Empowering Organisations

Trusted HR Advice, Mediation, Coaching & Leadership Development

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Hi, I’m Nicky,

I specialise in delivering strategic HR solutions that empower businesses to navigate change, overcome challenges, and achieve sustainable growth. With a commercial focus I offer bespoke consultancy and support that empowers organisations to build resilient teams and thrive in an ever-evolving landscape. Whether you’re managing transformation or navigating regulation, I deliver tailored HR support that aligns with your business goals and drives sustainable success. Whether leading an HR function or providing technical advice to the Board, I excel at tackling tough challenges, turning ideas into action, and making things happen. Often described as achieving the impossible, I bring a hands-on, results-driven approach to every project, creating meaningful impact in short timeframe’s.

My services as a trusted advisor are defined by integrity, deep commercial experience and passion, delivered with discretion.

Empowering Teams, Strengthening Leadership

My Services

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HR Services

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Regulatory Support

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Mediation

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Coaching

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Leadership Development

Testimonials

Human resource professionals who have both deep technical knowledge and a strong understanding of the practical requirements of running a business are rare, in my personal experience. Nichola is one of those rare HR leaders who truly partners with senior executives to enable a business to move forward particularly amidst dynamic and challenging circumstances. She provides sound counsel to management and staff alike, since she has a rare ability to built trust and confidence with both constituents. In addition, she is tireless worker who delivers results.

I deeply value her insight, counsel, work ethic and positive contribution to our business. I would highly recommend her to anyone considering engaging her consultancy or interim services

Michael G. Furgueson, Independent Non Executive Director

Having worked with Nicky Archibald for in excess of a year, I can say without a doubt that Nicky is not only good at what she does, but also a pleasure to work alongside. I would have no hesitation to recommending Nicky, and have done so, and will continue to do so.

Nicky has worn a number of different hats whilst providing Consultancy services to ProSight, from Head of HR, to Coach, to L&D specialist and trainer, even regulatory advisor at times, and everything (which is a lot) in-between. I can say that Nicky possesses a seldom found and valuable approach to HR, in that, not only is she exceptionally commercial and Business minded, but she also provides much needed challenge to the Business, but always in a conducive and thoughtful manner.

Lisa Ratty, Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Hamilton Insurance Group

Nichola is an HR professional who I have worked with on a number of occasions to parachute into a client’s business to deal with complex ER issues. Most recently, a client had been defrauded of several hundred thousand pounds through a bank fraud, and Nichola dealt with an appeal from an employee whose negligence had enabled the fraud to succeed. The client’s HR Director was very grateful that Nichola was able to quickly grasp the issues, meet all relevant people, and deliver an outcome within the timeframe agreed with the employee. I would not hesitate to put Nichola’s name forward for any employee relations or business transformation project.

Greg Burgess, Partner, DMH Stallard LLP

I worked with Nicky for 6 months in 2018 on a Global IT People Transformation programme, of which Nicky was Programme Director.
Nicky has an incredible talent for engaging people, possessing excellent communications skills, with an extraordinary sense of strategy and timing. To top it all, she has a great sense of humour, is a woman of integrity and a thoroughly decent human being. I learned so much from my time with Nicky and would love to work with her again.

Adrienne Hipkins, Change Technologist & PMO Evangelist, WTW

Enjoyable to work with. Easy to approach

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