A sensitive employment issue carries commercial, legal or reputational risk.
Global people & change advisory
Complex people issues. Made manageable.
When the people side of business gets difficult, Simphill brings the experience, judgement and practical support to manage risk, defuse complexity and create a clear way forward.
20+ years people leadership
20+ countries regional scope
Executive & board advisory experience
Fortune 500multinational experience
APAC & emerging marketscross-cultural leadership
M&A and restructuringcomplex people transitions
Law + HRcommercial and ER perspective
When the people decisions are difficult
The challenge rarely arrives neatly packaged.
It may start as an employment issue, a restructure, an integration problem or a leadership decision. Simphill helps you see the whole situation, make the trade-offs explicit and move from uncertainty to action.
Transformation or restructuring needs clear people decisions and disciplined execution.
Leadership needs an independent senior perspective before making a consequential call.
A merger, operating-model shift or technology change is reshaping roles, capability and ways of working.
Where Simphill adds value
Senior people expertise, without adding permanent overhead.
Engage Simphill for a defined project, a difficult people issue, or experienced support alongside your leadership team.
Employment Relations & Risk
Practical, evidence-led support for complex workplace matters, investigations, performance and disciplinary processes, grievances, mediation preparation and ER risk.
Multi-jurisdictional experience; advice is tailored to local legal and regulatory requirements.Transformation & Organisational Change
End-to-end people support for restructures, operating model change, role redesign, consultation, implementation and transition.
Organisational Design & Workforce Planning
Design roles, structures and capability around the work your organisation needs now—and where it is going next.
People Strategy & Executive Advisory
Translate business priorities into pragmatic workforce, leadership, remuneration and people plans that leaders can actually execute.
M&A People Integration
Support due diligence, people planning, employment harmonisation, communications, culture integration and post-deal transition.
HR Operations, Technology & AI
Make people services simpler and more scalable through service design, HR technology, analytics, automation and sensible AI enablement.
Experience that travels
Built in complex organisations. Applied pragmatically.
Experience built inside complex organisations and across diverse markets — brought to the people, commercial and organisational challenges clients are facing now.
Cost reduction, revenue enablement, operating-model change, strategy into action delivered across organisations and markets.
Two decades of restructuring, integration, organisational redesign, technology change and evolving roles — from targeted interventions to enterprise programmes.
Employment relations matters across multiple countries and jurisdictions, from everyday workplace issues to mediation, complex multi-party matters and significant organisational change.
countries across regional commercial HR leadership, advisory and transformation work.
Representative work across markets
Global context, local judgement.
Experience has ranged from country-level employment issues to regional operating models, talent pipelines and cross-border integration.
Commercial HR leadership across highly diverse markets
Partnered with commercial organisations across Asia Pacific, China, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, supporting a portfolio of around 600 people and USD $650M revenue.
Leadership development and talent work included Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Employment relations, talent and organisation effectiveness
Served as Asia Pacific & China Employment Relations Lead and contributed to regional leadership work across talent pipelines, succession, organisation reviews and complex ER matters.
Also helped align a flexible working approach across APAC with global policy.
M&A integration and operating model change
Integrated an acquired business into Thermo Fisher Scientific across Australia and New Zealand, redesigned APAC field service and customer service structures, and moved HR support toward shared services.
Commercial organisation design was used to support go-to-market strategy while maintaining engagement through change.
Transformation, technology and capability at scale
Led people transformation in large training and education environments, including HRIS implementation, executive team redesign, career frameworks, people partnering and support for training thousands of apprentices.
Built digital services and workforce systems designed to improve both business performance and people experience.
How Simphill works
Clear enough for leaders. Practical enough to implement.
Understand
Get to the commercial, human and risk realities quickly.
Clarify
Turn complexity into options, trade-offs and a clear recommendation.
Deliver
Support leaders through the conversations, decisions and implementation.
Embed
Leave behind stronger systems, capability and confidence—not dependency.
Auckland based. Globally experienced.
Support that understands local nuance and international complexity.
Remote advisory and project support are available internationally. Where local employment law advice is required, Simphill works within the relevant jurisdictional requirements and can collaborate with local counsel or specialists.
The experience behind Simphill
Experienced support, without making the work about the adviser.
You get direct access to more than 20 years of multinational, private and growth-environment experience—from hands-on employment relations to regional workforce strategy.
Stuart has partnered with CEOs, boards and commercial leaders through organisational change, M&A, employment relations, people technology and workforce transformation.
He is an admitted Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (non-practising), bringing disciplined risk thinking alongside practical senior HR leadership.
Fortune 500 experience
APAC leadership
LLB + BA
Executive advisory
Start a conversation
What people challenge is taking too much of your attention?
Share the situation, the outcome you need and the timeframe. Simphill can quickly establish whether we’re the right fit.
You’ll speak directly with Stuart Simpson.