WorkMatters was founded to provide a different solution in helping organizations deliver their performance, people and leadership goals in today’s dynamic work environment. Our mission is to help leaders, organizations and employees thrive in the changing world of work and to successfully prepare for the future workplace.

Work matters. And it is changing. How we lead the next phase of organization development, people strategy and working life will determine not just the success of our organizations but also the quality and nature of work for generations to come. Our goal is to help leaders and their employees successfully manage this transition and to lead successful and fulfilling working lives.

We work with our local and international partners to provide our clients with the innovative and practical solutions and services they need to succeed in an increasingly complex and fast-moving business environment.

Our partners include a network of national and international leaders in their fields from areas such as future of work consulting, design and innovation, leadership development, organizational agility, executive coaching and culture transformation.

“All our partners share a common mission which is to enable leaders, organizations and employees thrive in the changing world of work.”

We act as independent, trusted advisers, talent developers and coaches to our clients. We help you maximize the performance potential of your people and leaders while also improving working life and working futures for your employees.

Our goal is to leave every assignment with leaders and their employees more energised, enabled and equipped to progress their own objectives as well as those of the organization.

 

Our Sevices:

 

Future Organization and Workforce

 

The world of work is changing at an ever-increasing pace. New business models, technologies and agile ways of working are emerging every day providing great opportunities but also significant challenges and risks for organizations, leaders and their employees. Employee expectations continue to shift and change with new work models and options available as never before. At the same time, other core aspects of leading a successful organization into the future remain quite constant and a focus on the here and now is also needed.

WorkMatters offers a range of consulting, training and assessment services and solutions to help organization leaders, HR leaders and teams and employees identify and plan for the key opportunities, challenges and risks that they face in the future of work.

We provide a portfolio of customised workshops and training programmes, called WorkMatters Academy, specifically designed to help leaders, HR teams and internal consultants support their organizations to adapt and thrive in the changing organizational and work environment.

Organizational Agility & AgileHR

WorkMatters assists clients in defining the critical actions and capabilities required to advance organizational agility in a sustainable way depending on their unique circumstances and the scale of the change that the organization seeks to deliver.

We often begin with a high-level assessment or scan of an organization’s agility through the five lenses of strategy, culture, organization, people and external focus (SCOPE). Contact us for more information on how you can take the SCOPE agility test for your organization.

Specialising in the people and leadership aspects of organizational agility, WorkMatters provides bespoke training and consulting support to internal business and HR teams to help them advance organizational agility principles and practices within their organizations.

 

HR role plays a vital role in shaping and enabling the organization and workforce of the future”. This has never been as true as it is today with the increase in the pace of business change, an ever growing workload and the changing expectations of a diverse and multi-generational workforce. Our HR of the Future Programmes help HR leaders and teams shape their future organizations and also assess the changes they face as a function in the changing world of work.

 

Leadership Consulting & Coaching

 

Our objective is to provide leaders with the support, challenge and guidance they need to lead and succeed in today’s business environment. Sometimes our business and HR leader clients are looking for a coach to help them clarify their own thinking and direction, sometimes they look for more specific advice and technical assistance in advancing their organizational and people priorities.

 

Culture Change

 

The impact of culture on organizational and employee performance, as well as on employer branding and reputation, is well known. Culture goes to the heart of how an organization thinks and behaves and how it really executes its strategy on a day to day basis. It reflects the assumptions, behaviours and risk/reward decisions that employees make consciously and sub-consciously and in what leaders actually recognise and value.

 

WorkMatters helps you clarify what your organizational culture is today and what it needs to be for you to succeed into the future. Using our culture change tool kit and roadmap, and supported by senior experts in the field, we also help you lead and deliver the culture change you want to see at all levels of the organization.

 

WorkMatters Academy

 

The WorkMatters Academy provides a portfolio of open and customized training and development services to help organisation leaders, HR leaders and employees to clarify and plan for the key opportunities, challenges and risks that they face in the changing world of work.

Meet the dynamic leader of WorkMatters

Kevin Empey is the founder and managing director of WorkMatters.Kevin has specialised in organization development, leadership development and people strategy for over 25 years.He developed an international career in people consulting and leadership development working across a wide range of organizations, sectors and geographies.Before establishing WorkMatters, he founded and led several start-up companies and was a Partner and Director in Willis Towers Watson where he led the firms HR and Talent consulting business in Ireland from 2002 to 2015. He also established the firm’s ‘Future of Work’ offering in Ireland. Kevin is a qualified executive coach and has a masters qualification in leadership and management practice. His award winning research work focuses on the practical organizational and human implications concerning the ‘future of work’. He is also an associate faculty member on several leadership development programmes at the Irish Management Institute and is the Programme Director of their flagship Senior Executive Programme (SEP).

 

A chartered fellow of the CIPD, Kevin was appointed to the Top Level Appointments Committee (TLAC) which advises Ministers and Government Departments on the selection of senior civil service appointments. A leading expert in organizational agility and the changing world of work, Kevin is a member of the Labour Market Council and was also the founder of Worklink, an internationally recognised coaching and mentoring organization set up to help unemployed jobseekers into full time employment.