KPL Talent

KPL Talent is a talent advisory company that works from the premise stated in its own strapline, that talent defines brand. Rather than filling single vacancies, it starts with a whole-team talent profile assessment, on the view that the best teams, the ones that endure through change, share the highest level of trust and a common set of values, which is what allows them to collaborate and expand individual responsibilities while keeping the culture intact. To work out who the next members of a team should be, KPL Talent assesses the existing team and builds a profile of the future team, and that holistic view then guides all hiring. Its executive leaders acquisition work goes beyond matching functions to job titles, mapping and prioritising hiring while accounting for dynamics and dependencies so that the core talent placed strengthens both the team and the business.

The company's other services address the systems around hiring. Employment brand definition, investment and amplification works with marketing, PR and senior management on the basis that people want to work where people love to work and that great coffee and a dog run do not constitute an identity, with the payoff being higher retention, lower hiring costs, a pipeline that never runs dry and a stronger overall company brand. An organisational scaling blueprint recognises that team structures are unique to industry, positioning and growth stage, and is developed with finance to model multiple short, medium and long term growth scenarios into self-sustaining systems.

KPL Talent also builds the internal capability that lets a client stop needing outside help. Its talent team engagement service secures specialised recruiting professionals, embeds them, then trains and guides them through the plan until they can meet the company's ongoing needs independently, which it presents as the best way to keep building while fortifying culture and prizing fit over function. Operational talent systems implementation covers software, subscriptions, event management and PR, with the company producing the shopping list, doing the shopping and getting each element online for the in-house team. Enquiries go to [email protected].