PEOPLE, CULTURE & ENGAGEMENT ADVISORY
A high-performance culture is a system design choice.
The SaltX difference
Root-cause Diagnostics
Pinpointing levers for business ROI.
Dual Lens
Former CPO + Head of Engagement & Comms
Co-creation
Work happens with your team, not to it.
See the whole picture
No sticking plasters or only treating the symptoms.
What we help you solve
Select your immediate challenge to explore our research-led diagnostic approach and solutions:
01 Culture, Engagement & Experience
Moving from survey data paralysis to evidence-backed employee experience architecture that connects culture to business performance.
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Employee survey action paralysis (turning data into impact): Identifying what’s underneath your results to design targeted solutions with your team.
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Preserving & evolving culture while scaling: Protecting core identity and stopping departmental silos when growing from 100 to 500+ headcount.
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New hire productivity and retention (onboarding): Increasing the speed for new hires to be productive and integrated with your culture.
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Employer brand & candidate drop-off: Attracting the right people, fixing candidate drop-off during recruitment and improving metrics like Glassdoor.
02 Leadership and Manager Capability
Equipping managers and executive teams through capability design and strategic coaching to lead teams effectively.
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Promoted technical experts struggling to lead: Transitioning brilliant technical specialists into confident managers through structured coaching and practical toolkits.
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Executive & senior leadership misalignment: Resolving friction between board-level strategy and operational execution.
03 Transformation & Organisational Change
Navigating structural shifts, reorgs, and acquisitions without losing trust, productivity, or key commercial talent.
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Executive strategy lost in translation: Clarifying business strategy and org. structure so every level of the business moves in sync.
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Restructure & change communication failure: Crafting clear, purposeful and empathetic change narratives that eliminate rumour mills and maintain engagement after re-orgs.
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Post-merger cultural integration ("us vs. them"): Unifying distinct workplace cultures post-acquisition while protecting key talent pipelines.
Connecting culture with performance
Businesses with highly engaged people outperform competitors.
*Data based on research carried out by Engage for Success, Harvard Business Review and Gallup.
Senior partnership built for impact.
Traditional consultancies often deliver off-the-shelf frameworks created in isolation and handed off to junior associates. We work differently. As a boutique advisory led by a former Chief People Officer and a former Head of Engagement & Internal Comms, we work in close partnership with your internal leaders, building capability with your team, not doing things to them.
The Chief People Officer lens
People strategy & business metrics: We diagnose underlying structural bottlenecks, org design flaws, and core HR capability to ensure your people strategy supports commercial performance and bottom-line ROI. Co-Founder Ben Howells is a former Chief People Officer.
The Engagement & Comms lens
Systemic engagement & workforce alignment: We identify the systemic levers that align leadership, culture, and change narratives to directly impact workforce engagement and business performance. Co-Founder Matt Morgan is former Head of Engagement & Comms.
Our promise: "We are research-led, performance-focused, and collaborative. We have sat in your seat and you work directly with us using diagnostic research, strategic design and executive coaching to help you build lasting capability."
We diagnose before we design: The employee experience system map
Systemic challenges cannot be solved with isolated interventions.
Every engagement begins with a collaborative research-led system audit using our proprietary London Tube-style Employee Experience Diagnostic.
We work alongside your stakeholders, using focus groups, new or existing sentiment data, and one-to-one discovery, to pinpoint the exact levers that unlock business performance.
The SaltX Employee Experience Tube Model
Step 1
Systemic research & diagnosis
We get under the skin of your challenge in partnership with your stakeholders.
Through qualitative focus groups, executive interviews, desk research and sentiment analysis, we identify the root-cause impacting performance.
Step 2
Co-designing workplace conditions
We work alongside your HR and business leaders to redesign workplace conditions.
From onboarding journeys and recognition frameworks to creating leadership alignment and manager capability, we design the right solution.
Step 3
Creating shared strategic narratives
We translate updated strategy into authentic shared narratives and communication plans.
We work with your leaders to generate executive alignment and engagement across all people populations.
Step 4
Enablement, coaching and learning
We equip your leaders through targeted executive coaching, manager toolkits and capability training.
We deliver specialised focused learning and development programmes.
Ready to identify the levers for high performance?
Book a 30-minute initial discovery call directly with our founders. We'll explore your current people & culture concerns and share how our research-led approach can support your business goals.
Matt Morgan
Head of Engagement & Comms
Ben Howells
Chief People Officer
