For founders, C-suite and leadership teams

Alongside you through growth, change and complexity.

Senior People leadership for scaling businesses—supporting complex people decisions, strengthening foundations, and guiding organisational change as you grow.

Advisory support from £175/hour.
Urgent support from £250/hour.
Fixed-fee and fractional pricing scoped after intro call.

16+
years senior people leadership in global startups
350+
headcount teams supported across growth stages
A–C
series experience across VC-backed businesses
0→1
people functions built from the ground up

Tailored to the needs of your business.

Building people functions from the ground up
Partnering with founders, C-Suite and investors
Leading complex restructures and redundancy programmes
Supporting international growth across the UK, US and beyond
Extensive UK and US employment law expertise
Worked alongside Mendeley, Hindawi, Peakon, Doctify and Flash Pack
Our approach

Senior support, close to the business

At Alongside, we work closely with leadership teams to help businesses navigate the people side of growth, change and complexity — with senior judgement, practical support, and a strong understanding of how organisations actually work.

The result is stronger decisions, reduced risk, clearer accountability, and a business that runs more effectively and with greater confidence.

How we work together

Four clear ways to work together

Depending on what your business needs most right now.

Why Alongside

A different kind of People partner

When people decisions carry weight, you need more than generic HR support.

Close to the business

Support shaped around your commercial reality, leadership dynamics, and stage of growth — never applied from a template.

Senior judgement where it matters most

Experienced, measured guidance through sensitive, high-stakes, and ambiguous situations where credibility and sound judgement matter.

Commercially minded

People decisions approached in the context of business priorities, growth plans, risk, pace, and performance — never in isolation.

Built for scaling businesses

Support designed for founder-led, fast-moving environments where clarity, pace, and good decision-making matter as much as process.

Clear, tailored and actionable

Bespoke support grounded in context, practical to implement, and proportionate to what the business actually needs.

Focused on stronger organisations

Designed not only to solve the issue at hand, but to strengthen the structure, leadership, and People foundations around it.

Who we work with

Who Alongside is built for

Alongside works best with businesses that need senior, commercially grounded expertise during periods of change and growth or People support — without defaulting to a full-time hire too early.

Typically
  • Founder-led startups
  • Scaling businesses
  • Newly funded companies
  • Series A–C businesses
  • Leadership teams navigating difficult moments
  • VC-backed and portfolio businesses
  • Businesses needing senior People leadership without a full-time hire
Best suited to businesses that want
  • Senior-level judgement
  • Practical support, not generic advice
  • A partner close to the business
  • Clarity through ambiguity
  • Tailored solutions that fit their stage and reality
  • Embedded senior support for a defined stage of growth

Whether you're scaling, navigating change, or tackling a complex people challenge, Alongside provides the experienced support to guide you through it.

Pricing

Simple, senior and scoped to need

Flexible support depending on the nature of the issue, urgency, and level of input required.

Advisory support
£175/hr

Urgent and priority support from £250/hour. For live guidance and leadership input.

Advisory blocks
5, 10, 20 hrs

For businesses needing support across a defined period or multiple matters.

Fixed-fee projects
Scoped

Restructures, redundancies, Foundations work, and strategic projects. Following scope review.

Fractional leadership
Bespoke

Quoted based on seniority, business stage, scope, pace, and internal capability.

All bespoke project and fractional pricing is provided following an introductory call. Not sure what you need? We can work through that together.

Experienced support, when it matters most

Thoughtful, practical support grounded in the reality of your business — whatever the challenge.