What GPC Skills Ltd. does

GPC Skills Ltd. is a private UK consulting firm founded in 2017 and headquartered in York, England, operating in the people strategy and talent development segment. The company targets SMEs, mid-market businesses, founders/owners, and HR leaders across the UK (with claimed international reach), helping them address recruitment challenges, skills gaps, management capability, and organisational design through diagnostic-led consulting.

The firm's core technology is a portfolio of proprietary, trademarked diagnostic frameworks delivered via web-based SaaS platforms: the Talent Development Maturity Index™ (TDMI), Sales Maturity Index™ (SMI, co-developed with Meridian Sales Leadership), and Growth Maturity Index (GMI). Each diagnostic scores organisations across six functional areas on a 0–4 or 1–5 maturity scale and produces a tailored report with recommendations. These are complemented by consulting services across three practice areas (People, Skills, Growth), the Values-Based Business Growth Programme (a three-stage workshop offering), and ILM-aligned leadership development.

GPC's business model combines productised, self-serve online diagnostics (e.g. £450 + VAT per TDMI/SMI assessment) with tiered consultancy engagements (£735–£995 facilitated options, up to £5,800 + VAT for the Values-Based Programme) and bespoke professional-services work. Go-to-market is sales-led via direct phone/email outreach, content marketing through the company blog and SEO, and a regional channel partnership with the York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub that subsidises access for local businesses via UK Shared Prosperity Funding. The firm has 11–50 employees, no disclosed external funding, and is founder-controlled by Gareth Preece.

Name

GPC Skills Ltd.

Legal name

GPC Skills Ltd.

Website

https://gpcskills.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GPC Skills Ltd. is a York-based people-consulting firm that helps UK SMEs, mid-market firms, and HR leaders improve talent strategy through proprietary maturity diagnostics (TDMI, SMI, GMI) and tiered advisory engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HR and Talent Development Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Skills Assessment & Talent/Employability Testing Platforms (EDAFADAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Customer Success Operations & Health Scoring (Renewals/QBRs) (EDABABAM)

Keywords

• HR consulting services
• Talent development diagnostics
• Organisational maturity assessment
• People strategy consulting
• Management development services

Headquarters

HQ city

York

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Diagnostic Tools (TDMI & SMI): Organisations pay to complete the TDMI or SMI diagnostic online, receiving a score, maturity rating level, and comprehensive report. This is a one-time per-assessment revenue stream at fixed price points.
2. Consultancy Services: Bespoke consulting engagements including facilitated online sessions, face-to-face or online full consultancy with TDMI/SMI completion, and action planning. Priced at tiered fixed rates. GPC also offers short-, medium- and long-term consultancy engagements tailored to client needs.
3. Values-Based Business Growth Programme: A three-stage programme (Discovery, Alignment, Impact) delivered as interactive workshops for business owners and leaders. Priced at a single fixed fee of £5,800 + VAT (or £4,800 + VAT for individual stages), with instalment payment options available.
4. Skills & Training Support: Services covering training needs analysis, competence frameworks, and leadership development programmes, including ILM qualifications. Integrated within broader people strategy consultancy engagements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

GPC Skills Ltd. is a York-based people consulting firm that sells proprietary diagnostic assessments — the Talent Development Maturity Index (TDMI), Sales Maturity Index (SMI), and Growth Maturity Index (GMI) — alongside tailored consulting engagements in People, Skills, and Growth, plus a Values-Based Business Growth Programme workshop series. Customers are UK and international organisations seeking to improve talent attraction, development, management, and retention.

