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Employee relations
Practical support with disciplinary, grievance, performance, conduct and complex ER cases.
Practical • Commercial • Human
People,
Properly.
Straightforward HR support for real businesses. Clear, experienced help with the people issues that take up too much of your time — without the jargon or the corporate nonsense.
Flexible support for SMEs • Fixed-fee projects • Short-term and interim HR
Limited offer • 5 days only
HR SOS — 60-minute case review for £95.
Got a live people issue you need to get straight in your head? Book a confidential 60-minute review and I’ll give you clear, practical recommended next steps afterwards.
Book HR SOS — £95
Limited availability
HR help that gets things moving.
Sometimes you need an extra pair of experienced hands. Sometimes you need someone to tell you what the sensible next step actually is. I can do both.
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Investigations
Independent investigations, case reviews and support getting difficult issues back on track.
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Restructures & change
Clear, commercially grounded support through reorganisations, consultation and business change.
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Absence & performance
Helping managers deal with absence and under-performance fairly, consistently and confidently.
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Policies & HR processes
Policies, handbooks and people processes that are usable in the real world — not just filed away.
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Manager support & HR projects
Coaching, process improvement, HR audits and focused project support when your team needs capacity.
A different kind of HR support
Sensible advice. Human delivery. Commercial thinking.
I’m Katy, a senior HR practitioner with experience across operational, manufacturing and multi-site organisations. I’m used to the situations where the answer isn’t sitting neatly in a policy and someone needs to make a sound judgement call.
People, Properly exists to give smaller and growing businesses access to practical senior HR support without needing a full-time HR function or a big consultancy retainer.
✓ Straightforward advice
✓ Commercially minded
✓ Calm with difficult ER
✓ Flexible support
Use me in the way you need.
No bloated retainers. We can agree a fixed price for a defined piece of work, book focused support, or talk about short-term/interim cover.
One-off help
Focused adviceFor a specific employee issue, case review or manager situation that needs experienced input.
Projects
Fixed-fee supportIdeal for investigations, policy reviews, restructures, absence work or defined HR improvement projects.
Extra capacity
Interim HR supportHands-on senior HR support when you need someone to step in quickly and get on with it.
Thinking about people, properly.
Practical thoughts on HR, management and the future of work — written for real businesses, not HR echo chambers.
Latest insight
The future of HR might actually be… less HR.
Not less care or less rigour. Less HR doing everything — and more confident managers, smarter use of technology and access to experienced judgement when it really matters.
Read the full pieceLet’s sort it
What’s sitting on your desk?
Tell me what’s going on and what you need. If I can help, I’ll tell you the simplest way we can tackle it.