Build a team of top talent, faster.

Great businesses are powered by great people. Forward’s specialist Studio helps you find better people, recruit them faster and keep them longer.

Trusted by London’s leading startups

Great teams unlock growth.

But too many high-growth companies burn potential, time and money building them.

£
132
k

The true cost of a bad hire

(you need to get it right, first time).

30
%

Hires that leave within 6 months.

(you need a great experience to keep them)

75
%

Savings from upskilling vs recruiting

(you need to make the most of your talent)

Finding the best talent is not enough.

Unlock growth by winning them, keeping them and supporting them to do their best work.

Designing and developing solutions with a growth mindset.

We worked out of their studio for the first year, we were literally born there. We're very close to them, they're more than just an investor and The Studio really helped us get off the ground.

Build a talent growth loop with Forward’s Studio.

Here’s how.

01

Find talent

Make critical hires, faster.

Finding great leadership and technical talent isn’t enough. We help you win them too, addressing every part of your recruitment process.

- Source talent with recruitment and executive search.
- Attract candidates with employer brand development.
- Win candidates with great hiring experiences.

02

Keep talent

Build a culture that retains talent.

A great culture keeps your people engaged and retains them for longer. We bring cultural lessons from startups and scale ups that you can rapidly apply to your business.

- Embed a culture as your team grows.
- Develop people management structures.
- Plan for the future with organisational design and benchmarking. 

03

Grow talent

Boost team performance.

Grow your team’s capability and capacity. We help you put learning, progression and development strategies in place to develop your key people into growth leaders of the future.

- Embed learning and development into your culture.
- Foster fast feedback and improvement with managerial training.
- Drive results with best-practice performance review processes.

Don’t take our word for it.

Rated 4.8/5 by founders️️.

I have loved working with the Studio team. They are an incredibly talented group, brilliantly connected, dynamic and of course absolutely invested in business success. They have the CEO perspective and move fast and delicately to drive impact. They feel like a powerful extension of your team, available immediately without any of the quality risk involved in recruitment or hiring consultants.

Rachel has been brilliant in supporting and strengthening our hiring process from identifying great talent to nailing the onboarding. Her experience and insights are not only limited to hiring but also general HR practices, once the candidate has been secured. I would recommend working with her to any growing company.

Rachel and the Talent team have been amazing at finding us someone that is a strong fit for both the job and the company culture. They put in a significant amount of time upfront to properly understand what we were looking for. They were fast and responsive and we'll be using them again for sure.

The Forward Talent team have been a key part in driving our growth as a company - they produce excellent results and work at pace. As an early investor too, they really understand the business’ mission, culture and needs which helps identify the right candidates. The team is super proactive when we need them and drive the whole recruitment process to effectively meet the needs of our hiring plans.

Rachel and Jawad have been absolutely stellar, couldn't have asked for better support, and the candidates we've spoken to so far have all been high caliber - record turn around on a new senior hire!

Designing and developing solutions with a growth mindset.

We worked out of their studio for the first year, we were literally born there. We're very close to them, they're more than just an investor and The Studio really helped us get off the ground.

Building product success through customer understanding.

Forward worked with Lexoo to gather, analyse and synthesise customer insight. The studio team rapidly built a concierge-based product, which meant the team could launch quickly, onboard new lawyers and bring them customers - all in just 6 weeks.

Building strong, scalable sales operations.

Working with FP’s enterprise sales coach was the most formative intervention we made in 2018. We’d spent two years building a world-class product but the months of workshops and developing our sales playbook helped us to step-up our sales operation

Supercharging growth with a strong team and culture.

Ably grew quickly from a team that could sit comfortably around one table, to 40 people dispersed across Europe. Forward’s studio experts worked with Ably’s founders to define their purpose and mission. We worked together to develop a high-performing culture that would align and unite their fast-growing team.

Backed by a team who gets what it takes to grow.

Forward’s Studio are not your usual recruiters. We’re ex-startup founders and operators who understand what a business need at every stage of growth - and how to get the best performance and value from a team.

Designing and developing solutions with a growth mindset.

We worked out of their studio for the first year, we were literally born there. We're very close to them, they're more than just an investor and The Studio really helped us get off the ground.

How healthly is your team?

Get a complete health check of your people department and increase your chances of finding the best people, keeping your talent and growing your future leaders. Built on benchmarks from working with hundreds of startups across the UK ecosystem.

Designing and developing solutions with a growth mindset.

We worked out of their studio for the first year, we were literally born there. We're very close to them, they're more than just an investor and The Studio really helped us get off the ground.