Consulting For Businesses
Harshlight works with business leaders navigating complex transitions, from AI disruption to redundancies and leadership change. We bring a mix of strategic clarity, coaching depth, and lived experience to help businesses evolve with integrity.
Transition Leadership
Coaching for Business Leaders
✓ Strengthens leadership confidence and coherence during turbulent periods
✓ Reduces friction, confusion, and burnout during change
✓ Aligns leadership messaging to protect trust and culture
✓ Builds capability to guide future transitions independently
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What it is:
Coaching for founders and senior leaders managing organisational change — such as restructures, exits, or AI disruption. We help you lead with empathy, precision, and moral clarity through uncertain terrain.
Format:
4 to 6 sessions per leader (6 to 9 hours total)
Optional group coaching or facilitated strategy sessions
What’s Included:
Initial diagnostic to understand the context and confidence gaps
1:1 coaching focused on leadership presence, communication, and strategy under pressure
Tools for holding hard conversations and guiding cultural transition
Templates and frameworks for planning, sequencing, and messaging change
Optional peer support sessions with fellow leaders
How We Build It:
Intake call with each leader (1 hour)
Structured coaching sessions over 4 to 6 weeks
Optional facilitated group reflection or alignment session
Final coaching summary and forward plan
Support for Manual & Frontline Worker Transition
✓ Reduces risk of disorganised or traumatic exits in high-volume settings
✓ Shows leadership accountability and care during difficult moments
✓ Helps displaced workers move into new work or support systems
✓ Builds trust among workforce, community, and regulators
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What it is:
A practical, high-impact service designed for organisations with large volumes of manual or frontline workers facing disruption or redundancy. We deliver regionally tailored support combining benefits guidance, crisis support, and job opportunity access, all in accessible language and formats.
Format:
Typically delivered over 1 to 2 weeks per region or site
Designed for volume delivery at scale (group and self-serve support)
What’s Included: For the Employer:
Site-level rollout plan with manager briefings
Communication materials (leaflets, posters, SMS/email copy)
Optional onsite support days for direct engagement with staff
For the Worker:
Printed and digital Support Guide explaining available support options, guidance on accessing benefits, and signposting to relevant support services
Local and national job opportunity feeds
Signposting to mental health, housing, legal, and financial advice
Optional group sessions or Q&A drop-ins (in person or online)
How We Build It:
Employer briefing call to understand workforce needs and logistics
Customisation of templates and support materials to reflect local resources and tone
Optional coordination with unions, community centres, or local authorities
Onsite or remote delivery over agreed timeframe
Redundancy
Support Kit
✓ Reduces the risk of legal action or reputational harm
✓ Helps managers communicate clearly and humanely
✓ Preserves trust and morale among remaining staff
✓ Supports departing employees to land well, quickly
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What it is:
A tailored support kit for organisations making staff redundant. We help you lead the process with care and clarity by providing structured communications, tools for staff support, and coaching for leaders — all built in collaboration with your internal team.
Format:
Custom built for your organisation in 2 to 3 days (16 to 24 consulting hours)
Optional coaching or delivery support
What’s Included: For the Employer:
Redundancy comms pack (email templates, FAQs, internal messaging scripts)
Step by step manager guidance for delivering the message with empathy
Internal playbook aligning HR and leadership messaging
For the Employee:
Clear, compassionate digital guide explaining what to expect, what to do next, and where to find help
Guidance on accessing benefits and entitlements
Curated resource directory for mental health, legal support, and upskilling
Optional 1:1 or group coaching for affected staff
Access to Harshlight’s Self-Coaching Tools Library
How We Build It:
Discovery session with your HR or leadership team (1 to 2 hours)
Review of your current tone, timing, and internal processes
Customisation of the toolkit with your brand and priorities
Delivery of your final package within 2 to 3 days
Optional walkthrough or manager training session
AI Business Workforce Transition Strategy
✓ Enables proactive planning and risk reduction ahead of AI disruption
✓ Minimises resistance and chaos by giving staff clear, respectful options
✓ Demonstrates leadership responsibility and long-term thinking
✓ Creates alignment between operations, people, and ethics
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What it is:
A structured consulting process to map how AI will affect your workforce, identify risks and opportunities by role, and build a clear transition strategy. We help you move from disruption to direction, with dignity.
Format:
4 to 6 days depending on organisation size (32 to 48 consulting hours)
What’s Included:
Role disruption analysis: which roles will be replaced, augmented, or evolve
Exit, redeploy, or reskill pathway planning per role cluster
Workforce mapping and data gathering (via stakeholder interviews or HR input)
Strategy and comms planning for people leaders and HR
Cultural impact review and leadership alignment recommendations
Integration with Harshlight’s Career Mapping Tool and Self-Coaching resources
How We Build It:
Discovery session with HR, strategy, and leadership (2 hours)
Organisational role and workflow analysis
Co-design of a bespoke transition plan and communications framework
Optional coaching for managers or affected teams