People solutions for organisations navigating complex change

Whatever the change ahead - growth, disruption,
new strategic direction - success depends on your people and culture.

Long term success, achieved through people and culture

People are the driving force behind any organisational change. Their skills, attitudes, and motivations determine how successfully an organisation can implement new strategies or adapt to market disruptions. When employees are engaged, appropriately skilled and supported they drive growth and innovation.

An aligned, adaptive culture underpins strategy achievement especially in times of change. It helps in maintaining continuity and a sense of identity as the organisation evolves.

To achieve long-term success, the best organisations focus on nurturing their people for success and cultivating an aligned culture. This lays a strong foundation for sustainable growth, resilience through complex change and provides a hard to replicate source of competitive advantage.

We’ve helped countless organisations implement well-researched and practical people change strategies that facilitate success and strategy achievement.

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How different organisations can benefit from
people and culture solutions

Change is a constant and organisations must re-strategise to adapt and thrive Depending on factors such as organisation size, maturity and stage of growth these strategic changes create distinct people and culture challenges. 

High-growth companies

Fast scaling companies face a plethora of people challenges including changing organisational design, building manager capability, leadership team,  and maintaining cohesion as they expand.

We help high growth organisations scale systematically and with the minimum disruption.

Mid-size businesses

Maintaining a highly engaged, aligned and productive workforce is critical.

It impacts organisational performance, profitability strategy implementation and change.

We help mid-size organisations improve leadership and manager effectiveness and implement culture change to create a highly engaged workforce, fine tune their operations and support their continued expansion.

Large organisations

In the largest enterprises, transformation and strategic change is especially complex.

Internal teams are challenged to balance strategic goals with operational delivery and struggle to focus on longer term initiatives.

We work with CEOs, COOs and CPOs to thoughtfully design and implement complex people and culture change initiative organisation wide.

What our clients say

"This was a key piece of work in increasing the effectiveness of our team. James’s ability to quickly diagnose and collaboratively build a solution that worked around the business pressures we faced were pivotal."
Andrew
Investor, Technology
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"James played a critical role in refining our ideas, developed multiple practical outcomes, and delivered consistently to a high standard. Feedback on James from our senior team was that he was engaging and provided perspectives and solutions that met our needs. Rutherford HRs work contributed to us accelerating the integration and collaboration of our people."
Michelle
HRD, Property
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"…our organisation went through a significant change in organisational structure, and we identified during this time a need to improve our decision-making practices and address some of the legacy behaviours that were evident within our group."
Megan
General Manager, Supply Chain
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"James helped us to create a significant shift in team performance and make strides towards developing a more connected and motivated team culture.James has differentiated himself by the time he has taken to learn my business, invest time in building relationships with the team and – as a result – develop customised workshop and training content that is directly relevant to the environment we work in."
Nicola
Sales & Marketing Manager, Financial Services

Our people and culture services

Navigating the complexities of organisational change and growth requires a focus on the core elements that drive success: your people and your culture.

Whether you're looking to refine your internal processes, exploring an acquisition, integrating with another organisation, or ‘simply’ improve your organisation’s performance, our services provide the insights and tools necessary to foster a productive and positive workplace. We work with clients in these specialist areas:

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Leader and manager capability

Train, develop and build up your managers’ skills, mindset and ways of working to drive team performance and engagement.

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Leadership team effectiveness

Create a unified, in-touch, high-performing leadership team to build a robust culture and enable performance.

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Culture assessment and improvement

Assess and understand your company culture to implement precise, practical and mission critical culture changes that enable your organisation’s strategy.

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Organisational design

Explore and create the best path towards future growth or organisational efficiency by identifying the key people, skills, roles and structures required as your business evolves.

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Employee engagement

Gain a deeper understanding of the work environment and what’s most important to your people, actions that retain your talent and improve performance.

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Due diligence and integration

Understand employee engagement, culture and people risks in advance of investment or acquisition management decisions.

In the event of any merger activity, integrate separate entities into a united, focused and performing organisation.

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Client stories

Developing People in a Disrupted Industry

Discover how organisational design and culture turned a traditional office supplier into a modern, tech-driven enterprise. Explore now!

Culture Change at a Financial Institution

Uncover how we supported a large financial institution with mass culture change and organisational transformation following the Global Financial Crisis.

Embed change with our
multi-point solutions

Every business has its own unique set of challenges at different stages of growth. And there is no silver bullet. Meaningful and lasting change can only be achieved through a combination of diverse and targeted interventions. Hear from our Principal James Rutherford on how we integrate multi-point solutions for the best outcomes…

Assessments and surveys

Get a gauge on leadership styles, behaviours and culture through our assessments and surveys.

Collect insights and use the data to inform better decision-making and drive business, team and individual performance and development

Programmes and workshops

From leadership team offsites, to strategy development to workshops focused on skill development or organisational change planning.

Our extensive commercial experience and skills as facilitators enable us to support you and your people in multiple ways.

Executive coaching

Build the skillsets, mindsets and behaviours of key people to support their growth, or address behaviours and ways of working that limit their effectiveness.

Our combination of coaching education, commercial acumen and diverse industry experience enable us to support individual change and improve effectiveness across multiple contexts

A collaborative approach

Collaboration is a critical component required for complex people change. We work closely with a team of professionals to deliver the complex people and culture strategies and solutions that create value for our clients.

We deliver, people and change management processes, skills and knowledge development, generate data insights and provide the specialist people to support your organisation needs - on demand.

Meet the team behind you:

James Rutherford
Founder and Principal of Rutherford HR
Ashlea Roach
Founder and Managing Director of PeopleCo
Hugh Hawthorne
Founder of PeopleNav
Hannah Mills
Co-founder and Managing Partner at The Workplace Employment Lawyers

Please get in touch

Whether you need a leadership team offsite, strategy development, individual or team effectiveness, skills and capability initiatives, support for change activity. Please get in touch.