EMBEDDED LEADERSHIP & ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITY
The Embedded People and Leadership Function for Scaling and Transforming Businesses
Ballast works alongside leadership teams to strengthen leadership, capability and execution through practical, commercially grounded support that moves at the pace of the business.
​CLARITY · STABILITY · MOMENTUM
20+
Years of senior people leadership experience
20M
Annual savings from operating model redesign
2× EBIT
Margin doubled on a three-year people plan
+17pt
Engagement uplift across seven business units
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND EVERY ENGAGEMENT
​THE PROBLEM BALLAST SOLVES
Most Businesses Don’t Stall on Strategy. They Stall on Execution.
The ambition is right. The commercial logic is sound. What breaks is the leadership, structure and capability to deliver, consistently, at pace, through pressure and change.
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You might be a CEO whose business has grown faster than the organisation around it. A leadership team navigating a restructure or acquisition. A founder who knows the informal ways of working that got you here won't get you to where you need to be next. An investor who needs the people and organisational workstream to move at the pace the value creation plan demands.​
The instinct is to recruit. But a permanent senior hire takes months, costs more than it looks on paper, and arrives without the execution capability to deliver the agenda behind them.
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Ballast is the alternative: a fractional Chief People Officer (CPO) with the HR leadership and specialist capability to deliver and make it stick.
​HOW BALLAST HELPS
Senior leadership and specialist capability, sized to what you actually need.
Whether you need a fractional Chief People Officer (CPO) to lead the HR agenda or a full embedded team to deliver it, Ballast can be structured around your situation, and flex as it evolves.
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Fractional CPO Leadership
Need senior Chief People Officer (CPO) level weight in the business now, without the timeline or cost of a permanent hire? A Ballast CPO lead works at board level, owns the HR agenda, and can start moving within days.
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Transformation and Change
Going through an acquisition, restructure or leadership transition? Ballast takes ownership of the people and organisational workstream so you can stay focused on running the business.
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Embedded Team Model
Where the agenda needs real execution capability behind it, Ballast provides a senior lead and a specialist team, one integrated function, directed and accountable end to end.
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Specialist Expertise
Need augmented or targeted depth in a specific area, performance, capability, engagement, reward, without building it permanently? Ballast deploys the right specialist, directed by a senior lead with a clear outcome.
​CLIENT WORK
What This Looks Like in Practice
​PE-BACKED B2B
Embedded People Function
INDEPENDENT FAMILY BUSINESS
Senior People Leadership
EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP B2B
Embedded HR Partnership
Performance framework introduced across the business. People plan in active delivery for the first time in CTH's history.
HR systems, performance cycle and business strategy built from scratch. In-house recruitment capability established where previously none existed.
Talent strategy and hybrid capability model introduced to support shift to an enterprise-led business. Dedicated HR function established for the first time in the company's history.
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