Highthorne isn't built around industries, job titles or career stages. It's built around people and the situations they face.
You don't need to impress us, and you won't be judged. Just tell us what's really going on.
Find your starting point →Choose the area that best reflects what you’re dealing with. We’ll then ask you a few questions so we can understand your situation properly.
Understand what suits you, explore realistic possibilities and leave with a clearer direction and practical next steps.
Start questionnaireWork out what needs to change, what you should move towards and how to position yourself for it.
Start questionnairePressure-test the options, challenge assumptions and make the decision with greater clarity and confidence.
Start questionnaireBring the real situation. We’ll help you understand what is happening, work through the options and decide what to do next.
Start questionnaireBuild the judgement, tools and habits to keep developing, with Highthorne there when another perspective would help.
Start questionnaireHighthorne draws on more than three decades of real-world experience across major UK consumer businesses and international organisations.
The experience spans the full career journey, from frontline roles through every level of management to executive leadership of a £200m+ international business, with responsibility for organisations employing thousands of people.
It includes designing sales processes within one of the UK’s largest mobile telecommunications businesses and leading the development of a strengths-based recruitment approach for the UK operation of a global consumer brand, subsequently adopted internationally.
It also includes decades spent recruiting, managing and developing people at almost every career stage, building and restructuring teams, identifying potential, making promotion and succession decisions, managing performance and helping people step into bigger responsibilities.
The work has been recognised through multiple awards for leadership, performance and customer experience, alongside significant commercial growth and major periods of organisational change.
Because careers are not understood from theory alone. Highthorne is informed by thousands of real decisions about people: who gets hired, who progresses, why people thrive in one environment and struggle in another, how potential gets overlooked, and why being good at something does not necessarily mean it is right for you.
We combine that practical perspective with structured questioning, research, evidence and carefully selected tools.
The aim is to equip people for more than one decision. To help them understand themselves, explore what is possible and develop the tools and confidence to make better decisions as their career develops. And when circumstances change or another perspective would help, Highthorne is there to return to.
To give useful guidance, we need to understand your situation. We only ask for information that helps us do that, and we explain how it is used and protected.
Read our privacy approachChoose the situation that feels closest to where you are. We’ll use that to give you the right starting point rather than putting everyone through the same process.
Choose your starting point →