My Story

I’m Caia, founder and owner of partnering2excel, a small, values driven consultancy helping businesses and teams realise their ambitions.

I have worked in HR for over 25 years, during which time I have gained a broad range of experience, working in partnership with organisations at different stages of their lifecycle, to design and deliver the right people interventions to support their goals.

When the opportunity arose for me to say farewell to corporate life, during a significant period of change and reflection thanks to Covid19, I decided my ambition was to become an independent HR consultant working in partnership with small to medium sized businesses, to establish best practice people guidance and support tailored to their needs.

I also run a Ladies Golf Tour business as a hobby (come passion), so am keen to talk business out on the golf course or meet you for a coffee, whichever you prefer!

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Our Philosophy

With over 20 years of business experience spanning small start-ups to multinationals, I understand the challenges you may be facing, and the importance of taking your people with you.

I believe people are key to strategic success. To execute a strategy successfully it is critical to connect all aspects of your business to ensure they work together as a whole.

I’ll work in partnership with you, providing pragmatic and outcome focussed expertise and guidance, working in a way that is aligned to my values.

Our Values

Work in Partnership

Collaboration is vital for success. I’ll build enduring partnerships, working with you not for you

Act with Integrity

I’m straight talking and value honesty and openness, role modelling our values

Make a Difference

Making a real difference drives me. I focus on outcomes and upskilling, so you’re confident about the future

Underpinning these 3 values is a genuine desire to share my passion.

I care about what I do and use my drive and commitment to energise, engage and inspire others.

Our Approach

I want to help you and your business achieve your goals and aspirations. To do this I’ll firstly build an understanding of your journey to date based on insight shared by you and your employees, your data and external sources. This insight, coupled with a clear and agreed understanding of your aspirations and priorities, enables me to work with you, drawing on my experience, to build creative and tailored solutions.

As an independent consultant, I can objectively weigh up strategies and challenge your thinking, to ensure the solution reached is in your best interests and tailored to your requirements.

I’ll ensure:

  • Simple, practical solutions are co-created with you
  • Your narrative is authentic enabling you to own the key messages
  • People will be treated respectfully and supported through any transition period
  • You have the guidance and upskilling you need to be confident about the future

I have a strong desire to help you join the dots between your strategy and how you operate and organise your business, with your people proposition and strategy.

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“If you look after your staff, they’ll look after your customers. It’s that simple”
Richard Branson
“Choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them”
Brene Brown
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself”
Henry Ford

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Expertise

I’ve worked for organisations of all different sizes encountering business and people challenges at all stages of the business lifecycle.

My experience is in senior HR roles across different industries, including financial services, heavy engineering and food manufacturing. With significant business change experience, I can work with you to ensure there is a clear vision and then develop the appropriate people solutions with you, to support your people through any transition period and set them up to be the key differentiator for your business.

My skills and experience will enable me to support you in developing and aligning your people processes and people strategy in support of your business goals and ambition.

If you want to know more about my credentials, check out my Linkedin profile

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Caia

Feedback

Don’t just take our word for it, here’s what others have to say about us:

Caia has a positive, flexible, pragmatic approach which I am sure will assist any business at whatever stage of their life cycle they are in.

Caia worked with me and my senior team on a number of Operating model and People proposition programmes in our time together at British Sugar. Her ability to understand our business model and strategic direction were key to her proactively being able to guide us through some complex HR areas offering up alternatives and different solutions as we progressed to our final proposition.

It is her ability to positively impact the chosen strategy that elevates her contribution to the team.
Trevor Smith
Operations Director
Don’t just take our word for it, here’s what others have to say about us:

As a small business we faced many HR challenges during lockdown, including dealing with redundancies for the first time and navigating the furlough scheme.

Partnering2excel provided us with expert, practical advice enabling us to move forward with confidence in a period of considerable uncertainty and change. Caia’s wealth of experience, professionalism and quality of work was second to none.

I would not hesitate to recommend Partnering2excel’s HR services to any small business
Callum Macleod Dowd
Director
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