Growth Space is a Bristol-based strategy, culture and leadership consultancy founded by Polly Robinson, working with leadership teams across the UK.
It facilitates strategy off-sites, away days and workshops, runs culture change and team effectiveness work, and offers executive, leadership and systemic team coaching. Clients are mainly small businesses and scale-ups of 10 to 200 people, along with larger firms, charities and membership bodies. Workshops and off-sites last from half a day to two days, usually for 8 to 40 people, and work is delivered in person or online. Coaching usually runs as 10 to 12 sessions over six months.
Coaching is typically £300 for a one-hour online session after a briefing meeting, and other work is costed in a proposal. Polly Robinson states that she holds an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 7 qualification in Executive Coaching and Mentoring and is certified in systemic team coaching with Professor Peter Hawkins and Renewal Associates. Published client work includes the Royal College of Podiatry, British Motor Heritage, the Ehlers-Danlos Society and tes. The company is registered as Growth Space Collective Ltd.
Team coachingTeam building and effectivenessAway days and retreats
Bristol, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Price on requestMake Happy is a London-based facilitation and innovation consultancy founded in 2010 by Jonathan Bannister, trading as Make Happy Ventures Ltd.
It runs team workshops using methods such as LEGO Serious Play, creative problem solving, design thinking, culture mapping and the Basadur Innovation Profile, along with sessions on psychological safety and difficult conversations. Clients include businesses, government bodies and not-for-profit organisations. Workshops are held in person or online. It also trains facilitators, supplies facilitators for hire and runs LAB School, a set of online courses with a members' community.
The three-day LEGO Serious Play facilitator training in London costs £2,200 plus value added tax (VAT), with discounts for academics, not-for-profits and groups of three or more. Other prices are not published. The site states that Bannister and partner David Lunken, who is based in the United States, are certified LEGO Serious Play facilitators, and that its Creative Problem Solving training is certified by the Creative Education Foundation. Case studies cover work for the Cabinet Office, GAMA Healthcare, Morgan Sindall and Uber. The company was incorporated on 11 July 2011.
Team building and effectivenessCulture and changeStrategy and board facilitation
London, UKNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Price on requestPeople Puzzles is a fractional human resources (HR) consultancy based in Duxford, near Cambridge, founded in 2010 by Ally Maughan.
It places experienced HR directors, which it calls People Directors, into businesses on a flexible part-time basis, working remotely or on site. Clients include owner-managed, scaling, established and investment-backed businesses, and it describes its market as mid-tier companies. Alongside fractional and interim HR it offers HR consultancy, outsourced HR support, people strategy, culture, organisational structure and talent management. Leadership development is delivered through HR mentoring and leadership coaching. Directors work in regional teams across the UK and Ireland. Typical engagement length and days per month are not published.
Prices are not published, and a first 30-minute discovery call is free. It states it has more than 80 People Directors and has supported over 1,000 businesses. It states it won the Best SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) team management initiative at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) awards for its work with the courier firm Today Team. It also states it won Diversity and Inclusion of the Year at the Elite Business 100 Awards in March 2024. The company, People Puzzles Limited, was incorporated on 1 March 2010.
Team building and effectivenessCulture and changeStrategy and board facilitation
Duxford, Cambridge, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Price on requestPeoplewise is a business psychology consultancy with its head office in Hammersmith, London, and is the development partner of The LCap Group.
It works with organisations in five areas: assessment, development, organisational performance, coaching and sales training informed by psychology. Assessment covers psychometric tools, 360-degree surveys and assessment centres. One-to-one and team coaching is offered to people moving into bigger roles, executives joining the C-suite for the first time, high-potential employees and board members. Development work includes leadership and team programmes, a leadership transition model and its own apps for behavioural tracking, pulse surveys and talent management. Programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published. It states that it has more than 60 psychologists and coaches working across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia, and that its coaches are certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the British Psychological Society (BPS) or similar bodies. It says it can deliver in more than 20 languages.
Team coachingTeam building and effectivenessAway days and retreats
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Price on request
