People and change consultancy for law firms and in-house legal teams
The strategy is signed off. Your people aren’t living it.
I help law firms and in-house legal teams plan change and make it work in practice. That starts with understanding what you’re asking of people — and being willing to question the plan, not just their response to it.
Consulting for your organisation. Workshops for your team. A thinking partner for you.
Three ways to work together
Three doors, one key.
However you find me, the work underneath is the same: the human side of a changing world of work. Here’s where to start.
Each door makes the others sharper — the consultant has stood in front of a classroom, the speaker has sat in the boardroom, and the adviser has lived the change she researches.
Testimonials
What people say.
Alice quickly embedded herself in our team and got to grips with our reality. She didn’t just advise; she helped us implement AI so it actually works for the people using it.
We’re building our UK legal and compliance function from the ground up, and I needed a clear way to think about how to resource it as the business grows. Alice was the sounding board I needed: she got to grips with our situation quickly, helped me work out what to build in-house, what to bring in and in what order, and turned it into a plan I could act on. Practical, direct and on our side.
She is sharp, strategic, and has a clear track record of building businesses herself — but beyond that she brings a level of empathy and personal investment I wasn’t expecting. She doesn’t just tell you what to do. She understands where you are, meets you there, and guides you forward.
Alice is the person I’d send any founder to who’s leading a change their team didn’t ask for. Direct, evidence-based, and completely uninterested in staying longer than the work needs. Rare.
There were points in this where the news was bad, and Alice just told us. No softening, no spin — here’s the position, here’s what I recommend we do next, your call. I’ve had plenty of advisers tell me what I wanted to hear. She never did, and it’s the reason we trusted her with the next decision, and the one after that.
Why Alice
I’ve been on more than one side of this.
I’ve advised leaders, built businesses and been on the receiving end of change I didn’t choose. Now I bring that experience into the room alongside my teaching and research. You work directly with me, from our first conversation to the handover.
I’ve been an HR adviser, an employment solicitor, the founder of a legal services business and a university lecturer. I’m also a doctoral researcher at the University of Bath, studying how workplace expectations shape professional identity and everyday working lives.
More about Alice →“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
The White Queen
Make sense of the madness
Let’s talk it through.
Whether you’re leading an organisation through change or navigating your own professional crossroads, the best place to start is a conversation. No pitch deck, no framework. Just a chat about where you are and whether I can help.
