Fractional People Leadership. Transformational Coaching.
Turning inflection points of growth and change into breakthroughs for leaders & businesses.
Fractional People Leadership and Leadership Coaching for start-ups, scale-ups, and businesses at key turning points.
Ayse Bouvet
I’m the founder of PeopleVantage. I offer fractional senior People expertise and leadership coaching—two great, complementary ways to stay connected to the real day-to-day challenges of businesses and leadership.
As a Fractional People leader, I provide hands-on, practical support to help your business thrive while my Coaching is all about supporting you personally on your leadership journey for lasting success.
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Fractional People Leadership
I offer flexible, senior People leadership tailored to your business- whether you need support for a few days a month, a steady weekly rhythm, or something in between. This gives you access to senior People expertise on an interim basis- onsite, remote or hybrid. It’s ideal for scaling up, navigating change, easing growth-related challenges, or shifting your People function from operational to strategic. You get clear, high-impact deliverables that land on time and help you achieve your business goals through:
✔️ A trusted partnership with you and your leaders- cutting through complexity, lightening your load, and helping you make confident, timely People decisions.
✔️ People strategies that drive commercial and measurable impact- embedding change, lifting performance, and enabling growth.
✔️ A culture built for lasting success- intentional, resilient, and anchored in your vision.
✔️ Decisions you can trust - agile, data-led, informed by market insights and your internal reality, designed to bring your team with you.
My services are flexible and day-rate based, with pricing tailored to what you need.
Leadership Coaching
Coaching gives leaders a safe space to reflect and grow. I support you as leaders through critical moments that shape both your leadership and your business- navigating change & growth, scaling teams, career pivots or stepping up when what got you here won’t get you there.
Drawing on years of experience in fast-growing, change-driven businesses, I help leaders turn real-world challenges into clear action and results by:
✔️ Developing critical leadership muscles – deepen self-awareness, tackle blind spots, and get ready for what’s ahead.
✔️ Increasing leadership impact – strengthen influence amongst boards, stakeholders, and your team.
✔️ Leading with clarity under pressure – make high-impact decisions and bring your team & stakeholders along.
✔️ Driving change effectively –step up as a change agent and deliver intended outcomes.
We begin with a discretionary chemistry session to see if we’re the right fit, then create a tailored programme- usually 4–6 sessions, 1.5 hours each, over 3–6 months—shaped around your goals and schedule.
Testimonials
“As a member of my Executive team, Ayse is hugely respected and valued, both as a People expert and a peer who brings strategic clarity and diversity of thought and challenge in our wider business decisions.
Ayse’s strengths include an incredible ability to quickly diagnose complex concepts or situations to then implement effective solutions that move the business forward. This, coupled with her enterprise wide leadership influence, makes Ayse a very effective change agent. Recently, she has been instrumental in establishing and driving our adoption of an OKR framework; directly tackling engagement feedback about leadership alignment across the business. In doing so, this has helped to provide genuine clarity on our future direction and how people’s work aligns.
Personally, I have found Ayse’s partnership invaluable and a key factor in my successful transition into the UK CEO role. Her ‘ear to the ground’ and proactive coaching of me in critical people matters ensured I built trust early and effectively, with the business going on to deliver above plan results in the face of extensive change. She was pivotal in creating the Exec target operating model for our next chapter of growth, supplying smart, strategic insight into key competency gaps in the team and partnering with me to hire quality talent. Ayse also championed a different approach to tackling an underperforming part of our business; assessing capability, designing quality learning and development programmes and establishing strong communities of best practice to change the trajectory.
Ayse’s strategic mindset, implementation tenacity, and her candid yet compassionate approach makes her hugely valuable. As one of the most talented people I know, her drive, positivity and willingness to learn is a pleasure to be around - I would highly recommend her.”
Julie Fisher, UK CEO
“Ayse was my number 2 for 5 years in a high growth business. She helped shape the people strategy, delivered game-changing initiatives she designed globally and played a key role in lifting performance and commerciality in the people team. She built people partnering capabilities in the business from scratch, hand-picked a team of high performers and enthusiastically expanded her breadth by taking on talent acquisition in addition to those responsibilities. She is sharp, direct in her communication and quick at diagnosing the biggest opportunities to tackle without losing the relevant nuance. I would also trust her again in a heartbeat to manage difficult stakeholders with grace and resilience.”
Yaelle Candolfi, Chief People Officer
“It was a pleasure working alongside Ayse on the SB management team for two years. Ayse expertly represented the People agenda, ensuring our team remained focused on our most valuable asset - our people.
However, Ayse's contributions extended far beyond this. She consistently brought insightful perspectives to business strategy discussions and played a key role in driving business success. Her strategic thinking, collaborative yet, challenging spirit, and dedication were invaluable.
Prior to this, Ayse was my People Partner, and what an amazing People Partner she was! Supportive, challenging, insightful and someone who simply cared in equal measure about the people and the business performance.
I highly recommend Ayse to any organisation seeking a well-rounded leader with both people-centric expertise and a strong business acumen.”
Bea Montoya, Chief Customer & Operations Officer
“Ayse is one of the most commercially astute People leaders I've had the pleasure of working with. Her strong commercial thinking is truly impressive, always considering the business implications of people strategies. She's a creative and quick thinker, able to rapidly grasp complex issues and develop insightful solutions.
What sets Ayse apart is her ability to attract talent and her genuine commitment to driving the development and performance of those around her. She acts as a real talent magnet, fostering growth and empowering individuals to reach their full potential.
Ayse is a fantastic challenger – someone who isn't afraid to ask the tough questions and get to the root of the problem. Her curiosity and insightful approach make her a true strategic partner to the business.
Any organisation would be fortunate to have Ayse on their team. I highly recommend her.”
Christine Ling, Global Head of Learning & Development
“I had the pleasure of being part of Ayse's team at Simply Business for almost 4 years. Ayse has a remarkable ability to challenge the status quo and drive innovation - constantly challenging me and her team to elevate their thinking and be at their best. She genuinely cares about her team's wellbeing and professional growth; whilst reporting to her, I can honestly say that I grew as a HR professional more than in any other role. I wholeheartedly recommend Ayse. She would be a true asset to any organization.”
William Wright, Senior People Partner