How we can
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​I partner with CEOs and Executive Leadership Teams to align people strategy with business goals, unlocking potential, accelerating performance, and driving meaningful growth. By bridging the gap between people strategy and the boardroom, I help to demonstrate the real, measurable impact of talent on business valuation and long-term success.
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My experience spans well-known brands such as Virgin and River Island, global corporations such as Roche (a £52bn revenue pharmaceutical business), and private equity-backed organisations, including my most recent role at Reward Gateway, a £200m revenue business.
Over the course of my career, I’ve navigated multiple mergers, acquisitions, and high-value business transformations. Most recently, I played a key role in Reward Gateway’s $1.45bn USD acquisition, partnering closely with the exiting private equity owners and the C-suite to manage a fast-paced, high-impact transaction.
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Here’s where I can help you ..
In a fractional capacity I provide strategic HR expertise to high-growth series C upwards organisations who are scaling rapidly and working towards funding rounds, acquisitions or exit.
Growth and sale preparation
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Businesses on a growth journey need more than just day-to-day HR support, they need a people strategy that truly enables their scaling ambitions. While smaller organisations generally have operational HR in place to manage daily needs, there’s often a gap between this and the strategic input that an experienced Chief People Officer can bring.
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That’s where I come in
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By partnering with the in-house HR function and the leadership team, I help bridge the gap between operational and strategic HR. Together, we lay the groundwork for sustainable growth, ensuring the business is not only equipped to scale, but also prepared for key milestones like investment or exit.
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Alongside Fractional CPO roles, I am also a board advisor and NED.
​​​​​This is what gets me up every morning, why I am passionate about what I do and what gives me the drive to make a difference.
Career background
Repeatedly recognised as one of HR Magazine’s Most Influential for four years (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025), I’m a multi award-winning HR leader with a deep-rooted passion for shaping standout organisational cultures and crafting unforgettable employee experiences.
With a career grounded in curiosity, adaptability, and forward-thinking leadership, I’m driven by innovation that doesn’t just keep pace with change, but leads it. My passion is creating people first strategies that not only attract and grow talent but turns it into a true competitive advantage. As a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and Fellow of the Learning & Performance Institute, I’m relentless in my mission to connect the dots between powerful people initiatives and tangible business outcomes.
I believe in learning through sharing. I regularly contribute to the HR community, whether it’s through speaking engagements, published insights, podcasts, or webinars. I’m energised by connecting with others, exchanging ideas, and pushing boundaries together.
I serve as a Non Executive Director for Macmillan Cancer Support, advising the People Committee, and am an Advisory Board Member for various HR communities, where I help bring HR professionals together to collaborate, challenge, and grow. With over 20 years in HR, I’ve worked across industries including; travel, retail, pharma, education, and tech, gaining a real world understanding of what makes organisations (and their people) thrive.
From an early career in Learning & Development, I have successfully progressed into the role of Chief People Officer. Throughout, I have learned that where I add the most business value is by shaping organisational culture to deliver business success, and this the case no matter the sector, industry or organisation size.
“Imagine a world in which every working adult is empowered to thrive
in a workplace that nurtures their potential, aligns with their purpose,
and fuels their vision of life success. Driving not only personal fulfillment,
but extraordinary, sustainable business growth.”
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Testimonials
Perry Timms
Chief Energy Officer and Founder; PTHR
No. 1 Most Influential HR Thinker
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"Nebel's one of those people professionals with a constant sense of more, better, different and pioneering. Whether it's on talent. performance, learning, onboarding, leadership, acquisition - the areas of people practice matter not.
Because Nebel has a restlessness, agitation and creative push to solve problems, engage others, brings credible frameworks and pioneering thinking. Whether this is building Scrum-based approaches, Agile projects or more formalised programmes Nebel is that ambidextrous type of people professional suitable for any and all changes of a strategic or tactical nature.
All Nebel needs is the bandwidth, space and resources then impactful delivery is a given."
Nikki Owen
Leadership Expert and
Keynote Speaker
"Nebel is a visionary.
She demonstrates a passion for people and is prepared to venture off the conventional norms in her quest to deliver high impact development solutions that work at speed.
Having worked with her since 2008 across three organisations I appreciate the loyalty her teams feel towards her and how she inspires others to step up and to step out.
She is extraordinary."
Belinda Gannaway
Director, Ocelli XP
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" In a profession full of people people, Nebel's light radiates brightly. She is one of the most sincere and thoughtful individuals in this sector – always a delight to talk to and work with.
Beyond that, Nebel is smart, incisive, and laser-focused on the business and people outcomes that matter – both today and in the future.
If you need a CPO like no other and one who will deliver real impact from day one (far beyond what you might expect from HR), Nebel is for you.
You will wonder how you ever managed without her."