About Strength in People

Leadership shapes what happens next.

How we lead ourselves influences how we lead with others.

How leaders work together shapes the environment around them.

And that environment influences how teams perform, communicate and take ownership.

That is why our work connects three areas:

Self Leadership → Leadership Teams → Team Effectiveness

Because the challenges showing up in an organisation rarely exist in isolation.

A leader carrying too much can create dependency.

A leadership team without shared clarity can create inconsistency.

An environment where challenge is avoided can make it harder for people to speak openly, take ownership and perform.

Understanding where those patterns begin helps us change what happens next.


Our Point of View

Leadership is experienced through the environments it creates.

Every leader influences an environment.

Every leadership team creates one.

And every team responds to the environment around it.

Over time, patterns develop around how decisions are made, responsibility is shared, difficult conversations are handled, performance is managed and people work together.

Some of those patterns are intentional. Others develop without anyone consciously choosing them.

Our work makes those patterns visible.

Because awareness creates choice.

And choice allows leaders to become more deliberate about the environments they create and the outcomes that follow.


How we work

We work with SME owners, senior leaders, leadership teams and the teams around them.

Our work may begin with Self Leadership, developing greater awareness, ownership and agency in how someone thinks, decides and leads.

It may begin with Leadership Teams, strengthening how leaders create clarity, ownership, connection, performance, sustainability and growth together.

Or it may begin with Team Effectiveness, exploring the conditions influencing how people communicate, collaborate, contribute and perform.

Wherever we begin, we look beyond the immediate symptom to understand the patterns creating it.

We use strengths-based insight, facilitated conversations and practical leadership development to make those patterns visible and help people intentionally shape what happens next.


What we believe

People rarely need fixing.

They need enough awareness to recognise what is happening, enough understanding to own their contribution to it, and enough agency to choose what happens next.

That is the work of intentional leadership.

Leadership outcomes are always being designed, intentionally or by default.

We help you design them deliberately.

Ready to Stop Firefighting?

A focused conversation to identify what’s driving reactivity — and where to intervene for clarity and control.

Our founder - Pippa Dennitts

Strength In People was founded by Pippa Dennitts, a former HR Director with over 25 years’ experience working with SME owners, boards, senior leaders and leadership teams.

Pippa is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and Chartered Member of the CIPD, bringing together commercial understanding, deep people insight and a strengths-based approach to leadership development.

Her work explores the relationship between how we lead ourselves, how leaders work together, and how the environments they create influence team effectiveness and performance.

Outside of work, Pippa is a pilot, campervanner, mountain biker, parish councillor and trustee, bringing the same curiosity about people, challenge and growth to life beyond work.

Accreditations

Impacts

Pippa is a member of the Association for Business Mentors and is pleased to have been selected as a professional business mentor to support the Help To Grow: Management Course. The Course is Government funded and is designed to help boost the performance and resilience of small businesses in the UK. Pippa provides business mentoring to participating SMEs to support leadership team members as they prepare to lead on the delivery of increased profitability, innovation and growth.

Find out more about Help to grow

Pippa supports fellow business leaders through the Institute of Directors Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Programme. The programme connects experienced directors and business leaders to share perspectives, challenge thinking and learn from one another’s experience. Pippa provides mentoring focused on leadership, decision-making and the practical challenges of leading and growing an organisation.

Find out more about IoD mentoring

As a Chartered Member of the CIPD, Pippa supports fellow people professionals through the CIPD Member-to-Member Mentoring Programme. The programme connects CIPD members to support professional development through shared experience, reflection and practical insight. Pippa provides mentoring to help members strengthen their confidence, navigate professional challenges and develop their impact as people professionals.

Find out more about CIPD mentoring

Ready to Stop Firefighting?

A focused conversation to identify what’s driving reactivity —

and where to intervene for clarity and control.

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