Martin Nicholson

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Engagement Model Offered

Day Rate / Hourly Rate; Project based; Interim / Contract

Suited to Organisational Types

Start-ups; Scale-ups; SME

Martin is a commercially focused HR leader with over 31 years of experience helping organisations navigate change, transformation and growth across sectors including financial services, technology and professional services.

He specialises in building practical HR strategies that support business objectives, from acquisitions and TUPE transfers to restructures and organisational scale-ups. Combining commercial thinking with decisive action, he helps organisations create HR functions that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Martin’s Arena

• People, Change & Business Transformation.

• Technical Focus: Organisational Change, HR Strategy, Acquisitions, TUPE, Restructuring.

• Function Expertise: Interim HR Leadership, Commercial HR, Business Transformation, Organisational Design.

Superpowers

• Translates commercial priorities into practical HR strategies that deliver results.

• Drives organisational change at pace with an action-oriented approach.

• Balances business risk with pragmatic, commercially sound decision-making.

• Builds HR functions that enable growth, integration and transformation.

Impact in Action

• Improved employee retention from 40% to 23% within eight months through organisation-wide HR initiatives.

• Built the Post Office Financial Services structure, recruiting 100 employees within nine months.

• Led eight TUPE transfers to create One Air IT, integrating 500 employees with no tribunal claims.

Working style

• Human, honest and fun.

• Commercially minded and action-focused.

• Builds trust while making difficult decisions.

• Delivers change with pace and pragmatism.