We find and develop Growth Leaders.
Performance,guaranteed.
We hire and transform leadership teams for the New Economy.
OUR SCIENCE-LED TALENT SOLUTIONS HELPS ORGANISATIONS THRIVE IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD.
At HP People we are navigators of the New Economy.
We help future-focused businesses succeed by identifying, cultivating and connecting with visionary, high impact leaders. Our infinite mindset allows us to challenge convention - as a champion of diversity, innovation and customer experience - and we’re changing the conversation around the role of leadership in an era of increasing disruption.
Founded in 2013 as a specialist talent consultancy, HP People delivers customised solutions and a unique search experience. One that continues to set industry standards across Australia and Asia Pacific, delivering a 100% placement rate and 96% stay rate underpinned by our performance guarantee.
Our success lies in the science and psychology that predicts a leader’s ability to impact a business, Perform IQ; it has enabled us to build the market insight, network and service offering to support our clients’ future strategies:
Executive Search – a tailored service focused on the 14% of leaders who can outperform today and transform for tomorrow.
Hiring-As-A-Service – unbundled solutions to support scale-ups, restructures and businesses moving into emerging markets.
Board Search – finding independent board members, NEDs and advisors with the expertise to help guide longer-term success.
Performance & Executive Coaching – specialist programs to accelerate personal, professional, leadership and business growth.
Growth Services – diagnostics, workshops + a proprietary software platform to identify, action and optimise data-driven insights.
Create what is next,
right now.
We don’t do different, we are.
We are in business to help create the New Economy, by championing diversity, technological collaboration and sustainable growth.
By helping clients transition from a traditional to a transformational leadership approach – finding and developing visionaries who can anticipate future trends, architect new products and services, shape a learning culture and capitalise on growth opportunities – while ensuring people and purpose are at their core.
Our multi-dimensional assessment model shows that only 10-14% of leaders have what it takes. We call them Growth Leaders, and they are building the backbone of HP People’s specialist focus across:
Software & Services
Ecommerce & Digital
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Healthcare & Biotechnology
Media & Creative Industries
Sport, Entertainment & OTT/Streaming
Renewable & Green Technology
Our performance guarantee matters.
Whatever your goals are, when you work with HP People we guarantee that you are buying impact, not days.
That guarantee means that in terms of the outcomes we’ve agreed for our work together, we’ll do what it takes to achieve that impact – so if we have to work harder, or go to Timbuktu to find your ideal candidate, then we’ll do it and that’s on us.
For the guarantee to be valid, we need one commitment from you in our work together. A commitment to work shoulder to shoulder with us, to challenge our thinking, embrace our counsel, and apply our tools, training and technology to your world with relish.
We believe in partnerships, it’s why 99% of our business is repeat and referred.
A few clients we’ve partnered with…
Your leadership challenges, solved.
Our purpose, mission and values.
We’re here to help our clients realise their growth ambitions, to achieve measurable and enduring improvements on their top and bottom line, and to build a consultancy that attracts, develops, inspires and retains a diverse mix of exceptional people.
We are a values-driven firm. Our guiding principle is to put our client interests ahead of ours, which informs our long-term strategy as well as how we serve our clients and broader community. We hold quarterly workshops to reflect as a group on what our values mean to both our work and our lives in these changing times.
We value high ethical standards, diversity of thought, teamwork, preserving client confidences and asking the tough questions, with the overriding aim of building enduring relationships based on trust.
Our purpose is to be the most valuable Growth Advisor for forward-thinking leaders, defined by our impact, and in tandem with our sister company - Carlyle Kingswood Global they are spearheading our global outreach, connecting us with clients around the world.
James
HEAD OF LEADERSHIP
James is a transformational leader, serial entrepreneur and business advisor to boards, CEOs, C-suite leadership teams, private equity and family office investors.
As Founder at High Performance People, James leads the company’s focus on developing the strategy, training, talent and technology solutions that have helped many of the world’s most visionary leaders to achieve their growth ambitions.
Starting out as a blue-chip marketer in the UK, James is a former CMO & Marketing Consultant to fast-scaling consumer & technology companies across Asia Pacific, has co-founded technology start-ups Ateliex Group and Forebrite, preeminent recruitment firm The Ladder, and today is also Partner - Consumer & Technology at global executive search firm Carlyle Kingswood.
One of the talent industry’s thought leaders, James has developed HPP & CKG’s Growth Leadership model, published a number of articles and opinion pieces on transformational leadership, and helped a number of Australia’s businesses dominate new geographies and industry niches.
Fishy
HEAD OF STRATEGY & FACILITATION
David Fish, aka Fishy, is a globally recognised strategist, business leader and record-breaking pilot.
What makes Fishy and his approach unique is his ability to draw on a rich and diverse range of business and life experiences combined with an innate way of making sense of the complex.
His superpower is spotting patterns, connecting the dots and uncovering solutions that others don’t see. A persuasive presenter and master facilitator, he can captivate a room as well as guide groups to discover and co-create powerful fresh ideas.
His experience spans roles from Chief Strategy Officer to company founder and Managing Director. He has tested himself in the toughest environments soaring thousands of feet off the ground to set new world records, competing at the elite level of sport aviation as well as overcoming his own life challenges and using this to motivate himself to help others unlock the possibilities on the road ahead.
Vlad
HEAD OF SALES & MARKETING GROWTH
Vlad is part strategist, marketer, developer and data analyst, having led sales and marketing teams in digital agencies in Australia and the UK, including heading-up strategy for clients including Audi, Blackmores, eBay, Electrolux, Pizza Hut and Novartis.
Moving over to Big 4 firm EY in 2016 as Senior Manager Advisory Services, Vlad consulted to a number of Australia’s ASX-listed companies before taking on roles as start-up CEO at Laundromap and Chief Customer Officer at Molemap.
Vlad founded Forebrite to help growth-orientated mid-tier companies build predictive marketing engines, supercharging the performance of their marketing efforts with a unique mix of software and consulting. Unlike other providers, Forebrite leverages existing customer data to separate the signal from the noise.
A teacher at the Australian Institute of Marketing, Vlad’s experience in identifying a business’ north star, the metric that best predicts your growth, helps HPP clients never be lost in an ROIN conversation again, elevating senior sales and marketing professionals at the C-suite.
Emma
GENERAL MANAGER
After a globe-trotting marketing career in travel, leisure and hospitality, on moving to Australia Emma quickly discovered a passion for process management, strategic planning, P&L management and implementing new technologies.
Now HPP’s lynchpin for service delivery, Emma’s many talents extend to content marketing, event planning, customer relationship management and new product development, all of which has been instrumental to the business’ exponential growth.
Her superpowers include identifying issues before they arise, acting as a cultural ambassador across multiple geographies and strenuous time zones, and always delivering excellence in business partnering.
Emma has a strong values-based mindset, a love of continuous learning, and a genuine affinity people.
Ways to work together…
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