How We Work
Every engagement is different. Most clients come to us with a specific presenting problem - a team that isn't working, a founder who needs a sounding board, a leadership structure that hasn't kept pace with growth. We start there, and we go at the pace the business needs.
We don't do off-the-shelf programmes or prescribe solutions before we've understood the business. We listen, diagnose, and work alongside you until the change sticks.
What We Work On
Meraki People works across the full range of people and organisational challenges that affect scaling businesses.
Engagements are tailored to your situation, not packaged in advance.
Board advisory and governance
Organisational design and restructure
Leadership bench strength assessment
Senior leadership team effectiveness
Succession planning and founder exit readiness
Executive team development and away days
People due diligence for investment or acquisition
Culture development and change management
Psychometric diagnostics (5 Voices, Myers-Briggs)
Keynote speaking and facilitation
How Engagements Typically Work
Some clients come to us for a single event: a facilitated away day, an organisational diagnostic or targeted coaching for the CEO.
Others arrive with a specific project: a leadership restructure, a pre-investment people review, a post-merger integration. Those typically run for anywhere between three and twelve months.
A number of our clients have been with us for years. The work evolves as the business does. We become part of the furniture, in the best possible way.
We work with founder-led businesses across the UK, typically turning over between £3M and £100M. If you're not sure whether we're the right fit, the best place to start is a conversation.
Testimonials
“Kate has been an essential source of advice in helping me understand how to navigate the many challenges managing a business can bring.
She adapts her style to get the best out of you and has a wealth of experience she can reference to truly help me continually improve”
“We’ve always prided ourselves on our culture and being a great place to work. When our team nearly doubled in size in six months, we could feel the growing pains. After working with Kate, we are now stronger as a business, and fit for the next round of growth”
“I came to Kate to help me run our otherwise frustrating strategic away day.
She has now helped me restructure the organisation so that meetings have purpose, we make better decisions and we have greater accountability.
As a result, our team capacity has increased, as has our EBITDA.”
“Kate builds trust quickly and gets to the heart of an issue fast. Her mix of candour, insight, and encouragement is rare.”
“Kate’s approach to development is truly unique. Her ability to pull together my diverse marketing team and help them achieve success is unparalleled. She has a gift for translating complex concepts into actionable strategies.”
“Kate helped us at a critical time for our business when we urgently needed to improve our internal culture and the long term attractiveness of working for us.
She sympathetically and intuitively helped me through this and to create a great structure and long term plan which we are now enacting.
We’re already seeing the benefits as we seek to hire and keep great people.”
* We pride ourselves on our confidentiality. As a result, some clients prefer to stay anonymous. Many would be happy to provide a personal reference.
Let’s Talk
Not sure where to start? Book a conversation with Kate and we'll figure out together whether we're the right fit.