We work both sides of the relationship that defines this industry.
People Transformation Partners builds executive TA capability inside enterprise organisations — and executive commercial capability inside the agencies, RPOs, and MSPs that serve them. Strategic advisory by a leader who has spent 25 years operating on both sides of the conversation.
People Transformation Partners
Most TA functions are operationally capable. Very few operate as the strategic commercial asset they could be. Most agencies, RPOs, and MSPs deliver well operationally. Very few build the executive relationships that turn good delivery into expanded commercial partnership. We close both gaps.
People Transformation Partners is a specialist advisory practice working both sides of the relationship that defines this industry. For enterprise organisations, we build the strategic TA leadership capability and Finance-validated cost transformation that turns Talent Acquisition into a competitive advantage. For the agencies, RPOs, and MSPs that serve those organisations, we build the executive commercial relationships and in-room credibility that drive sustained revenue, protect margin, and secure long-term retention.
Our work is grounded in direct, senior-level experience across every dimension of the talent industry — agency, RPO, and in-house TA leadership — by a founder who has personally sat in every chair in the conversation. Every engagement is structured around commercial accountability. Fees reflect value delivered, never time invested. Capability built stays permanently. Advisory dependency is never the goal.
Choose your starting point.
Each programme serves a distinct audience and a distinct commercial outcome. The right starting point depends on what you are trying to change — and who in your organisation will own the decision.
Four specialist offerings. One mission.
Fractional TA Mentorship Programme
Embedding executive TA leadership capability — without the cost of a permanent executive hire.
View programme →For Enterprise OrganisationsTA Diagnostic & Savings Plan
A Finance-validated audit of TA spend and capability — with a board-ready investment case.
View programme →For Recruitment AgenciesBetter Together Workshop
Turning agency–TA tension into trust, and trust into long-term commercial profit.
View programme →For RPO, MSP & Agency LeadershipFractional Client Growth Partner
Driving revenue, margin, and retention through executive relationships inside your existing clients.
View programme →Fees reflect value delivered. Not time invested.
Every PTP engagement is structured around commercial accountability. Performance fees, success fees, break clauses, and benefits assurance frameworks transfer the financial risk of the engagement away from the buyer. The goal is always permanent capability, never advisory dependency.
Performance fees tied to verified savings.
10–15% of Finance-validated annualised savings. No projections, no estimates. Every payment trigger is contractually secured against actual delivered savings — and every engagement is designed to be self-funding within Year 1.
Success fees tied to new ACV.
3–5% of verified new annual contract value above baseline. Success fees are payable only on signed expansion contracts — not pipeline, not effort. The retainer secures the engagement; the success fee shares the upside.
Break clauses and capability built.
Annual licence with structured break review at month 6. Quarterly Impact Reviews against measurable development milestones. The mentee, the team, and the organisation are permanently better equipped — capability stays even after the engagement ends.
In every engagement, the commercial model is structured so that the value delivered substantially exceeds the fees invested. That is not a marketing claim. It is the contractual basis on which we work.
25 years on both sides of the relationship that defines this industry.
Mark Linden has built and led recruitment teams across agency and RPO, supported in-house TA functions in some of the UK’s most complex organisations — including Mitie, Jaguar Land Rover, and Sedgwick Insurance — and trained over 500 recruiters and TA leaders at every level of seniority.
That dual perspective — knowing what it feels like to sit on both sides of the agency–TA relationship — is the foundation of everything People Transformation Partners delivers.