Work Psychology Group

What Work Psychology Group does

Work Psychology Group (WPG) is a research-led organisational and business psychology consultancy founded in 2003 and headquartered in Derby, United Kingdom, with an additional office in Sydney, Australia. The firm delivers bespoke occupational psychology services across three core practice areas: Assessment Services (customised selection and development assessments including psychometric testing, situational judgement tests, and structured interviews), Development Services (leadership development, talent progression, and organisational development programmes), and Innovation for Change (organisational change management and stakeholder engagement). All engagements are grounded in proprietary psychometric methodologies and an academically validated, research-led approach, with the firm's Science Faculty comprising internationally recognised professors in the field.

WPG's primary client base spans high-stakes, regulated environments including the UK public sector (NHS, College of Policing, Judicial Appointments Commission, Health Education England, General Medical Council), financial services (Natwest Group, Standard Chartered), energy (BP), and professional/regulatory bodies (Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Pearson VUE, Chartered Management Institute). The company maintains a 20-year partnership with the NHS for high-stakes healthcare selection and has published academically recognised work, including the BJGP Open Top 10 Most Read Research Articles of 2024. Client engagement is delivered through senior consultant-led, project-based consulting with fees scoped per engagement rather than disclosed publicly.

The firm operates as an independent, privately held boutique consultancy with 11–50 employees, anchored by founding directors Professor Fiona Patterson and Dr Máire Kerrin. WPG pursues no external funding, conducts no acquisitions, and distributes services exclusively through direct client engagement with no channel partner or reseller model. Geographic reach is concentrated in the UK with emerging presence in Australia and Asia-Pacific. The firm actively publishes academic research, participates in industry conferences (ABP, BPS Division of Occupational Psychology), and maintains thought leadership channels including blog content, newsletters, and social media to support inbound demand generation.

Name

Work Psychology Group

Legal name

Work Psychology Group Ltd

Website

https://workpsychologygroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Work Psychology Group is a UK-based, research-led organisational psychology consultancy founded in 2003, delivering bespoke psychometric assessment, leadership development, and change management services to public-sector bodies and large enterprises in high-stakes sectors such as healthcare, legal, and financial services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Occupational Psychology Consulting

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

People Analytics, Assessment & Psychometrics Consulting (BPAHAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Organization Design & Change Management Consulting (BPAHACAD), Personality & Behavioral Assessments (BPACAMAC)

Keywords

• Occupational psychology consulting
• Psychometric assessments
• Leadership development
• Selection and recruitment
• Organizational change management

Headquarters

HQ city

Derby

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Professional consulting services providing bespoke occupational psychology solutions including assessment design, organizational development, and change management. Projects are scoped and delivered by senior psychologists with fees based on project complexity, scope, and duration.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Work Psychology Group is a research-led organisational psychology consultancy that provides bespoke selection and development assessments, organisational development programmes, and change management services to enterprise clients across public, private, and charitable sectors. Core offerings include psychometric testing, situational judgement tests (SJTs), competency-based evaluations, structured interviews, leadership development, and stakeholder engagement in organisational transitions.

Product overview

Work Psychology Group (WPG) is a research-led organisational psychology consultancy offering a portfolio of professional services rather than a software product platform. The core offerings consist of Assessment Services (bespoke selection and development assessments including psychometric tools and structured evaluations), Development Services (leadership development and organisational development programmes), and Innovation for Change (change management and organisational transformation). A key specialised offering is the Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) service for values-based recruitment. All services are delivered as bespoke consulting engagements tailored to client needs across public, private, and charitable sectors, particularly in high-stakes environments including healthcare, legal, and financial services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Assessment Services
• Development Services
• Innovation for Change
• Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs)

Quantifiable outcome

• 20-year partnership with NHS for assessment of high-stakes healthcare roles
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and strategic.

• NHS EnglandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing partnership designing values-based recruitment model for NHS following the 2013 Francis report. WPG provided background research and evidence for framework, and worked alongside NHS England and NHS Employers to publish a toolkit for recruitment teams that has been informing NHS recruitment for 8 years.
• College of PolicingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAward-winning partnership focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in policing recruitment. Won ABP Workforce Experience Award in 2024 in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Public Sector category.
• Financial TimesstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Financial Times to develop comprehensive Commerciality Framework for a global professional services firm. The framework enables organisations to define and develop commercial awareness beyond traditional knowledge-based criteria.
• Royal College of General PractitionersstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on extensive multi-source, multi-method job analysis study to understand changing roles of General Practitioners in UK. Study identified 11 competency domains and informed RCGP's educational case for extended GP training.
• Royal College of Veterinary SurgeonsstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with RCVS and BSAVA to evaluate the effectiveness of the Professional Development Phase (PDP) for veterinary graduates. Multi-method approach using interviews, focus groups, and surveys.
• British Small Animals Veterinary AssociationstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with RCVS and BSAVA to evaluate the effectiveness of the Professional Development Phase (PDP) for veterinary graduates.
• Health Education EnglandstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndependent validation study for Health Education England and UKFPO on Foundation Programme selection tools including SJT and Educational Performance Measure. Findings support continued use of both measures.
• Chartered Management InstitutestrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on Quality of Working Life report focusing on wellbeing and motivation of managers at work.
• British Psychological SocietystrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerActive engagement with BPS including Division of Occupational Psychology Conference participation, Excellence in Occupational Psychology Awards, and chartership support for team members.
• Association for Business PsychologystrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerActive engagement with ABP including annual conference participation, panel discussions on topics like AI in recruitment, and awards recognition.
• World Health OrganisationstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerWPG hosted a talk at WHO Fifth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health focusing on protecting, safeguarding, and investing in the health and care workforce.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• SHL: Global leader in psychometric assessment and talent measurement. Directly comparable to WPG in selection and assessment methodology, but at much greater scale and with a broader product/platform offering versus WPG's bespoke model.
• Capp & Co: UK-based occupational psychology consultancy offering psychometrics, assessment centres and selection. Closely comparable boutique peer with similar research-led positioning and enterprise client base.
• Cubiks (now part of pdg): International assessment and development consultancy with proprietary psychometric tools. Comparable to WPG in talent assessment, leadership development and change consulting.
• Saville Consulting: Provider of psychometric assessments (e.g., Wave) and selection tools. Competes with WPG in the personality/competency assessment space, with a more productised offering.

Others

• Pearson TalentLens: Distribution partner and adjacent psychometric provider (WPG already lists Pearson VUE as a client/partner). Useful as an ecosystem reference for how bespoke psychology consultancies monetise alongside scaled test publishers.

Broad incumbents

• Korn Ferry: Global organisational consulting firm with a large Assessment & Succession practice. Overlaps with WPG's assessment and leadership development offerings, but operates as a broad incumbent rather than a boutique.
• Aon Assessment Solutions (formerly cut-e): Global assessment and psychometrics business within Aon. Competes with WPG in online psychometric assessment and selection, with much larger enterprise reach.
• PSI Services / TalentLens: Large-scale test publisher and assessment delivery organisation. Overlaps with WPG's SJT and psychometric work, particularly in regulated and certification contexts.

Emerging players

• Test Partnership: Digital-first psychometric assessment provider. Competes for the more commoditised end of the assessment market that WPG's bespoke practice serves, particularly for graduate and volume hiring.
• ThriveMap: Pre-hire assessment platform using situational and job-scenario assessments. Direct overlap with WPG's SJT and situational assessment practice, but delivered as a SaaS product rather than bespoke consulting.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WorkPsychGroup
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/work-psychology-group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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