Fractional People Leadership
Senior People & Culture leadership on your terms. We partner with founders and leadership teams at key moments of growth, transition or formalisation, providing strategic depth without the overhead of a permanent hire.
Strategic by nature. People by choice.
We partner with forward-thinking businesses to align purpose with performance, transforming cultures, elevating leaders, and building workplaces that genuinely thrive.
Whether you are navigating transformation or building from the ground up, we bring fractional HR expertise shaped by genuine human insight and commercial reality.
Senior People & Culture leadership on your terms. We partner with founders and leadership teams at key moments of growth, transition or formalisation, providing strategic depth without the overhead of a permanent hire.
Designing people strategies explicitly aligned to mission, values and long-term ambition. We work at board and founder level to translate organisational purpose into clear, actionable people priorities that drive sustainable performance.
Translating founder-led culture into explicit, scalable people systems and ways of working. We help organisations define their identity, design for clarity, and build structures that enable growth rather than constrain it.
Building management confidence and capability during periods of change and scale. We design leadership expectations, performance and progression frameworks, and L&D approaches that strengthen teams for the long term.
Experienced in delivering complex organisational change including restructures, mergers and TUPE at pace, while maintaining engagement, inclusion and cultural coherence. We manage stakeholder relationships carefully throughout.
Designing and embedding values-aligned equality, diversity and inclusion strategies that go beyond compliance, creating workplaces where every person can contribute fully and feel genuinely valued.
From employee listening and wellbeing programmes to reward principles, benefits design and People Deals, we build the people infrastructure that drives engagement, retention and a culture people want to be part of.
Building HR functions from first principles or strengthening existing ones. We design HR structures, build team capability, and establish the operating rhythms, metrics and infrastructure needed to support organisational scale.
Designing proportionate, values-aligned policies and streamlined HR processes that reduce risk and create clarity. We ensure organisations are legally compliant without losing the human touch that defines great people practice.
"At 44Sixteen, we believe the most successful organisations are those brave enough to put purpose before process and people before profit."
44Sixteen was founded on a simple but powerful belief: that when people feel valued, led with integrity, and connected to purpose, extraordinary things happen.
Led by an FCIPD Fellow with senior People & Culture leadership experience across start-ups, scaling organisations, public-sector bodies and complex multi-site environments, we bring strategic depth and a deeply human approach to every engagement.
Our work spans private universities, mission-driven start-ups, housing groups, NHS bodies and further education, always at moments where culture must evolve without being diluted.
We don't do off-the-shelf. Every solution is shaped around your organisation's unique context, values and ambitions.
Work with usWe align people strategy directly to your organisational purpose, ensuring every HR decision moves you toward your mission.
We work as genuine partners, embedded in your culture and committed to outcomes that matter, not just deliverables.
Senior People Director-level expertise available on your terms. Scale up or down as your organisation evolves.
We only partner with organisations ready to lead with integrity. Meaningful, lasting change starts with genuine commitment to your people.
Ready to evolve your culture, elevate your people, and lead with integrity? Let's start the conversation.