If you've made it here, you might be wondering whether Stroodel is the right fit for you.  My name is Leanne, and I set up Stroodel to help small and scaling businesses add legal and operational frameworks without losing their creative and entrepreneurial spirit. 

I am a qualified solicitor, and I have 16 years post qualification experience. Exactly half of that has been in private practice, working for a law firm and with a huge variety of clients big and small across Intellectual Property and general commercial law.  The other half however, I have been embedded within a multimillion pound private equity backed consumer accessories brand, where I have not only been the sole legal counsel but also the HR lead and later Director of Operations.  

What this means in reality is that I haven't just sat behind a desk writing contracts and policies -  I've spent the last decade seeing everything the whole way through.  Take employment. I've written the policies. I've then been the one using them when things go wrong - for example when there is a grievance, or a disciplinary to be dealth with, and I have honed them over time beyond a template to make sure they actually work for the business.  I've even sat in  tribunal whilst a judge looked at the policy, and how we had followed it, before deciding we were off the hook.  Same with contracts - I've written them, managed them, and where necessary enforced them, then rewritten them with the benefit of knowing what worked and what didn't in the actual commercial deal. 

Over time, I have refined the framework I put in place because of the real experience I have had managing a team, running the business operations, and putting everything to the test in the real, raw and scrappy world of business.  I also know that sometimes, you need to be a bit creative, and the last thing you want is a rigid set of rules that doesn't actually work for your reality.  I think that's what makes me different, and I think thats what hiring Stroodel can offer you that other HR, Legal and Ops consultancies can't. 

You can definitely get templates on the internet, and I know many businesses turn to AI for their policies, contracts and operational framework.  But in my experience, nothing can set you up, help you run or protect you better than something that has been made for you, by a legal and operational expert who can spend the time getting to know your actual business with a real lived understanding of your commercial reality.   That's what Stroodel is.