Changing the world by transforming the world of work - one organisation at a time.

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Creating a PeopleFirst organisation full of belief and belonging

Our PEOPLEFIRST MATRIX will help you to create an organisation full of belief and belonging by identifying where you are on your journey to that goal. It draws on the collective learning of the last nine years identifying, and working with, the world’s most inspiring places to work. This has been captured in a powerful methodology we call COMPASS. Our consulting team will use COMPASS to help you identify the most effective route to reach your destination with greater certainty and speed.

The Peoplefirst Matrix

Low Belief
High Belonging
High Belief
High Belonging
Extent of Belonging
Listeners
Time to add purpose
and inspiring communication
Inspirers
Time to
evolve and embed
The Lost
Time to find
a sense of purpose
Talkers
Time to add
voice and inclusion
Low Belief
Low Belonging
High Belief
Low Belonging
Extent of Belief

If you’d like to understand how you can increase the belief and belonging of your people, request a call now.

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Business outcomes we will help you to deliver

Win the battle for talent

Create powerful reasons for the best people to stay and join

Enhanced business performance

Bain has identified Inspired people are more than twice as productive than those who are satisfied

Innovation that pays off

Evolve your business by involving your people in its new direction

Achieve your Purpose

Help every person believe in the purpose and contribute to delivering it

Lead the market

By working as one you’ll go further than the competition

Build the trust of all your stakeholders

If you want to create a PeopleFirst organisation that outperforms the market, contact us today

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Guiding organisations with the aid of our compass methodology

COMPASS is built on six pillars that we have identified as being fundamental to creating the kind of employee experience that defines an inspiring workplace.

Inspiring purpose and culture

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Inspiring leadership and communication

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Employee VOICE

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Inclusion and community

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Wellbeing

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Society and sustainability

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By using these six pillars to guide your actions, we will help you to create a holistic employee experience that is the hallmark of an ‘inspiring workplace’.

COMPASS will ensure that every facet of an employee’s life at work underpins both personal and organisational success.

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By starting out to create a company that provides recognition to organisations trying to create inspiring places to work, we’ve created a global movement that is changing the world by transforming the way organisations work.

As more organisations recognise the need to create shared belief and a strong sense of belonging, we expect them to embrace the power of our COMPASS approach to drive a sustainable advantage for their organisation.

Matt Manners

Founder

Who We Are

Inspiring Workplaces Consulting is the consulting arm of Inspiring Workplaces. Our goal is to accelerate the pace at which organisations can create a holistic employee experience that is the hallmark of an 'inspiring workplace'.

Our experts will use the IW Matrix and the COMPASS method to guide clients on their purpose-driven journey. We will help them build an employee experience that is fuelled by belief and belonging to create a PeopleFirst organisation that delvers sustained value to all its stakeholders.

Our Senior Consulting Team

Matt Manners

CEO & Founder

Matt spent the first ten years of his career, living and working in London, Sydney and Boston helping organizations communicate with their people and customers. It was near the end of this period he began focusing on the CX and ultimately the number one influence on it…the employee experience.

The lack of appreciation of and investment in the EX by leaders and businesses drove Matt to invest all he had in the world to create The Employee Engagement Awards. To recognize and tell the stories of those that dared to try new things. Things that would enhance the people experience for the benefit of both them and the organization. Over the next five years The EE Awards evolved into a global community, an academy, a content hub, and inspirational events.

So, in 2020 he brought it all under the Inspiring Workplaces banner - an organization that wants to change the world by creating PeopleFirst organisations.

Ruth Dance

Head of Consulting

Prior to IW, Ruth spent 16 years in learning and organisational development working as a trainer and change agent in global businesses – Christie’s, Mitie and News Publishers.

Ruth recently ran the global community ‘Employee Engagement Alliance’ hosting businesses across the globe as they shared and learned from one another on their successes of their employee engagement programs.

Highly passionate about bringing like-minded people together to focus on the positive impact that PeopleFirst cultures have on business success, Ruth is a conference host and speaker, qualified coach, consultant and mother to three young boys.

Crispin Manners

Chairman

Crispin’s passion lies in helping people to realise their potential, and organisations to create inspiring places to work that deliver profit with a purpose.

He founded Onva, his consultancy, to help organisations achieve their goals by providing the leadership required to create a happy and productive workplace. As a result, he works closely with senior and team leaders to hone their leadership and communication skills and to give them the tools to be more effective and successful and create the environment required for PeopleFirst cultures to thrive.

His approach embraces proven neuroscience and behavioural profiling so that people can understand how to create a positive impact on those around them. As a result, he is welcomed as an adviser, mentor and coach for senior leaders.

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