Founded in 2010, People Puzzles is the UK’s largest and most recognised team of fractional People Directors, working across the UK and Ireland. We’ve helped well over 1,000 ambitious businesses of all sizes solve the people challenges holding back their growth. Each client works closely with a dedicated lead People Director, who gets to know your business and becomes part of your leadership team, but never works alone. Our People Directors are backed by the wider team’s regional and national collective expertise whenever it’s needed. It’s this blend of close, personal partnership and team-wide support that turns people management into a genuine driver of commercial performance.
People Puzzles’ fractional People Directors act as an embedded extension of our clients’ leadership teams, providing advisory support that spans strategic planning through to day-to-day delivery. Because our People Directors typically sit at Board level, we help organisations use HR platforms like Bob not just as a system of record, but as a foundation for genuine people strategy.
Our core services include:
- Strategic HR advisory – building people strategies that support commercial growth
- Embedded HR leadership – flexible, part-time People Director support at Board level
- Organisational design & change – restructuring, redundancy consultation and team alignment
- Culture & engagement – diagnosing culture risk and building improvement plans
- Recruitment & onboarding – hiring process design and induction support
- Coaching & leadership development – one-to-one coaching for founders, leaders and managers
Our team of People Directors are among the UK’s most experienced HR professionals, hand-picked for their proven ability to increase revenue and reduce cost through better people management. They have held senior in-house HR Director or People Director roles before joining People Puzzles, bringing sector-specific expertise across a wide range of industries. Clients frequently describe the experience as having “another MD in the business”. We provide People Directors who challenge, support and deliver, rather than simply advise from the sidelines.