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RNS Number : 6722Q  LHH  28 January 2026

LHH Launches HR & Talent Advisory Practice

Partnering to transform and align talent ecosystems, people strategy, and the
AI-era workforce for business impact.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / January 28, 2026 / LHH, a global leader in
integrated talent solutions and a global business unit of the Adecco Group,
launches its HR & Talent Advisory practice to partner with executives to
optimize people strategies and deliver enterprise outcomes across the
workforce.

Why This Matters Now

·      Continuous disruption, financial pressures, fragmented
workforces, accelerating AI adoption, and persistent skill gaps are constantly
driving senior leaders to review and evolve talent strategies at an
unprecedented rate.

·      LHH HR & Talent Advisory partners across organizations,
bringing the full suite of human capital capabilities to support clients in
achieving workforce goals.

·      By integrating Leadership, Talent & Culture, Organizational
Transformation & Change, and Workforce Strategy & Skills, leaders can
drive meaningful change with a holistic, enterprise-wide approach to talent.

LHH's HR & Talent Advisory Turns Workforce Challenges into Business
Advantage

Organizations increasingly face systemic workforce transformation challenges.
LHH's HR & Talent Advisory turns insight into action, supporting clients
from strategy through implementation with measurable growth and business
outcomes. What sets LHH apart is an end-to-end view of the talent journey
across all levels, translating root-cause insight into practical
implementation with the human experience at the center.

The new practice leverages 60+ years of talent experience, proprietary global
data, and practitioner-led consulting to deliver clear business outcomes
across three critical areas:

·      Building Capability and Ways of Working

·      Enabling Organizational Agility

·      Creating a Future-Ready Workforce

Executive Quotes

"Executives are tackling nuanced, high-stakes decisions across the talent
journey that directly impact their business performance," says John Morgan,
LHH President, Career Transition & Mobility, Leadership Development &
Coaching, and HR & Talent Advisory. "Our HR & Talent Advisory team
combines decades of hands-on, world-class experience to deliver human-centered
guidance in partnership with leaders. By combining deep expertise in
leadership, culture, organizational design, and workforce strategy, we help
organizations navigate change and drive reinvention that benefits both people
and the business."

"Workforce challenges are rarely isolated; they span culture, technology,
processes, and talent," says Ben Smytheman, SVP HR & Talent Advisory. "Our
role is to help HR and senior leaders view the full picture, identify the
connections that matter, and translate complex challenges into practical,
actionable solutions. By leveraging the depth and breadth of our workforce
solutions expertise, we help organizations enhance performance and achieve
tangible business results."

Leadership Announcements

LHH's HR & Talent Advisory practice is led by SVP HR & Talent
Advisory, Ben Smytheman, a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered HR Fellow. The
team consists of seasoned global experts with more than 60 years of combined
advisory experience across talent, leadership, and organizational
transformation.

LHH's global Advisory Center of Excellence (CoE) includes senior practice
leaders and subject matter experts who will lead LHH's global Advisory
expertise, thought leadership, technology, and analytics.

Darren Philpott leads LHH's global Advisory CoEas VP, Workforce Strategy &
Innovation, HR & Talent Advisory. Building on leadership roles at IBM,
Vodafone, Barclays, and Clifford Chance, Philpott's career spans partnering
with business leaders to build and transform organizations, aligning
enterprise leadership, people, and culture transformation to deliver lasting
business impact. Philpott is a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist
working across all sectors, specializing in technology, banking, and telecoms
with expertise in organizational transformation, people and talent strategies,
and leadership.

Stephanie DeHaven joins LHH as VP, Regional Director, North America, HR &
Talent Advisory. With more than 20 years at Accenture, DeHaven led a $100M+
consulting portfolio and managed global teams delivering complex
transformational programs. DeHaven also served as Chief People Officer,
advising Fortune 100 executives, and brings experience in leading large-scale
organizational change and shaping people-centric solutions to today's toughest
business challenges.

