Belong.
When people decisions are intentional, better growth follows. Belong helps businesses connect talent to growth strategy, so the right people decisions become the obvious ones.
What We Do
Often our work begins with a hire and grows into something more long term.
Senior leadership search
The hire that changes the shape of your business. We find and secure senior leaders who bring direction, raise the bar and make the people around them better.
Talent strategy and consultancy
When the business is moving but the people decisions haven’t kept up. We bring clarity to structure, roles and capability so your talent strategy points in the same direction as your growth.
Fractional talent leadership
When you need talent leadership at the top table but not on the payroll. We sit inside your business, shape the people strategy, and work with your future plans.
Thoughtful communities for senior operators
Small, considered groups of senior people who are navigating similar things. Not networking. Proper conversation, shared perspective, and the kind of challenge that’s hard to find inside your own business.
Where We Support
Help me belong
For individuals ready for change, or just starting to think about it.
Help us belong
For businesses looking for senior hiring, talent strategy and people support.
Intentional by Design
To prove that intentional people decisions create better growth. Not as a theory, but as a lived, practised truth.
Belong exists to make that happen, for the businesses it works with and for the people inside them. Intentional Belonging connects people strategy and growth strategy, so better growth becomes the natural result of better people decisions.
Belong brings that to life through senior search, talent strategy and embedded support, guided by five growth principles and built on lived experience from both sides.
People heard.
Talent at the top table.
Growth needs more than speed.
Build capability not dependency.
Do the right thing.
“Mike and Taryn combine commercial insight with a genuine passion for people. They understand what it takes to build and develop high-performing talent and teams, bringing the right balance of support, challenge and practical experience. Thoughtful, grounded and hugely effective, they create lasting impact and help people and organisations realise their full potential. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.”
Maria Vardy
Non-Exec Director, Chair and Senior Board Adviser
“Taryn is excellent. She brought a long standing understanding of our industry, stayed cool, calm and collected when we needed to hire quickly, and made sure every hire was a solid cultural fit. Working across roles for the entire group, she built a strong relationship with our leadership team. The commercial impact speaks for itself: great people who are still with us today, and growth at a time when we had to make the right long term choices.”
“Taryn asked what I was trying to achieve in the business, then used her experience to shape a plan for the people we’d need to get there. There were times we badly wanted to make a hire to solve a problem, and she was candid enough to stop us, reset, and keep searching. It always proved to be the right decision. The agency doubled in size in a few years, with a strong team across every department and retention to match.”
“Belong have been an invaluable partner in Heroic’s journey. Mike and Taryn helped give me the confidence to see where our true value sits, and the clarity to build a proposition around it. If you want people in your corner who see your business more clearly than you do, it’s them.”
“In an industry that can sometimes be transactional, Mike is an incredible ally: genuine, smart, and someone I have trusted with my own career and to find me the best, and right, talent.”
“The support and insight Mike gave me as a candidate was far superior to anything I’d experienced. Since then he’s become my go to for advice on any aspect of the industry. A wealth of knowledge, a rare network, and a personable approach that’s hard to find.”
People decisions are hard.
We can help.
Growing a team, reshaping one, or making it leaner. Who to bring in, who to develop, which call to make when every option costs something. We’ve spent our careers on exactly these decisions, and they’re harder than most people think. That’s why we’re here.