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Why Lilac-HR Solutions, and why now?

After 25 years, Lydia knows what great HR looks like. Lilac-HR Solutions exists so more businesses can have access to it.

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  1. Listen

    Every organisation is different, so I do not bring a one-size-fits-all solution. I am curious, so I start by listening: your business, your people, your culture and the challenge you are trying to solve, before recommending anything.

  2. Connect

    I connect the People agenda to your business goals, focus on what will make the greatest difference and avoid adding unnecessary process or complexity.

  3. Deliver

    I combine strategic perspective with practical delivery, working alongside leaders and teams to build confidence, solve problems and create sustainable change.

  4. Leave you stronger

    You finish with stronger capability rather than dependency on me, and the confidence to make people decisions that improve both employee experience and business performance.

The aim is simple: to help you make confident people decisions that improve both employee experience and business performance.

What an engagement looks like

Fractional. An ongoing arrangement, typically a set number of days each month, where I act as your People Director: at the leadership table, across the people agenda, for a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.

Project. A defined piece of work with a clear outcome: a restructure, a people-strategy reset, an acquisition’s people due diligence, a reward review.

Advisory. A sounding board for owners, MDs and boards who want senior HR perspective on a decision before they make it.

Whichever shape fits, I work both remotely and on site with businesses across the UK, and every engagement starts with a conversation about what you are trying to achieve.

See how I think before you call

The quickest way to judge whether we would work well together is to watch me answer a real question. The 3am Question is my video series on the people problems that keep owners awake at night: AI, underperformance, time and restructures, each answered in about ninety seconds. There are more short videos on who I am and how I work with new clients.

Book a call and tell me about your people challenge.