Helen Sheehy

Helen is a CIPD Fellow with over 25 years’ experience operating at executive level, providing strategic and operational HR leadership across a wide range of sectors. She specialises in organisational transformation, leadership development, reward strategy, organisational design, and building high-performing HR functions.

She provides fractional Executive HR support and consultancy services, partnering with business owners and leadership teams to design and implement people strategies that enable growth, transformation, and long-term performance.

Helen is a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, known for coaching executive teams, developing organisational capability, and leading complex change programmes. Her work includes delivering large-scale transformation initiatives, implementing HR systems, and shaping organisational and cultural change.

She has strong experience handling complex employee relations matters, including working with trade unions and high-risk and sensitive cases, bringing a calm, pragmatic approach that enables businesses to move forward with confidence.

Her sector experience spans professional membership bodies, energy, aviation, hospitality, engineering, transport, oil & gas, IT services, technology, FMCG, start-ups, healthcare, and life sciences. This breadth allows her to quickly understand commercial drivers and deliver practical, tailored solutions.

Helen combines strategic insight with hands-on delivery, ensuring that HR initiatives translate into meaningful business outcomes. She is known for her down-to-earth style, clarity of thinking, and ability to quickly get to the heart of an issue.

Clients describe her as “tenacious, professional, and a source of calm wisdom—someone who quickly understands challenges and provides clear, expert guidance.”