EFFRA CONSULT

All things People to boost your Business Performance.

WHAT WE DO

When it’s done right – like all good leadership and people things – it looks like nothing. Don’t be fooled, it’s not nothing and it’s not easy and it does destroy business value.

BUSINESS SCALE-UP

The UK is experiencing a scale-up revolution but only 4% reach high growth; what Founders and CEOs need is support on how to scale-up. Our development accelerator is designed to advise and support businesses in transitioning their people practices from mature start-up through scale-up, to help them on the road to become the established unicorns of the industry.

Strategy & Leadership

Organisations are becoming more and more complex to direct and lead well. Effra Consult will support you in keeping both your strategy and leadership current to ensure results through flawless execution in an increasing demanding operating environment.

Top Team Effectiveness & Leadership Development

A key study found that lack of top team alignment and an absence of clarity on what is expected of leadership are the most deadly of strategy killers. Effra Consult will help your executive leadership understand where their respective strengths and risks lie and build a common coalition to maximise performance and delivery providing effective role modelling for the rest of the organisation, thereby creating the desired culture for success.

Talent Pipeline

So many organisations fail to identify, engage and leverage the high potential people they have. Effra Consult will help you build a culturally appropriate talent identification, development and succession approach and support its implementation to ensure it becomes a state of mind and key part of the way you do business.

Effragette

Diversity is still one the most underestimated levers in boosting higher levels of performance. We like to help you increase your appeal to people you need and want, making existing employees see that your work environment is where they are best off, will flourish and experience equality of promotion potential.

Leadership Assessment & On-boarding

Our role is to increase the overall performance of your leadership cohort; resulting in higher levels of overall team and organisational performance. We start this with helping you to assess potential new leaders at recruitment stage followed with our offering on Accelerated On-boarding. We also offer performance, transition and team coaching. What we aim for is building internal capability and ultimately developing your leaders’ skills in this area ensuring you are self sufficient.

WHO WE ARE

Effra consists of a group of Business, Digital, HR, Change, Innovation and Leadership professionals who will care for your business as much as you do.

Caroline Vanovermeire

Most businesses leave value on the table

Caroline’s belief is that businesses leave value on the table because they simply fail to act on putting people and clients at the centre of what they do. She also has a passion for individuals to be more fulfilled at work resulting in businesses that flourish…

Chris Locke

Fear spurs leaders to lose sight of their purpose

Chris’ passion is the light bulb moment when a leader or a team realises that there is another way to achieve success. A continuous learner at heart, a 10/10 day at work for Chris is when everyone has learnt something new…

Sarah de Corday-Long

Developing leaders through deep understanding

Insightful, evidence driven and intuitive describe Sarah. She specialises in the assessment and development of executives and has been responsible for the design and delivery of large-scale assessment projects.

Jo Aidroos

Jo won’t let you go home until you’ve turned your great ideas into an actionable plan

Jo helps people and their organisations create and deliver transformational change. She has over 20 years’ experience in people centred consultancy and specialises in putting people at the heart of change

Regis Soublin

Ne rien faire, tout faire faire, ne rien laisser faire

Regis´ interests lie in helping leaders recognise that unavoidable, uncomfortable and destabilizing change is the ideal catalyst for talent growth and empowerment.

Paul Burleton

Conventional HR is dead; Long live HR technology

Whatever the odds, doing the right thing makes a 10/10 day for Paul. Losing out on a promotion and surviving corporate bankruptcy has shaped his self-awareness, resilience and given him a keen desire for authenticity.

Tina Neve

You can do more, have more, be more

Tina’s purpose is to have a positive impact on the Careers and Emotional Wellbeing of women.

Laura Brunton

Live your best life as your best self

Laura’s strongly believes that when you feel able and confident enough to live as the real you, your wellbeing, the strength and depth of your relationships, and your personal and professional successes will all increase exponentially.

ABOUT US

Our Story

Effra is founded by Caroline Vanovermeire (previously OE Director, Barclays and current Global Director of Talent, Dentsu) and consists of a group of highly experienced experts in: Strategy, Digital, HR, Change, Innovation, Talent and Leadership who will care for your business as much as you do.

We are living proof that boundaries between roles are fading and that organisations are struggling to retain talented individuals with an immense desire to contribute, having left high impact roles to join forces in our mission to make a difference to the employment landscape.

We are united because of our shared values and took a leap of faith together to establish Effra. We have immense fun working together and inject our energy and passion into all of our projects.

Our Society

We believe we should share our expertise with a whole range of organisations and we are proud to partner with a number of charities where we give our services on a pro bono basis. We are currently working with:

Our Proposition

Whilst we bring a wide variety of deep subject matter expertise, extra peoplepower and positive energy, we remain humble and respectful of the internal knowledge and capability already existing in your organisation.

For every assignment we look to pull together the team that fits best the expertise required and cultural fit needed as we aspire to feel like an extension to your leadership team, creating tangible value and a fulfilling, collaborative experience for those involved.

Quite Simply

We believe our job is not done until we have created tangible value and this is reflected in both our approach, allocated expertise and skin in the game charging structure. This approach has been endorsed by our clients, 90% of whom continue to work with us following a first assignment.