Testimonials

“Erika has an intuitive understanding for the relevance of ethos and culture in the modern workplace. Working with her helped us to bring our Essential Truths to life and articulate them in a way which all our people, customers and suppliers can relate to as practical, demonstrable and sincere.”

“The energy and enthusiasm Erika brought to the project gained immediate engagement with the team. Her approach was methodical and thorough, which resulted in a truly insightful view into how the business is perceived both internally and externally. It was great to encourage the engagement of our customers, suppliers, and employees in the process. The story and its truths represent a true and accurate picture of what it means to be [company]. I would like to thank Erika and her team for the support and guidance during all stages of the project.”

“When St [name] Hospice was drafting its new strategy in early 2020, we had no idea that we were about to step into a global pandemic and a period of fast paced collaboration with other health and social care partners, responding to extraordinary needs within our community for end of life and palliative care. Thankfully the strategy stood us in good stead, with an emphasis on tackling health inequalities and a commitment to reach out to the wider community to build cultural confidence in supporting one another through the experiences of dying and grief. When we stepped back in 2021, we could see that the strategy was standing firm but the values that we had carried forward from many years before – however noble - were no longer supporting our broader ambitions as a modern hospice in an integrated care landscape.

"We reached out to Erika as we were aware of her passion that a clear set of contextualised values could amplify your organisation’s confidence and convictions. We had already started talking to staff and volunteers about the need to refresh our existing values so Erika was able to hit the ground running with pacy and inclusive interviews and workshops. Erika knit together hours of listening into four clear themes, distilled quickly into powerful suggestions for our approach.

"It was a pleasure to see Erika genuinely listen to the feedback: she took on-board that although a hospice is rightly associated with kindness and care, hospice staff do a courageous job, often requiring the most difficult conversations and the staff wanted our values to represent that courage. The whole process was brilliantly project managed, always delivered with a sense of pace and a respectful understanding that time was precious for clinical and medical colleagues.

"The ask was for our ethos to speak to our hard-baked strategic commitment to achieving health equity and building compassionate communities: Larkenby helped us find our voice together, and we are very grateful for both the words and what they represent.”

“Thank you so much for yesterday. I don’t know how you managed it but everyone came back very motivated to take it seriously and commit to the process. I always think we are a tough crowd, more doers than thinkers, who find this stuff difficult.”

“Erika has helped bring much needed clarity and focus in shaping a strategy that enables the Social Mobility Alliance partners to make some big leaps forward with an ambitious brief. We found it helpful that Erika has been able to really understand both the common threads between our many organisations without losing a sense of our individual reasons for being in the Alliance. She is weaving a huge amount of opinions, visions and challenges into a very succinct, action oriented approach that is surprisingly simple and refreshing - and although challenging (as we wanted it to be) now feels more deliverable.”

“Erika was a delight to partner with on discovering our company’s Essential Truths. Erika fully captured "us" as a business and delivered beyond our expectations, things that our company will now live and breathe - she also educated all of us in her workshop the power of what Essential Truths can achieve internally and externally. We liked Erika's approach to our ethos not only being driven by how we described ourselves but by also engaging with our candidates, clients and suppliers. Without hesitation, we already have and will continue to, recommend Erika.”

“I can put this quite simply. Erika has been the single most important factor in my company's growth over the last three years. We've always had a great product, but Erika helped us find our "meaning" and inspired a confidence within me and my team to take our business to the next level. It's been a fundamental overhaul of the business and it's been done gently, with direction and with a huge amount of charm.

"Each time we meet I always come away feeling renewed, re-energised and completely reinvigorated ready for the next challenging stage in my company's development. There's a touch of real genius about Erika, and I'm so glad to have her on my side.”

“Erika listens and thinks hard about the client’s business and responds to the business problem with creative and imaginative solutions. Erika is also a first class entrepreneur committed to furthering the business environment and economy.”

“Erika is a real people person and is great at getting under the skin of not only what the business needs but what its individuals need to make them succeed and give their company the edge.”

“Working with Erika has been a real pleasure. Her infectious enthusiasm, combined with her expertise and drive, meant that she's quickly grasped our business needs and has a clear understanding and empathy for our work as a not-for-profit organisation.”

“Using her insight, skill and passion, she brings a professionalism to projects which gets results. Creative and with a strong business brain, Erika balances the needs of the task with commercial realism and common sense. This is all reinforced by immense energy and a huge sense of fun.”

"The [name] Way has become an important part of life at the company and a key part of our strategy for growing the business."

“Erika is an outstanding listener. As a result, she is able to insightfully explore and interrogate personal values and organisational truths in a way that few others can. Erika's intuitive approach builds confidence while challenging the status quo. Her ten week programme offers an opportunity for the individual to explore the depths of their personal values and practically translate them into an approach designed to enable future success.

"On an organisational level, Erika is an expert at getting inside challenges and opportunities, efficiently crafting a roadmap designed to build a positive culture and drive future growth. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Erika as the absolute best person to explore your personal or organisational truths.”

