Fractional HR Director Wendy Roberts is a Chartered MCIPD HR professional with over twenty years of experience, specialising in on-demand HR solutions for SMEs and scale-ups in technology, media and the aesthetics sector. Wendy holds a CIPD Level 7 Post Graduate Advanced Diploma in HR Management and is Chartered MCIPD.
For more than four years as Global HR Director at Lavastorm, Wendy delivered transformational HR services for global analytics teams across the UK, USA and Sweden, focusing on talent attraction and organisational improvement. Since 2016 she has led HR Connected Ltd, providing bespoke HR consultancy and on-demand support for SMEs and acting as an external HR team for businesses dealing with everything from one-off audits to full-blown restructures and redundancies.
Today, alongside HR Connected, Wendy is HR Director at Skyrise — leading the people strategy and HR operations for the Manchester-based technology company — and serves as Fractional HR Director with Leadership Services. She specialises in people strategy, talent acquisition, employee engagement, restructuring, DEI and learning and development, making her an ideal HR partner for ambitious scale-ups in technology, media, software, energy and financial services.
Leadership Services connects UK businesses with experienced fractional directors who deliver strategic expertise without the cost of a full-time hire. Our fractional directors bring decades of C-suite experience across finance, technology, operations, and more — working flexibly to suit your business needs.
Whether you need a Fractional Finance Director to strengthen your financial oversight, a Fractional IT Director to drive digital transformation, or a Fractional Operations Director to streamline your processes, our network of proven leaders is ready to support your growth.
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