Sometimes, you just need your own HR person.
Independent HR advice for employees, backed by more than 15 years of experience inside organisations.
15+ years in HR
Senior HR business partnering
Australian & global organisations
Sometimes, you just need your own HR person.
Independent HR advice for employees, backed by more than 15 years of experience inside organisations.
15+ years in HR
Senior HR business partnering
Australian & global organisations
Work doesn’t stay neatly at work.
A difficult situation at work rarely ends when you close your laptop or walk out the door. It can follow you home and affect your confidence, your sleep, your relationships, your family, your finances and the decisions you make.
But it isn’t only the difficult moments. The decisions we make about work can have a huge impact on the rest of our lives too.
Whether to take the job. What to negotiate before you sign. Whether to ask for more money or flexibility. When to push back, when to speak up and when it might be time to leave.
These are work decisions, but they’re life decisions too.
And when you’re the person inside the situation, it can be surprisingly hard to see it clearly. You can ask a friend, search online, ask AI or speak to your partner for the fifteenth time about the same email. But sometimes what you really want is someone who understands how workplaces actually work and knows the HR side of the equation.
Someone independent, experienced and outside your organisation.
That’s why I created gotHR?
Work doesn’t stay neatly at work.
A difficult situation at work rarely ends when you close your laptop or walk out the door. It can follow you home and affect your confidence, your sleep, your relationships, your family, your finances and the decisions you make.
But it isn’t only the difficult moments. The decisions we make about work can have a huge impact on the rest of our lives too.
Whether to take the job. What to negotiate before you sign. Whether to ask for more money or flexibility. When to push back, when to speak up and when it might be time to leave.
These are work decisions, but they’re life decisions too.
And when you’re the person inside the situation, it can be surprisingly hard to see it clearly. You can ask a friend, search online, ask AI or speak to your partner for the fifteenth time about the same email. But sometimes what you really want is someone who understands how workplaces actually work and knows the HR side of the equation.
Someone independent, experienced and outside your organisation.
That’s why I created gotHR?
What are you dealing with?
It doesn’t have to be a crisis. You might be making a good opportunity better, trying to understand something that feels off, preparing for a conversation you’d rather not have, or carrying around a work situation that has become much bigger in your head because you don’t know what it means yet.
Starting or changing something
New job? Contract to sign? Salary to negotiate? Promotion on the table? Stepping into a bigger role? Starting somewhere new and wanting to get it right?
gotHR?
Something doesn’t feel right
Unexpected feedback? A difficult manager? Called into a meeting without much explanation? Suddenly being managed differently? Getting mixed messages?
gotHR?
Work is changing
Returning from parental leave? Role changing? Restructure happening? Redundancy being discussed? Asked to work differently? Wondering whether what you signed up for is still the job you have?
gotHR?
You just need another perspective
Can they do this? Am I overreacting? What would HR normally do here? Should I put this in writing? Is this worth raising?
gotHR?
What are you dealing with?
It doesn’t have to be a crisis. You might be making a good opportunity better, trying to understand something that feels off, preparing for a conversation you’d rather not have, or carrying around a work situation that has become much bigger in your head because you don’t know what it means yet.
Starting or changing something
New job? Contract to sign? Salary to negotiate? Promotion on the table? Stepping into a bigger role? Starting somewhere new and wanting to get it right?
gotHR?
Something doesn’t feel right
Unexpected feedback? A difficult manager? Called into a meeting without much explanation? Suddenly being managed differently? Getting mixed messages?
gotHR?
Work is changing
Returning from parental leave? Role changing? Restructure happening? Redundancy being discussed? Asked to work differently? Wondering whether what you signed up for is still the job you have?
gotHR?
You just need another perspective
Can they do this? Am I overreacting? What would HR normally do here? Should I put this in writing? Is this worth raising?
gotHR?
Let’s talk it through properly.
You don’t need to arrive with everything figured out. Tell me what’s happening, give me the backstory and, if it helps, show me the email, contract, meeting invite, offer or policy you’re trying to make sense of.
