Q5 has appointed Helen Kewell as Associate Partner, strengthening its expertise in organisational transformation, culture and leadership development. With more than 25 years’ experience across multiple sectors, Helen brings deep expertise in behaviour change and organisational effectiveness, helping clients build healthier, more connected and higher-performing organisations through sustainable transformation.
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Helen joins Q5 as an Associate Partner bringing more than 25 years’ experience helping organisations navigate complex transformation and leadership challenges, with a particular focus on culture and behaviour change. She has led large-scale global operating model and transformation programmes across sectors including Media, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Oil & Gas.
Helen specialises in culture and behaviour change, leadership development and organisational effectiveness, working closely with senior leaders to build more connected, resilient and high-performing organisations that deliver on their strategy.
Alongside her consulting work, Helen is a qualified psychotherapist, bringing a distinctive perspective on how organisations can support mental health, emotional wellbeing and life-stage transitions. She is passionate about helping organisations create environments where people feel a genuine sense of connection and belonging, recognising the clear impact this has on performance at an individual, team and organisational level.
Helen is also the author of Living Well, Dying Well and Midlife: Stories of Crisis and Growth, reflecting her longstanding interest in how individuals navigate leading through uncertainty and supporting multigenerational workforces and shifting workforce dynamics.
At Q5, Helen will focus on supporting clients through complex people and transformation challenges, combining her expertise in organisational change and human behaviour to drive meaningful, sustainable impact.
Commenting on her appointment, Helen said: “I have been connected with Q5 in various ways across the years, and a great admirer of the expertise, humility and credibility the organisation brings to their work. So it is with great pleasure that I am now joining the team to not only contribute to its success but also use this collective experience to help our clients succeed.”
Q5 Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Olly Purnell added: “We are hugely excited to welcome Helen Kewell to Q5. Helen is a prodigiously talented and empathic consulting leader, who brings deep expertise in culture and business change to Q5. We are excited for our ‘People Performance’ practice, and for our clients who seek energising and innovative expertise in this space. We wanted Helen to join Q5 in 2012. We’ve tried to hire Helen every year since then…because she has that rare blend of drive, edge, empathy, creativity and commercial nous.”
Helen’s appointment strengthens Q5’s senior team, reinforcing the firm’s focus on helping organisations become healthy and high performing with a more human, insight-led approach as its global presence continue to expand.
