HR Consulting, Coaching and Mediation
At Popoki, we offer tailored HR consultancy, including flexible retained HR services and HR business process outsourcing for UK businesses. We combine employment law knowledge with practical, people-first solutions.
Whether you need help with employee relations services, executive leadership coaching, workplace mediation services, or managing complex organisational design consulting, we’re here to guide you through.
Marie Hart
Founder & HR Consultant
Marie is a Chartered FCIPD professional. Before founding Popoki, she held senior HR roles at Wasserman, Charlotte Tilbury, and Series C start-up Farmdrop. She has led initiatives across HR consultancy recruitment, internal investigations, employee engagement consulting, HR strategy, and complex commercial dispute resolution and mergers.
We help businesses navigate workplace challenges with clear, confident solutions.
Whether you're a small business without in-house HR or a larger company needing extra support for your internal HR team, we offer fractional HR consulting and hands-on help that works in the real world.
With over 20 years’ experience in HR consultancy, employee relations services, leadership development, and commercial dispute resolution, we provide practical, results-driven support to help you:
- Handle HR issues and stay legally compliant with expert HR advice for small businesses and scalable HR consultancy support
- Offer specialist executive leadership coaching and management skills training to build capable leaders and high-performing, confident teams
- Resolve disputes through independent workplace mediation services, internal investigations, or commercial dispute resolution
- Create a positive workplace culture through strategic employee engagement consulting and tailored people strategy consulting that helps retain and motivate talent
We work flexibly to suit your needs – whether it’s a one-off project, ongoing HR business process outsourcing, or a fresh perspective when you need it most.
Based in St Albans, the Popoki team provides tailored HR consultancy services, including HR retained services, fractional HR support, and ad hoc HR advice to businesses across Hertfordshire, London, and the South East, as well as remote support to teams nationwide.
Whether you’re local or further afield, and looking for pragmatic, people-first support from an experienced HR consultant in St Albans, we’re ready to help.
Build strong, fair workplaces with expert advice on employee relations, from everyday issues to complex cases.
Manage workplace disputes with confidence. We help you navigate conflict, tribunals, and mediation with practical, impartial support.
Clear, tailored policies create structure and consistency. We design practical frameworks that protect your business and empower your teams.
Support your business through change with expert guidance on restructures, redundancy, and mergers. We help you manage transitions with care and clarity.
Align your people plans with your business goals. We build practical strategies to grow leadership, engagement, and resilience.
Attract, retain, and develop the right people. We help you create robust recruitment strategies and performance frameworks that drive results.
Empower your teams with targeted training. We design and deliver development programs that boost skills, confidence, and engagement.
Support your people through career transitions. We offer practical outplacement services to help individuals move forward positively and confidently.
Engaged employees feel connected, valued, and motivated to contribute to your business’s success. We’ll work with you to build this engagement.
