Working directly with Founders (or Executives) as advisor, coach, challenger and partner to navigate topics relating to: leadership; people strategy; performance management; building/enabling leadership teams; executive comms; managing board dynamics; and much more besides.

Consulting on “bigger picture” People Strategy topics. How do you think about building a People Philosophy? What are your Company Guiding Principles? What’s the Employee Value Proposition you want to bring to market (and how to make sure it’s not just bullshit)? What should a 2-, 3-, 4-year People Strategy look like for a company of your shape and size? Lots of collaborative whiteboarding and discussion required for all of this - certainly no one-size-fits-all approach. This really is the interesting stuff!

To put it bluntly: if your managers are crap at managing, you’ve got problems. If you’re worried that this is the case, then leverage our ready-to-go start-up manager enablement curriculum that can be delivered programatically over time, or broken down into a few standalone workshops (ideal if there are one or two topics/areas/themes that you want your managers to focus on improving).

Every company is different, but there are repeatable playbooks, templates, and mindsets that really can make significant impact across most companies during their scale-up phase. If you need advice on how to approach building your “People Infrastructure” (or if you want to outsource the creation of some of it) then there’s a wealth of experience and content to share.

Do you need a People Leader being more hands-on for a short-time period (e.g. before you’re ready to commit budget for a full-time permanent hire)? Maybe you need some strategic people leadership input on an ongoing part-time basis or in the lead-up to something major (a funding round, for example)? I’m open to coming on board in a fractional capacity if the opportunity feels right all round.

If there’s anything People/Talent/Ops/Leadership related that I can lend a hand with, I’m open to having a conversation to scope it out. It’s a huge cliche to say “every company’s needs are different”, but it is pretty true. Maybe I can simply help you figure out what it is that you need? Get in touch and we’ll have a chat.