, or if you can't find the specific expertise you're looking for on our current list, don't worry. We are here to help you define your strategic gaps and find the perfect match. Book a call with our business advisor today. We will discuss your needs in detail and connect you with the ideal vetted talent from our broader, trusted network.
Introducing our people-focused fractionals
Meet with Steph
Chief People Officer
Chief People Officer
As a Fractional People Operations Leader, Steph partners with ambitious startup founders and executives to build high-performing, human-first cultures that drive business results. With deep expertise in people operations, organizational design, and leadership coaching, Steph empowers startups to scale from 10 to 500+ employees, helping teams grow effectively while maintaining clarity, agility, and cohesion. Steph’s approach is grounded in delivering measurable business outcomes. By implementing scalable talent acquisition frameworks, robust onboarding, and performance management systems, Steph accelerates hiring, reduces turnover, and boosts productivity, thus directly impacting the bottom line. Leveraging a “People as a Product” mindset, Steph crafts tailored people experiences and team operating systems that align with each company’s unique goals, ensuring every hire and process delivers maximum value. Whether supporting fast-scaling startups or resourceful bootstrapped teams, Steph brings practical solutions to every engagement. From designing lean hiring strategies and compliance checks to embedding culture and leadership development, Steph’s work is proven to reduce costs, mitigate risk, and increase revenue. Clients benefit from Steph’s ability to translate people initiatives into tangible ROI, using data and best practices to guide every decision.
Startups, Scaleup, SME. Steph partners with small businesses who are either navigating the challenges of rapid growth or seeking to strengthen how they work together (e.g the organization culture). She works with founders and leadership teams who want to scale operations efficiently, attract and retain top talent, and foster environments where collaboration and continuous learning drive business performance. Steph’s support is ideal for companies aiming to build resilient, high-performing teams and sustainable cultures that directly contribute to long-term business success.
Steph addresses the root causes of people and culture challenges that can slow down growth or create friction as companies scale. She designs and implements tailored people strategies; such as scalable hiring processes, clear role definitions, and effective onboarding that align with each organization’s objectives. By building robust team operating systems and embedding continuous learning, Steph helps eliminate inefficiencies, reduce turnover, and ensure teams are equipped to deliver their best work. Her People as a Product approach ensures every People initiative is purposeful, measurable, and directly supports the business.
From Steph:
My unique value proposition lies in my ability to integrate people-first leadership with strategic scaling. I prioritise creating workplaces where every team member thrives, ensuring that business success is built on a foundation of strong, engaged teams. As a cultural architect, I design operating systems that promote learning and growth, enabling teams and individuals to do their best work. I focus on agility, growth and improving human connection, ensuring businesses are future-ready. This way, I drive operational success, a thriving organisational culture and business success
Nium, Formalize, Chassis Autonomy, Nivoda, MythicHire, The 030 Holding Company
Meet with Laura
Chief People & Operations Officer
Chief People Operations Officer
As a CPOO (People & Ops), Laura partner with CEOs and business leaders to offer agile support in building resilient, data-led and future-ready companies. She has spent 17 years working across various businesses, from large FTSE 100 companies to exciting, fast-growing startups and scaleups. Her expertise spans operations functions, business process design, supply chain management, automation, change management, compliance, HR, payroll, and scaling high-performance teams and cultures. She is a strategic operator and transformation leader, delivering results through a combination of pragmatic execution and strategic foresight.
Laura works with businesses with revenue of £1-£25m who have ambitions to scale or are already scaling. These companies may already have an HR Manager or team in place, but lack the transparent, robust processes needed to empower the management team to lead and achieve the company's strategic objectives. If you notice people in your business are lacking accountability, avoiding difficult conversations and not performing to the best of their ability, Laura has just the tools you need.
Whether the goal is to turn around an underperforming team, grow an emerging function, or enhance business efficiency, Laura helps embed scalable infrastructure and drive sustainable growth without unnecessary complexity. This looks like Performance Excellence programmes that create continuous feedback loops, enable data-led decision-making, and ensure accountability across teams. Laura also supports businesses to streamline their operations by removing operational friction with system implementation and process mapping.
