We discover and develop the world’s future leaders.
OUR GROWTH-AS-A-SERVICE GUIDES TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEYS FROM SERIES A, ASX TO FORTUNE 50.
At HP People we are specialists in predictability, and in pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
Our Perform IQ model predicts a leader’s ability to navigate emerging challenges and opportunities – and since our inception in 2003 – identified over 1,200 visionaries currently shaping the future, from Series A to Fortune 50.
Predictability brings lofty demands, and so we designed Talent-as-a-Service to help start-ups, growth ventures and digitally powered enterprises create a scalable talent strategy, whether through 1:1 leadership coaching or enterprise-wide HR masterclasses.
Now we’ve reached our zenith, bringing Growth-as-a-Service too – a predictive marketing & financial forecasting platform that transforms your data into a decision-making powerhouse – to drive repeatable revenue growth and sustainable business expansion.
Our services can integrated and dialed up, down or off to meet your ever evolving needs:
Executive Search: a bespoke service focused on the 14% of leaders who can outperform today and transform for tomorrow.
Talent-as-a-Service: a custom solution incl. generalist HR, talent acquisition, coaching, onboarding and leadership programs.
Board Advisory: access to expertise and strategic insight on a fractional basis, to align decision-making with values and goals.
Perform IQ & Executive Coaching: programs to unlock and develop the mindset, agility and capabilities needed to perform today.
Growth-as-a-Service: a software and consulting platform to optimise marketing performance and identify future growth pathways.
Create what is next,
right now.
We don’t do different, we are.
Our vision is to be the most valuable talent and growth strategy firm for innovation and high-growth ventures.
By finding and equipping leaders with the tools to anticipate future trends, building pioneering software platforms to drive our clients’ revenue, profitability and scalability, and cultivating an approach to leadership that shapes a better world.
Growth Leadership - emphasising the mindset, vision, value-set and cognitive skills needed to perform today - and simultaneously transform a business to compete tomorrow.
Our multi-dimensional assessment and development model shows that only 14% of leaders have what it takes. Global research studies also show Growth Leaders are 2.4x more likely to outperform their peers, and 97% more likely to achieve profitable above-peer growth.
Areas of focus include:
Technology & Communications (incl. AI, machine learning, blockchain & data science)
Digital Media, Sport & Entertainment
Retail & Ecommerce
HealthTech
PropTech
FashionTech
FinTech
EdTech
Private Equity & Portfolio Companies
Our expertise covers CEO, COO, CTO, CIO, CDO, Chief Product Officer, Chief AI Officer/Head of AI Strategy, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and CHRO/Chief People Officer roles.
Our talent-as-a-service matters.
As a boutique, we are unchained by the status quo.
We transcend traditional recruitment solutions, to craft a customised talent strategy that flexes with your business objectives, delivers highly impactful and tailored outcomes, and helps you to scale cost-effectively.
Our TaaS model is disruptive - born out of PE firms and global media and technology giants launching new Australian ventures, OTT platforms and products - and requesting we build out the visionary leadership and supporting teams needed.
With our clients achieving award-winning results, we caught the attention of new start-ups and technology ventures all wanting the same thing: a partner capable of delivering a transformative outcome.
Benefits include:
* End-to-end solutions: incl. generalist HR, talent acquisition, executive coaching, onboarding and leadership programs.
* Flexible fee-model: customisation for cost control, reduced risk, evolving priorities and performance-based alignment.
* Lower cost-per-hire: from entry-level to fractional CMO, our streamlined workflows and referral network reduces cost.
* Culture & goal-alignment: our methodology ensures every hire is in sync with your vision, values, mission and strategy.
* Communication & feedback loops: ongoing check-ins ensure all goals are met, identifying and closing capability gaps.
Growth-as-a-service: powered by data.
At every scalable venture, success is predicting your customers future needs.
Say hello to Forebrite, our platform that statistically analyses your target audience, optimises data-driven insights and drives repeatable revenue growth.
A managed service, our own Growth Co-Pilot even does all the heavy lifting for you too.
Our GaaS model is trailblazing - with a software & AI-powered engine that factors-in market trends and seasonality - transforming your historical and current data into a decision-making powerhouse.
