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Project Showcase
A curated selection of senior-level consultancy engagements demonstrating depth of strategic impact across organisational design, leadership, change, culture and HR transformation.
Organisational Design & Efficiency
Global FMCG organisation undergoing strategic transformation
Challenge: Redesign Commercial Planning and Trade Marketing functions to deliver cost savings and operational efficiency while supporting global strategic objectives.
Impact: Delivered a clear Target Operating Model that resolved fragmentation, clarified accountability, and generated tangible cost savings aligned to the global transformation.
Key Outputs:
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Identification of cost savings through role clarity and duplication removal
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Clear accountability framework addressing historic fragmentation
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Sustainable blueprint for future functional reviews
“Highly collaborative and data-driven, the approach ensured the recommendations were workable, not theoretical. The TOM delivered the clarity and efficiency gains we needed.”
Operating Model Redesign
UK hospitality group targeting growth EBITDA
Challenge: Redesign a complex operating model spanning ten organisational layers, resolving accountability confusion and critical capability gaps.
Impact: Established a new Target Operating Model empowering Divisional Managing Directors with full P&L accountability, unlocking efficiency gains across the group to fund growth and strengthening governance through new core capabilities.
Key Outputs:
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True P&L accountability embedded at divisional level
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Cost-neutral growth enabled through efficiency opportunities
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Introduction of Legal, Risk and Compliance capabilities
“Partner-level expertise ensured the design was pragmatic and fit for our complexity. The model empowered MDs and mitigated future risk.”
Strategic HR Leadership & Infrastructure
Growing multi‑brand diagnostic testing organisation
Challenge: Unify a diverse workforce across brands, modernise fragmented HR infrastructure, and establish a scalable foundation for growth amid structural complexity and capability gaps.
Impact: Established the core HR foundation required for sustainable growth by defining culture through shared values, clarifying structure and accountability, and delivering operational efficiency via a centralised HRIS platform.
Key Outputs:
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Company-wide values creating cultural cohesion across brands
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Restructured organisation improving accountability and performance
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Implementation of a modern HRIS, centralising HR data
“Lisa acted as a trusted strategic partner to the CEO, focusing on diagnosis before prescription. This deep understanding allowed her to quickly establish the core HR foundation our growing business truly needed.”
Crisis Review & Cultural Transformation
Leading UK arts media organisation
Challenge: Conduct an independent review following a sensitive employee incident to understand escalation factors, rebuild trust, and address systemic HR and governance gaps.
Impact: Delivered strategic clarity to the Board by identifying systemic and cultural root causes, strengthening safeguarding and HR policies, and establishing a more resilient governance framework.
Key Outputs:
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Transparent review process supporting trust repair
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Strengthened safeguarding and HR policies
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Formal governance framework and Board-level risk reporting
“Lisa’s independent and empathetic approach enabled her to truly listen, validate root causes, and provide the actionable roadmap we needed.”
Leadership Development Programme
UK Civil Service agency
Challenge: Address inconsistent leadership outcomes and plateaued effectiveness scores across multiple leadership levels including the Executive Team.
Impact: Designed and delivered a unifying leadership framework that drove measurable capability uplift and cultural cohesion, fully embedded for long-term, scalable internal delivery.
Key Outputs:
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Programme scaled to 600+ employees
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Shared leadership language established across the agency
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Framework adopted internally for future programme design
“This was not an off-the-shelf programme. The partnership delivered measurable capability uplift and a framework our team could own and scale.”
Change Management Capability Building
International food manufacturing organisation
Challenge: Equip Global HR leaders to transition from support roles to proactive strategic Change Agents.
Impact: Built a consistent, practical change capability across the HR leadership population, strengthening strategic thinking, risk anticipation, and readiness for major transformation initiatives.
Key Outputs:
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Standardised change management toolkit adopted globally
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HR leadership mindset shifted to proactive change ownership
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Enhanced strategic impact and transformation readiness
“The ability to integrate our internal framework while introducing best-practice models demonstrated true partnership and transformed our HR leaders into confident Change Agents.”