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.

Redundancy Recovery & Reinvention

✓ Helps departing staff regain confidence & direction

✓ Protects your reputation by taking care of people beyond the exit

✓ Signals strong leadership in times of disruption

✓ Strengthens morale & culture for those who remain

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What it is:

A practical and human support package for individuals who have just been made redundant. We do not manage the redundancy process. Instead, we step in once the decision is made to help people stabilise, reframe their situation, and move toward a more meaningful next chapter. This is not outplacement. It is modern, action-oriented transition support that reflects the reality of today’s job market.

Format:

  • Initial strategy and core materials delivered within 2 to 3 days

  • Includes a fixed foundation build (10 consulting hours)

  • Plus 1 to 2 consulting hours per affected employee for tailored delivery

  • Optional one-to-one or group coaching can be added

Follow-on delivery typically unfolds over 2 to 4 weeks depending on scale

What’s Included: For the Departing Employees:

  • Clear and compassionate digital guide to help stabilise and take next steps

  • Tools for rebuilding identity, setting direction, and regaining agency

  • Curated resource directory for job search, retraining, benefits, and mental health

  • Optional one-to-one or group coaching to support mindset and progress

  • Access to Harshlight’s self-coaching tools library

For the Employer:

  • Branded and customised digital pack ready to send to affected staff

  • Messaging guidance to introduce the offer with clarity and care

  • No additional pressure on HR or operations teams

How We Build It:

  1. Initial discovery session with leadership (60 to 90 minutes)

  2. Fixed foundation build including messaging alignment and content design

  3. Delivery of the core digital support kit within 2 to 3 days

  4. Weekly support and tailored coaching over the following weeks as required

  5. Optional reporting or feedback loops to track impact

90-Day Team Rebuild Programme

✓ Rebuilds clarity, confidence, & direction in your team

✓ Aligns talent and structure to future goals & market shifts

✓ Injects pace, trust, & adaptability into your culture

✓ Leaves a self-sustaining framework for delivery & performance

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What it is:

A focused 12-week programme to reset and relaunch your team after disruption. We partner with your leadership to assess capability, clarify direction, rebuild trust, and embed the tools and mindset needed to succeed in a faster, more fragmented world.

Designed for moments when your current team no longer fits your future.

Format:

  • 12-week consultancy-led programme

  • Typically delivered as one day per week of embedded support

  • Includes leadership coaching, live facilitation, team diagnostics, and delivery guidance

  • Custom timeline and intensity based on team size and business context

What’s Included: For the Leadership Team:

  • Capability and role alignment audit

  • Vision and strategy reset session

  • Operating model redesign

  • Leadership coaching and decision support

  • Guidance on internal messaging and momentum management

For the Team:

  • Culture and trust-building sessions

  • Clarified roles, goals, and delivery rhythms

  • Tools for effective hybrid collaboration

  • Accountability systems and ownership playbooks

  • Optional psychometric profiling using Harshlight’s 7 Elements

How We Build It:

  1. Scoping and diagnostic session to assess starting point

  2. Design of a tailored 90-day sprint roadmap

  3. Weekly delivery rhythm including workshops, coaching, and feedback loops

  4. Midpoint review and adjustment session

  5. Final relaunch session with delivery toolkit and embedded habits

Freelance Talent Strategy & Role Mapping

✓ Helps you build agile teams that flex with market needs

✓ Reduces risk by clarifying where freelance is best used

✓ Aligns freelance roles to core business priorities

✓ Creates smart and lean workforce design for the AI era

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What it is:

A practical programme to help you integrate freelance and fractional talent into your team structure.

We guide you in rewriting job scopes, redesigning delivery models, and building a resourcing strategy fit for a fast-changing world.

Format:

  • Delivered over 2 to 4 weeks (16 to 32 consulting hours)

  • Can run standalone or as part of a wider team rebuild

What’s Included:

  • Review of current team roles and delivery pain points

  • Mapping of freelance and fractional talent needs

  • Custom job briefs and deliverables

  • Sourcing and onboarding strategy

  • Playbook for integrating freelance roles into team culture

How We Build It:

  • Kickoff session to understand your structure and goals

  • Workshops with function leads or team heads

  • Job mapping and documentation

  • Support with transition or first round of hires

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Leadership Coaching in Transition

✓ Helps leaders regain confidence and clarity

✓ Creates space to reflect and refocus after change

✓ Enables stronger and more authentic leadership

✓ Builds resilience in the face of complexity


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What it is:

A personal coaching programme designed for senior leaders navigating major transition. This could follow layoffs, business pivots, or personal inflection points.

We provide confidential support to rebuild purpose and sharpen leadership focus.

Format:

  • 6 to 12 coaching sessions delivered over 3 to 4 months

  • Optional one-day immersion or offsite version available

What’s Included:

  • One-to-one coaching based on Harshlight’s 7 Elements framework

  • Leadership narrative and mindset reframing

  • Decision-making support and personal roadmap building

  • Tools to handle resistance, ambiguity, and pressure

  • Optional team feedback integration and personal brand review

How We Build It:

  1. Chemistry session to ensure alignment between coach and client

  2. Goal-setting and personal transition mapping

  3. Session cadence designed to fit around your schedule

  4. Final integration session and forward plan

AI Integration Clinics (On-Demand Support)

✓ Helps you spot high-impact opportunities for AI use

✓ Reduces inefficiencies and time-wasting manual processes

✓ Builds internal buy-in for future AI transformation

✓ Gives your team confidence to start using smart tools


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What it is:

Flexible consultant-led sessions to explore where AI could support your business. Designed for teams that are curious but unsure where to begin.

We provide honest insight, practical ideas, and immediate actions.


Format:

  • 90-minute or half-day live sessions

  • Available as single sessions or multi-clinic packages

What’s Included:

  • Interactive session tailored to your context

  • Diagnostic tools to find the best use cases

  • Demos and walkthroughs of relevant tools

  • Risk and ethics considerations

  • Clear next steps for testing or scaling

How We Build It:

  1. Pre-session briefing to understand your goals

  2. Live session delivered virtually or on-site

  3. Follow-up summary with tool links and action plan

  4. Optional add-on: team training or pilot design