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Your Business, Your Needs, Your Way… We Work in Your Reality

Why Us

We passionately believe that every situation is different, therefore we don’t endorse “off the shelf” solutions regardless of the challenge you are facing.

We want to partner with you, taking the time to understand what you want to achieve and then delivering what you need, in your style and in your language.  We work where you need us to be and in a way that is right for you that is why we are The Reality People.

We have been fortunate enough to have worked in and led global People & Capability teams and we want to share that experience with others.  We are not “just” a consultancy,  we want to help develop your teams skills and capability, helping them develop their careers through coaching & mentoring and enable them to meet future challenges.

Together we  bring over 50  years experience across multiple sectors leading teams and operations in global organisations.  Our deep, hands-on  experience ensures that we can help develop solutions suitable for your Exec Team to your Front-line teams

Alison Cooper

Former FTSE30 CEO & Non Executive Director

I enjoyed working with Gert for over a decade and with Darren latterly, which included a significant change programme for a global FTSE30 company. They have a palpable commitment to people being the critical difference to the success of any organisation and bring a productive mix of understanding, challenge and thoughtful solutions to all aspects of developing individuals, teams and organisations.

Ben Worthington

People Experience Director UK, ROI & MEA - Clarks.com

I’ve worked with Darren and Gert on a number of occasions, and whether they’ve supported me with initiatives for large corporate teams in the UK or smaller geographically and culturally diverse teams in the Middle East, they’ve always shown the ability to understand our local needs and partner with us to build an impactful solution that is perfectly judged for the audience.

What We Do

Working With You

Given our experience of leading teams globally, we believe we can offer something unique and of real value to your business, we don’t believe in just delivering “products” we want to help you build your legacy.

Working alongside your in-house  teams we can help develop their skills, whilst also delivering solutions you need to drive your business forward.  We believe that helping to develop your teams will help you create a lasting change in your organisation and show a real return on your investment far and beyond any one-off solution, encompassing:

  • Business Partnering – balancing strategic and operational requirements
  • Reward & Remuneration schemes & incentive programmes
  • Learning & Leadership Development – focus investment on critical capabilities to develop your organisation
  • Employee Engagement & Employee Branding – helping you to understand what is most important to your people and ensuring you are engaging with them in the most effective way

Working For You

We have been in your reality ourselves  and we recognise that sometimes you don’t always have the resources available in-house.  We  can also produce an end to end solution and help implement this across your business for you.

Regardless of how you want to work together, we can help in a number of different topic areas:

  • Talent Development - Helping you implement a process to define, identify and develop your talent to ensure they develop their careers and in turn your business
  • Leadership Development & Coaching– Bespoke leadership development solutions from first line leaders to C-Suite enterprise leadership
  • Cultural & Behaviour Change – Working with you to help define the organisational culture you want and then design and develop  interventions and frameworks to help embed this.  Our experience tells us that when we begin to look at cultural change we often have to refocus the business operating model and ways of working overall, therefore Transformation & Organisation Design is a core part of the puzzle…too often we have seen a focus on one or the other, but to truly transform and develop the organisation you want both need to operate hand in hand.Developing your People Teams:
    • Business Partnering balancing strategic and operational requirements
    • Reward & Remuneration schemes & incentive programmes
    • Learning & Development – focus investment on critical capabilities to develop your organisation
    • Employee Engagement & Employee Branding – helping you to understand what is most important to your people and ensuring you are engaging with them in the most effective way

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Darren Bartlett

Global leader of People and Capability teams across Retail, Financial Services and FMCG sectors.  Over 25 years experience in leveraging how learning, leadership, talent and executive development are critical components in successful transformational change.

Gert Schrijver

Global senior people leader, lived and worked around the world. Over 25 years experience being responsible of specialized areas like talent development, reward, M&A integration as well as running large Global organizations (HRD/CHRO/BP) delivering (cultural) change and overall business objectives.  Working with Co-Active Coach Training Institute to be a certified coach with ICF qualification.