Testimonials

Colin Hadden
NeoPollard Interactive
“Erika and her insight into how values build a better team and a better business are an eye opener. Through a rigorous process and her own passionate approach, Erika quickly helped us understand the essence of our business and what makes us special. Carefully and respectfully, Erika engaged across our company, our stakeholders and customers with curiosity, intelligence and fun.
She skillfully assimilated a significant amount of cultural and business perspectives to get to the right solution for us.”
Geoff Symonds
COO Uber Boat by Thames Clippers
“I had the pleasure of working with Erika Clegg, The Voice for Values, and I can confidently say that her support and expertise were invaluable. Erika met us at Uber Boat by Thames Clippers to review our new values, which were developed based on feedback from our teams. Her ability to listen deeply and provide insightful guidance on aligning our values with our team’s perspectives was extremely useful. Erika’s approach was collaborative, engaging and supportive and she really took the time to understand the business to make for a productive session. It was a good opportunity to reflect on the process and have Erika’s outside perspective and expert advice on how our new values reflect our staff’s voices whilst also aligning with the company’s mission and goals. Her passion for values-driven leadership and her ability to facilitate open dialogue made the entire process smooth and more impactful. We are incredibly grateful for her time, expertise and commitment to making a difference.”
David Sheepshanks CBE DL

“Erika Clegg is a human dynamo, combining infectious positive energy with an insightful and shrewd approach to first understanding and then adding value to clients. She creates a challenge and growth environment to best support clients.”

Matthew Taylor CBE

“As well as being very creative, Erika gets stuff done and cares passionately about making the world a better place.”

Mark Mclennon
Global CIO Burberry
“I was lucky enough to work with Erika at the IFA. She has valuable experience and a deep interest in developing and applying active values to drive positive corporate change. Her infectious energy and total belief in her subject make her an inspiring speaker and coach. She’s undoubtedly ahead of the curve on the matter of Ethos and can help organisations of any scale prepare themselves for a successful future.”
David Ventura
Founder
“Erika’s ability to question, to listen, to challenge, to support, to be curious, to hold space, to empathise … and then distill the chaos of one’s own world and thinking into a beautifully articulated and eloquently packaged summary goes way beyond a simple ‘zone of genius’!

Values DO have power! And by working with Erika to articulate mine, I’ve felt so much more connected with the work, my customers and my team. That is her value.”

Judi Newman
CEO, St Elizabeth Hospice
“When St Elizabeth Hospice was drafting its new strategy in early 2020, we had no idea that we were about to step into a global pandemic and a period of fast paced collaboration with other health and social care partners, responding to extraordinary needs within our community for end of life and palliative care. Thankfully the strategy stood us in good stead, with an emphasis on tackling health inequalities and a commitment to reach out to the wider community to build cultural confidence in supporting one another through the experiences of dying and grief. When we stepped back in 2021, we could see that the strategy was standing firm but the values that we had carried forward from many years before – however noble – were no longer supporting our broader ambitions as a modern hospice in an integrated care landscape.

We reached out to Erika as we were aware of her passion that a strong set of values could amplify your organisation’s confidence and convictions. We had already started talking to staff and volunteers about the need to refresh our existing values so Erika was able to hit the ground running with pacy and inclusive interviews and masterclasses. Erika knit together hours of listening into four clear themes, distilled quickly into powerful suggestions for our values. It was a pleasure to see Erika genuinely listen to the feedback: she took on-board that although a hospice is rightly associated with kindness and care, hospice staff do a courageous job, often requiring the most difficult conversations and the staff wanted our values to represent that courage. The whole process was brilliantly project managed, always delivered with a sense of pace and a respectful understanding that time was precious for clinical and medical colleagues.

The ask was for our values to speak to our hard-baked strategic commitment to achieving health equity and building compassionate communities: Larkenby helped us find our voice together, and we are very grateful for both the words and what they represent.”

Deborah Cadman OBE
CEO West Midlands Combined Authority

“Erika is phenomenal. She pushes the boundaries, understands the context you work in but more importantly, anticipates the possibilities so you can be ahead of the game.”
Vistage Member

“Erika is an engaging speaker with infectious enthusiasm. There is a perfect blend of business theory with real-world examples based on the personal experience of the speaker. Would highly recommend Erika.”

Sarah Howard MBE Chair
British Chambers Of Commerce
“Erika delivered a high-energy keynote speech at our Suffolk Chamber of Commerce AGM which really stretched our delegates’ understanding of matters fundamental to their businesses: engaging hard to reach communities, the danger of social media echo chambers and the value of corporate ethos. She held people’s attention and provided a pop of uplifting colour on a grey day. People left with clear actions, feeling upbeat.”
Vistage Chair
“A confident presentation from a person who kept good control over the room to flow everything forward. A delight for the chair! We were left with a sense of how to use values as a value driver rather than something wishywashy. Is that even a word?”
Charles Downie
Bacton Transport
“Thank you so much for yesterday – I don’t know how you managed it but everyone came back very motivated to take it seriously and commit to the process. I always think we are a tough crowd, more doers than thinkers, who find this stuff difficult.”
Headteacher
Independent School
“It went so, so well with the Senior Leadership Team yesterday. I am thrilled and really energised about the next steps. Thank you for your support.”
Lucy Downing
Head of Marketing, Holkham Estate
“I’d like to thank you for providing us with an inspirational and thought-provoking session. It was spot on and you certainly made a wonderfully positive impression on the team.”
Tom Baines
Social Origin
“… a huge thank you for all of the support you have given us over the past 12 months. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say we wouldn’t be where we are now without your advice and challenge.”
Charles Downie
Managing Director, Bacton Transport Services
“Erika has an intuitive understanding for the relevance of ethos and culture in the modern workplace. Working with her helped us to bring our values to life and articulate them in a way which all our people, customers and suppliers can relate to as practical, demonstrable and sincere. The Bacton Way has become an important part of life at the company and a key part of our strategy for growing the business.”
Adam Dalby
Managing Director, Brafe.
“The energy and enthusiasm Erika brought to the project gained immediate engagement with the team. Her approach was methodical and thorough, which resulted in a truly insightful view into how the business is perceived both internally and externally. It was great to encourage the engagement of our customers, suppliers, and employees in the process. The values represent a true and accurate picture of what it means to be Brafe. I would like to thank Erika and her team for the support and guidance during all stages of the project.”
Vistage Member
“The presentation given by Erika was very well delivered and the content was extremely relevant to my current role. I have lots of key takeaways for tackling issues that were previously awkward or problematic, but with simplified values and using an Active Ethos® the awkwardness will be removed. Incredibly insightful and engaging. Top 3 Vistage speakers I have seen.”

Vistage Member

“The speaker’s knowledge, passion and clear lived experience on the topic (company values) was very clear to me. Best speaker I have had on the topic. “