Empower your people

With new technologies reshaping how and where we work, economic headwinds putting pressure on budgets, and power shifts creating new expectations between employer and employees, organisations need to adapt to succeed.

By taking a people-centric approach to everything you do, you can create a thriving and purposeful organisation that people want to be a part of. Because when your people feel empowered, they drive success.

Working together

Our teams of experts were once HR and business leaders like you. With their real-world experience, they understand the competing challenges your business is facing. At PA, our radically human approach puts your people first.

Taking a data-driven approach to transform your workforce, we can help you make the most of your best assets: Your people. Getting the right skills, in the right place, at the right time is not just crucial for the successful running of your business. It also encourages employees to show up as their best selves.

We help leadership teams and people professionals develop workplace cultures to be proud of; creating exceptional and adaptive employee experiences to help you lead into the future. Because when your people feel empowered, they supercharge organisational performance.

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Leadership

Building enduring, future-focused leadership capability across your organisation

Workforce planning

Reskilling and transforming to create a workforce fit for the future

Employee experience

Creating resilient and adaptive employee value propositions

Change management

Embedding and enabling lasting change to drive success

Making digital, human

Bringing mind and machine together for a digital-first organisation

Performance management

Creating sustainable high performance and engagement

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Featured insight

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A new way to lead

Our research shows there are critical behaviours needed for leaders and their organisations to thrive. And that now is the time to act.

Spotlight

Next Made Real

Intelligent enterprises – powered by data and AI – combine technologies with deep human insight to create radical new futures. What will you make real?

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Insight

Fostering neuroinclusivity: Empowering your entire workforce through inclusive practices

Recognising neurodiversity in the UK workplace fosters innovation, productivity, and inclusivity, requiring education and adjustments.

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To lead in the AI era, take a human-centred approach

Maximising AI's potential with ethical, human-focused strategies in organisations.

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Innovation culture: There’s no stopping you

Challenging mindsets to accelerate innovation within the energy networks sector and other regulated industries.

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In the media

Happier employees, higher performance: HR’s role in boosting wellness and productivity

Laura Scott and Sahadev Joshi explain how HR can boost wellness and productivity in the workplace.

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Insight

Accelerating human-centred AI: Transforming through trust

AI revolutionises workplaces, focusing on human-machine synergy, trust-building, and strategic adoption for organisational enhancement.

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Insight

Once upon a leadership transformation: How storytelling underwrites success

By harnessing the art of storytelling, leaders can build trust and inspire their teams.

Expert views

Being ‘in your power’ as a leader is certainly about being strategic, and resilient. It’s also about embracing kindness and creating psychological safety for your team. Powerful leaders empower, giving people permission to think in new ways.”

Rachael Brassey Global Head of People and Change

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One of the most effective ways to drive change and embed a growth mindset is to identify and amplify the voices of change champions across an organisation.”

Tanja Juul Christiansen People and change

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HR leaders need to make sure they have a strong voice at the C-suite table to ensure that the workforce strategy is closely linked to the wider business and AI strategy.”

Adam Bertelsen Human-Centred AI

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A collaborative approach to talent and other initiatives within the defence and security community can show what’s possible when organisations work together, break down siloes, and challenge conventional thinking.”

Alison Gregory Defence and security

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Creating psychologically safe environments, where discussing fears and challenges is usual, is pivotal to maintaining employee wellbeing in volatile times.”

Daniel Edwards People and performance

Client stories

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Services

Complex challenges require end-to-end innovation expertise — our multidisciplinary teams bring that experience to bear on every project. We explore opportunities from all angles, transform organisations, and accelerate ideas from concept through design and development to commercial success. Working closely with you, we make innovation a reality.