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HR SME Leadership Mastermind

Connect with collaborative HR peers and thrive!

This Mastermind is designed for...

HR leaders who operate within SME businesses.

Being a HR leader in an SME can be incredibly rewarding - but it’s not without its challenges. It can feel lonely when you’re the only HR voice at the table, demotivating when you’re constantly managing redundancies or restructures, and frustrating when limited budgets and resources prevent you from driving forward-thinking initiatives.

In addition, HR leaders often champion others’ careers while rarely receiving the same recognition themselves.

Our exclusive, members-only mastermind groups are designed to change that. We bring together ambitious HR professionals from SMEs to share experiences, tackle real-world challenges, and explore new opportunities in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Through open discussions and practical knowledge-sharing, you’ll gain fresh perspectives, actionable strategies and a network of peers who truly understand your world.

Benefits Include:

Improved Mental Wellbeing
Members feel supported, connected, and less isolated in their career challenges, reducing stress, boosting confidence, and building resilience.
Faster, Better Decision-Making
Access to expert guidance, practical tools, and peer support helps individuals solve career and workplace problems in minutes, not months—saving significant time and frustration.
Cost Savings for Organisations
By helping employees navigate challenges earlier and more effectively, organisations reduce turnover, recruitment costs, and productivity dips caused by disengagement.
Higher Individual and Team Performance
Members gain clarity, direction, and tools that help them show up more effectively at work—leading to stronger performance outcomes and more consistent results.
Greater Career Satisfaction and Fulfilment
The community helps individuals set better goals, understand their strengths, and make more aligned career moves—leading to happier, more motivated employees.
Enhanced Leadership and Communication Skills
With access to coaching insights, templates, and discussions, members develop stronger influence, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills.
A Supportive Environment for Growth and Accountability
Being part of a like-minded community provides motivation, encouragement, and practical accountability—turning intentions into real progress.

Now in its third year, the community covers a wide range of topics during sessions, including:

Sharing best practices, new ideas, and recent successes
Offering support around projects, challenges, and emerging opportunities
Discussing and recommending trusted third‑party providers
Balancing operational demands with strategic priorities
Career development, progression, and personal growth
Strengthening stakeholder relationships, securing budgets, and increasing engagement
Exploring technology stacks and the evolving role of AI
Any other people-related topic relevant to members’ needs

HR Progression Circle

For career-focused mid-range HR professionals

This community is designed for...

HR Managers who want to expand their influence beyond day‑to‑day operations and play a more strategic role across areas such as Learning & Development, Reward and Talent.
Senior HR Advisors preparing to step into broader responsibilities, including strategic handling of ER cases, systems implementation and workforce planning.
HR Business Partners looking to sharpen their commercial acumen, strengthen stakeholder impact and lead cross‑functional HR initiatives with greater confidence.
HR specialists across L&D, Reward, HR Systems, Employee Relations or Talent Acquisition who want to deepen their strategic capability and accelerate their career trajectory.
Ambitious, growth‑oriented HR practitioners who value peer learning, want to share real‑world challenges and are ready to take the next step in their professional journey.

Benefits Include:

Peer-to-peer learning
Connect with HR professionals facing similar challenges and opportunities, and learn from the collective experience of the group.
Exposure to strategic HR thinking
Understand how to translate business strategy into people strategy and elevate your contribution at a more senior level.
Career acceleration
Build the mindset, confidence and capabilities required to progress into senior HR roles.
Real-world problem solving
Bring live challenges to the group and get practical, actionable recommendations you can implement immediately.
Supportive accountability
Stay focused, motivated and on track through structured sessions, shared learning and peer accountability.

Broader organisational perspective
Learn how different HR functions connect, influence business performance, and shape long‑term organisational success.
Increased confidence in senior‑level conversations
Practise framing data, insights and recommendations in a way that resonates with executives and decision-makers.
Access to tools, templates and frameworks
Gain practical resources you can use immediately—whether that’s for stakeholder engagement, strategic planning, or HR project delivery.
A safe space for honest discussions
Explore tricky people challenges, political dynamics and career dilemmas in a confidential, trusted environment.
Enhanced problem‑solving and decision‑making skills
Build the ability to analyse issues more strategically, anticipate implications and make well-informed recommendations.
Stronger leadership presence
Develop the behaviours, communication style and mindset that help you be seen as a credible, strategic HR leader.
Reduced stress and increased resilience
Benefit from a supportive community that helps you navigate high-pressure situations with greater confidence and calm.

Testimonials from our members

Anthea Besser - HR Director

Very useful forum to scope ideas, get a sense of how other are approaching new changes, as well as an area to discuss challenges of being a Senior HR Lead and stakeholder challenges. Well worth the cost.

Jo Grendall - Chief People Officer

Good value for the price. I like the flexibility that this group offers and like that topics are submitted in advance. Ideal for HR leaders going through a period of change as includes practical discussions around experiences that may be on future agenda for people strategy.

Kester Withams - Head of People

This working group has been a unique opportunity to connect, share insights, and discuss the specific challenges and opportunities that we as HR professionals face. Given the isolated nature of many senior and leadership HR roles, creating an opportunity for meaningful peer support and knowledge sharing is incredibly valuable.

Lucie McMillan - HR Manager EMEA

I recently had the amazing pleasure of working with Tansel as he recruited me into my current job. From the very start of my journey Tansel was with me every step of the way, managed my expectations and very supportive. Extremely knowledgeable and knows the knarley world of HR. I would recommend Tansel in a heartbeat.

Gemma Goymer - Head of HR

As a HR SME leader, I have found it a great space to share and discuss issues. It has really helped my thinking around certain things, so really valuable to have the regular sounding board when it can sometimes feel isolating.

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