Fractional People Leadership. Transformational Coaching.
Helping leaders through change, growth, and everything in between.
Fractional People Leadership and Executive 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
As a Fractional People Leader, I bring senior People expertise— tailored to fit your business, your leadership style, and the pace you’re moving at without the full-time cost. Whether you need a few days a month or a regular weekly presence, short-term or longer, I’m here to partner with you through growth, change, or those tricky tipping points. Think of me as your go-to senior People leader, translating your business needs into simple, culture-focused people solutions that boost long-term success—while building agile, scalable foundations for whatever’s next.
I focus on crafting people strategies and practical, bespoke solutions that fit your business and its stage. No fluff, no overkill—just strategic solutions designed to meet you where you are and help you move forward with confidence.
Leadership Coaching
I coach founders, execs, and senior leaders in start-ups, scale-ups, and evolving organisations—where ambition runs high and change is the norm. Coaching with me is a chance to hit pause, get clear, and build the muscles to lead with confidence and impact. I bring grounded support, honest challenge, and real-world experience—helping leaders stay focused, energised, and ready for whatever is in front of them.
Fractional & Coaching Combo
Sometimes the real magic happens when you don’t have to choose. This combination delivers meaningful people outcomes and equip leaders for change and growth.
It’s about aligning what your business needs with how you and your team lead — turning people strategies into lasting impact. The right people solutions are put in place to help your business thrive, while also supporting your leaders to build the mindset, behaviours, and resilience needed to navigate growth, change, and uncertainty.
It’s a powerful combo that keeps your people approach practical, your leadership effective, and your business ready for whatever comes next.
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