Hi, I’m Alex.
I’ve led on everything from complex employee relations and high-risk casework to full People & Culture gap analyses, HR function reviews, transformation projects, workforce planning, and M&A readiness through to post-deal integration.
My clients range from scaling AI and sustainable tech consultancies to G-Cloud and data services firms, global IT providers operating under ISO 27001 and ISO 9001, and FTSE 250 to Fortune 100 organisations.
What I bring is pragmatic, strategic, and cost-conscious People & HR leadership, helping founders scale people operations quickly and compliantly, build high-performing and accountable teams, and reduce risk across employment law, compliance, and investor scrutiny.
Founder of Act HR and a Fractional Chief People Officer / Head of HR for growing technology businesses.
I partner with tech founders and leadership teams who want the people side to scale as smoothly as their products and services. If you’re building an amazing business but finding HR a distraction, that’s where I step in.
During my career I’ve supported companies across tech, professional services, retail, and manufacturing, but my sweet spot is UK tech scale-ups with 20–200 people who need senior HR leadership without the cost or commitment of a full-time CPO.
I want to help you cut through the noise.
My Approach
Discovery
First of all, I want to learn about your organisation.
What are your goals? How do your team work together? What are your current challenges, and what do you want to put in place for the future?
Build
I’ll recommend a solution, and get to work creating a plan, policy, or process with clear timescales and deliverables.
When a solution is ready to go live, I’ll be on hand to support with your launch and communication with your team.
Test
Once your solution is live, let’s keep an eye on it.
I’ll help you gather feedback, analyse performance, and monitor progress over the initial live period.
Improve
There’s always room for improvement.
By taking an iterative approach, I can help you stay aligned with your changing business and team, by making sure your solution grows with your business.
Client testimonial:
Fractional Chief People Officer and M&A project
“Act HR/Alex joined Deeper Insights at a pivotal moment, where the business needed to scale. We went from 10 to 40 employees over a couple of years, and lacked the proper structure to support our People needs.
Alex came in as a fractional Chief People Officer and her strategic work covered every aspect of People including recruitment best practice, making our organisation more attractive to new talent, whilst also focusing on retaining existing talent.
She also helped to create a policy-led people management framework, that took away a huge amount of work from myself and my leadership team in having to answer a multitude of questions whilst also retaining our all-important positive work culture.
Her prior experience working in technology companies meant She totally understood our people, their needs and the culture we wanted to build on.
Her honest and direct communication style allowed me to make well informed decisions quickly, and was paramount to our ability to scale.
On top of all this, Alex supported myself and our team through a very lengthy acquisition, ensuring we maintained an open dialogue with all our staff and ultimately retained everyone throughout the transition period. I can’t recommend her services enough, she’s worth every penny.”
Jack Hampson - CEO, Deeper Insights