Fractional
A senior P&C seat, part-time
For businesses that need Chief People Officer level judgment in the room
on a regular rhythm, without carrying a permanent hire.
Who this is for
1.
Scaling Businesses
You've outgrown your current people setup, but you're not yet at the size that justifies a full-time CPO.
Mid-sized Organisations
2.
Your CPO seat is vacant, new, or in transition, and you need senior weight in the executive room while direction is being set.
3.
Boards & Founders
You're carrying a people problem that's beyond an internal HR lead, but you don't want to pay a big consultancy to sit around the table.
A CPO (Sarah), in the room, in the rhythm we agree. Executive meetings, one-to-ones with the CEO, in and out of the detail as the work needs.
Strategic direction for your people function, brought forward and stress-tested against your business context.
A steady hand on the biggest calls: leadership team hires, org design, restructures, senior succession, culture.
Coaching for your CEO or leadership team where that helps the work land.
What you get
We start with a conversation. You tell me where the business is, where the pressure sits, and what having me in the room would let you do that you can't do today. From there we shape the engagement together: the rhythm, the meetings I sit in, the calls I own, the leaders I work alongside.
Fractional is meant to end well. Sometimes that is a permanent hire we have been building towards. Sometimes the shape shifts to a defined project. Either way, you know from the start what a good exit looks like.
How it works
I lead the function, I mentor and back your HR team, and I keep senior leaders informed.
I take the weight of the hardest calls and the executive-room conversations, which frees your existing people to do their best work and grow into more. Where there are gaps in capability or confidence, I coach to close them.
I don't compete with your existing people. I build them.
Working with your team
“Tell me where the business is, and what a fractional CPO would let you do that you can't do today”
Sarah McLeod - Founder SMP&C