Improving public services is the aim of Northampton-based Socitm Advisory, a niche management consultancy specialising in delivering digital, technology and commercial programmes to the public sector.

The company, which employs 95 people, has gone from strength to strength in recent years. From humble beginnings, it is now used to winning programmes worth more than £1 million.

Socitm Advisory is a people-focused business, which comes across in all it does, from how its consultants operate, to how it interacts with customers. Consultants benefit from an adult working environment, where output is the measurement and gauge of an employee's performance.

The company is always looking to grow from within and many consultants fast-track through its career ladder. Continual learning is underpinned by an agile competency framework that is embraced at all levels.

Employees have played a crucial role in the success that the organisation has seen to date, and Socitm Advisory is keen to show its recognition of the hard work that takes place every day.

Socitm Advisory rewards employees and teams for their efforts at the completion of a programme with a celebration event. Usually this takes the form of a social occasion that will include customers and partners. It also allows its team to say goodbye to external colleagues they have worked with closely for some time before they move onto their next programme. This closure is crucial to senior team welfare.