People Strategy Consultancy

Key benefit: strong understanding of staff engagement and succession risk

I analyse people situations, providing the leadership team with the data to develop a strategic approach to people management and leadership. The approach focusses on understanding your staff through combining personality profiling with each staff members experience, qualifications and ambition. This builds a picture that gives a biotechnology company the best chance of attracting and retaining its staff as well as being proactive with respect to succession planning. Our analytical approach is used to build a picture to address:

  1. Priorities for people strategy & engagement

  2. Gaps & succession planning

  3. Personal development & core training

  4. Team dynamics with an emphasis on building collaborative capacity

  5. Recruitment strategy

  6. The introduction of appropriate HR processes such as grading, job descriptions and performance appraisal

Projects are typically in the £5k to £50k range although hourly rates are available. Clients have included:

  • Allergan Biologics

  • Biopharm Services

  • Cobra Biologics

  • Iksuda Therapeutics

  • NanoSyrinx

  • Newcells Biotech

  • Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult & The Gatsby Charitable Foundation - National Skills agenda for Cell and Gene Therapy

  • Wellcome Trust - Engaging industry in the Broadening Horizons Mentoring Programme

All projects are confidential but references can be provided.

Achievements

  • We developed a Talent Management Plan to recruit and retain staff in a competitive bioprocessing landscape

  • We diagnosed succession risk and issues involved in doubling organisational size from 10-20 and 20-40

  • We established an external science advisory group that also acts as a mentor pool for early career staff

Testimonials

Executive Directors UK-based Biologics Group - “I thought you would like to know that we had another of our advisory meetings on Tuesday and kicked off our second set of mentees. We got some spontaneous feedback from the advisors about how far they think the team have come in terms of confidence, experience and leadership and they think what we are doing on the site is very visionary! Really motivational – Thanks so much again for helping me work out what we needed to do all that time ago and getting such a good mix of advisors on board”…”Thanks Tony - and thank you for your considerable help in developing our strong team!

Wellcome Trust - “We are indebted to you helping us to get [Broadening Horizons] up and running”

HR Director and CEO - UK CDMO - “Thank you for your commitment over the last year which helped us:

  • Develop a Talent Management Plan to recruit and retain staff in a competitive bioprocessing landscape

  • Refine the Performance Review and Development Process supporting the HR team on the structure, content and the link with succession planning

  • Introduce the Thomas International DISC profiling which has supported both recruitment and development of teams

  • Engage in networking opportunities to support growing of the business including – Apprenticeships and Mentoring programme”