Rather than imposing change from the top down, we believe in giving employees the opportunity, time and space to find their own solutions to what hampers their performance. We believe that employee-driven solutions create lasting, sustainable change that can be replicated across teams, departments, divisions and even beyond the confines of organisations to the communities of which they are a part.

At Handstand, we help organisations create profound and sustainable change. Profound change is not created by changing strategies, structures and systems, unless the thinking behind them also changes. Our approach recognises the importance of personal choice and responsibility in terms of what we do as individuals, how we operate with our teams and how we best respond to our customers. Our evidence-based Engagement Efficiency Model© provides a standard against which organisations can evaluate and improve performance at an individual, organisational and societal level. Our workshops, programmes and consultancy services encourage people to combine personal shifts in values, aspirations and behaviours with shifts in workplace processes and strategies. 

As an owner-managed business, all Handstand assignments are led and delivered by Tracy Butterworth. Where projects require additional capacity and expertise, Tracy partners with like-minded consultants from her professional network. Find out more about out partners here.

Tracy Butterworth

Tracy Butterworth founded Handstand in 2005 to help organisations harness their own people’s skills, creativity and energy. Passionate about ethical and sustainable business, Tracy is a researcher, educator, facilitator, consultant and coach with extensive experience of achieving organisational change and improved performance as a result of increased employee engagement. 

Tracy has over 20 years’ experience in best-practice people management and development in construction, healthcare, education, arts and entertainment, central government, energy, senior level recruitment, legal services, new media, leisure, tourism and catering. Her interest and focus is organisational change, people management, employee development, health and wellbeing and environmental awareness. Tracy’s focus is on engaging people and inviting them to make different choices about the way they work and live.

Tracy has recently mentored entrepreneurs in Kenya to help their businesses deal with people issues self-sufficiently in the future without needing outside help. For more about Tracy’s work, to view Tracy’s full CV please click here.