HR Consultancy & Fractional CPO
Vela provides senior HR consultancy and fractional Chief People Officer (CPO) support for organisations that need strategic people leadership but may not require a full-time executive hire. Our approach is designed for scaling businesses, professional services firms and organisations navigating change, where expert judgment and senior output are needed to align people strategy with commercial objectives.
Whether the priority is strengthening HR foundations, navigating complex employee matters or driving a board-level people agenda, we provide the flexible senior capability required to deliver results without the long-term overhead of a full-time CPO.
Flexible support, shaped around your business
Organisations need different kinds of HR support at different points in their journey. For some, the priority is a specific project or stabilizing a particular board-level people challenge. For others, it is the ongoing expert guidance of a Chief People Officer to shape strategy and professionalise the people function as the business grows.
Vela works flexibly across retained, fractional, and project-based engagements. This ensures your business has technical HR capability and senior commercial leadership when you need it, without the overhead of a full-time executive hire. Our approach is always diagnostic, starting with an understanding of your commercial goals to ensure the people strategy directly supports the bottom line.
What we help with
Support can include:
- Fractional CPO / HR Director leadership
- Board-level business and people advice
- Strategic HR planning and organisational design
- Executive leadership team development
- Large-scale transformation or restructuring
- Complex employee relations and IR matters
- Workplace investigations and mediation
- Interim senior HR leadership
- Retained or on-demand senior HR advice
Commercial value, not just HR support
Strong people practices do more than reduce risk - they drive commercial value by improving performance, retention and efficiency. Vela's approach is grounded in commercial reality, ensuring that people strategy is directly aligned with the financial and operational goals of the business.
£330k in first-year cost savings
by transforming talent acquisition through strategic in-sourcing
£250k+ annual recruitment fee savings
by building an in-house talent acquisition function
30% reduction in benefits costs
while improving the level of cover provided to employees
Attrition reduced: 26% to 13%
in 12 months in one organisation
Attrition reduced: 34.5% to 17.5%
in 12 months in another organisation
11% improvement in engagement
in employee engagement scores in three months
150% headcount growth
over three years while strengthening HR capability
10% improvement in management scores
in engagement through targeted leadership development
These are not people initiatives in isolation - they are examples of HR support delivering commercial impact.
Talk to Vela about HR Consultancy support
Share a few details about your organisation and priorities, and we'll be in touch to explore the right level of support.
tESTIMONIALS
COO
Banking
"Her knowledge in the field of HR coupled with both her experience on legal employment matters and strategic thinking makes for a pretty formidable combination"
Head of Compliance
Financial Services
"She consistently provides well-judged, pragmatic advice on complex regulatory and people-related matters"
Senior Advisor
Professional Services
"Ros King is one of the most professional and imaginative HR professionals that I have ever met"
Director
International Distrbution & Wholesale
"Ros guided us through a complex employee relations issue with calm expertise and clarity. She made a challenging situation manageable with practical advice, and gave us confidence we were handling it the right way"