“Erika came highly recommended to me at a crossroads in my marketing business. As economic pressures were deepening in their impact on Fractional roles, I questioned my next steps. Erika’s programme was invaluable and teased out my true purpose, reaffirmed my value-add and facilitated a clear articulation of my business’s Essential Truths. She has been encouraging, action oriented and challenging at all times which was exactly what I needed. I wouldn’t hesitate to encourage all my clients to engage Erika’s services in unearthing the true value of their brand. Deploy a values-led culture and growth will follow. Thank you Erika.”

“Erika is someone I’ve known for a long time. She is brilliant, smart, engaging, and deeply tuned into what drives both people and businesses.

"Her focus is on Essential Truths and how they shape individuals, organisations, and cultural transformation.

"In a world that is becoming less empathetic and more reactionary, we are fortunate to have beacons of positive direction and thinking.”

“Erika is a total LEGEND! Her ability to question, to listen, to challenge, to support, to be curious, to hold space, to empathise….and then… distill the chaos of one’s own world and thinking into a beautifully articulated and eloquently packaged summary goes way beyond a simple ‘zone of genius’! And by working with Erika I’ve felt so much more connected with the work, my customers and my team.”

"Thank you for everything. Without you I would have had real problems in every direction. You helped clear my mind and get on with it."

"I sought out Erika to help me be more intentional about the way that I show up at work and at home for my children and my family. And Erika has helped me make those changes. I now look towards the next three years feeling much more confident that I'm doing the things that I want to do, not just what comes along."

“It went so, so well with the Senior Leadership Team yesterday. I am thrilled and really energised about the next steps. Thank you for your support.”

“Erika is a fantastic and supportive mentor who has always championed my voice and career direction. She has a real eye for spotting talent, helping people increase their confidence to ensure they go on to do brilliant things.”

“Erika Clegg is a human dynamo, combining infectious positive energy with an insightful and shrewd approach to first understanding and then adding value to people. She creates a challenge and growth environment to best support people.”

"My god, Pia and Erika’s enthusiasm and support. If you could bottle it and sell it, it would be an amazing bestseller. So credit to them."

“I was lucky enough to work with Erika at the IFA. She has valuable experience and a deep interest in uncovering and applying Essential Truths to drive positive corporate change. Her infectious energy and total belief in her subject make her an inspiring speaker and coach. She’s undoubtedly ahead of the curve on the matter of Ethos and can help organisations of any scale prepare themselves for a successful future.”

“Erika delivered a high-energy keynote speech at our Chamber of Commerce AGM which really stretched our delegates’ understanding of matters fundamental to their businesses: engaging hard to reach communities, the danger of social media echo chambers and the value of corporate ethos. She held people’s attention and provided a pop of uplifting colour on a grey day. People left with clear actions, feeling upbeat.”

“I'd like to thank you for providing us with an inspirational and thought-provoking session. It was spot on and you certainly made a wonderfully positive impression on the team.”

“Erika presented to our senior leadership group with style, deep expertise and massive enthusiasm. She engaged us 100% throughout and challenged us to examine and truly live our values. The positive impact on our members is still rippling out. Erika is highly recommended if you wish to align your people with the core of your business.”

“Erika delivered a speech at our Commemorative Assembly. She inspired students, parents, teachers and governors alike. One member of staff (with over 20 years at the school) said, "That is the best guest speaker we have ever had and I have listened to a few." Erika challenges you to think beyond the present and to take a positive step to shaping your future.”

“Erika has boundless positive energy - and this coupled with a shrewd and relevant edge makes her a high quality speaker. Her thinking resonates with business leaders from the smallest of start ups to big corporates.”

“Excellent delivery by Erika, explaining a simple yet incisive methodology for discovering values and how to align them and a brand and vision to achieve business goals. Much better than just creating a set of values that focus on behaviours only. The second half of the session was a "classroom" format, as Erika presented a lot more helpful and useful practical content.”

“Content was immediately applicable and I will be working on it next week with my senior team. Highly recommended.”

“Erika was an engaging speaker with infectious enthusiasm. There was a perfect blend of business theory with real-world examples based on her personal experience. Would highly recommend Erika.”

“Outstandingly useful. Many tips about how to embed values and improve culture.”

“Erika is a very good speaker and her masterclass was absolutely first class. So many immediate takeaways for members that will impact in the next few weeks. You can tell she has been a Vistage member because she's so good at some of the subtleties that make all the difference.”

“A confident presentation from a person who kept good control over the room to flow everything forward. A delight for the chair! We were left with a sense of how to use values as a value driver rather than something wishywashy. Is that even a word?”

“The presentation given by Erika was very well delivered and the content was extremely relevant to my current role. I have lots of key takeaways for tackling issues that were previously awkward or problematic, but with simplified values and using an active ethos the awkwardness will be removed. Incredibly insightful and engaging. Top 3 Vistage speakers I have seen.”

“Erika is phenomenal. She pushes the boundaries, understands the context you work in but more importantly, anticipates the possibilities so you can be ahead of the game.”

“As well as being very creative, Erika gets stuff done and cares passionately about making the world a better place.”

“You are very warmly recommended and I can see why. Many of the things which really intimidate me with modern communications seem so straightforward in your hands! I am delighted you are helping us with the trees, thank you very much.”