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Where Culture, People, and Strategy Collide
Consulting Services
Co-designed to align with your business priorities, development goals, and change agenda.
People
We support leaders to better understand and navigate the shifting dynamics of their organisations, helping them lead better together.
Culture
We help shape inclusive, adaptive cultures that enable better decisions, stronger relationships, and more effective cross-functional collaboration.
Strategy
We work with teams to harness collective insight, identify what’s getting in the way, and move more strategically through experimentation, reflection, and action.
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We help organisations do the deep, often unseen work at the intersection of people, strategy, and culture, work that enables meaningful, lasting change.
We take a complexity-informed approach, recognising that organisations are constantly shaped by shifting relationships, evolving priorities, and subtle dynamics. Rather than applying pre-set solutions, we help leaders make sense of what’s really happening and respond with greater clarity and confidence.
In practice, this means working with leadership teams to uncover the hidden patterns that shape behaviour and decision-making, in their teams and across the organisation, helping them shift what’s stuck, strengthen what’s working, and create the conditions for lasting change.
Some of the organisations we've worked with
Drove better culture and elevated leadership
"The RISE team have become true 'friends of Corinthia', and we are so grateful for their support in helping us drive better culture, better commercial acumen and elevated leadership."
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Clare JamesHR Director, Corinthia London
Work is a much more enjoyable place
"The team now really understands the need for shared ownership, shared decision-making, and a completely collaborative approach to all parts of our business."
Chris OglesbyCEO, Bruntwood
Completely shifted my perspective
"Working with RISE has shaped me into the leader I am today and has hugely supported my development."
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Jen AtkinsDirector of People and Culture, Chester Zoo
Helped me lead rather than manage my team
"Assisted in a different way of thinking and landing a strategy across the business"
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Chris CaytonManaging Director, Murphy Transportation
What working with us looks like
Find out more about the process we take and the way we partner with clients
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GETTING STARTED
1. Discovery
Most of our partnerships begin with a discovery phase.
Before jumping into solutions, we help you explore what’s really going on. Many clients start here to build clarity and confidence in what’s needed.
Ways to get started
For Organisation-wide Culture & Strategy Work
Explore the organisation as a whole—where it’s aligned, where it’s stuck, and where to focus for the greatest impact.
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Org Scan
A data-informed diagnostic using cophi.io, an AI-enabled network analysis tool that reveals the quality of collaboration across your organisation. Combined with interviews and exploration workshops, the scan helps you identify where to focus attention, break down silos, and improve cross-functional working. -
Culture Discovery Sprint
A short, intensive engagement designed to surface the cultural dynamics that matter most to your strategy, service, and employee experience. Helps you identify what to nurture, and what to shift, for long-term cultural change.
For People & HR Teams
Support culture, strategy, and leadership with insight and credibility.
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People Team Discovery Session
A facilitated session to explore your current challenges and opportunities as a strategic enabling function, helping you clarify focus, role, and impact. -
People Leaders Circle
An opportunity for CPOs, HR Directors, and senior people leaders to join a regional or virtual peer circle, connecting with others navigating similar complexity. -
HR Business Partner Programme
Develop the confidence, strategic mindset, and relational skills needed to shift from support to true partnership -
Gen Z & Future Talent Programme
Explore how to engage, retain, and unlock the potential of younger generations, aligning your people strategy with the expectations of the future workforce.
For Individual Leaders
Build insight, clarity, and leadership presence in complexity.
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FREE Discovery Conversation – A 1:1 space to step back, explore what’s emerging in your role or context, and identify where you want to grow.
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Leadership DeepDive – Take your leadership development seriously with a structured 360 feedback process using the Leadership Circle Profile. Surface the patterns and habits influencing how you lead and how others experience you.
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Executive Coaching & Thinking Partnering - Work alongside us as a thinking partner to navigate ongoing dilemmas, tensions, and opportunities, supporting clarity, resilience, and effectiveness in the complexity of your role.
For Executive Teams
Align purpose, surface what’s stuck, and strengthen decision-making at the top.
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TeamDynamics DeepDive
A structured team assessment and interactive discovery session to explore current dynamics, reflect on team effectiveness, and support intention-setting for future development. -
Executive Offsite & Discovery Interviews
We start with 1:1 discovery conversations with each executive to surface key perspectives, followed by a thoughtfully co-designed offsite or retreat to deepen connection, shared understanding, and ways of working more effectively together.
For Senior Leadership Groups
Strengthen alignment, connection, and leadership capability across a broader group.
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TeamDynamics Lab
A structured assessment and facilitated session to explore group dynamics, identifying strengths, gaps, and opportunities to lead more effectively together. -
Senior Leader Circles (Taster)
Experience the power of peer learning and reflective practice through a pilot RISE Circle (4–6 sessions) with a cross-section of your leadership group.
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Leadership Day / Half Day
A co-designed and facilitated session for your wider leadership group, focused on deepening connection, shared understanding, and commitment to how you work and lead together.
ONGOING PARTNERSHIP
2. Development
Most of our work continues through an ongoing partnership.
Following discovery, we work with you to deepen capability, shift behaviours, and embed new ways of working.
Top Team Development
Support for senior teams to strengthen trust, alignment, and collective leadership, especially in the face of complexity and change.
- Executive retreats
- Facilitated executive meetings
- Developmental initiatives
Interested? Check out the TeamDynamics DeepDive
Executive Coaching & Thinking Partnering
One-to-one spaces for senior leaders to reflect, gain perspective, and lead with more clarity, intention, and resilience.
- Developmental executive coaching
- Ongoing thinking partnering
Interested? Check out the Leadership DeepDive
Leadership Accelerators
Intensive, practical learning journeys that build leadership capacity across regions and functions - focusing on influence, adaptability, and decision-making in complexity.
Collaboration Accelerators
Intensive development programmes to build the skills, habits, and awareness needed to work better together, especially across geographies or functions.
People Team Advisory
Advisory and support for People, OD, and HR teams navigating change, shaping culture, and enabling leadership across the organisation.
The HRBP Inside Edge Programme
A development programme for HR business partners stepping into more strategic, influential roles, building confidence, credibility, and impact.
Collaborative Strategy
Culture Change
Longer-term support to evolve how your organisation works, shifting everyday behaviours, habits, and systems in line with your values and goals.
Circles@Work
Curated peer-to-peer spaces inside your organisation that support reflection, connection, and shared learning across roles, levels, or functions.
GenZ Future//Now Programme
A development programme for early-career talent to get better at handling pressure, working with others, and contributing in ways that make a difference. Build the skills and awareness to show up well, now and in the future.
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STRENGTHENING INTERNAL CAPABILITY
3. Integration
As partnerships progress, our focus shifts to ensuring the work can continue without us.
We focus on embedding new ways of working, enabling your people to take ownership and carry the work forward, so change is sustained in day-to-day practice, not dependent on external support.
Let's have a conversation
If you know something needs to shift but you're unsure where to start,
we can help you think it through and find a way forward that fits your context.