Connecting head and heart in Higher Education
Tailored Thinking are a positive psychology, wellbeing, and HR consultancy.
We strive to be a force for good in the world of work within and across Higher Education.
You can think of us as the bridge between your University’s head and heart.
Rather than focusing primarily on problems and deficits, we galvanise individual, team, and organisational strengths to overcome challenges and capitalise on opportunities.
We bring fresh, evidence-based, perspectives to leadership, wellbeing, performance and change.
We love what we do. And we’re (really) good at it too.
“I’d have no hesitation in recommending Tailored Thinking. The feedback from participants from their workshops has been fantastic and they have worked with us carefully and closely to adapt and shape their approach based on the needs of our people and the wider organisation.”
Our team are Higher Education specialists
Rob Baker
Rob has a wealth of experience working in, consulting for, and partnering with universities within the UK and internationally. This includes HR leadership roles at the University of Sheffield and the University of Melbourne, and consultancy projects and partnerships with over 12 different institutions.
With a passion for being research informing as well as research informed, from an academic perspective Rob is a published author, research collaborator, and guest lecturer with active collaborations with universities of Amsterdam, Melbourne and Newcastle.
Charlotte Axon
Charlotte has worked in a variety of HR, inclusion, and organisational development roles across Higher Education, having led and supported projects relating to culture, change, inclusion, and recruitment.
She specialises in inclusion and belonging and has partnered with multiple universities, applying her knowledge both advising internally and as an external people scientist.
Charlotte is passionate about making work better for everyone by finding opportunities for making positive change through personalisation of the employee experience.
Carly Richards
Carly has hands-on experience of working in Higher Education as an Associate Lecturer in HR and Researcher at the Northumbria University Business and Law School. She is an Occupational Psychologist currently completing her PhD, researching outcomes for the future of work for hybrid working parents.
She’s passionate about bridging the gap between rhetoric and reality, and using research outcomes to inform practice. Specialising in quantitative research, she uses people’s stories and experiences to inform her consulting to make the world of work more human friendly.
Our wider team
We have partnerships with a wide number of (wonderful) higher education specialists with expertise in change and transformation, team work, organisational design, talent management, staff development and leadership development.
Collectively Tailored Thinking has over 150 years of Higher Education expertise and experience.
Our services
We bring Tailored Thinking to Higher Education.
