What I offer
Fractional Outsourced HR Support
When considering your first HR professional, consider engaging with one of our trained and certified experts, who can assess your requirements, create a gap analysis and ramp you up fast with your new People function. Then backfill that role with a terrific HR manager, tools and process.
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People Strategy Assessment
We review of your existing people strategy, to first understand your commercial vision and target operating model, then overlay talent requirements, phasing, and employee value proposition relative to the market, generating an actionable blueprint to ensure affordable, scalable, efficient
Culture Creation & Integration
This is a critical requirement for any scaling business, and we ensure a thorough, highly collaborative process to capture your most vital, DNA-level core cultural values through an exhilarating design-centred approach. We help you create an irresistable place to work.
Delivering Your Recruitment Engine
We reduce fees substantially by providing exclusive, globally positioned mini-RPO vendors and bring impact up, improve ratios, push great experience through the roof, and meet your demanding phasing requirements. Importantly, we’ll ensure they are the right people, right fit to accelerate.
HR Digital Tooling
Understanding which tools will positively impact, automate, delegate and enhance your business’ ability to attract, recruit, onboard, train, educate, perform, listen, pay and benefit your employees is challenging. We select the right tech, right price, right complexity for the next 3 years.
Creating the Performance/Development Infinity Loop
We replace useless annual performance reviews with a comprehensive 360° real-time feedback engine and train managers on more impactful, meaningful and powerful growth journey – increasing retention, empowering employees, exposing risk and remediating with transparent planning and learning.
Creating Open Career Paths
Understanding which tools will positively impact, automate, delegate and enhance your business' ability to attract, recruit, onboard, train, educate, perform, listen, pay and benefit your employees is challenging. We provide deep experience in selecting the right tech, right price.
Goal Setting & OKR Adoption
Using proven techniques like Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), made popular by John Doerr in his book, Measure What Matters I will ensure you an intelligent, transparent and inclusive way of developing aggressive targets that are highly aligned and synchronised across your entire organisation.
Innovative Design for Improving People Systems and Experiences
We provide you the methods, online white-boarding tools - Miro, and facilitation technique training, which you can repurpose as your own to drive this new discipline throughout your organisation. We’ll be there to assist whilst you enjoy viral adoption of this incredibly effective process.
Leadership and Managerial Excellence
Using the 5 Behaviours framework, from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni, as well as his 4 Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, I work with your leadership team to uncover your baseline team behaviours, assess self-awareness and build high performing leadership teams.
Experiences
Humn.ai - a hyper-growth insurtech company based in London
Humn.ai. Retained to shape the employer brand and value proposition, recruitment engine, and compensation/benefits structure for this early-stage insurtech company that rewards safe driving through lower premiums. Built HR foundation that has enabled the company to scale by 230% within 6 mos.
Summit Therapeutics
Hired as the Vice President of Global Human Resources, led a corporate restructuring with the new CEO to re-engineer management and leadership teams worldwide. Debuted OKRs, employer branding, and continuous performance management to support the company’s Phase III trials.
Oxford Nanoimaging
Served as Vice President of People Operations reporting to the Founder/CEO to support the global commercial expansion of this nano-microscopy company. Implemented OKRs and performance management mechanisms, Matured core HR–related functionality, revamped global benefits offerings
MetaPack Ltd. Group
Hired as the Human Resources Director supporting 380 employees, rebuilt the leadership team and reconfigure internal workflow loops to optimise customer-led development cycles, accelerated recruitment through the adoption of HRIS and ATS systems.
Skype
Supported Silver Lake Partners PE acquisition of Skype in refocusing this engineering-led disruptor into a product-led innovator – bringing newly created product design and customer-centered product delivery to an Estonian-based engineering environment, in preparation for acquisition
Dialog Semiconductor
Led the implementation of SAP for a German-based semiconductor engineering company – reporting into the VP HR and liaising with the co-chief executives. The effort forced an organisational redesign to optimise reporting relationships, decision-making and speed of execution.
Spinvox
Built and delivered world-class human resource infrastructure for a fast-growth start-up company, delivering a complete global infrastructure in 6 months. Recruited all C-level and senior leadership roles in EMEA, RSA, Australia, LATAM, USA and Canada; led the hiring of 350 employees
