Our awards include HR Consultancy of the Year at the HR Excellence Awards, HR Consultancy of the Year at the British HR Awards 2024 and 2025, and Best Professional Services at the In-Cumbria Awards.
We’re a team of HR professionals with over 150 years of combined experience at all levels and across various industries. We react to your people priorities and are proactive in our thinking.
We’re here to compliment your existing HR team, bring thought leadership and deliver your people agendas.
At Realise HR, we combine strategic insight with hands-on expertise to deliver people solutions that drive performance and growth. Our consultants support every stage of the employee lifecycle – from talent acquisition to organisational development – helping you build engaged, dedicated teams.
An engaged team is a productive team. We specialise in developing clear listening strategies to find out how people feel about working for your company and what actions are needed to improve engagement levels.
We design the employee experience and make sure that those moments that matter during the employee lifecycle are amazing and aligned to your employer brand and values.
We all know that change is a constant and in business there is always an impact on employees.
We help you deliver business change and transformation whilst maintaining high employee engagement levels.
We’re experienced in delivering large scale organisational design and change programmes including top to bottom restructures, target operating model changes, site closures and more.
We have over 10 years’ experience of developing Equity, Diversity & Inclusion strategies and initiatives to drive inclusive workplaces where everyone can thrive. We can share our bespoke portfolio of D&I initiatives with you. Examples include employee demographic data collation, raising awareness across different employee demographics, helping HR teams design and deliver inclusive services and frameworks, developing inclusive leadership behaviours and many more.
We collaborate with Chief People Officers, HR Directors, and their teams to review the HR function, ways of working, processess, technology to build a strong HR operating model that drives the people agenda in line with the business ambitions. We partnerwith HR leaders to develop strong people agendas, goals and KPIs.
We create and provide bespoke HR dashboards that equip HR leaders with crucial people data. This enables them to track and assess key performance indicators, and supports executive and board-level decision-making with compelling narrative and insights. If you’re HR analytics is still on the to do list, this one is for you. We can help you build this ground up or if you already have a baseline we help HR leaders take their analytics to the next level.
We know what a high performing team looks like. We deliver bespoke development programmes underpinned by Insights Discovery to take teams on a journey of self discovery with tangible results and an increase in performance within weeks.

Claire McLean led a comprehensive review of AO’s people function, collaborating closely with the Chief People Officer and Executive team to shape a forward-looking people strategy. Her work laid the foundation for aligning the function with AO’s growth agenda, ensuring it could effectively support business expansion. Claire also delivered a targeted programme of initiatives designed to enhance the overall people experience across the organisation.

Jude has been partnering with Morgan Sindall to design and deliver their Inclusion strategy, with a strong emphasis on embedding inclusive HR practices and cultivating inclusive leadership behaviours. Central to this work is the PLACE initiative, which brings leaders together to hear authentic stories from individuals with diverse backgrounds and lived experiences - creating space for reflection, empathy, and meaningful change across the organisation.
Our bespoke solutions are designed to increase engagement, drive inclusivity, team collaboration and a positive culture. We react to your priorities, understand your challenges, design the solutions to deliver immediate impact and create lasting change. We’re creating a world-class portfolio of culture change, inclusive leadership and people programmes, driving transformative impact across organisations globally.
We partner with ambitious companies and are proud to help them achieve their goals by focusing on people and culture. We’d love to hear from you.
“Working with Claire and her team at Realise HR is not just about supplementing our internal HR capabilities; it’s about enhancing our entire HR strategy. Realise HR have become an indispensable partner, providing critical additional capacity and expertise that seamlessly integrates with our internal team to deliver our ambitious people agenda. They don’t just execute projects—they invest in truly understanding the intricacies of our organisation. Realise HR isn’t just an any consultancy supplier—they are a trusted partner, a strategic advisor, and an essential part of our success story.“
former HR Director at Lloyds Clinical and HR Magazine Hall of famer and #1 HR influencer
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