Human Centric People Consultants
Innovative people management solutions.
Potential was established with a clear purpose:
to help clients accelerate their business performance by solving human resources and people challenges. Supporting private markets businesses and alternative investment firms.
From the outset, we wanted to differentiate ourselves from other consultancy firms by taking a business first, pragmatic approach to human capital advisory. Our vision is to act as an integral partner to clients, taking time to deeply understand their human resource needs, their environment and their strategy.
Mark Hawes
Founder of Potential
Potential was founded by Mark Hawes, who has accumulated over 20 years of experience in the realm of human resources and talent management. Throughout this time he has led HR and Talent teams across financial services on both buy and sell sides.
Mark partnered with and consulted numerous leaders across various sectors. With a reputation for open and honest collaboration his interactions revealed a common need for a novel approach to people strategy, especially as organisations were experiencing rapid growth. This realisation served as the catalyst for the establishment of Potential, with a vision to provide innovative and effective solutions in the ever-evolving landscape of people management.
Services
FOUNDATIONS
Ensuring your company and people have the correct procedures that define the sort of firm you want to be. Building trust in the employer/employee relationship.
RELATIONS
Support both employee and employer to resolve conflicts effectively.
Foster a positive and productive workplace building strong relationships through transparency
TALENT
Attract, hire the right people, growing their skills and organically creating a productive high performing team.
CULTURE
Develop and live key behaviours that follow your purpose and values.
Build an inclusive and varied team driving hiring, retention and productivity.
PLATFORMS
User focused payroll, rewards, benefits and leave administration systems.
Manage people data in an accessible and secure way. at
Case Studies
Real Estate Manager
Having received funding, the requirement was to increase headcount to launch a new brand. Potential alongside the founders to build a management team and hire an asset management function;
Created a new organisational design and a costed plan for recruitment.
Designed branding and pipeline for external and internal talent, implemented attraction, roles, responsibilities and goals to set new hires up for success.
Delivered the new teams into leading to a excellent first years performance.
Fintech Start Up
Having established a core team, learning and development was the next step.
Implemented an easy to use performance management process.
Used output to create development plans for each individual coupled with manager training and support.
Rolled out leadership development pathway.
Not For Profit
Carried out an investigation into formal grievances based around harassment and bullying allegations. Met witnesses and presented findings. Advised the board on next steps and possible actions.
Private Equity Investor
Organic team growth leading to high employee grievance case load.
Worked with leadership and the wider team to understand where they saw themselves in the scope of employee policy.
Drafted a suite of policies using best market practice.
Published a handbook, socialized and educated the population.
Major change in engagement and a resulting reduction in employee case load. Engendered trust and confidence throughout the team.
Accelerating SaaS Provider
A SaaS start up which had grown rapidly during the pandemic right sizing as it became established.
Potential advised on organizational design and delivered documentation, communications plans and timetables for a reduction in force including redundancy and termination.
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