The Berkeley Partnership gets to the heart of companies' transformation needs to help them achieve their ambitions.

Based in London and New York, the independent management consultancy's clients include household names, multinationals and government departments.

Berkeley takes pride in working within clients' leadership teams, rather than looking on from the outside, and tailors its approach to each client's needs.

Long-term relationships are at the core of the company's success, with over 90% of its work coming from repeat business and referrals and more than 85% of clients using the firm more than once.

The company puts its people first – a commitment that became more important than ever during the pandemic. To nurture its culture of togetherness, regular work meetings were complemented by a programme of fun activities including ‘disco bingo', a Halloween murder mystery and ‘Through the Berkeley Keyhole' – an in-house take on the popular TV show.

An expert in wellbeing ran a firm-wide session on how to cope in highly stressful situations and employees were given the option to take paid leave to care for sick family members or teach children during school closures. This time off was not deducted from their annual leave.

Employees also rolled up their sleeves to help with the pandemic response. This included providing free consultancy services to an organisation setting up drive-through testing and to a group providing support to tens of thousands of people who were shielding.