HR strategy consultant for Australian founders, not boards.

Most Australian founders we meet do not have an HR problem — they have a sequencing problem. The next ten hires are already on a Notion page, the leadership team is stretched, and nobody has stepped back to ask whether the shape of the organisation still matches where the business is going. HR strategy is the work of answering that question, then turning the answer into a plan the leadership team owns.

We run that work as a senior fractional partner, embedded with your founders and execs. That means an org map you can defend to your board, a 12-month headcount plan tied to your revenue and runway, and a quarter-by-quarter HR roadmap that prioritises the moves with the biggest leverage. We optimise for decisions that compound — clearer roles, better managers, a hiring loop that ships — rather than artefacts that sit in a drawer.

Common signs you need this work: you are hiring without a plan and the headcount number is set by gut feel; you have no visible leadership pipeline and your second-line is invisible; your org chart is a snapshot of who you hired, not the business you are trying to build; or the founders are still the bottleneck on every people decision. None of these are unusual at 20 to 150 people. All of them are cheaper to fix before the next funding round than after it.

Strategy on its own is not enough. We embed weekly so the plan survives contact with reality — sitting in on leadership meetings, coaching managers through the harder calls, and adjusting the roadmap as the business shifts. If you need hiring run end-to-end while we work on the strategy layer, see our hiring, recruiting and onboarding service. If your contracts, policies, or modern award setup need attention before you scale further, our HR compliance and policy work usually runs in parallel.