Episode 8: Win More. Work Less. The Truth About Growing an HR Consultancy Business

Being brilliant at HR and building a commercially successful consultancy are two completely different skill sets — and nobody warns you about the gap between them.

In this episode, Tania Harland is joined by Sam Eaton, founder of MindAbility, who's spent nearly 25 years helping consultants build businesses that actually work — scaling companies from £650K to £14M and supporting over 240 consultants from zero clients to real momentum. They get straight into why so many HR consultants stay "busy but not scaling," the mindset shift required to go from HR expert to business owner, and where pricing and positioning quietly go wrong.

They also dig into something rarely discussed: how UK and US HR consultancy growth differs, and why the UK's far more complex statutory landscape — TUPE, tribunal exposure, unfair dismissal — means UK consultants are sitting on more advisory value than most of them realise.

If you've ever felt like you're working flat out but not actually growing, this one's a wake-up call.

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