At The Great Workplaces Company, we believe in creating purposeful organisations that inspire and drive growth. Founded by a seasoned professional with years of experience in London’s fast-paced business environment, we bring a fresh perspective to organisations.

Creating Great Organisational Cultures

Our mission

Our mission is to help businesses grow purposefully by sharing our knowledge and expertise in creating great workplace cultures. Let us help you create a great workplace culture that drives success and inspires your employees to reach their full potential.

Our focus is on creating great organisational cultures that help employees find more meaning and become better engaged in their work. When you create a great people experience, you create a great customer experience, with benefits that ripple out to suppliers, the community, the country, and the planet. From practical programmes and tools, to workshops, training, coaching, and mentoring, we deliver our services with care and compassion.

Let us help you create the kind of workplace our children would be proud to work in and that your customers will love.

Our story

The Great Workplaces Company has been in the making for a few years now. It came to fruition when Pam moved back to Scotland having worked in London for most of her career. Apart from using the return home to enter a new phase in her life it was a chance to look at what difference she could make to organisations. Essentially how to bottle her experiences and share these with businesses to help them grow purposefully.

Consulting

Drawing on years of management consulting expertise, we create practical programmes with measurable outcomes. Working with leaders, employees and sometimes other stakeholders like customers, we work collaboratively to an agreed brief, budget and timescale. Programmes and projects can be standalone or integrated as part of other work.

Training

We develop, run and help embed purposeful learning opportunities (online and face to face) in organisations. These can be interactive workshops, learning bites, group learning or large scale workshops. For in person sessions we can use tools like Slido or Mentimeter to garner opinion or collaborative tools like Mural to create an inclusive working environment for those in or outside the room.

Coaching

The opportunity to work one-to-one with individuals, managers or leaders helps create a place to pause, reflect, explore and grow. Our coaching approach also draws on many years in senior leadership roles to work alongside clients in a compassionate way looking at the whole person to strike a balance between work and homelife. Normally over eight sessions we work together towards your goals with care and attention to what’s important to each individual.

Mentoring

Rather like having your ‘guru’ guiding you through business change, our approach draws on consulting, training and coaching expertise. It’s a process of exploration which may involve us sharing our successes and less than successful experiences to help our clients accelerate and avoid the pitfalls.

Pam Herries

Transform your workplace culture with my expert guidance. With years of experience working with purpose-led and customer-focused organisations, I know how to bring your organisation’s purpose to life and create a culture that guides decision-making and drives success.

With first-hand experience working in employee-owned organisations like John Lewis Partnership and PA Consulting, I pride myself in demonstrating the values, mission, and purpose of every organisation I work with. My expertise includes working with senior leadership teams and executive committees, as well as working effectively with remote teams and in matrix management structures.

I have led large teams and created programmes ranging from organisational design to writing compelling communications, running events, and delivering practical training and engagement activities. Let me help you turn your strategy into action and create a workplace culture that drives success.

Experience & Background

I have worked with many organisations in the areas of employee engagement, change management and culture shaping.  This has been across sectors including; retail, fashion, consulting, central government, media, technology, to financial services both in the UK and globally.

Some of the organisations I have worked with include:

Small and medium-sized businesses such as Beira (sustainable fashion), Ebiquity (media research) and TrustB (consultancy).

Large public and private organisations ranging from ABN Amro, ASOS, BA, BBC, Border Force, BT, GSK, HMRC, HM Prison Service, HP, to John Lewis & Partners, MOD, NCR, Prudential Financial, SKYPE, Waitrose & Partners, and The Valuation Office Agency.

 

Work Together

Brand journey

Pam approached Georgina Hart after meeting her at a networking event and loved her approach to brand creation started with purpose, and like Pam she had moved to Scotland from London. Through various discussions about work, life, the Universe, and everything in between Pam and Georgina seemed to spark off each other. Georgina started with the brand essence (growing great workplaces), the brand purpose (to create great workplaces), the mission (to create the kind of places my children would be proud to work), our promise (to share Pam’s experience, expertise and excitement for great workplaces for current and future generations that have purpose-minded cultures.)

The brand

The logo was inspired by the elegance of haute couture, the imagery and prose drawn from Pam’s Purpose Prompts™ cards for purposeful conversations, and the Scottish land and city-scapes. Each element of The Great Workplaces Company’s brand has been curated to inspire, reflect integrity, be purposeful and most of all give the feeling of being mindful of where you are and where you are going.

The colours not only Pam’s favourites, but are drawn from nature, the earth, from the stones and rocks that ground us to the plants and flowers that if nurtured can grow in a variety of conditions.

Associates

We have a team of associates who can bring a mix of relevant and innovative expertise to The Great Workplaces Company.

Loretta Windsor–Mackenzie

Wellbeing Consultant – Director and Founder

Loretta is an extremely experienced wellbeing and mental health in the workplace expert, with a passion for creating positive workplace cultures. As the Director and Founder of Greentree Wellbeing Consultancy, Loretta’s work focuses on supporting businesses to create wellness campaigns and strategies that break stigmas and encourage positive workplace cultures.

Apart from her work with Greentree, Loretta is also a trained wellbeing and careers coach, helping individuals to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. She is the Edinburgh event coordinator for The Association for Coaching, a leading professional coaching organisation, and sits on the professional advisor group for human resource management at Edinburgh Napier University.

Loretta is also a dedicated practitioner of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, which she incorporates into her work to help individuals and organizations achieve greater wellbeing and positive outcomes. Her expertise and commitment to creating positive workplace cultures make her a valuable resource for businesses looking to improve their employees’ wellbeing and mental health.

Greentree Wellbeing Consultancy

Dympna Mckenna

Specialist Copywriter and Marketeer – Founder

Dympna is a highly skilled copywriter and marketer, with 30 years of wisdom and experience in Hospitality and Tourism.

She supports businesses and organisations to connect with their audience through compelling writing, inspiring content, the use of plain English, and the right tone of voice. Her expertise spans various mediums, including website copy, brochures, features, speeches, and marketing collateral from toolkits to training.

In addition to running her own business, she is also the Partnerships Manager for SITE Scotland, a local chapter of the global Society for Incentive and Travel Experts. The purpose of the role is to develop partnerships with other local member organisations and higher education institutes to strengthen Scotland’s presence on the world stage of event travel. Dympna is passionate about inspiring the next generation of Event & Travel professionals and has run workshops and talks at Napier University and Edinburgh College.

Dympna’s ability to craft compelling and engaging content, combined with her deep understanding of the hospitality and tourism industry, makes her a marketing asset to any organisation. She delivers tried and tested strategies to connect with target audiences and drive results, supporting organisations to succeed.
Dympna McKenna

Georgina Hart

Designer – Founder

Georgina Hart is a talented designer, and brand curator with a focus on purpose-driven brands. As the founder of Studio Hart, her work is all about thoughtful and thought provoking graphic design, illustration, photography and content creation.

Georgina works with people and businesses on all kinds of marketing and creative projects. Her particular talent is on creating stunning branding and visuals to promote people and companies. Expertise ranges from business cards and letterheads to product phototherapy and illustration.

Georgina is passionate about working on bespoke projects, brining wild ideas to life and packing a creative punch. A born collaborator Georgina takes her experience in fashion and design to take a different angle to design work from illustrated graphics to web pages.

Whether you want to get some visual inspiration or rebrand your organisation, Georgina has the creativity and art of looking sideways to help your business come to life through beautiful design.

Studio Hart