HR support built around how businesses operate.
We work with founder-led, growing, and operationally complex businesses on the people decisions that matter, structure, risk, performance, culture, and the messy situations that no policy document handles cleanly.
Joanna is a lawyer by background and HR by choice, with over fifteen years of experience supporting businesses through operational, strategic, and high-stakes people matters. The work is built to be useful in practice, not just on paper.
HR Foundations & Health Checks
Strengthening the core of your HR approach: documentation, policies, contracts, handbooks, and risk.
Policy and handbook review
Contracts and documentation
People risk and compliance audit
Retained & Fractional HR Support
Ongoing HR and employment law support, structured around the level of involvement your business needs.
Monthly retained advisory
Fractional HR director support
Day-to-day operational guidance
Employment Law & Complex Workplace Matters
Disciplinaries, grievances, investigations, restructures, redundancies, settlements, and absence work.
Workplace investigations and disciplinaries
Redundancy, TUPE, and restructuring
Settlement and exit negotiations
Leadership & Board Advisory
Strategic HR and employment law input for founders, directors, boards, and NEDs at leadership level.
Founder and CEO advisory
Board and NED support
High-stakes people decisions
How we work
"Her advice is clear, pragmatic and focused on achieving the right outcome for the business."
Group Operations Director, Multisite Manufacturing
Listen and assess
Every situation gets a proper diagnosis before anything is proposed. We listen to the business, the people, and the context, then tell you honestly what we think.
Direct conversation with leadership
Understand the commercial reality
Map the people and legal risk
Plan and handle
Clear next steps, honest about what is likely to work and what is not. We handle the work directly rather than handing it back to you.
Practical plan with options
Direct handling, not just advice
Clear, defensible documentation
Resolve and review
We close situations out properly, whether that is settlement, exit, return to work, or structural change. Then we check what the business has learned from it.
Close-out with clarity
Reflection on what worked
Practical follow-up if needed
Stay close
Most clients work with us over years, not months. We stay close to the business, available when something comes up, and proactive about what we see emerging.
Ongoing retained advisory
Proactive early warning
Long-term relationship
To enable businesses operate better, grow more sustainably, and make clearer people decisions through commercially grounded HR and employment law support.
We are not interested in HR theatre or overcomplicating straightforward decisions. We care about advice that works in the real world and helps the business move forward.
If we are involved in something, we want it to be useful, honest, and worth the client paying for. That is the test we hold ourselves to on every engagement.
If we are involved in something, we want it to be useful, honest, and worth the client paying for. That is the test we hold ourselves to on every engagement.
"Her advice is clear, pragmatic and focused on achieving the right outcome for the business."
What we stand for.
Honesty over comfort. We would rather have a difficult conversation than dress up a problem. Direct communication is the default, so clients always know where they stand.
Commercial realism sits at the centre of every recommendation. The work has to be practical, not theoretical, and it has to hold up in the real world.
Fairness and accountability matter on both sides of every situation. And every piece of work has to add value. If it does not, it should not exist.
Fairness and accountability matter on both sides of every situation. And every piece of work has to add value. If it does not, it should not exist.
Work with Us
Got a situation that needs handling?
One-off matter or ongoing support. We'd rather have an honest conversation than send you a brochure.
