Where people strategy meets the business plan.
Avident helps growing businesses build the talent, capability and infrastructure they need to scale — strategic thinking alongside practical delivery, from someone who has built it before.
People foundations built for growth
Growth creates opportunity, but it also creates complexity. Hiring accelerates, roles evolve, capability gaps emerge, and processes that worked for a smaller organisation can quickly become a constraint.
Avident provides strategic thinking alongside practical delivery — helping businesses make intentional people decisions and put the right foundations in place as they grow. Strategic enough to advise. Practical enough to build.
“Don’t scale the business first and fix the people foundations later. Build them together.”
Growing businesses
Scaling teams and operations faster than their people infrastructure can keep up.
SMEs
Needing specialist people expertise without the cost of a permanent hire.
Leaders
Building stronger people foundations ahead of the next stage of growth.
The right talent needs the right capability. Capability needs direction.
Talent
Attracting, selecting and retaining the people a business needs.
Capability
Developing the skills, behaviours and leadership required to perform and grow.
Strategy
Connecting people decisions, structures and processes to commercial priorities.
Aligned — bringing talent, capability and strategy together so people decisions become business capability.
How we work
Diagnose
Understand the business, its direction, current capability and gaps.
Design
Create the right solution for the organisation — not an off-the-shelf framework.
Build
Turn strategy into tangible processes, programmes, frameworks and capability.
Embed
Make the solution usable, measurable and sustainable beyond the project.
What we do
Talent
- Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
- Hiring Strategy & Workforce Planning
- Recruitment Process Design
- Interview & Assessment Frameworks
- Role Profiles & Competency-Based Hiring
- Early Careers & Graduate Programmes
- Talent Pipelines & Succession Planning
Capability
- Capability & Skills Frameworks
- Learning & Development Strategy
- Leadership & Manager Development
- Career & Progression Frameworks
- Mentoring Programmes
- Training Design & Facilitation
- Capability Gap Analysis
Strategy
- People Strategy
- People Function Design & Development
- Organisational & Role Design
- People Processes & Operating Models
- Workforce & Capability Planning
- Talent Analytics & Reporting
- Fractional / Project-Based Advisory
Aligned is not a fourth service line. It’s how Avident works — every engagement connects people decisions back to the direction, priorities and performance of the business.
Sectors we know from the inside
Most recently in specialty insurance and technology — and the same people foundations apply to any growing business.
Based in Dubai. Working wherever you are.
- UAE & GCCHome base — on-the-ground delivery across Dubai and the wider Gulf.
- United KingdomA deep sector network built over a decade in UK insurance and technology talent.
- Remote, worldwideEngagements run virtually for clients anywhere — geography isn’t a constraint.
Hi, I’m Lauren.
I’m a people and talent professional with more than a decade of experience spanning recruitment, talent strategy, people operations, learning and development, capability and workforce planning.
My career began in recruitment, building a strong commercial understanding of how organisations identify, attract and select the people they need. My work has since expanded across the wider talent lifecycle — from workforce and capability planning to learning and development, career pathways, mentoring, organisational processes and people strategy.
Most recently working at Head of Talent Operations level within the technology and specialty insurance sector, I’ve designed and delivered people initiatives through periods of growth, transformation and organisational change. Avident is where I bring that experience to businesses that need it, on their terms.
MBA (Distinction) — research focused on the impact of artificial intelligence on talent management within the UK insurance industry.
Talent & Hiring
Structured specialist hiring campaigns, recruitment process design, competency-led assessment and interview frameworks.
Capability & Development
Skills and capability frameworks, career pathways, mentoring, leadership development and large-scale learning programmes.
People Infrastructure
Role profiles, operating processes, functional design and scalable structures that clarify ownership, progression and ways of working.
Workforce Insight
Talent dashboards, forecasting, capability analysis and reporting designed to support executive and leadership decision-making.
Strategic enough to advise. Practical enough to build.
Let’s build your people foundations, together.
Whether you need a single hiring campaign delivered well or an ongoing partner across talent, capability and strategy — start with a conversation about where you are and where you’re headed.
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