I LOVE helping companies with big ambitions.

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With over 30 years Human Resources experience across a variety of sectors I founded Nicola Hale People Consulting, a boutique consultancy offering fractional and freelance People Director services and retained HR support to a select number of clients.

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Delivering business-first, strategic HR solutions that drive performance impact. My sweet spot? A sharp sense of what's needed to improve performance, coupled with the ability to cut through noise and deliver results-driven people strategies.

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With a commercial mindset and intuitive grasp of opportunities, I lead with performance in mind, always through a people-focused lens. I work with genuine care, but at the core, my efforts serve to enhance overall business performance.

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I excel at

- Spotting the issues or opportunities that others don’t

- Developing people and organisation strategies to enhance performance

- Cutting through complexity to focus on results

- Swiftly identifying and overcoming roadblocks

- Creating the conditions for success

- Galvanising teams towards common goals

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Think of me as the "Littlest Hobo" of HR - I don't linger unnecessarily. I identify high-impact areas, implement effective strategies, ensure sustainability and move on to the next challenge, building organisational and people capability along the way.

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I'm 'performance driven, yet refreshingly human'.

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​I work on a fractional, retained and freelance basis, offer executive-level HR expertise honed in large organisations.  Alongside my outsourced service offering, I help leaders with their biggest opportunities or challenges, for example:

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• SME's with  growing pains  or growth ambitions

• Leaders who want to  nurture their team members  but are increasingly time poor

• Organisations that aim to step change their performance

• Companies wanting to thoughtfully manage integrations and change

• Businesses readying themselves for the next step - sale, listing 

• Organisations seeking to cultivate their culture

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I also offer HR and Leadership coaching, development, team building and facilitation.

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With a keen understanding of both the corporate landscape and the unique challenges faced by SMEs, I provide insightful, commercial and grounded solutions tailored to suit specific needs.   By leveraging world-class practices and resizing them to fit the scale and culture of smaller business I help them grow both strategically and sustainably.  Tapping into resources and expertise developed in larger businesses gives a competitive edge and helps these companies thrive.

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My approach is based on truly understanding where my clients are and where they need to be. Whether it be developing or improving culture or implementing intelligent organisational and people strategies my solutions will deliver the results.  

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My background is a unique blend of specialist and generalist HR (Industrial Relations, Talent, Bid Team Lead, Business Lead).  Very early in my career I also worked outside HR in Retail, Finance, Customer Services and Engineering teams.   ​​I have built and led purposeful HR functions in large organisations - so I have practiced the art of Leadership too.  ​Given this experience, I have seen a lot of variety in organisation cultures and in the experiences that individuals have in them.  I've also learnt a thing or two about how to truly engage people.

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I am passionate about unlocking the performance of businesses through their people and I have set up my company to help others whilst doing more of what I love.  ​​Some of the things I help companies with are:

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