Big-company engagement expertise, right-sized for your business

I’ve spent my career helping people feel genuinely engaged at work, and seen the impact it can have.

25+ years in and still curious about what makes people stay

I grew up with two parents who were partially deaf. It taught me early on just how much it matters to feel properly heard, and how easily that gets missed when nobody’s paying attention. That early lesson shapes everything I do now: being honest even when it’s uncomfortable, being practical rather than theoretical, and always turning insight into action. It’s the whole idea behind tansybee.

My career began in financial services, spending 10 years working within the sector before I moved into employee engagement and recognition in 1998 for global agencies. That grounding mattered because it helped me understand the pressures your teams are under.

From there, I spent most of my career working with large financial services organisations, the kind with thousands of employees, big budgets, and complex engagement programmes.

Over those 25+ years I’ve noticed something. The fundamentals of what makes people stay, and what makes them leave, don’t really change with company size. What changes is whether anyone takes the time to ask the right questions, and whether they act on what they hear.

Growing service businesses often can’t (or don’t want to) bring in a big consultancy. But they still need the same clarity: what’s really going on with their people, and what would make the biggest difference if they changed it.

That’s why I set up tansybee. I bring corporate-grade engagement expertise, but sized and priced for businesses with 10–500 people. No long contracts, no jargon, no twelve-month “transformation programme.” Just a clear picture of what’s happening now, and a practical plan for what to do next.

How I Work

Practical rather than theoretical

I’m not here to sell you a framework for its own sake. Every recommendation I make is chosen because it will make a difference, with the least disruption and expense.

Honest rather than comfortable

Sometimes the audit surfaces things that are hard to hear. I’ll always tell you what I’ve found, not what’s easiest to say.

Actionable rather than endless options

You’ll be presented with a clear, prioritised action plan that we’ll review together, not a 40-page report that sits in a drawer.

Why I Focus on Financial Services

Reputation and trust are the product in financial services, which means your people are your product. Over more than 25 years working inside global employee engagement and recognition agencies, I’ve delivered engagement programmes for two of the UK’s “Big Four” banks, Santander, two of the “Big Four” global accountancy firms, and the UK’s largest building society, alongside household names in energy, hospitality, and retail.

Every programme I managed was company-wide, so together, those organisations employ several hundred thousand people whose working lives my programmes had the potential to touch.

I understand the pressures your managers and teams are under: regulation, client expectations, and the reputational cost of getting service wrong, and so I bring that context into every audit, rather than a generic engagement template.

keep your good people. make sure their voices are heard.

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