Winner – Sweetmans and Partners
To demonstrate a successful collaboration between an individual consultant/consultancy and a client organisation, Sweetmans & Partners and Motonovo Finance worked in partnership to co-design and co-deliver an accelerated leadership programme, including an in-house hackathon. The purpose of the joint programme was to gain insight from the wider leadership community to inform strategy, develop key leadership skills and maintain an entrepreneurial culture.
Highly Commended – Iceland Foods
To ensure every one of its 24,000 employees is taken care of, Iceland Foods transformed its HR function to keep pace with the movement of the business and to build a modern and professional HR function that enabled delivery of the company’s people strategy. The new strategy focused on building organisational capability, maintaining company ‘family-like’ traditional values, equipping for modernisation and using modern technology to deliver the initiatives.
Finalists:
Effective HRM with Hafod Housing
Effective HRM with Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
Helen Iles Limited with United Welsh
Resolution at Work with Neutral Assessment
Sponsored by Skylite Associates 
This award recognises the partnership between an individual consultant/consultancy and a client organisation, working on a specific people-related project to address a strategic issue. The consultancy must include written permission from the client on the entry form.
The judges were looking for evidence of:
• how the consultancy worked collaboratively with the in-house team and wider organisation to undertake a specific people-related project;
• the clear objectives of the initiative and how this links to the broader people strategy, and the business/organisational strategy;
• how the project has delivered tangible business benefits to the organisation, including the impact on key business metrics or clear verifiable examples of how it has positively impacted the overall employee experience.