8Blue Talent Partners

8Blue Talent Partners works with entrepreneurial companies on the people side of growth. It draws up a tailored talent plan, which it calls an 8BluePrint, covering how a company hires, develops and organises staff according to its goals, culture and stage.

What 8Blue Talent Partners offers

• Executive search and team recruiting: finding senior leaders and building new or larger teams quickly.
• Executive coaching: one-to-one work with key executives.
• Organisation design: aligning structure to make the most of resources and talent.
• Compensation design: creating and reviewing pay and incentive schemes.
• HR on demand: interim and fractional HR leadership.
• Succession planning and board development: naming internal or external successors and building boards of directors and advisers.

Who it works with

Growing entrepreneurial companies and their leadership teams. Testimonials come from The Body Shop, during a move to an omnichannel model, and from Good Measures.

Key facts

• Team: led by Debbie Briggs and Julie Kaneb