Senior, hands-on
The person who scopes the work is the person who delivers it. No juniors learning on your budget.
About us
Sustainable growth starts with people
Every growing business has a people and talent function. At this size it usually sits on the founder or CEO - hiring, offers, culture, leadership and the difficult conversations, all landing on the person least able to absorb them.
Finding the right people and keeping the good ones is one problem. We run the whole of it.
We work as an extension of your leadership team, providing flexible people and talent expertise that helps you attract, hire, develop and retain the right people, without the cost of building a large internal function.
We work with founders, MDs and CEOs of businesses up to 100 people - the size where there is no in-house people leadership, and where there rarely needs to be one on the payroll yet.
Some clients need us to find the right people. Some need us to keep the good ones. Either way, we act as talent partner, people partner, or both - always as one system.
Talentloop is led by Ruby Melling, Founder & MD, working with a team of senior talent and people specialists matched to the shape of the challenge.
What you can expect
Yours outright
We build capability inside your team so the system keeps working long after we've gone.
Commercially honest
We tell you what the real problem is, even when it isn't the one you asked us to fix.
How we show up
Three values that shape how we work with every client.
All in
We care deeply about what we do, how we do it, and the impact we have. From the smallest detail to the biggest decision, we are fully invested - showing up as ourselves, with energy and flair, never phoning it in. No empty performance. No half-measures. No excuses.
Candour
We tell people what they need to hear - clients, colleagues, each other. If we see something, we say it. That includes the things that are uncomfortable to name. We don't dress it up, soften it beyond recognition, or wait for someone else to say it first.
Grit & Grace
We tackle hard things with resilience, creativity, and determination - and we do it with kindness. We don't follow the crowd or settle for the obvious answer. The work is often difficult. How we show up in that difficulty, and what we find when we push past the conventional solution, is who we are.
Meet the team
The senior people and talent specialists behind Talentloop.
Ruby Melling
Founder & Talent Partner
Sophie Williams
People Partner
Alistair Pennell
People Partner
Lisa Giles
Operations Manager
Jo Sellick
Non Exec Director
Let's work together
Let's have a 30-minute conversation.
No obligation. Just the sentence you arrived with, and an honest view of what it's costing you.