The thing that gets in the way is rarely what it looks like
About Hayley
Senior HR Leader. Coach. Triathlete. Twenty years working at the intersection of commercial performance and human potential.
The Beginning
I didn't set out to become a people professional.
I set out to understand what makes people perform. That question has taken me through 20+ years of HR leadership, across FTSE 100 retail, PE-backed scale-ups, and global transformation programmes. And its the same question that drives everything I do today.
What I have come to believe, after working with hundreds of leaders and organisations, is that the gap between where someone is and where they want to be is rarely about capability. Its about clarity. And its almost always about something they can't quite see in themselves.
I built Inspired Intentions to do the work I find most meaningful, helping businesses and the people leading them to perform at a different level. Not by adding more frameworks or processes, but by helping them see clearly what's quietly getting in the way.
The Sports Lens
Sport isn't a hobby. It's a methodology.
I'm a triathlete and a British Triathlon coach. I train, I race, and I coach others to be mentally fit in business. The lessons sport has taught me about resilience, pacing, self-belief, and what people are truly capable of are ones i bring in to every coaching conversation and every board/business meeting.
Whether I am working with a CEO on their leadership blind spots or helping women redesign their career, I'm always asking the same question a great coach asks: what do you need right ow, and what getting in your way?
How I work
With Businesses
Senior HR leadership and people strategy for businesses that need CPO-level thinking without a full-time hire. I work alongside leadership teams on the challenges that matter most, talent, culture, performance, organisational design.
Right for you if:
You're scaling, restructuring, or facing a people problem that needs senior expertise to solve and you want someone who has done this at scale before.
With Individuals
Coaching for leaders of teams who want to lead with more intention, and women who are wanting to stop waiting and start moving forwards. Whether that is in their career, their leadership, in the multipole roles they play or in life.
Right for you if:
Something feels stuck and you are ready to look honestly at what is getting in your way.