Potentia
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We are an entrepreneurially-led HR & change consultancy and are experts in the HR space.
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We are an entrepreneurially-led HR & change consultancy and are experts in the HR space.
[Noun, Latin Po’ten.ti.a/]
We believe in people-centric change as the key to unlocking the potential of organisations, teams and individuals, enabling them to step out of their comfort zone with confidence to thrive in the digital age.
We believe that creating a compelling sense of purpose is critical to organisation success. We talk as much about the ‘why’ as we do enabling the ‘what’ and the ‘how’.
We believe in harnessing the passion of authentic, human and empathetic leaders to inspire and engage their teams and communities to deliver greatness.
We believe in business performance that is driven by clarity, alignment, action and impact.
Potentia is a positively disruptive HR & Change consultancy, ready to unlock the potential of your organisation, teams and individuals. We work with you to enable the necessary conditions to enable your future success to flourish. We help you define, deliver, embed and sustain that which is possible but not yet achieved.
This is your potential. Unlocked. This is Potentia. Your change. Delivered.
Having recently founded Potentia to help unlock the potential of organisations, teams and individuals to thrive in the digital age, James has an impactful track record as a visionary, strategic and positively disruptive Chief People Officer and Change Leader. He has delivered change and supported growth in complex global corporates and private-equity backed, entrepreneurial businesses. He has championed culture change, effective organisation design and development and partnered with Board and C-Suite leaders. Click here to read more.
He was recently a Managing Director & Global People Leader at Swiss Re, initially supporting the $10 billion multi-business EMEA portfolio and latterly the Group Operations, Global Functions and Digital Technology portfolios, based in London and Zurich. Prior to Swiss Re, he was Group HRD at Minova Insurance, a high growth private-equity backed insurance portfolio, having spent several years at HSBC, both in London and Hong Kong, latterly as Global Head HR for Commercial Banking.
Previous experience includes with AllianceBernstein, a major international asset management firm, as Global Employee Relations Director, based in New York and with extended periods in Singapore and Tokyo. In his early career, James worked for PwC Outsourcing in HR and Operations’ leadership roles strategic change and HR roles in manufacturing.
James is married to Jeremy, a feline veterinarian, with two obligatory cats at home, Artie and Humphrey, and together with his husband, is a partner in The London Cat Clinic, an entrepreneurial feline-only veterinary practice in central London.
We are an entrepreneurially-led HR consultancy. As a purposeful, motivational and empowering consultancy, we combine high energy and focus to inspire and enable teams to drive sustainable business growth. We are passionate about unlocking the potential of organisations, teams and individuals to thrive in a digital world.
Personal connection at global scale. We have a high impact record in a range of sectors in organisations of varying scales and with different operating models, including regulated financial services and technology firms, start-ups, global FTSE-businesses and high-growth, entrepreneurial, private equity-backed businesses.
Internationally experienced and culturally savvy, Potentia works with clients in the UK, Europe, Asia and the United States. Based in London, we are nationally and internationally mobile .
