Built by an HR Director
Who Gets It
DaisyHR started because too many North West businesses were getting generic HR advice from people who had never sat in the hot seat. We changed that. Today we are also the North West's specialists in menopause in the workplace — for reasons our founder knows first-hand.
Why DaisyHR Exists
Sam spent 10 years building HR functions in North West businesses — not just managing the day-to-day, but shaping how companies hire, develop and retain their people as they scale. She worked at board level with founders and MDs, helping growing businesses get the right people structure in place before things started to unravel.
Before DaisyHR, she led HR across manufacturing, professional services and high-growth SMEs — the businesses where HR was not a support function. It was a commercial lever. She has seen what happens when companies get their people infrastructure right early, and what it costs when they do not.
She has also been in the room when it kicks off. Disciplinaries that escalate. Grievances that get personal. Redundancy programmes that need handling properly. That is the bit most HR consultants outsource or avoid. Sam runs toward it.
She started DaisyHR because she kept seeing the same gap: businesses that needed strategic HR thinking and someone who would roll their sleeves up when required. Not one or the other. Both. That is still the model today — a fractional HR director who knows your business by name, backed by outsourced HR services when you need more hands.
Why We Lead on Menopause in the Workplace
Menopause in the workplace became DaisyHR’s specialism the hard way. Sam spent years with perimenopause symptoms — and years being turned away by doctors and refused treatment for them. After all that battling she finally got a diagnosis at 41: perimenopause. She is going through it right now, while running an HR consultancy.
That is the credibility behind the advice. Sam knows the policy side: CIPD Chartered (Level 7), a specialism in employment relations, every date and duty in the Employment Rights Act 2025. And she knows the 9am-meeting-with-brain-fog side, because she lives it. When she tells a Bolton or Manchester MD which reasonable adjustments actually work, it is not theory.
The law is moving the same way. Under ERA 2025, employers with 250 or more staff have been able to publish menopause action plans since April 2026, and publication is expected to become mandatory from spring 2027. Menopause-related tribunal claims tripled in two years — 64 in 2022 to 204 in 2024. This has stopped being a wellbeing extra. Handled early, it is a retention advantage. Ignored, it is a tribunal claim.
So we built what employers kept asking us for. The Menopause Hub for employers: ten free guides that take you end to end — the complete employer guide to menopause at work, policy templates and ERA 2025-ready action plans, menopause training for managers, and the reasonable adjustments tribunals expect to see. Alongside it, the her. pause workplace kit, supplied to UK workplaces through an exclusive DaisyHR partnership. Policy sets the rules. The kit delivers relief your team can feel.
Samantha Boyle
What Sam Brings
- Helped growing businesses get their people structure right before it becomes a problem
- Workforce planning and organisational design that grows with you
- People strategy that connects to commercial goals
- The calm, experienced presence when difficult conversations need having
- CIPD Chartered (Level 7) with a specialism in employment relations
- Leads DaisyHR’s Menopause at Work practice — policy, action plans, manager training and adjustments for North West employers, informed by her own perimenopause
The DaisyHR Standard
Every DaisyHR consultant is CIPD qualified with a minimum of ten years' senior HR experience. We do not use generalists. We use people who have sat at the board table and navigated the exact situations our clients face.
What Makes DaisyHR Different?
Built for Employers & Their Teams
We are engaged by business owners, but great HR serves everyone. Our job is to help you build workplaces where your people thrive and your business is protected.
CIPD Qualified
Every consultant holds a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development qualification. Real credentials, not just good intentions.
Senior Practitioners
No juniors learning on your time. You get experienced HR professionals who have handled the difficult conversations before.
North West Based
We are based in Bolton and serve employers across Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and the wider North West. Local knowledge, local relationships.
Menopause at Work Specialists
Policy, action plans, manager training and adjustments, led by a founder who is living perimenopause herself. Take the UK menopause at work statistics to your next board meeting.
Our Approach
We do not believe in one-size-fits-all HR. Every business is different, and the support you get should reflect that.
Understand Your Business
We start by listening. What does your business actually need? Not a template. Not a generic policy pack. A proper understanding of where you are and where you are heading.
Build the Right Foundation
Contracts, policies, processes. The boring-but-essential infrastructure that protects you. We make sure it is solid, compliant, and built for how your business actually works.
Stay in Your Corner
HR does not stop after set-up. We stay close. When things happen — a grievance, a tricky exit, a restructure, a menopause-related absence — you have someone experienced to call who already knows your business.
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Someone Who Gets It?
Book a free 30-minute consultation. No sales pitch, just honest HR advice from someone who has been there — in both senses. And see what working with us looks like in our HR case studies from North West businesses.
Written by Samantha Boyle MCIPD — Founder & Fractional HR Director, Bolton & North West · Last reviewed: July 2026