Paola Bradley

Paola is a commercially-focused consultant with over three decades of experience designing, driving and delivering effective business transformation and change programmes for both global clients and SMEs. Prior to a life-changing event, she was an Equity Partner in charge of a region for a major global consultancy (Watson Wyatt Worldwide) responsible for developing intellectual capital and client development skills, growing key global accounts and leading complex projects eg for BA, BT, Camelot, Reuters, BP, Shell. The foundation for this was four years spent in academia as a Senior Research Fellow, researching in business and HR strategy with an emphasis on performance management and reward. Paola lectured on MBA programmes (City University Business School, Durham University, Middlesex University and Hull University) in marketing, HR and business strategy for over two decades.

As a true outside-of-the-box thinker, she is highly experienced at developing, refining, leading and implementing people strategies using the levers of performance management, organisation design and development, reward, culture, leadership development, talent management and employee engagement.  She is adept at growing and retaining congenial and professional relationships with business partners, clients, stakeholders, team members and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment conducive to creative problem-solving. She excels at devising research-led, innovative and effective business solutions tailored wholly to the unique needs of each client.

For the past 10 years, Paola co-owned a boutique strategy consultancy focused on business transformation and securing private equity funding for SMEs. In this capacity she was responsible for the growth and commercial success of over 50 organisations in a variety of sectors working directly with leadership as the architect of change, coaching and empowering them to lead the transformations necessary to drive their businesses to success.

In the past two years an area of interest and passion has been mental health particularly in the workplace. Paola has been volunteering for a mental health charity and has been undergoing extensive training into the different aspects and facets of mental health. Last year she completed academic research on the efficacy of treatments for depression globally for a charitable foundation. This was used as an underpin to raise significant funding for direct intervention.