GIVE
A DAMN
Step into a world beyond HR
Traditional HR practices are not fit for purpose in the hyper-growth world of start-ups and scale-ups.
They slow you down when you need to speed up.
They constrain when you need to think outside the box.
They create red tape when you need agility.
They tick boxes, when you need to be outcome focused.
I don't "Give A Damn" about traditional HR
I give a damn about:
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applying 'product-led' thinking to design people experiences that empower your team to greatness
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ensuring customer value remains at the heart of everything you do
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cultivating the magic of your business, not suffocating it
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generating engaged alignment around your mission and way of working
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helping your team grow as fast as your business does
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disrupting your people's idea of what it means to love their work.
My magic is
helping you scale yours
My box of tricks
Ways of working
If you feel like your business is starting to slow down, your team could improve how they work together, or it's becoming harder to align on what 'great' is, then it's time to think about the way you work.
I'll help you define ways of working that solve your scaling problems and level up your people. We'll put customer value at the heart of your work, improve the speed of delivery, and instil a commitment to continuous improvement.
You get:
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Playbooks for decision-making, collaboration, change management, and customer centricity
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Agility-based team structures to suit your needs
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Approaches to visualise your work-in-progress
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Shared principles, practices, and cultural norms for how to treat each other.
Talent ID / pathways
Are you struggling to find people who understand how to succeed in your business? Do you feel like your existing team is getting left behind as you grow? Talent ID / pathways will help.
I'll help you think about the talent profiles you need now and in the future. You'll also learn how to build development pathways and feedback loops, turning you into a deliberately developmental organisation.
You get:
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Visualised talent profiles for your key roles
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Candidate experiences that will wow!
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Flexible development pathways to suit your rapidly evolving needs
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Feedback loops that provide meaningful performance data to your people.
Adaptive leadership
If your leaders are finding it difficult to bring clarity, alignment, and motivation to your team, or if they keep resorting to Plan A, when what's needed is Plan B or even Plan C, then you need adaptive leadership.
I'll help you develop leaders whose ability to adapt, inspire, and execute enables your business to navigate the complexities of growth, seize opportunities, and achieve lasting success.
You get:
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"How to Lead" playbook that defines what great leadership looks like for your business
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Educational workshops that bring the latest in leadership development to your teams
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Tailored growth plans and 1-on-1 development coaching for each of your leaders
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Group coaching sessions to enhance the team dynamics of your executive leadership team.
People technology
Are your people processes arduous and manual? Did you invest in people software but aren’t getting returns? Do you lack visibility on how effective your organisation is? This is the package for you.
I'll help you leverage the power of generative AI, process automation, people analytics, and compensation data to give you a crystal-clear picture of your organisational effectiveness.
You get:
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A real-time picture of how effective your organisation is at working together
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People software that enables your teams to consistently do their best work
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A clear, equitable, and data-driven compensation strategy that balances affordability and retention
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Generative AI solutions that elevate your people.
All this can be done without the long-term commitment of a full-time hire, and gives you the ability to scale your investment up or down in my support as your needs evolves.
How do I do it? Let's take a look behind the curtain...
LeanPX
™
Inspired by disruptive start-ups, my unique LeanPX approach will help you retire 'traditional HR' for good.
Why Lean? Rapid experimentation, short delivery cycles, iterative learning, maximum value creation.
Why PX? Compelling 'people experiences' that scale with your business and empower your teams to greatness.
Learn
Talk to and survey your people. Learn what they do, the value they deliver, and what blocks them.
Feedback
Gather feedback on our prototype, iterate and scale. If the prototype didn’t work, pivot to something new.
Ideate
Work with your leaders and key contributors to generate hypotheses for enhancing your people's ability to do great work.
Launch
Deliver a solution that’s ready to launch at scale across your business. Measure it's impact to ensure it works.
Prototype
Rapidly build prototype solutions and test them early with small pilot groups in the business.
Enhance
Continually seek improvements, releasing new versions that further enable your team to deliver consistently.
LeanPX lives and breathes on a simple belief. If the work of a People team doesn’t help your people do better work, generate more sales, or cultivate more customer loyalty, then they should stop and pivot to something that will.
I help People teams too
People team power-ups
Technology Assist
Covering software platforms, people analytics, compensation data, process automation, and generative AI, I help People teams use technology to improve how people work together.
You get:
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A data-driven People team who combine people metrics with business performance data to generate strategic insight
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A lean People technology stack that integrates seamlessly with the other business systems
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A people team with the technical skills to keep pace with emerging technology.
LeanPX Coaching
I help People teams apply the LeanPX approach and transform themselves into an adaptive, outcome-focused team, that delivers what the business needs, when it needs it.
You get:
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People initiatives that actually improve execution capability
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A scalable approach that allows your people team to grow their capability and keep pace with your business as it scales
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A People team who asks "if what I am doing isn't helping the business improve, why am I doing it?"
Delivery Assist
Whether you need a People strategy delivery roadmap, a key project needs to be delivered, or a project lead needs mentoring, I step in and take accountability for achieving success.
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An assessment of your most critical People needs, followed by a tailored delivery roadmap
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Execution of key strategic projects, including effective change management
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Mentorship and hands-on delivery support for your existing team.
These power ups can also be scaled up or down as your needs evolves.
All great things start with a coffee
Hey, I'm Adam
From my first interaction with traditional HR nearly 20 years ago I've been driven by a simple question: "Surely there must be a better way to do HR?"
I travelled the world in a quest for inspiration, looking in places you may not expect. Tedx conferences, elite sports teams, design thinking, to name just a few. I then had the good fortune to set up and scale People teams in global high-growth tech companies.
These opportunities gave me a front-row seat to hyper-paced, disruptive, customer-obsessed product thinking, and I had a thought – What if the future of HR wasn't HR at all?
I began to apply lean product thinking to the way my teams designed impactful people solutions and something wonderful happened. We delivered solutions that actually helped people consistently do great work, while tangibly improving customer value and creating growth. I was hooked, and LeanPX was born!
I've created Give a Damn to help more start-ups and scale-ups use LeanPX to help them intentionally rethink how they approach their people, enabling them to scale successfully without losing what makes them special.
