Our Clients
Happy People clients range from charities and small fast growing companies to government and major corporates. These include:
Abel & Cole
ABTA
ATL
BAA
Cancer Research
Charity Commission
Cougar Automation
Electric Word
House of Commons
ICI
Investors in People
ITLab
Lloyds TSB
Melcrum Communications
Metropolitan Police
MRHA
NHS
Onsite Insights
PCS
Pensions Trust
Rugby Football Union
Solar Century
Surrey County Council
Unison
Case Studies
Abel & Cole: Supporting Growth
Abel & Cole, an organic delivery company and Organic Retailer of the Year in 2004, has doubled in size in each of the last three years – growing from £2 million turnover in 2002 to £14 million in 2005.
Entrepreneurial Business
Chief Executive Ella Heeks attended the LSC_funded Entrepreneurial Business course, starting in April 2004. Of particular interest was the focus on trust and empowerment, to enable change in fast growing organisations.
Support for the Chief Executive
The entrepreneurial business course included one-to-one coaching to develop personal executive skills. This was so useful for Ella that she has continued it after the course.
"It is the first ever time I’ve had structured support as a Chief Executive. IT has enabled me, in a period when we doubled in size, to actually reduce my hours and get a sensible balance." Ella Heeks, Chief Executive, Abel & Cole
Developing the Management Capability
Following the success of the programme with Ella herself, she commissioned Happy People to establish a full management development programme for the senior team.
"For the company as a whole it really seems to have inspired people. People are actually excited about being good managers. They have an idea of what that is, and a sense of it being possible.
"We needed people to work together as a team rather than continually looking upward for guidance. That is now happening. They are working together, asking each other for help." Ella Heeks, Chief Executive, Abel & Cole
Reference: Ella Heeks, Chief Executive
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Cougar
Cougar is a software development company, rated by Management Today as one of the best companies for customer service in the UK.
“The emotional intelligence and leadership training that Happy has given us has made such an enormous difference to everyone who has been trained and to our business as a whole.”
“Happy is a business that I greatly admire. They show that successful business and happy employees go hand in hand. Learning about Happy, their principles of management and business philosophy, has transformed my thinking. As a result I have changed many things we do at Cougar Automation. These changes have made our people happier and our profi tability has increased dramatically.”
“Happy have shown me that everyone can be happy and fulfi lled at work and that this improves the performance of the business. It leads to high performance without stress. Thank you Happy!”
Clive Hutchinson