Strike the balance in staffing operations

Transform your consultancy into a successful human-powered business.

Is your staffing or resourcing model full of compromise — between client needs, business goals, and employee wellbeing? Then it’s time to change the paradigm, so that people-centricity directly fuels the success of your human-powered business.

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At a handful of humans, we help consultancies break free from “resource” management.

Using unique, proven principles, practices and tools, we support you to put people at the centre. We enable the paradigm shift to a human-powered staffing operations model, where consultant wellbeing, sales agility and delivery quality all work hand-in-hand toward improved:

  • improved staffing decision quality, response times and success rates result in improved profitability — higher utilisation, lowered bench costs, and fewer unstaffed roles. Pipeline predictability is unlocked, and delivery risk reduced.

  • delivery quality and customer outcomes are improved through related staffing factors, resulting in improved client sales, retention and driving repeat business and account growth.

  • intentional staffing — in which care for consultant growth and wellbeing is balanced with business needs — results in more engaged people, increased retention, reduced burnout,  and the ability to deliver on your employee value proposition promises.

Let’s shift staffing from an administrative function, to a human-centred, strategic lever for success.

How we can help

Flexible engagements based on where you are now, and what you need to get to where you want to be.

Operational support

Hands-on, expert support in the full range of operational staffing activities - allocation, planning, forecasting, consultant conversations, stakeholder collaboration. Executed collaboratively, with empathy, acumen, and continuous improvement.

Targeted assessments

Focussed, timeboxed discovery and definition sprints to rapidly identify challenges and opportunities, align strategies, prioritise, and guide decision-making. Pragmatic prototype development, build versus buy decisions, and systems implementation coordination.

Transformation consulting

Strategic initiatives for long-term operational excellence. Process redesign and execution, organisational design, team establishment, long-term effectiveness strategies, and building sustainable staffing functions, directly connected to business value.

All services are tailored and pragmatic. Let’s start with a conversation, and we’ll build the right offer for your needs.

Let’s work together

Interested in hearing more or working together? Reach me directly at fiona@ahandfulofhumans.com