Award-winning employee engagement consultancy
At its best, a business works because its people are behind it. They understand where it’s heading, feel involved, and want to contribute.
That’s what we help you to achieve.
We’re an award-winning employee engagement consultancy that for over 30 years has helped global organisations improve their performance through better people engagement, experience, communication, and leadership.
Axiom is led by Managing Director Chris Carey, supported by a team of experienced practitioners.
Our role is to help you understand what’s really going on across your organisation, and turn that insight into practical action that makes a difference.
How we help
Our work often brings together these core areas:
- Strategic planning. We support leaders by helping them define and communicate their Big Picture and Collective Ambition in a way people can actually understand. This often uses visual metaphors and powerful proven frameworks.
- Training and development. We offer over 60 different skills development workshops covering topics such as leadership, sales, communication skills and managing wellbeing.
- Event production and facilitation. We organise, produce and facilitate interactive conferences and live events to drive alignment.
And we provide ways to measure impact, using tools and feedback approaches that give you a clearer view of what’s working and where to focus next.
Proven, collaborative, inventive: The Axiom approach
We’ve partnered with some of the world’s top organisations spanning many sectors.
In our experience, it rarely starts with a solution. It starts with understanding what’s really going on.
That means taking the time to get under the surface. What’s working, what isn’t, and how things actually feel for your people day to day, not just what’s being reported.
From there, we work with you to figure out what will make the biggest difference, supporting you from early insight through to delivery.
Other times, it’s much more focused. A leadership team that needs to shift how it shows up. A message that isn’t landing. An event that needs to do more than just fill a room.
All clients have unique needs, which we help them rise to.
Our aim is always the same. Help your people connect with what matters and make it easier for them to act on it.
Let’s talk – we’re communicators after all
If you would like to better engage your people and would value an outside perspective, book a free discovery call with one of our experts.
Trusted by organisations to engage their people and improve performance
We work with organisations across a range of sectors, helping them tackle challenges around engagement, experience, communication, and change. No two pieces of work are ever the same, but the aim is consistent – to understand what’s really happening and help move things forward in a practical way.
Here are a few examples.
Your partners in delivering success
All of our practitioners have a wealth of knowledge and real world experience. We know what works because we’ve lived it. Whatever the challenge, we’ve got what it takes to partner with you to deliver success.
Axiom’s multi-talented team includes:
- Consultants and Strategists
- EDI and Wellbeing experts
- Trainers, Coaches and Mentors
- Facilitators and Conference producers
- Writers, Researchers and Editors
- Graphic designers and Videographers
- Project managers
Skills development workshops and resources
Our highly popular virtual and face-to-face programmes equip your leaders and line managers with the tools, techniques and confidence they need to become even more impactful when engaging with their teams, stakeholders and customers.
Leadership skills
Get access to latest thinking and learn the essential skills you need to make an impact through our highly interactive and practical workshops.
Communication skills
Tailored training helping leaders, line managers and front-line colleagues become confident communicators and drive organisation success.
Managing wellbeing
Energising, expert-led workshops providing the tools, knowledge and strategies to create healthy and productive people and workplaces.
Sales skills
Carefully crafted workshops giving teams and individuals the skills they need to deliver outstanding results and drive business performance.
On-demand e-learning
Upgrade your communication capabilities now at the click of a button with one of our on-demand e-learning training courses.
‘How to be a better communicator’
Our handbook is filled with top tips on communication and engagement. Grab a single copy for yourself or buy in bulk for your people.
Ideas, insights, and practical ways to improve employee engagement
We share a lot of that thinking in our blog – from employee engagement strategies and workplace culture, to internal communication and leadership challenges we’re seeing in organisations right now.
If you’re looking for practical ideas, or simply a fresh perspective on what’s happening in your organisation, it’s a good place to start.
Resources to help you engage and inspire
Explore our collection of free resources designed to help you energise your people and sharpen your approach. Packed with practical tips and proven techniques, we help you make real progress with employee engagement and experience.
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FAQs
What does Axiom Communications do?
We are specialists in Employee Engagement and Experience, blending solutions from eight different service areas, to meet clients’ unique needs.
Some come to us wanting to drive a major change programme. Others need to rebuild motivation or get to the bottom of why performance has plateaued. The starting point is always different. The goal is always the same.
Who do you work with?
We work with leaders and their teams around the world across a variety of sectors, for example pharma, construction, manufacturing and financial services.
How do you measure employee engagement?
We work with our clients to understand the metrics they already have in place and that they want to positively impact. Then we build specific measurement activities at key points throughout the programme, so you’re not waiting until the end to find out if it’s working.
Once a programme is complete, we carry out a comprehensive evaluation using our own employee experience maturity model built on evidence, not assumptions. We measure against the original baselines so you can see what’s moved and by how much, and we make sure the findings actually get used.
What are the signs of low employee engagement?
Sometimes it’s obvious. More often it creeps up and manifests as Quiet Cracking / Quiet Quitting. People start quietly stepping back – doing the job, but not much more. Absenteeism ticks up. Staff turnover follows.
Business performance starts to soften in ways that are hard to pin down at first. By the time it shows up clearly in the data, it’s usually been affecting the culture for a while. Getting ahead of it matters, and that starts with understanding what’s really going on.
How long does a typical project take?
Each project varies enormously, based on client needs. Typically, engagements run between six weeks and six months, with their impact lasting years.
Can you support organisations going through change?
Yes. In fact, all of our work is triggered by organisations who want to enhance their performance by moving from where they are to where they want to be. That sees us listening to understand your unique needs and then co-creating bespoke solutions.
Do you work with remote and hybrid teams?
Yes, and it’s something we do a lot of. We work globally across multiple time zones, with organisations whose people who are often spread across locations, working remotely or in hybrid arrangements. This includes virtual coaching, virtual/hybrid live events and online skills development activities.
What makes Axiom different from other employee engagement consultancies?
Axiom has been doing this for over 30 years. Award-winning, yes, but what matters more is that the organisations we work with see real, measurable improvements. Not just in engagement scores, in their actual business performance.
Our proven seven-step process ensures that the changes you make not only happen, they last.
There’s no fixed solution we arrive with. We start by understanding what’s really going on, then build something around that. Eight service areas mean we can go broad across a whole programme, or laser focus on one thing. Either way, nothing sticks long-term unless your people genuinely get it and get behind it.
How much does employee engagement consultancy cost?
A lot less than having disengaged employees!
In all seriousness, the actual level of spend will vary according to the nature of the engagement – from a single virtual workshop, through to a comprehensive programme driving engagement across an entire global workforce.
What we can tell you is we’ll always be honest about what’s right for your situation, and we won’t propose more than you need.
What results can businesses expect from an employee engagement consultancy?
Greater buy-in to the changes and ways of working you want to see. Faster adoption. Better retention of your top talent. Higher motivation throughout your business, to the extent that your customers and stakeholders notice. In our experience, the organisations that invest in engagement don’t just see improvements in culture. They see it in their numbers.
Are your workshops tailored to each organisation?
Yes. Whilst there are proven elements of content which our clients repeatedly call for, the way that they are positioned and blended together is always bespoke.
How do we get started?
It always starts with a no-obligation discovery call; an open and candid conversation to understand the challenges your organisation is leaning into, and what success will look like for you going forward, together with an understanding of the journey you’ve already been on.
