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Fractional HR Leadership
Embedded senior People & Culture leadership on a part-time or interim basis — people strategy, workforce planning, culture and performance, at the leadership table when you need it.
People are
the point.
They always have been.
Fractional HR leadership and accredited executive coaching for founders and leaders who want senior People & Culture expertise — without the full-time hire.
Nicole Karagiannis · Founder, People Purpose
Credentials & experience
Qualification
Master’s in Leadership & Coaching
Accreditation
Accredited Executive Coach
Human Synergistics LSI 1 & 2
Track record
Former Chief People Officer
Experience across Startups · scaleups · PE-backed · healthcare · faith-based · NFP organisations
· Meet Nicole
For much of her career, Nicole sat at the leadership table as a Chief People Officer — and kept noticing that the organisations who needed that thinking most were often the ones who couldn’t justify a full-time People executive.
So she built People Purpose to close that gap — senior-level expertise for the businesses and leaders who need it, without the overhead and without waiting for headcount approval.
More about Nicole →· Services
Senior People & Culture work, five ways in.
No prescriptive frameworks dropped in from elsewhere. Nicole gets to know your organisation, culture and people — and builds from there.
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Project-Based Work
Defined pieces of work, delivered well — policy audits, capability frameworks, job architecture, remuneration benchmarking and engagement surveys.
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Executive Coaching
Accredited one-to-one coaching for senior and emerging leaders — evidence-based, with 360° feedback through Human Synergistics LSI 1 & 2.
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Leadership Development
Customised programs for your context — cohort workshops, team diagnostics and facilitated offsites that leaders actually carry back into the work.
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AI & Digital Transformation
The people side of AI adoption — role redesign, change capability and the organisational work most transformation plans skip.
Not sure which fits? Start with a conversation.
Book a Discovery Call → (opens her booking calendar in a new tab)Thirty minutes is usually enough to know whether it’s a fit. Book a Discovery Call → (opens her booking calendar in a new tab)
How Nicole works
“Growth happens at the edge of comfort.”
Growth through discomfort — but always with dignity, reflection and a positive mindset. No frameworks dropped in from elsewhere; she gets to know your organisation, culture and people, and builds from there.
· Who this is for
You don’t need a People team.
You need the right person.
Startups & small businesses
You’re growing faster than your people practices. You need fractional HR leadership — senior thinking, embedded in your business, without waiting for headcount approval.
A specific project on the table
Policies that need an overhaul, systems that need standing up, a performance or succession question that can’t wait. Defined scope, senior hands, done properly.
Executives & senior leaders
Coaching and leadership development for people carrying real weight — growth at the edge of comfort, held with dignity and reflection.
· Case study
A complete management system in eight weeks.
A boutique Sydney consultancy had grown past what informal practice could carry. In eight weeks they had a complete, documented management system — built around how they already worked, not imposed on top of it.
- 20+
- Documents
- One
- Management system
- Eight
- Weeks
Wondering what eight weeks could look like for your business?
Book a Discovery Call (opens her booking calendar in a new tab)· Insights
Insights worth your time.
When you’re ready, the first step is simply a conversation.
Book a Discovery Call (opens her booking calendar in a new tab)
· Contact
Ready when you are.
A discovery call is a conversation, not a pitch — thirty minutes on where your people and organisation are, and whether Nicole is the right person to help.
“I believe in the potential of every person I work with, and in the need for a more connected, empathic workplace.”
Nicole Karagiannis
A discovery call is a conversation, not a pitch. Pick a time that suits you and you’ll have thirty minutes with Nicole to talk through where your people and organisation are.
Book a Discovery Call (opens her booking calendar in a new tab)Prefer email? nicole@peoplepurpose.net