I’ll listen to it with an HR brain. That means I’m listening for the things you may not know to look for yourself: what stands out, what I’d want to understand more about, what may be happening on the organisational side, what is fairly normal workplace process and what isn’t.
Depending on what you bring, we might prepare for a conversation, pull apart an email before you respond, look at an offer and what may be worth negotiating, work through a performance or restructure process, or map out a plan for something bigger like a career move, parental leave or returning to work.
Sometimes the most useful thing is simply having someone experienced look at the same situation and say, “Here’s what I’m seeing.”
I’m not there to automatically agree with you, tell you what you want to hear or make the decision for you. I’m there to give you something most employees rarely have access to: an experienced HR perspective that is entirely independent of their employer.
Let’s talk it through properly.
You don’t need to arrive with everything figured out. Tell me what’s happening, give me the backstory and, if it helps, show me the email, contract, meeting invite, offer or policy you’re trying to make sense of.
I’ll listen to it with an HR brain. That means I’m listening for the things you may not know to look for yourself: what stands out, what I’d want to understand more about, what may be happening on the organisational side, what is fairly normal workplace process and what isn’t.
Depending on what you bring, we might prepare for a conversation, pull apart an email before you respond, look at an offer and what may be worth negotiating, work through a performance or restructure process, or map out a plan for something bigger like a career move, parental leave or returning to work.
Sometimes the most useful thing is simply having someone experienced look at the same situation and say, “Here’s what I’m seeing.”
I’m not there to automatically agree with you, tell you what you want to hear or make the decision for you. I’m there to give you something most employees rarely have access to: an experienced HR perspective that is entirely independent of their employer.
Hi, I’m Celia.
I’ve spent over 15 years in HR.
I’ve worked inside Australian and global organisations, partnering with employees, managers and leaders through the ordinary, complicated and occasionally very messy realities of working life.
Working inside organisations for that long teaches you things that don’t always appear in a policy. You start to understand how workplace decisions actually get made, how managers are likely to be thinking about a situation, what HR may be advising behind the scenes, where an organisation genuinely has constraints and where there may be room to move.
I’ve sat on enough sides of enough workplace situations to know that things are rarely as simple as one person being completely right and another being completely wrong. Context matters, judgement matters and understanding the whole picture matters.
That’s the perspective I bring to gotHR?
15+ years in HR
Senior HR business partnering
Australian & global organisations
Hi, I’m Celia.
I’ve spent over 15 years in HR.
I’ve worked inside Australian and global organisations, partnering with employees, managers and leaders through the ordinary, complicated and occasionally very messy realities of working life.
Working inside organisations for that long teaches you things that don’t always appear in a policy. You start to understand how workplace decisions actually get made, how managers are likely to be thinking about a situation, what HR may be advising behind the scenes, where an organisation genuinely has constraints and where there may be room to move.
I’ve sat on enough sides of enough workplace situations to know that things are rarely as simple as one person being completely right and another being completely wrong. Context matters, judgement matters and understanding the whole picture matters.
That’s the perspective I bring to gotHR?
15+ years in HR
Senior HR business partnering
Australian & global organisations
Senior HR experience, grounded in Australian workplaces.
Senior HR experience, grounded in Australian workplaces.
My advice is informed by current Australian workplace frameworks and employer obligations.
Fair Work Act & NES
Modern Awards
Flexible Work
Parental Leave
Right to Disconnect
Psychosocial Hazards
WHS
WGEA
Discrimination & Equal Opportunity
Employee Relations
Certified Fair Play Facilitator
Senior HR experience, grounded in Australian workplaces.
My advice is informed by current Australian workplace frameworks and employer obligations.
Fair Work Act & NES
Modern Awards
Flexible Work
Parental Leave
Right to Disconnect
Psychosocial Hazards
WHS
WGEA
Discrimination & Equal Opportunity
Employee Relations
Certified Fair Play Facilitator
Independent means independent.
Your internal HR team can be an incredibly valuable resource, but they work for the organisation. Their role includes supporting employees while also advising managers, managing organisational risk, applying company policy and helping the business meet its obligations.
