Our Story
We’re an Employee Experience (EX) consultancy built around one core belief: happiness.
Happy teams don’t just feel better — they do better.
They stick around longer. Impress clients more. Think bigger.
Companies that invest in EX are 4x more profitable.
But great employee experience doesn’t have to come with a Silicon Valley budget.
We work with ambitious small businesses to design practical, people-first solutions that boost retention, culture, and growth.
No fluff. Just the sticky stuff that makes workplaces work.
Meet our founder
Clare Willenberg
Clare is an employee experience consultant with a background that’s anything but conventional. A former PR agency leader, Clare spent the first part of her career advising some of the world’s biggest brands on everything from corporate reputation to crisis communications. Along the way, she discovered her passion wasn’t just shaping public perception, but shaping culture from the inside out.
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She brings 15+ years of experience in brand building, stakeholder engagement, and internal communications to her mission: helping small business leaders create thriving workplace cultures where people actually want to work.
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Clare believes that happy teams build strong businesses—and life’s too short to be unhappy at work.
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Our Services
Your plug-in EX partner
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We support small business owners in professional services who want to create a great place to work but don't have the capacity to handle it own their own.
Whether you want to attract standout talent, boost performance, or keep great people around for longer, our productised service offering is designed to provide targeted support that delivers impact. We customise an EX program around your business priorities and resources, without the need for adding headcount or complex software.
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We focus on the moments that matter across the employee journey — making them stickier and more enjoyable.
By removing friction and bottlenecks, we free your people to do their best work and unlock the discretionary effort that drives real business outcomes.
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Sticky Onboarding Program™
Transform your onboarding process into an exceptional welcome experience that makes new hires stick.
We create a custom end-to-end workflow that automates the admin and elevates the human touch. New hires will reach productivity faster and enjoy higher engagement.
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Happy Hive Foundations
This is our core strategy service - the place where your people experience starts to take shape. We'll create a customised EX strategy and a practical 12 month roadmap that aligns with your business goals, responds to what your people actually need, and positions you to stay one step ahead of the talent game.
The Buzz
Our signature employee listening program helps you turn feedback into fuel. Designed to embed listening and action into the way your business runs, The Buzz gives you real-time insight into what your people need, before it becomes a problem. It surfaces blind spots, sparks better decisions, and keeps engagement humming along at every level.
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Buzzworth EVP
A strong Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is your most valuable recruitment asset, signalling that your company is a great place to work and attracting candidates who will thrive in your business.
We offer expert guidance on your market positioning and benefits, and facilitate a new positioning statement co-created with your employees.
Hive Revive
Burnout isn’t just bad for people — it’s bad for business. Hive Revive helps create workplaces where high performance doesn’t come at a human cost. We take a preventative, systems-level approach—equipping leaders with the right training and tools, creating supportive working environments, and embedding mental wellbeing into daily operations.
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Fractional EX
​Get strategic EX expertise without the full-time commitment. Perfect for startups and growing businesses who need specific guidance or project support but aren't ready for a dedicated hire. Whether you're scaling rapidly, building your team, or navigating transformation, our flexible approach gives you cost-effective access to specialised expertise when you need it most.
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Blog
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What is employee experience?Employee experience (EX) is everything your people encounter, feel, and observe throughout their time with your business — from the first job ad they see to their last day on the team. It includes how they’re hired, onboarded, managed, supported, recognised, developed, and communicated with along the way. Think of it as the human side of your business operations. A great employee experience doesn’t happen by accident — it’s intentionally designed to help your team do their best work and feel valued while doing it. And when you get it right? You don’t just improve engagement and retention — you drive better performance and business growth, too
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What problems can you help solve?We help fix the hidden people problems holding your business back. These are the big ones: Low Engagement: Disengaged employees = low productivity, high absenteeism, and a fast track to turnover. We help you boost connection, motivation, and output. High Turnover: If your best people keep leaving, it’s usually not about the money. We design employee experiences that make them want to stay. Productivity Gaps: Clunky processes, unclear expectations, and lack of support kill momentum. We streamline the experience so your team can thrive. Reputation Damage: Unhappy employees talk — and not just to each other. We help you build a culture worth talking about (for the right reasons). Struggling to Attract Talent: Today’s talent wants more than a paycheque. We help position you as an employer of choice. Siloed Teams & Poor Comms: Miscommunication and ‘us vs. them’ mindsets stall progress. We reconnect your people and break down the walls. Lack of Innovation: People don’t share ideas in toxic workplaces. We create the conditions for creativity and collaboration. Ineffective Onboarding: The first 90 days make or break retention. We turn your onboarding into a launchpad, not a landmine.
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What types of businesses do you work with?We typically partner with startups and small businesses with 10–50 employees — especially those in professional services like media, marketing, PR, accounting, law, finance, tech, engineering, and architecture. If your business is growing and you want to build a team that sticks around, performs at their best, and actually enjoys coming to work, we’re a great fit.
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Can you work with our existing HR or People & Culture team?Absolutely — we love plugging into existing HR teams (or team-of-one!). Think of us as an extra set of hands (and brains) to help you move faster, think bigger, and bring fresh energy to your employee experience strategy. Whether you need support on a specific project or a thought partner to help shape the bigger picture, we work alongside your team — not over the top of it.
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