About Chloe Wallace, founder of OneSource HR
Most people come to this work through an academic interest or a professional specialism. Chloe Wallace came to it through both of those things and something harder to quantify.
The career
HR has been Chloe’s whole career. Not as a stepping stone to something else, but as a genuine vocation pursued at the highest level across some of the most demanding environments in British business.
Male-dominated industries. High-stakes private equity backed turnarounds. Mergers and acquisitions where the culture work is as complex as the financial restructuring. Automotive retail at scale, working within FCA regulated environments and developing a sharp understanding of third-party risk. Senior roles where the ER casework was rarely straightforward and the margin for error was small.
It is the kind of background that gives you a forensic understanding of how organisations actually work, as opposed to how they say they work. And it is the kind of background that makes you very hard to impress with a policy document and a one-hour e-learning module.
The pivot
The shift that led to OneSource HR was personal. Following her own experience of domestic abuse, Chloe founded a community interest project supporting women who had experienced domestic and sexual violence with employability and financial wellbeing resources.
It was during that work that something crystallised. She began to think seriously about how she could bring together her skills as a senior HR practitioner, her lived experience, and her conviction that workplaces could and should do better by the people in them.
She did not approach that question sentimentally. She approached it the way she had approached every complex culture project in her career: with rigour, with structure, and with a determination to build something that actually worked.
The specialism
Chloe undertook specialist training with Victim Focus, one of the UK’s leading victim support organisations, in trauma-informed practice and sexual violence. She trained with the British Psychological Society in supervision skills. She holds CIPD qualifications at Level 5 in HRM and Learning and Development, and at Level 7 in HRM.
What she brought back from that training was not a set of therapeutic techniques to apply in HR settings. It was a framework for understanding what happens to people when they experience harm, and what that means for how organisations investigate, how managers respond, and how HR professionals sustain themselves when carrying the weight of that work over time.
She then did something that nobody else had done. She took the continuous improvement methodology she had seen work in manufacturing, engineering, and quality management, and applied it to harassment prevention. The result was the CEASE Framework®: a structured, repeatable, measurable cycle that treats prevention as a business process rather than a compliance exercise.
Accreditations and specialist training
A different kind of expertise
Chloe is regarded as one of the leading experts in this field in the UK. What sets her apart, in the words of clients and delegates, is a unique ability to engage people in a genuinely difficult topic without polarising the room. To make complex, emotionally charged material feel structured, relatable, and actionable.
That is not an accident. It comes from fifteen years of working in environments where getting it wrong had real consequences, combined with a personal understanding of what harm actually feels like and what genuine support looks like.
Chloe also writes and speaks publicly on these issues. See her media coverage and speaking engagements.
The human bit
Chloe is based in Yorkshire. Outside of work she practises hand balancing: mostly still falling, she will tell you. She spends time travelling and with her family, and shares her home with Vindog, a thirteen year old Staffordshire Bull Terrier of considerable personality.
Work with Chloe
If you would like to talk through what OneSource HR can do for your organisation, book a call with Chloe directly.