Who we help
Companies whose organisation has to catch up with their growth
The situations differ. The underlying problem is usually the same: the management infrastructure was built for a smaller, simpler company and nobody had time to redesign it.
Situations we work with
Founder-led companies
The problem
The organisation still depends on the founder for too many decisions.
02Scale-ups
The problem
Headcount and complexity grew faster than the management infrastructure.
03SMEs professionalising management
The problem
A company built on experience and informal practice that now needs management infrastructure.
04Companies after restructuring or acquisition
The problem
New structures exist on paper while roles, behaviours and management practice have not caught up.
05International expansion
The problem
Practices that worked in one market no longer scale consistently across countries.
06Companies without a senior People leader
The problem
The organisation needs senior People expertise before it needs an entire internal function.
Fit
Where we work best
People by Design is built for a specific stage rather than a specific industry.
Profile
- Roughly 20 to 300 employees
- Technology, services and knowledge businesses
- Founder-led and investor-backed companies
- Established SMEs professionalising management
- Companies whose People leader has no bandwidth for strategic work
- Companies with no senior People leader yet
- Organisations after acquisition, restructuring or international expansion
What we do not do
- Recruitment and executive search
- HR administration, payroll and outsourced HR operations
- Employee engagement surveys as a standalone product
- Off-the-shelf leadership training programmes
- Employment law advice
Not sure which of these you are?
Most companies are two of these at once. The diagnostic starts by establishing which.