Cadent Gas is a gas distribution company that owns, operates and maintains the largest natural gas distribution network in the United Kingdom, transporting gas to 11 million homes and businesses across England. With a rich heritage that can be traced back as far as 200 years, Cadent Gas looks after 82,000 miles of gas pipes. The company is powered by nearly 6,000 employees.

Our client needed to identify, nurture and grow its talent pipelines to meet the challenges of climate change, carbon reduction and bio-diversity. Not to mention ownership and development of a G7 country’s critical transport infrastructure.

Going into the next phase of its evolution, a renewable energy company wanted to identify the future people capabilities to deliver sustainable growth, combat climate change and create a net zero future.

Following the roll-out of a new business model, a bespoke leadership development programme was designed and delivered for a critical operational population within an engineering business.

The non-executive board of directors of a government organisation challenged the leadership team to identify the people skills to deliver longterm return on investment.

Our global commercial real estate management won a large contract with a FTSE 100 company. The partnership included the TUPE transfer of over 2,000 employees across 700 sites. As well as commercials and customer service, critical to the success was the effective cultural integration of the transferring employees, including care for their psychological safety and well-being.

A large UK utilities company came to us with a tough, strategic problem. To prepare for entering a new regulatory cycle, it needed to deliver a radical transformation in its approach to talent management to achieve a step change in customer, operational and financial performance.