Compliant. Lean.Built to scale.
The people function your business deserves.
Stephen & Kate is an Organisation & People advisory firm helping businesses across Nigeria build HR functions that protect them, run leaner, and scale with the business.
Most consultancies bring one strength. We bring three.
A unique blend of expertise designed to deliver real organizational value.
UK & NHS Standards
We bring international process rigour, quality assurance systems, and people-operations excellence benchmarked against UK NHS-grade standards.
Chartered CIPM Expertise
Deep local fluency and compliance alignment with Nigerian labour laws, statutory frameworks, and Chartered Institute of Personnel Management regulations.
In-House HR Technology
We build systems, not just advice slides. We deploy the tools, automations, and tracking dashboards that run your HR function day-to-day.
That means international process rigour, applied with deep Nigerian regulatory and labour-law fluency, and delivered by a firm that doesn't stop at the recommendation.
Why now — the rules just changed
Three major regulatory shifts have rewritten what Nigerian employers must do. Most have not caught up.
Nigeria Tax Act 2025
Revised PAYE bands took effect January 2026. Payroll calculations, employment contracts, and statutory remittances all need re-checking — now.
PenCom Enforcement
The Pension Clearance Certificate (PCC) is now a strict gatekeeper for corporate contracts and renewals. No certificate, no corporate business.
NDPA Data Protection
Employee data is now heavily regulated under the NDPA 2023 and the GAID 2025 framework. Most HR records are not compliant, and penalties apply.
ITF Reimbursement
If you pay the 1% Industrial Training Fund levy, you can reclaim up to half of approved training spend. Almost no employers recover it.
What we do
Six services, one outcome: a people function that protects you, runs leaner, and scales with your business.
Business & HR Diagnostics
Our fixed-fee Compliance Health Check — a clear, risk-rated read on where you stand against statutory and best-practice obligations.
Read details →HR & Statutory Compliance
Tax Act 2025 alignments, PenCom status and PCC support, NDPA alignment, handbooks and contracts brought fully up to standard.
View service →ITF Reimbursement Recovery
We identify, reconstruct, and reclaim the training refunds you pay but have never claimed. Paid on success — no recovery, no fee.
Start reclamation →Outsourced & Fractional HR
A complete HR function on retainer, or a senior HR partner on call — the capability of a full team without the permanent headcount.
View structures →Training & Development
Leadership, management, service excellence, and HR capability curricula that build your people — and qualify for ITF reclaims.
Explore academy →Process Design & Optimisation
We map and redesign how your organisation runs, delivering a clean process blueprint ready to build and automate.
Learn more →How we're different
We build. We align. We integrate. We don't just deliver advice slides.
UK and NHS-grade process rigour, applied with deep Nigerian regulatory and labour-law knowledge. You get both — not one or the other.
From diagnosis, to designed process, to a running system, with HR technology in-house. Advice you can actually act on.
Our ITF recovery is paid on what we actually reclaim for you. We only win when you do — completely success-aligned.
Who we work with
SMEs and growing companies. Regulated and contracting businesses that need watertight compliance. Founders building their first real HR function. Established firms ready to run leaner.
If your organisation employs people, we can make that function stronger.
Start with a Compliance Health Check.
A clear, fixed-fee read on where you stand — and what you're owed.