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Brilliant

People

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Chanzo is a beautiful, timeless idea.

It stands for source and the most basic of all human truths —that every day people come to work to do something special.

At Chanzo we believe in stripping out all of the distractions that get in the way and focus instead on the core people ingredients that allow everybody to deliver brilliant.

OUR PROJECTS

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We have provided advisory services across Volunteer, Workforce and HR programmes through their strategy and planning phases since 2016. In addition we seconded subject matter experts in the areas of Workforce, Communication & Engagement and Training, as well as providing coaching support to the Senior Leadership team.

This was the first major multi-sport event in the country. We recruited and mobilised over 450 international major event experts, including non-sport related functions such as Technology, Commercial, Finance, HR and Legal, to deliver the world’s first “pop up” local organising committee.
“Our workforce continues to gain new skills and valuable experience, through working alongside a diverse international workforce drawn from 43 countries. Moreover, 162 young Azerbaijani’s joined the Baku 2015 Academy Programme ensuring a human legacy for Azerbaijan, as well as capacity to stage future major events.” Mehriban Aliyeva First Lady, Republic of Azerbaijan and Chair, Baku 2015 Organising Committee

We conducted a strategic review of the FA’s “off pitch” approach to diversity and inclusion and presented practical, impactful recommendations with performance measures and an implementation plan.

“Chanzo completed a detailed review of our diversity and inclusion landscape at the start of 2018 and this provided a clear roadmap from which we were able to write our 3 year strategy, In Pursuit of Progress, and from there successfully build a measurably more diverse and inclusive organisation. The quality of the work was excellent, the approach was flexible and tailored to our specific needs and we very much enjoyed working with their team.” Rachel Brace HR Director The FA

We completed a strategic review of their organisation design and volunteer programme to support their growth strategy.

“Chanzo have been an excellent choice of partner in developing our organisation capability and volunteer programme. ”

Georgina Walters
Business Development Director

BHS

In response to the PPE supply crisis we supported Lord Deighton, PPE Tsar, to rapidly recruit, mobilise and stand up a new organisation, focused on UK Manufacturers, to successfully source and supply PPE for the UK health and social care sectors. We provided ongoing HR support through their transition from an emergency response team to standard procurement practice.

We recruited an HR Director to lead the people and workforce strategy of this innovative new global sport concept.

“Rob and his team are second to none in the industry”

Andy Thompson
Chief Financial and Business Officer

SAIL GP

We provided early recruitment support to provide an interim platform and attract talent for some key roles for the OCOG. We also provided HR advisory services regarding the design and development of the OCOG, including organisational design, workforce budget and programme management.

Jean and Rob undertook a full organisation effectiveness review for the IOC, with recommendations spanning organisation structure, Governance, Culture & ways of working; Performance Management & Development.

Chanzo was proud to be a part of the consortium that was appointed to develop the Master Operational Plan for the Pan American and Parapan American Games in Lima 2019. This initial planning phase involved strategic level planning, organization and implementation of all activities necessary for the realisation of the games and set up of the full organising committee structure.

As Director of HR, Workforce and Accreditation, Jean was accountable for mobilising the UK’s largest peace-time workforce of 250,000, including paid colleagues, contractors and the highly acclaimed ‘Games Makers’ (70,000 volunteers). This reflected the most diverse and inclusive workforce and redefined the international standard for workforce management at major events, and inspired London’s Olympic summer.
“The volunteers should be nominated for the BBC's Sports Personality Team of the Year award for the vital role they have played” BBC

Taking on the unprecedented challenge of planning and operating a major sport event with less than 500 days to go, we recruited and mobilised over 850 international and local staff across 30 functional areas to deliver a full turnkey local organising committee event delivery solution. This included the Chief Operating Officer, his senior leadership team and the Heads of function across all operational areas.
“[This was} an outstanding success and the best-ever Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games”– Olympic Council of Asia.

We developed an HR infrastructure, embedded a governance structure and worked with the leadership team to develop a culture and reward framework to support this fast paced health-tech business.
Providing an interim HR Director, in addition to 1:1 leadership coaching, Chanzo have ensured the business is able to reach its full potential.

We delivered a strategy and implementation plan to deliver a Volunteer Capacity Building Programme for the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy.

We contributed to the People element of the Future Business strategy.

Rob conducted a full organisation effectiveness review including recommendations regarding Organisation Structure, Ways of Working and Capability Analysis.

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