From Laura
What gets me out of bed in the morning is the messages I get from CEOs that say, "Thanks, this is exactly what we needed." I bring a fresh perspective to how businesses lead their teams and run their operations, implementing simple, yet incredibly effective processes within the HR and Operations functions. My goal: save your people time, create clarity for employees, which boosts productivity and eliminate overly ambitious or broken systems. The result: Managers are empowered to manage, Leaders are confident to lead, and CEOs finally have the data required to succeed
CoSourced, Emtec Climate Solutions, Tily Blooms, Connect Advisory Solutions, BeatzHire
Meet with Natalie
Chief People Officer
Chief People Officer
As a Fractional CPO and founder of Wired to Lead, Natalie partners with CEO's, founders and leadership teams to shape high-performing cultures, craft impactful people strategies, and develop confident, capable leaders. Her work blends neuroscience, behavioural insight, and product thinking to drive measurable business impact across leadership, performance, and organisational design. Drawing on 10+ years at Notonthehighstreet, a PE acquisition and PX transformation, she brings a rare combination of strategic clarity and hands-on execution. Natalie’s expertise spans leadership development, performance management, people infrastructure, capability building, and employee experience. She’s particularly skilled at translating business strategy into people systems that are practical, scalable, and deeply human. Whether building from scratch or evolving what’s already there, Natalie helps organisations move beyond surface-level culture and tick-box HR - delivering people strategies that actually work, and leaders who know how to lead.
Natalie partners with startups, SME's and scaling businesses (particularly across tech, professional services, and consumer sectors) who want to strengthen their people strategy, leadership capability, and culture to support sustainable growth.
People Strategy | Culture and Performance | Leadership Development and Coaching | Learning Design and Facilitation | People Ops/Tech Stack Modernisation | Org Design | Change Management
From Natalie:
I’m endlessly curious, a straight talker, and happiest when turning complex ideas into something people can actually use. I care deeply about doing meaningful work, and doing it with people who value both impact and integrity.
Notonthehighstreet | Littlemoons | Altima | Attraction tickets | Natalie is also a certified NeuroLeadership coach and accredited in both Insights Discovery and Gallup CliftonStrengths, bringing scientific rigour and self-awareness tools into her leadership and team development work
Meet with Emma
Head of Learning and Development
Head of Learning and Development
As a Fractional Learning & Development Specialist, Emma Hossack partners with startups, growing and established organisations to design and deliver agile people strategies that build resilient, high-performing, and future-ready teams. Her expertise spans leadership and management development, coaching, resilience, emotional intelligence, communication, change and wellbeing programmes, team dynamics, psychometric assessments, and the design of bespoke learning journeys that align with business goals. Emma delivers results through a blend of evidence-based practice and pragmatic execution, drawing upon her background in executive coaching, programme design, and facilitation across global organisations. Whether the aim is to accelerate leadership capability, strengthen team collaboration, or embed a culture of continuous growth, she helps organisations implement scalable learning solutions that drive performance, engagement, and long-term impact.
Emma has experience across many sectors and works with businesses that are serious about investing in their people and who want to understand and capitalise on the link between human sustainability and performance.
Emma Specialises in delivering bespoke leadership, first line manager, resilience and emotional intelligence programmes. Using psychometric testing on resilience, strengths and emotional intelligence, Emma can get under the hood of organisations and design programmes that will empower organisations to foster a culture of excellence.
From Emma:
I am a driven, passionate, fun and caring L&D specialist. I have a deep curiosity about us human beings, and what drives high performance. I am a continual learner who is highly motivated to deliver the best quality and to ensure that every touch point equals a shift and improvement. What you will get working with me is honesty, integrity, and a sprinkle of fun!
Warner Music Group, Eisai Pharmaceuticals, Prime Property Management, Bionical Health
Meet with Louise
Head of Talent and Leadership Development
Head of Talent and Leadership Development
As a Fractional Head of Talent and Leadership Development, Louise works with senior leaders and C-suite teams to design and deliver talent strategies that unlock potential, strengthen leadership capability, and improve talent bench-strength for growing companies. With deep expertise in Talent Management, high-potential development, and succession planning, Louise helps businesses identify talent and create environments where they can thrive. Her work spans performance frameworks, leadership pipelines, executive coaching, and designing strategies to nurture, grow and retain talent — all tailored to the unique context of each organisation. Bringing a balance of strategic insight and practical implementation, Louise partners with executives to shape talent ecosystems that drive engagement, retention, and long-term business growth.
Louise works with a variety of clients, including FTSE 100/250 businesses in Financial services, as well as start-ups with limited understanding or knowledge of how to build high-performing teams and identify those with high potential.
Louise helps businesses who have not yet invested in and established a talent retention program. She builds and implements programmes and processes that create high-performing teams by identifying, developing, and retaining high-potential employees.
From Louise:
I offer a blend of strategic guidance and practical hands-on application, bolstered by coaching expertise to empower leaders to implement change and make confident people decisions.
Ex-HSBC, Ex-LLoyds
