People consulting and strategy

With new technologies reshaping how and where we work, economic headwinds putting pressure on budgets, and power shifts creating new expectations between employer and employees, organisations need to adapt to succeed.

By taking a people-centric approach to everything you do, you can create a thriving and purposeful organisation that people want to be a part of. Because when your people feel empowered, they drive success.

Working together

Our teams of experts were once HR and business leaders like you. With their real-world experience, they understand the competing challenges your business is facing. At PA, our radically human approach puts your people first.

Taking a data-driven approach to transform your workforce, we can help you make the most of your best assets: Your people. Getting the right skills, in the right place, at the right time is not just crucial for the successful running of your business. It also encourages employees to show up as their best selves.

We help leadership teams and people professionals develop workplace cultures to be proud of; creating exceptional and adaptive employee experiences to help you lead into the future. Because when your people feel empowered, they supercharge organisational performance.

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Leadership

Building enduring, future-focused leadership capability across your organisation

Workforce planning

Reskilling and transforming to create a workforce fit for the future

Employee experience

Creating resilient and adaptive employee value propositions

Change management

Embedding and enabling lasting change to drive success

Making digital, human

Bringing mind and machine together for a digital-first organisation

Performance management

Creating sustainable high performance and engagement

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Featured insight

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Expert views

Being ‘in your power’ as a leader is certainly about being strategic, and resilient. It’s also about embracing kindness and creating psychological safety for your team. Powerful leaders empower, giving people permission to think in new ways.”

Rachael Brassey Global Head of People and Change

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One of the most effective ways to drive change and embed a growth mindset is to identify and amplify the voices of change champions across an organisation.”

Tanja Juul Christiansen People and change

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HR leaders need to make sure they have a strong voice at the C-suite table to ensure that the workforce strategy is closely linked to the wider business and AI strategy.”

Adam Bertelsen Human-Centred AI

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A collaborative approach to talent and other initiatives within the defence and security community can show what’s possible when organisations work together, break down siloes, and challenge conventional thinking.”

Alison Gregory Defence and security

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Creating psychologically safe environments, where discussing fears and challenges is usual, is pivotal to maintaining employee wellbeing in volatile times.”

Daniel Edwards People and performance

Client stories

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HYDRA

Building psychological safety to sustain team performance

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NHS England

Assembling an army of workers to deliver the vaccine

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Defence Nuclear Enterprise

Using digital approaches to tackle skills challenges and empower people to build fulfilling careers

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Rabobank

Using new data-driven insights to support and develop employees

Services

Complex challenges require end-to-end innovation expertise — our multidisciplinary teams bring that experience to bear on every project. We explore opportunities from all angles, transform organisations, and accelerate ideas from concept through design and development to commercial success. Working closely with you, we make innovation a reality.

Set actionable strategy

Our business strategy consulting helps clients navigate uncertainty, identify opportunities, respond at pace, and rapidly deliver greater growth and value.

Corporate innovation
Economics and investment strategy
Growth acceleration

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Build brands, products, and services

From concept to implementation, we excel in product development and innovation consulting, creating solutions that resonate with your audience.

Human insights
Design
Engineering
Applied science
Advanced manufacturing
Intellectual property (IP) and patents

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Reimagine AI, digital, and data

Our expert technology consultants, working with your teams, can help elevate your AI and digital strategy to drive lasting impact.

AI, analytics, and data
Digital transformation
Cyber transformation
Privacy and ethics
Operational resilience
Technology strategy and sourcing
Cloud and alliances

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Improve organisational performance

Our business performance consultants build and transform tomorrow’s organisations – ensuring better outcomes for all.

Operating model
Performance improvement
Agile transformation
Supply chain
Cost optimisation

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Deliver complex programmes

Our programme management consultants advise and lead on successful project delivery – targeting the areas of greatest opportunity to ensure lasting success.

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