
Anastasia Makarigaki

Irini Nikandrou

Dimitris Tzimas
Question 1
What was the temptation to launch a new HR consultancy company, given the current adverse environment?
The first happy coincidence was that the three of us as HR colleagues who worked together for a long period decided to join our experience, with a common vision to enhance the role of HR and its contribution to the organizational and people wealth.
I believe that those special circumstances and the new reality has given me an additional purpose and passion to fulfill the dream that I have always had; to offer something new and ‘avant-garde’ to the HR community. Now, I feel that this time has come. I would like to use all my creativity to deploy the know-how and experience that I have been accumulating these years adding even more value to the HR landscape.
After more than 20 years in academia, I continue to feel passionate about supporting people to unleash their own potential and improve their social assets that could give the best return to their teams, themselves and the business. In the current extraordinary circumstances, I felt a growing need to stand next to my HR colleagues and support them to uncover the prospects that digital technologies can give to their businesses. The emphasis on developing new strategic approaches in HR, bringing connectivity, inclusion, engagement, wealth and learning together was and will continue to be a driving force for this new start up.
This specific period has demonstrated the significance of HR as function in an organization and the HR teams stood up as real heroes in the business world. The next phase involves many changes in the field of policies, corporate culture, leadership and reward and personally, it is of absolute importance to me to be beneficial and add value beyond the limits of a specific organization. This was my driving force for launching this business and reaching for other like-minded business partners. I already feel energized and honored when I talk with colleagues in the organizations who really want to “make the difference” recognizing how innovative people in HR can be. There is no better time than today, as now we can do things together! We can transform our function.
Question 2
What is the fresh thing you bring in the HR community as a company?
Our purpose is to present a holistic and integrative approach with a refreshing eye to the whole range of the employee positive experience life cycle. Deep diving into each organization we grasp insights and trust, anticipating becoming real partners. Each project we implement to be fully integrated with previous ones and create the trail for the next ones.
We are close to the HR teams from the early planning stage until the implementation and the evaluation of results.
Listening to people’s needs, understanding their painpoints and working together to bring what is “best and fresh”, the latest approach to the business practice, tailored to the organization needs and specificities. Our approach is focusing on ensuring that we bring the “educated” approach, use state of the art tools and concepts sealed by an “evidence based” academic and research reference.
We trust that our long and successful track record in the HR field in diverse countries and industries, combined with the academic experience, enables us to provide efficient solutions, assuring a common code of communication with the Companies we collaborate with. We cover the needs of today and those of tomorrow which is based on digital technology and state of the art innovative methodologies.
Question 3
What is the biggest challenge for an HR professional today?
Nothing will continue to be the same after the Covid era. One of the biggest challenges for people working in HR, in a changing world, would be to find the way to manage and empower the organization and its employees so that they can deliver effectively in the new hybrid model of work. Topics like the use of technology, remote working competency empowerment, on-boarding experience, the identification of wellbeing and mental health along with their engagement dominate and will continue to engage organizations and HR professionals.
The uncertainty and complexity in the existing environment requires HR teams to adopt holistic and individually focused approaches at the same time. The challenge for them will be to be present here and now, but also to be flexible, developing a culture of learning, engagement and empowerment in order to unlock people’s potential so that they want to contribute and find meaning and purpose at work (employee experience)