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Helping organisations bring people with them through change.

Independent internal communications and change consultancy supporting organisations across the UK and globally.

20+ years' experience  |   Global organisations  |   Consultancy and in-house leadership

Rob O'Brien, communications, employee experience and transformation consultant
Services

How I help

Communication strategy, leadership messaging and organisational narrative

Supporting clear, credible communication on reward, benefits, policies, performance, wellbeing, learning and other people priorities.

Strategic and HR communications

Change & transformation

Support for restructures, technology change and organisational transitions

Helping leaders communicate what is changing, why it matters and what employees and managers need to do next.

Employee experience and engagement

Engagement, onboarding, listening, HR communications and digital employee experience.

Designing employee experiences that strengthen engagement, improve connection and make key moments across the employee journey work better.
 

EVP & employer brand

Research, proposition development and activation

Helping organisations define what makes them distinctive—and turn it into an authentic experience that attracts talent and engages employees.

Work

Selected work

Award-winning employer brand campaign for Wagamama

wagamama

Award-winning employer brand

South Pole

Global employee experience and EVP transformation

South Pole global employee experience and EVP transformation

South Pole EVP Playbook

Transformation

Communications and change through complex transformation

Business transformation and organisational change

Why clients bring me in

Clarify complex change

Strengthen engagement and trust

Cut through ambiguity and create clear direction.

Build confidence through clear, honest and consistent communication.

Connect strategy to employee experience

Make strategy meaningful for employees and actionable for leaders.

Bring senior support without a permanent hire

Flexible, high-impact support when you need it.

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About

About Rob

For more than two decades, I’ve helped organisations make work clearer, more engaging and more human.
 

I’ve worked across consultancy, communications leadership, employee experience, employer brand and transformation, supporting global businesses through growth, change and complex people challenges. My experience includes leading communications across the full People agenda, from reward, benefits and policy change to HR technology, organisational design, onboarding and employee engagement.

 

What I bring is a blend of senior counsel and hands-on delivery: the ability to see the bigger picture, cut through complexity and create communication and experiences that genuinely move people forward.

Insights

Insight
Tech employer brand strategy for an Amsterdam engineering and product hub

Building a Tech Employer Brand in Amsterdam

A practical employer brand and recruitment marketing strategy for launching a new Engineering and Product hub—covering talent attraction, limited-budget planning, channel selection, measurement and team leadership.

European manufacturing technician talent and recruitment marketing research

Attracting Manufacturing Technicians Across Europe

A talent landscape and media audit exploring where specialist manufacturing talent can be found, what motivates candidates and which channels offer the strongest opportunities for effective recruitment marketing.

Intercom technology employer brand and recruitment marketing strategy

Elevating Intercom’s Tech Employer Brand

A content-led recruitment marketing approach combining employer-brand storytelling, targeted campaigns and candidate-focused landing-page design to strengthen Intercom’s appeal to technology talent.

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