Welcome to
Edgecumbe Consulting
We combine the sciences of business psychology and advanced analytics with a distinctly human touch. We study leader characteristics, behaviour, impact and performance outcomes, and we integrate them to create actionable insights at individual, team and organisational levels. This is how we create world-class assessments and development interventions, which help leaders and their teams to lead, better.
Leadership Development
Developing leaders and leadership teams through the lens of the Primary Colours® Leadership Model.
Employee Engagement
Measuring the impact of leadership and helping organisations to improve employee engagement.
Our Ethos
Case Studies
We are proud to work with all of our clients, from local SME’s to some of the world’s most iconic businesses. Our broad experience and the fact that we’ve been doing this work for more than 20 years means we’ve come across most challenges at least once before. But the world is changing quickly, and context matters, so our ethos is to treat each client as unique.
Supporting Internal HR Teams and Independent Consultants
Primary Colours Accreditation Training
Our two-day course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to enable you to use the Primary Colours® Leadership Assessment Toolkit at all levels in your organisation.
What Matters To Us
Our Thoughts & Ideas
Leadership in the GDPR Era
The political and economic uncertainty of Brexit has certainly grabbed the attention of most UK businesses recently. While government and business leaders try to navigate their way through Brexit talks and strategies, another big change in the operating environment has quickly come upon us: the dreaded GDPR. GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, came into full force last week. There is plenty of contradictory information about what impact GDPR will have on businesses, so leadership teams need to ensure their organisations are ready to thrive in a GDPR-compliant world. As [...]
How data analytics can provide unique leadership insights – Our work with the IPA and Project X
Chances are that by now we have all heard of how "Big Data" and "Analytics" has begun to take over the way HR (and the world in general) functions. "Buy this new machine learning and artificial intelligence software, and the future of working life could be turned upside down". But, how many of us have actually seen this seemingly too-good-to-be-true technology produce actionable insights? Well, we've had a go. While this may seem a long way off for some, the value that can be gained by analysing your data can [...]
We Are Now Cyber Essentials Accreditated!
We are pleased to announce that as part of our Information Security initiatives Edgecumbe has become Cyber Essentials certified. Edgecumbe is one of the UK’s leading independent business and leadership consultancies, specialising for the past 20 years in executive leadership assessment and development. Our purpose is to enhance leadership, employee engagement and performance in our client organisations. Edgecumbe CEO Jon Cowell provided the following comment: “We have built our reputation over the past 20 years on uncompromising standards of integrity, underpinned by our status as an independent consultancy. I am [...]
Leadership in the GDPR Era
The political and economic uncertainty of Brexit has certainly grabbed the attention of most UK businesses recently. While government and business leaders try to navigate their way through Brexit talks and strategies, another big change in the operating environment has [...]
How data analytics can provide unique leadership insights – Our work with the IPA and Project X
Chances are that by now we have all heard of how "Big Data" and "Analytics" has begun to take over the way HR (and the world in general) functions. "Buy this new machine learning and artificial intelligence software, and the [...]
Working Together As One
Our Specialist Health Sector Services
Edgecumbe Health specialises in creating sustained performance improvement for individual doctors, clinical teams and senior levels of healthcare management.
Edgecumbe Doctor 360 was the first multisource feedback instrument for doctors, and it is still leading the way. Its superior measurement properties mean doctors need fewer responses from colleagues and patients to produce a valid assessment, saving valuable clinician time. In addition, the resulting data is ‘cleaner’ than that from the standard GMC questionnaire which most providers offer, enabling insights from the data which simply cannot be achieved from ‘noisier’ data. We can offer the GMC tool, but the 50 NHS Trusts we currently support have all opted for the Edgecumbe Doctor 360.
