People solutions for high growth organisations

Master the art of scaling your company

Unlock the potential of your people with cutting-edge solutions, tailored for fast growing companies and start-ups.

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Grow faster than your competitors

Turning a vision into a reality demands more than just skill and determination. True success (among many things) is about solid organisational design, an effective management structure, and ultimately hinges on the ability to identify and cultivate the best talent that propels that vision forward.

Being largely focused on product development and marketing, most high growth CEOs don’t have the luxury of prioritising people and complex organisational change. As people and culture strategists, we help founders and CEOs develop effective teams, design scalable structures and implement effective changes that lay foundations for future growth

High-growth challenges

Gain insights from our principal James Rutherford as he delves into the classic challenges high growth companies face, and the strategies required to tackle them head on.

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Investors

You're considering a new investment or supporting an acquisition and you need someone you can trust to run a thorough ‘people due diligence’, and get involved to support your business leaders with any (and all) people issues through to resolution!

You’ve made an investment, and you’re starting to notice areas for improvement. It could be a leadership issue, or a culture gap that’s becoming glaringly obvious.

We can help you make sense of and measure the impact of people on your investment. We are that someone you can throw your problems to, who will sort it out with guaranteed results.

Founders and CEOs

You have worked extremely hard to get your business to where it is today, and it’s growing faster than you imagined. Scaling this quickly means the challenges and problems are coming in hard and fast. And that means less and less time to focus on all the things you need to. 

We will work with you through coaching, organisational design, and building the effectiveness of your team, and guide you in hiring the right people for the job. The right teams make for strong growth, happy stakeholders, and the opportunity to deliver more at an accelerated pace.

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Manager effectiveness

Strengthen your managers through a series of effective steps to drive team performance and engagement.

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Team leadership effectiveness

Create a tightly focused leadership team to build a robust culture and boost business performance and people outcomes.

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Organisational design

Identify the skills and the people to invest in for the future – and how to organise them for efficiency as the business evolves.

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Employee engagement

Gain a deeper understanding of the work environment and what’s most important to your employees, to provide insights into actions that retain staff and improve performance.

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Due diligence

For mergers and acquisitions, understand how to win the hearts and minds of employees, and get insights into the target company culture for maximum ROI.

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Advisory

Get advice to support the change that will take your business to the next level – on demand.

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Become an industry leader

Failing to get the essentials of people leadership right will lead to barriers to faster growth as you scale. As strategic HR specialists we understand people and the demands of high growth companies. And we work with you to create ‘practical’ before solutions that are’ before repeatable’ and repeatable going forward.

We have helped companies just like yours scale their teams become, larger, more mature and more successful businesses’.

Change Management for Financial Services

See how powerful change management can be in this financial firm case study — new tech, smart upskilling, no redundancies, and amazing outcomes.

Let’s transform your business together

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Talk to us
Reach out and tell us about your business, people and culture challenges.
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Review our easy-to-implement recommendations
We will present tailored multi-point ideas on how to address these challenges.
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Implement together in stages
Collaborate with us to roll out the solution one step at a time.
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Build momentum as you grow
Transform your business from startup to fast-scaling market disruptor.

What our clients say

"We started working with James when he joined a project team to help us deliver a series of workshops to a major client. James quickly built relationships with the rest of the team, obviously was a highly capable facilitator, quickly picked up nuanced concepts and aligned impressively to the client’s needs and style.

Since then, James has become an integral part of our growing business. Every consultant aspires to be a ‘trusted advisor’, but James personifies this. In working with us he’s opened up his network, provided input into product development, brought his people expertise to our growing team, shared insights into potential customer audiences and supported us in business development activity.

We regularly seek his opinion on all matters ranging from product design, learning impact, delivery methods to maximize engagement and managing client relationships.  We couldn’t be happier to have James as part of our team."
Keerthi
Founder, Training Services
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“We engaged Rutherford HR to help us develop the sales skills of a group of high potential employees in across the globe. Despite the multiple different views on the best approach, RHR was able to navigate our business model, build highly credible relationships with our senior people and design and deliver an excellent program that has created real value for the participants and our people.

James was also very deliberate in working with members of my team, building their capability such that they would be able to lead and deliver it in future years.”
Andrew
Investor, Technology
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Ready to accelerate your journey to sustainable success? Our team of people and culture strategists is here to empower you with the tools to help you reach your potential. Get in touch today and let’s start shaping your future.