Marie Shaw moves to LHH's new practice to lead the European Division as VP,
Regional Director, EMEA, HR & Talent Advisory. With more than two decades
in strategic HR, business, talent, and client leadership roles at
multinationals like Siemens and global consulting firms, Shaw's experience is
extensive. Shaw has led complex global portfolios across sectors, notably with
specialisms in life sciences, engineering, and manufacturing, advising C-suite
stakeholders and shaping integrated people strategies that link talent,
commercial growth, and transformation.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: What is LHH HR & Talent Advisory?

A: LHH's HR & Talent Advisory is a strategic advisory practice that helps
workforce leaders optimize people strategies and deliver enterprise outcomes
across the workforce, partnering with them from discovery to design and
implementation. It provides expert practitioner-led guidance across
leadership, culture, organizational design, and workforce strategy, turning
insight into action through integrated, executable solutions that shape the
entire talent journey across all levels of the organization.

Q: Who does LHH's HR & Talent Advisory support and partner with?

A: LHH's HR & Talent Advisory enables leaders to drive complex strategy in
a fast-changing environment shaped by continuous disruption, accelerating AI
adoption, and evolving workforce needs. LHH works as a strategic thought
partner, collaborating with executives to shape and implement workforce,
leadership, and culture strategies that align talent ecosystems and people
strategy to business outcomes, while prioritizing the human experience.

Q: How is LHH's HR & Talent Advisory different from traditional
consulting?

A: LHH's HR & Talent Advisory is led by seasoned practitioners who have
run HR, talent, and business functions and understand what it takes to move
from strategy toimplementation. LHH brings a unique perspective across the
entire talent journey, with deep insight into individual implications as well
as enterprise needs, and how to make change work in practice. By connecting
leadership, culture, organizational design, and workforce strategy, LHH works
alongside executives to implement practical, data-informed solutions that
drive measurable growth performance and business outcomes.

Q: What types of challenges does LHH's HR & Talent Advisory help solve?

A: LHH's HR & Talent Advisory helps organizations address systemic
workforce challenges across three critical areas:

·      Building Capability & Ways of Working: Working with
organizations to unlock and align leadership and talent capability to ensure
client's leaders and teams can stay ahead in an evolving corporate landscape.
Through close collaboration, the LHH HR & Talent Advisory team identifies
the most transformative opportunities in culture, leadership and talent,
driving growth for both people and the business, even as conditions change.

·      Enabling Organizational Agility: Collaborating with organizations
to keep operating models competitive in an evolving market and ensuring a
client's business remains responsive to change. By reducing friction,
simplifying complexity and supporting leaders and HR teams through
transformation, the LHH HR & Talent Advisory practice makes change
practical and human so organizations can adapt and grow with confidence.

·      Creating a Future-Ready Workforce: Helping to future-proof an
organization's workforce by providing the data and insight needed to navigate
the unknown. By understanding future skills supply and demand and translating
internal and external insight into practical outcomes, the LHH HR & Talent
Advisory practice reduces uncertainty, mitigates risk and strengthens
readiness for navigating future needs.

Learn more at: lhh.com/organizations/talent-advisory (https://pr.report/hyxo)

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About LHH

LHH empowers professionals and organizations to achieve bold ambitions and
secure lasting impact through unique advisory services and professional talent
solutions.

LHH's full suite of offerings connects solutions, making LHH a single talent
partner for organizations. In a rapidly evolving landscape with complex
challenges, we create value across the entire professional talent journey.
From advising organizational change, to hiring great people, developing skills
and nurturing leaders, to advancing individuals to the next stage of their
careers, LHH makes talent a competitive edge.

We believe the future of work lies at the intersection of exceptional human
care and innovation. Powered by science, technology, and proprietary data
analytics, LHH's approach is crafted to align with business strategies and
cultures, delivering powerful, sustainable, and measurable impact.

LHH has a team of over 12,000 professionals, across 60+ countries and more
than 50 years of experience. As part of the Adecco Group, we bring together
global excellence, local knowledge and centralized coordination for thousands
of companies and millions of people worldwide.

Recruitment. Development. Career Transition.

LHH. A beautiful working world.

To learn more about LHH, visit: lhh.com (https://pr.report/hyxa) .

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