At Purposeful Tech, we work as fractional team members. We embed in your business a couple of days a week and deliver the same work a full-time Head of People would. We know your team by name. We deal with the hard conversations, the compliance, and the structural problems that keep founders up at night.

The challenge founders bring to us is almost always the same: the team is growing, yet it feels like less is getting done. Accountability is unclear. Ownership keeps drifting back to the founder. We fix that by building the people systems, the leadership capability, and the operational foundations that let your team run without everything flowing through you.

Steph Thommen

Founder, EMEA

My career started in customer service call centres, in managerial and operational quality roles, where I learned that when you give people clear structure and real autonomy, everything improves. I moved into startups first as Head of Customer Success, then into Head of People roles where I've stayed ever since.

I've built and scaled people functions in seed to Series C startups, including scaling Nivoda from 230 to over 500 staff in 17 months. I embed in your business as a Fractional Head of People to build the systems, structures, and leadership capability that let you scale without breaking your culture.

Shradha Nair

Partner, APAC

Shradha has built, fixed and scaled people operations across India, the US and Europe. She's set up HR from nothing in startups, hired leadership teams that changed the direction of a company and coached managers who were never taught them how to lead.

She's managed people operations for teams of 20 to 500+ across technology, SaaS, financial services, healthcare, and real estate. Where she's particularly sharp: compliant HR infrastructure across multiple geographies, compensation frameworks that retain people, and navigating restructuring and cultural resets without drama.

Contact

steph.thommen@purposeful.tech

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