That isn’t a criticism of internal HR. It is simply the reality of the role.
gotHR? gives you something different. I’m not connected to your employer, I don’t need to manage the relationship with your manager afterwards and I’m not advising the business at the same time.
That means you can bring me the messy version: the context, the email you’ve drafted four times, the part you think you may have handled badly, or the option you’re considering but haven’t told anyone about yet.
You don’t need to perform while you explain it. You can just tell me what’s going on.
Independent means independent.
Your internal HR team can be an incredibly valuable resource, but they work for the organisation. Their role includes supporting employees while also advising managers, managing organisational risk, applying company policy and helping the business meet its obligations.
That isn’t a criticism of internal HR. It is simply the reality of the role.
gotHR? gives you something different. I’m not connected to your employer, I don’t need to manage the relationship with your manager afterwards and I’m not advising the business at the same time.
That means you can bring me the messy version: the context, the email you’ve drafted four times, the part you think you may have handled badly, or the option you’re considering but haven’t told anyone about yet.
You don’t need to perform while you explain it. You can just tell me what’s going on.
WAYS TO GET HR SUPPORT
Sometimes you need an answer. Sometimes you need a plan. Sometimes you need someone in your corner.
Work doesn’t always arrive as one neat HR question.
Sometimes there’s something specific you want to ask. Sometimes you need to talk through what’s happening. Sometimes you’re planning a change and need to work through several connected decisions. And sometimes something is unfolding over time and what you really want is someone who already understands the context.
gotHR? gives you different ways to access experienced, independent HR support depending on what you need.
NEED SOMETHING NOW?
WRITTEN HR SUPPORT
Ask gotHR?
Got a work question?
Send me what’s happening, give me the context I need and tell me what you’d like my perspective on.
I’ll read it properly and send you a personal written response by the next business day.
If I think your question would be better talked through, I’ll let you know. You can put the $99 you’ve already paid towards a private HR conversation.
$99
No appointment needed
ONE CONVERSATION
Talk It Through
Sometimes you need to explain the whole thing.
Bring whatever’s happening at work. You don’t need to diagnose the problem, fit it into a category or limit yourself to one question.
We’ll talk through what’s happening, make sense of what matters, look at anything you may not have considered and work through your options.
We’ll allow up to 60 minutes. Sometimes we’ll need the full time. Sometimes we won’t.
The point isn’t to fill an hour. It’s to give you the HR perspective you came for.
$199
Up to 60 minutes
WANT SOMEONE ALONGSIDE YOU?
6 WEEKS
HR In Your Corner
Some things unfold.
A meeting happens. Someone responds. New information arrives. One decision leads to another.
For six weeks, you’ll have an experienced HR person who already understands what’s happening and somewhere to come back to as things develop.
We’ll start with a private conversation, then reconnect through shorter follow-up conversations and written questions as needed within the agreed support.
And if what you’re navigating needs a plan, we can build that together too.
$499
6 weeks, pilot price. A private conversation, follow-ups and written access
3 MONTHS
Your Own HR Person
For a bigger chapter at work.
Sometimes what you need isn’t another appointment. It’s someone experienced who knows the history, understands the context and can stay alongside you while you work through what comes next.
Over three months, we can work together through conversations, questions, planning and the moments where another HR perspective would help.
This might suit a significant career transition, parental leave and return to work, organisational change, an evolving workplace situation or another substantial chapter in your working life.
From $899
3 months. Conversations, questions and planning
Sometimes you need more than an answer. You need a plan.
CAREER DIRECTION · PARENTAL LEAVE · RETURNING TO WORK · FLEXIBLE WORK
There are moments in working life where one decision connects to a whole series of others.
You might be mapping where you want your career to go next, preparing for parental leave, planning your return to work, thinking through a flexible-work arrangement or navigating another significant work transition.
We can work out where things stand, what matters, the decisions ahead, the conversations you may need to have and what you want to do next.
Where caring and responsibilities at home materially affect a work transition, I can also draw on my experience as a Certified Fair Play Facilitator.
Planning can form part of HR In Your Corner or Your Own HR Person.
Not sure which one you need?
