Senior HR Expertise - built around your business
Blackstar Alchemy works with small and medium-sized businesses in the UK and their internal HR professionals.
Providing fractional HR support and professional coaching that delivers at a senior level, without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Find your path
Who are you here for?
Two different needs. One trusted practice.
For HR Professionals
Support built around what you're actually facing.
Whether you're a solo practitioner, part of a small team, or leading a function,
there's a way to work together that fits where you are.
1:1 Coaching
For HR professionals at any level who find themselves struggling more than they used to. We work out what's actually happening — then build a way forward.
HR Peer Support
For solo HR practitioners or small teams who need a trusted, experienced peer to think things through with. Someone who genuinely understands what it's like to be the only one in the room.
HR Leadership & Teams
For those leading HR teams or functions, whether newly formed or established. Fresh perspectives from someone with deep corporate experience.
Investment from £125 per session
For Businesses
Experienced HR support without the full-time overhead.
Three flexible models designed around how much you want to lead,
and how much you want handed to you.
Expert Guidance
You lead, I advise. Access expert HR knowledge, templates, and frameworks at your own pace. Full control, lower cost, and flexibility to implement at your own pace.
Collaborative Partnership
We work together inside your business. Shared responsibility, tailored support, and knowledge transfer to your team. You stay in the lead, I make sure you have what you need to deliver.
Full HR Delivery
I manage everything end-to-end. Strategy, creation, implementation, and delivery with minimal lift from you. You get the result without the resource drain.
Investment from £500 per month
It's not just a difficult patch.
Your focus, your energy, your confidence aren't where they were. You don't quite feel like yourself — and you can't work out if it's the job, or something else entirely.
Your days are reactive. You start with good intentions and leave having done none of them. The people work — the reason you came into HR — keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list. You can't be vulnerable upwards. You can't be vulnerable downwards. So you carry it alone.
And at home? The load doesn't stop at the office door.
You thought life would feel easier by now. The children are older. The career is established. And yet somehow you're running on less than you ever have.
This isn't a hard season anymore. It's become a setting.
Does this sound familiar?
❌ You're exhausted but can't justify resting — there's always something more urgent
❌ You're questioning everything — Am I bad at this? Is something wrong with me?
❌ You're waiting for things to calm down — but they never quite do
The problem isn't you. It's that you don't have language for what's happening yet. And without that, you can't address it.
✅ You are not failing
✅ You are not alone
✅ You don't need to push through harder
I've been where you are.
I've lived this pattern. The survival mode, the pushing through, the fear that stopping means failing. I found solid ground — and I know the way there.
With over 20 years in HR, specialising in L&D, Talent Development and Employee Engagement, I bring both the professional expertise and the personal understanding that most HR support simply doesn't offer.
Ready to work out what's actually going on?
Let's talk. A free 30-minute call — no pressure, no pitch. Just a conversation.