With early clients in healthcare technology, pet services, aggregation platforms & online marketplaces achieving 5x ROI immediately, Forebrite’s success brings a website of its own: forebrite.com
Benefits include:
* United marketing & financial data: to provide a holistic overview of your business performance and customer behaviour.
* Full-service platform: incl. data integration, upfront modeling, workshops and weekly updates, we run Forebrite for you.
* Real-time data insights: to identify growth opportunities, optimise marketing performance and drive repeatable revenue.
* Budget reallocation: our platform attributes marketing activities to actual revenue, measures ROI and reallocates budget.
* Scenario modeling: to factor-in seasonality and new trends, forecast growth pathways and offer new products & services.
Partnerships from Series A to Fortune 50:
Predictability: clarity in a complex world.
Our mission for mutual success
At HP People, we strive to not just do things better, but to do better things.
Early on, we faced a decision: follow the model of a traditional executive search firm, or create a new model that leads business and society forward in the ‘intelligence era’.
Our values of daring to disrupt, being courageous to innovation, standing up for diversity and valuing progress over perfection, underpin a much bolder mission:
To partner in building a new economy that benefits everyone, by igniting and uniting transformative leadership and technology.
In practice, with every project we explain the cultural and economic necessity of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), the risks and responsibilities of leveraging artificial intelligence and automation, the role of an environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework, and the possibilities for purpose and profit to reinforce one another.
Meet our creators.
James Burke
Founder & CEO of HP People, James launched market-leading executive search firm The Ladder in 2003, before metamorphosing the business into HP People in 2013 as new opportunities beckoned.
In sync with the ever-increasing and evolving demands on leaders, alongside luminary psychologists James architected Perform IQ, a multi-dimensional assessment model that predicts a leader’s ability to perform today and transform a business for tomorrow. Springing HP People into a diversification of services and narrowing the focus on start-ups, growth ventures and digitally powered enterprises.
With prior experience spanning marketing and leadership roles in the UK and Asia Pacific, followed by MD and CEO roles for regional and global executive search firms, James’ entrepreneurial vision has seen HP People build one of the region’s strongest client bases, driven by a customer-orientation and commitment to results that has delivered a 100% success rate and 96% stay rate across 1,200+ assignments.
An advisor, investor and connector to startups and scale-ups, when not working James loves sport, music, design and renovating, as well as spending time with his wife, family and friends on the water.
Vlad Mehakovic
As HP People’s future-building data scientist, software engineer and growth marketer, Vlad pioneered an early protypes of Forebrite with Laundromap, Providoor, MoleMap and MedView, before consulting to Hanrob in partnership with James.
With a passion for developing sophisticated systems that use data, statistical algorithms and machine learning techniques to analyse customer behaviour and predict future actions, Vlad has become an invaluable asset and strategic partner to HP People’s clients. A technology agnostic, he’s now consulting to companies across AI, healthcare, consumer, fintech, proptech, edtech and across multiple PE portfolio companies.
After a career in start-ups and scale-ups, from Growth Consultant to CEO, Vlad’s walked the many high-roads and low-roads, and it’s his mission to help every start-up and technology venture drive repeatable revenue growth and achieve sustainable business expansion. Today.
Besides changing the conversation daily from marketing metrics to hard growth metrics, when he’s not at work Vlad’s a gym junkie, adoring husband and newly found father, with little to no other time currently left on weekends!
Our latest thinking…
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Business leaders faced an all-time-high rate of change in 2023, spurred by rapid advancements in generative AI according to Accenture’s new Pulse of Change index, and the pace will accelerate throughout 2024 and beyond.
40 Habits of Growth Leaders
Worst First: Start your day by tackling the most unpleasant task. Getting it out of the way early sets a productive tone for the rest of the day.
Peak Times: Figure out when you're most productive and schedule your important tasks during those times. Save less demanding tasks for your off-peak hours.
Growth Partners : 8 skills, beliefs & behaviours shaping law firm leadership in 2024.
Law firms have always had to adapt to change to remain profitable and relevant to clients, but 2024 looks to be the year in which law firm leadership experiences a transformative shift.
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