You don’t have to work it out first. Tell me what’s happening and I’ll point you in the right direction.
WAYS TO GET HR SUPPORT
Sometimes you need an answer. Sometimes you need a plan. Sometimes you need someone in your corner.
Work doesn’t always arrive as one neat HR question.
Sometimes there’s something specific you want to ask. Sometimes you need to talk through what’s happening. Sometimes you’re planning a change and need to work through several connected decisions. And sometimes something is unfolding over time and what you really want is someone who already understands the context.
gotHR? gives you different ways to access experienced, independent HR support depending on what you need.
NEED SOMETHING NOW?
WRITTEN HR SUPPORT
Ask gotHR?
Got a work question?
Send me what’s happening, give me the context I need and tell me what you’d like my perspective on.
I’ll read it properly and send you a personal written response by the next business day.
If I think your question would be better talked through, I’ll let you know. You can put the $99 you’ve already paid towards a private HR conversation.
$99
No appointment needed
ONE CONVERSATION
Talk It Through
Sometimes you need to explain the whole thing.
Bring whatever’s happening at work. You don’t need to diagnose the problem, fit it into a category or limit yourself to one question.
We’ll talk through what’s happening, make sense of what matters, look at anything you may not have considered and work through your options.
We’ll allow up to 60 minutes. Sometimes we’ll need the full time. Sometimes we won’t.
The point isn’t to fill an hour. It’s to give you the HR perspective you came for.
$199
Up to 60 minutes
WANT SOMEONE ALONGSIDE YOU?
6 WEEKS
HR In Your Corner
Some things unfold.
A meeting happens. Someone responds. New information arrives. One decision leads to another.
For six weeks, you’ll have an experienced HR person who already understands what’s happening and somewhere to come back to as things develop.
We’ll start with a private conversation, then reconnect through shorter follow-up conversations and written questions as needed within the agreed support.
And if what you’re navigating needs a plan, we can build that together too.
$499
6 weeks, pilot price. A private conversation, follow-ups and written access
3 MONTHS
Your Own HR Person
For a bigger chapter at work.
Sometimes what you need isn’t another appointment. It’s someone experienced who knows the history, understands the context and can stay alongside you while you work through what comes next.
Over three months, we can work together through conversations, questions, planning and the moments where another HR perspective would help.
This might suit a significant career transition, parental leave and return to work, organisational change, an evolving workplace situation or another substantial chapter in your working life.
From $899
3 months. Conversations, questions and planning
Sometimes you need more than an answer. You need a plan.
CAREER DIRECTION · PARENTAL LEAVE · RETURNING TO WORK · FLEXIBLE WORK
There are moments in working life where one decision connects to a whole series of others.
You might be mapping where you want your career to go next, preparing for parental leave, planning your return to work, thinking through a flexible-work arrangement or navigating another significant work transition.
We can work out where things stand, what matters, the decisions ahead, the conversations you may need to have and what you want to do next.
Where caring and responsibilities at home materially affect a work transition, I can also draw on my experience as a Certified Fair Play Facilitator.
Planning can form part of HR In Your Corner or Your Own HR Person.
Not sure which one you need?
You don’t have to work it out first. Tell me what’s happening and I’ll point you in the right direction.
FOR ORGANISATIONS
Give your people access to their own HR perspective.
gotHR? partners with organisations to give employees access to experienced, independent HR guidance as part of the support already available to them.
From preparing for an important conversation to navigating change, flexibility, parental leave or a career decision, employees have somewhere to talk it through with someone who understands how workplaces work.
Employee Access can sit alongside your People & Culture team, EAP and existing employee benefits, adding another layer of practical workplace support.
FOR ORGANISATIONS
Give your people access to their own HR perspective.
gotHR? partners with organisations to give employees access to experienced, independent HR guidance as part of the support already available to them.
From preparing for an important conversation to navigating change, flexibility, parental leave or a career decision, employees have somewhere to talk it through with someone who understands how workplaces work.
Employee Access can sit alongside your People & Culture team, EAP and existing employee benefits, adding another layer of practical workplace support.