Product overview

GPC Skills Ltd. is a people-consulting company offering a portfolio of diagnostic tools and consulting services. The core diagnostic tools include the Talent Development Maturity Index (TDMI), Sales Maturity Index (SMI), and Growth Maturity Index (GMI) — all scoring organisations across multiple maturity levels with tailored reports. These tools are complemented by consulting services in three core areas: People (HR, recruitment, management, coaching, data), Skills (training needs analysis, competence frameworks), and Growth (performance management, organisational development). The company also offers a Values-Based Business Growth Programme of three interactive workshops. TDMI and SMI are priced at £450 +VAT with additional guided and consultancy options available.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Talent Development Maturity Index (TDMI) Proprietary diagnostic tool that assesses an organisation's talent maturity across six areas — HR function, Training, Recruitment, Data, Performance, and Resilience — producing a score from 0-4 (Transactional through Optimal) and a tailored report with recommendations. Sold to UK and international organisations at £450 +VAT, with guided and full consultancy bundles at £735 and £995 +VAT respectively.
• Sales Maturity Index (SMI) Proprietary sales diagnostic, co-developed with Meridian Sales Leadership, that assesses organisational sales maturity across six areas — Sales Function and Leadership, Pipeline and Prospecting, Sales Process and Methodology, Coaching and Performance Management, Sales Data and Insight, and Adaptability and Resilience — delivering a tailored report and recommendations at the same pricing tiers as the TDMI.
• Growth Maturity Index (GMI) Diagnostic tool that assesses an organisation's growth maturity across five stages — Ad hoc, Repeatable, Systemized, Sustainable, and Transformational — and identifies priority areas for growth planning; promoted to York & North Yorkshire businesses with at least a 50% subsidy via Shared Prosperity Funding.
• Values-Based Business Growth Programme Three-stage interactive workshop programme (Discovery, Alignment, Impact) that helps business owners and leaders evaluate their values, align behaviours and actions, and operationalise a values-based approach to growth. Priced at £5,800 +VAT for all three stages or £4,800 +VAT per individual stage, with instalment payment options.
• People Consulting Services Consulting services covering HR Function, Recruitment, Management Development, Coaching, People Data, and Training, designed to help organisations improve people processes and design a strategic people function.
• Skills Development Services Skills consulting services including Training Needs Analysis, Competence Frameworks development, and training support ranging from mandatory training to apprenticeships and leadership development, including ILM qualifications, typically integrated with TDMI diagnostic outputs.
• Growth Consulting Services Consulting services focused on performance engagement, people development, recruitment strategy, and identifying improvement areas to support organisations' growth ambitions, often building on insights from the GMI and TDMI diagnostics.

Quantifiable outcome

• One organisation used the GMI to improve its sales process and increased sales by 20%
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Meridian Sales LeadershipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMeridian Sales Leadership co-designed and co-created the Sales Maturity Index™ (SMI) diagnostic tool with GPC Skills Ltd. The partnership involves joint delivery of SMI engagements, with Meridian handling sales leadership-specific consultancy and client facilitation. Meridian’s founder Paul Umpleby is listed as the contact for SMI enquiries. The SMI is a core proprietary tool alongside GPC’s own TDMI.
• York & North Yorkshire Growth HubcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub promotes GPC Skills’ Growth Maturity Indices to businesses in the York & North Yorkshire region as part of a Shared Prosperity Funding initiative. Eligible businesses can access the GMI diagnostics with at least a 50% funding reduction. This is a key regional go-to-market and marketing partnership for GPC’s growth services.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Hogan Assessments: Established personality and leadership assessment provider used widely in talent management. Comparable as a research-led incumbent in the broader talent diagnostics category that GPC's TDMI operates within.
• Korn Ferry: Global organisational consulting firm with deep talent management, assessment, and sales effectiveness practices. Overlaps with GPC's diagnostic-led people and sales capability offerings, but operates at enterprise scale with proprietary frameworks of its own.
• Cegos: International corporate training and organisational development provider. Overlaps with GPC's skills/training needs analysis, ILM-style qualifications, and leadership development offerings, but operates globally and at much larger scale.
• FranklinCovey: Global leadership, effectiveness, and training firm with diagnostic-style assessments embedded in its consulting engagements. Comparable as an incumbent offering values-based, leadership, and organisational effectiveness consulting that intersects with GPC's Values-Based Growth Programme.
• Mercer: Global consulting firm with a major talent, HR, and workforce advisory practice. Comparable as a large incumbent offering assessment-adjacent services (talent benchmarking, workforce planning) that overlap with TDMI's HR/Training/Recruitment/Data/Performance/Resilience axes.
• SHL: Major talent assessment provider offering psychometric, cognitive, and competency-based diagnostics. Comparable as a scaled incumbent providing the kind of maturity-style talent scoring that TDMI attempts at a smaller, more SME-targeted level.

Direct peers

• Sales Performance International: Sales effectiveness and methodology consulting firm offering diagnostics, training, and consulting around sales process maturity. Directly comparable to GPC's SMI offering, addressing similar sales function, pipeline, process, and coaching dimensions.
• Richardson Sales Performance: Sales training and performance consultancy with diagnostic and consulting services targeting mid-market sales organisations. Comparable as a specialist direct peer in sales maturity diagnostics and capability-building consulting.
• The Predictive Index: Talent assessment platform offering behavioural and cognitive diagnostics for hiring and development. Directly comparable to GPC's TDMI as a self-serve maturity-style assessment for SME/mid-market buyers, with similar diagnostic-report-plus-consulting go-to-market.

Emerging players

• AssessFirst: Predictive talent assessment platform combining personality, motivation, and cognitive diagnostics with a self-serve SaaS model. Comparable as an emerging player offering SME-targeted assessment with adjacent diagnostic-plus-consulting monetisation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/18331596

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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