Client Testimonials

"Zenobia Consulting have worked with us to transform assessment and selection strategy and process, across the Group. This work has been critical in enabling us to successfully merge management teams across our 73,000 people business. Lena's depth of expertise and absolute commitment to deliver to the highest possible standards have ensured that the new process has engaged our HR teams and demonstrated a significant shift, both in the standards set for resourcing and the outcome of the decisions now made. Lena has worked in partnership with us throughout this continuing programme, she has brought real challenge whenever it was needed and invaluable insight and expertise. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with her."
Debs Gleeson, Director Food Retail HR; Catherine Bouch, Group Recruitment Manger – The Co-Operative Group

"The time you spend with Zenobia Consulting will challenge you to think through your objectives and be really clear about what you are trying to achieve. The meetings are informal working sessions and really move the project forward. Lena combines her depth of experience with a practical understanding of key business issues so her ideas and suggestions add real value. Solutions are strategic, viable and pragmatic, using language that the organisation will readily understand. Working with Zenobia is a breath of fresh air."
Caroline Taplin, Head of Talent Management, Severn Trent Water

"Lena and her team worked with Boots on four significant programmes. Her performance standards, focus, energy and drive were critical in helping to transform our Executive/Senior Management Assessment Programme. Her insights and influential interventions ensured we delivered a successful Area and Store Management Change Programme. Lena also played a major role in developing our senior Talent Managers, demonstrating flexibility, exceptional assessment expertise and impactful coaching delivery. Our final programme involved helping to define the roles in our senior management structure - a task to which she applied great depth and breadth of intellect and understanding. In my opinion Lena is a professional of the highest quality, and her teams, through her leadership, deliver consistently to her standards."
Susie Maskell, Head of HR Retail Operations, Boots The Chemists

Zenobia worked well with us to make sure that the brief was clear and that they could deliver the value to us in the timescales. They were able to work well with all levels in the organisation from executive to sales floor. They provided us with a clear picture of the current culture, a good framework to hang the issues on, and delivered an actionable set of recommendations with a clear sense of priority. They were also able to advise on how to mobilise the organisation behind the actions. This work has been invaluable in engaging the organisation and we are already seeing the benefits financially."
Steve Banks, Director of Profit Protection, Boots The Chemists

“We were a barristers' chambers which had hit a cross roads, where the only thing we were sure about was that standing still was not an option. We needed help to plan what appeared to be a bewildering array of issues: staff, premises, recruitment and internal organisation. Working to a very tight budget and timeframe, Zenobia Consulting provided us with a combination of hard information, insight and plans to allow us to make really good progress far faster than we could ever have done on our own."
Alistair Polson, Joint Chambers Secretary, 1 Pump Court