Welcome to gighrly

Exceptional HR & Business Experts

Trusted specialists helping SMEs grow with confidence

At gighrly, we champion brilliant independent people and business support professionals.

In this directory, you'll find a carefully curated community of top-level UK HR, Talent, Reward and Development consultants and coaches, alongside trusted specialists in areas like marketing, finance, wellbeing, employment law, operating systems, and more.

Together, we offer SMEs the kind of well-rounded, commercially-minded support that will help you to grow with confidence and beyond compliance.

Every expert listed here runs their own business. They understand the realities, pressures and decisions you're facing because they live them too.

That's why businesses trust gighrly members: they bring deep expertise, practical experience, and a genuinely supportive approach that moves things forward without the jargon or fluff you so often get from working with larger consultancies.

If you're a business owner or leader looking for credible, experienced HR and business support, you'll find it here: people who get it and who have the skills and attitude to deliver results for you.

Curated Community

Every expert runs their own business. They understand the realities, pressures and decisions you're facing.

Genuine Collaboration

We work together on multi-faceted projects, competing effectively with larger consultancies.

Real Results

Deep expertise, practical experience, and a supportive approach that moves things forward.

The Beginning

Our Story

gighrly began with a simple realisation: brilliantly talented people professionals were out there doing exceptional work but doing it alone. Some networks exist but the business side tends to be buried in shop talk. Other communities are built around gurus.

This is different. Not led by a guru but someone on the same journey as our members - and someone who seeks out specialist expertise to work with the club!

As a long-time freelance HR and OD consultant myself, I knew how isolating freelancing can feel, and how much faster we grow when we're surrounded by others who get the highs, lows and everything in between. I created the gighrly club as a place where people pros can prosper in business, together.

A space built on collaboration over competition, where the goal is always a win-win-win: great outcomes for clients, thriving businesses for our members, and a supportive community for peers who want to learn from, share with and lift each other.

Everyone featured in this directory is part of that community - carefully curated, experienced, commercially-minded experts who bring deep capability and genuine collaboration. We often work together on projects that are multi-faceted and we find this approach can help us to compete effectively with larger consultancies. The club has grown into a vibrant collective of HR leaders, specialists, and trusted adjacent professionals who believe in doing high quality work, running good businesses and helping others do the same.

This is the ecosystem I wish I'd had when I started out - and now, it's here for all of us.

Meet the Founder

About Dotty

Dorothy 'Dotty' Day - Founder of gighrly

Dorothy "Dotty" Day

Founder, gighrly

Dorothy "Dotty" Day has spent her career helping organisations untangle complexity around their operations, build brilliant cultures and make people strategy actually work in the real world.

With over 25 years of experience in HR, OD and transformation - spanning scale-ups, corporates and everything in between, she's known for bringing clarity, commercial thinking and a calm, human touch to even the knottiest challenges.

Dotty has led major change programmes, supported through high-growth phases and downturns, designed future-proof operating models, shaped people strategies and advised senior leaders on how to build businesses where people can genuinely thrive.

But beyond the work itself, what truly sets her apart is her commitment to lifting others as she climbs. Her instinct for community, collaboration and practical support sits at the heart of gighrly.

Dotty understands the realities of freelancing because she's lived them: the excitement, the autonomy, the late-night worries, and the desire to build something meaningful. gighrly is her way of creating the ecosystem she wished had existed in her first five years of business - a place where talented people pros can succeed on their own terms, surrounded by peers who care just as much as she does about doing good work, doing it well, and doing it together.

Join Us

The gighrly Club

The gighrly club is a cosy, commercially-savvy community for experienced HR professionals operating as consultants, fractionals and freelancers who want to learn, grow and collaborate.

Our club is also for HR-adjacent experts in marketing, sales, IT, financial planning, employment law and finance who want to do the same as a club supporter and surround themselves with peers who understand the journey.

Expert-led sessions
Quarterly planning & coaching
Business resources & templates
Collaboration opportunities

Members get access to support, expert-led sessions, quarterly planning and coaching sessions shaped by what they want to learn, and business resources, templates, collaboration opportunities, and a network that genuinely works together.

No gurus, no gatekeeping - just real-world support for real-world business owners.

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