LHH, a global leader in integrated talent solutions and a global business unit of the Adecco Group, today launches its HR & Talent Advisory practice, leveraging 60+ years of talent experience, proprietary global data, and practitioner-led consulting to deliver clear business outcomes.
With persistent skill gaps, financial pressures and fragmented workforces accelerating AI adoption, talent strategies are evolving at an unprecedented rate to ensure they are future-proof. LHH HR & Talent Advisory practice will work as a strategic partner for organisations to shape and implement workforce, leadership, and culture strategies to better align talent ecosystems and people strategies to business outcomes.
“Executives are tackling nuanced, high-stakes decisions across the talent journey that directly impact their business performance,” says John Morgan, LHH President, Career Transition & Mobility, Leadership Development & Coaching, and HR & Talent Advisory. “Our HR & Talent Advisory team combines decades of hands-on, world-class experience to deliver human-centred guidance in partnership with leaders. By combining deep expertise in leadership, culture, organisational design, and workforce strategy, we help organisations navigate change and drive reinvention that benefits both people and the business.”
The evolving workplace
As organisations increasingly face workforce transformation challenges, LHH HR & Talent Advisory practice takes an enterprise-wide approach to talent management across levels. It enables leaders optimise their people strategies and deliver enterprise outcomes across the workforce, with expert practitioner-led guidance across leadership, culture, organisational design, and workforce strategy.
LHH’s HR & Talent Advisory helps organisations across three critical areas:
- Building Capability & Ways of Working: Identification of the most transformative opportunities in culture, leadership and talent, to drive growth for both people and the business.
- Enabling Organisational Agility: Practical recommendations to ensure that the organisation remains responsive to change and can adapt and grow with confidence.
- Creating a Future-Ready Workforce: Greater understanding of future skills supply and demand will reduce uncertainty, mitigate risk and strengthen readiness for navigating future needs.
“Workforce challenges are rarely isolated; they span across culture, technology, processes, and talent,” says Ben Smytheman, SVP HR & Talent Advisory. “Our role is to help HR and senior leaders view the full picture, identify the connections that matter, and translate complex challenges into practical, actionable solutions. By leveraging the depth and breadth of our workforce solutions expertise, we help organisations enhance performance and achieve tangible business results.”[FF1]
LHH’s HR & Talent Advisory practice is led by SVP HR & Talent Advisory, Ben Smytheman, a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered HR Fellow with support from Marie Shaw who moves to LHH’s new practice to lead the European Division as VP, Regional Director, EMEA, HR & Talent Advisory.
The team consists of seasoned global experts with more than 60 years of combined advisory experience across talent, leadership, and organisational transformation.
Learn more at LHH.com/HR-Talent-Advisory.
