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on demand cPO support

A trusted strategic partner for CPOs navigating people & business challenges

We work alongside CPOs and CHROs as a senior advisor and sparring partner, helping them shape people strategy, lead their function, navigate high-stake decisions and respond to the breadth of demands now placed on the role. From workforce planning, leadership capability and culture change to AI, team design and CEO-level challenge, we provide practical support where it matters most.

When to bring in

external support

The role is stretching wider

The CHRO remit is broader than ever, and you need trusted support across a role that now spans strategy, leadership, workforce planning and organisational change.

You need a clearer people and/or culture strategy

You want to shape or refine a people strategy that is commercially grounded, future-focused and linked to business outcomes.

Your HR Team is too operational

You want to shift the function beyond day-to-day queries and firefighting, so it can operate more strategically, partner the business more effectively and perform at a higher level.

AI and workforce planning are on your agenda

You are increasingly central to conversations about AI, skills and workforce planning, and want support thinking through the people implications with more confidence and clarity.

You want trusted support and challenge at senior level

You are navigating complex decisions with the CEO, board or executive team and want experienced perspective, challenge and judgement.

You are stepping up into the role

As a first time CPO or newly appointed CHRO, you want a trusted sounding board as you build credibility, define your agenda and shape the culture and leadership environment around you.

1. Shape the people agenda

We help you refine the people and culture strategy, clarify priorities and make sure the agenda is commercially grounded and linked to business outcomes.

2. Strengthen the function around you

We help you build the capability, confidence and focus of the HR/People team, so the function can operate more strategically, partner the business more effectively and deliver the agenda with pace.

3. Get trusted challenge where it matters most

We provide experienced perspective, challenge and sounding-board support as you navigate CEO, Board and Exec conversations, workforce shifts, AI and other complex people decisions.

what's involved

This support helps CHROs and CPOs think more strategically, lead their function more effectively and navigate the most important people decisions with greater confidence.

What you leave with

The result is a stronger people agenda, clearer strategic priorities and better support for navigating the changing demands of the CHRO role.

Clearer strategic focus

A sharper, more commercially grounded people and culture agenda, with clearly defined operational and business benefits.

Stronger function leadership

A more strategic HR team around you, with clearer priorities, stronger performance and a culture that better supports business partnering.

Better senior decision-making

More perspective, judgement and support in CEO, board and executive conversations where people and culture decisions sit alongside operational priorities.

More support on complex issues

Trusted input on the questions that are hardest to navigate alone, from workforce planning and leadership capability to culture, AI and organisational change.

Greater clarity in role

A trusted sounding board that helps you navigate the breadth of the role with more focus, steadiness and conviction.

More influence where it matters

Greater ability to shape business decisions, strengthen the people agenda and increase the impact of the function over time

How this connects to the wider people agenda

This support can stand alone as a trusted strategic partnership for the CHRO, but it also often connects into wider work on leadership, culture, workforce strategy and function effectiveness.

Leadership Development

Builds broader leadership capability where the top team need more support than CHRO-level advisory alone can provide.

Workforce Strategy & Planning

Connects people strategy to future skills, workforce design, culture and the commercial realities shaping the organisation.

AI and People Transformation

Supports CHROs as they navigate the workforce, capability and culture implications of AI and wider business transformation.

Culture Embedding

Helps turn strategy into everyday behaviours, strengthen alignment and create the conditions for sustainable performance.

Let’s talk about your role and what’s next

You’ll be speaking with Jo Geraghty, our founder and culture expert. She’ll personally guide you through your next steps

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London EC1Y 1AA