Corporate Vision- August 2025 CorporateVision The future of better business LaunchX: Empowering Youth Entrepreneurs to Engineer Enterprises Keystone Talent Bank: Unlock Smarter, Safer Staffing
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Contents 4. News 6. LaunchX: Empowering Youth Entrepreneurs to Engineer Enterprises 8. Complex Adaptive Leadership (Research) Ltd: Improved Leadership for a Complex World 9. Mad About Marketing Consultancy: Digital Transformation Marketing in the Asia-Pacific Region 10. Keystone Talent Bank: Unlock Smarter, Safer Staffing 12. DairyWise Laboratory Services LLC: Dairy Experts Wise to the Industry’s Multifaceted Nature 14. AI Is Ready. Are Your People? 15. Why Marketing With Intent Is Changing the Game and Developing Growth
Corporate Visiopn TP Specialized Services company PSG Global Solutions launches digital recruiter Anna AI to help staffing organizations drive recruitment at scale • Anna AI is part of TP’s new strategic initiative, ‘Future Forward”, to expand growth and deliver long-term value by intelligently orchestrating AI with human empathy and expertise • Powered with advanced AI, digital recruiter ‘Anna AI’ has increased recruiter productivity by up to 2.5x, and increased the number of hires by up to 4x Global digital business services leader TP, announced that its Specialized Services subsidiary, PSG Global Solutions (PSG), a leading provider of Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), has launched Anna AI, an advanced digital recruiter built to help staffing organizations and talent acquisition teams to scale exceptional hiring outcomes. Powered by PSG’s proprietary platform and best-in-class large language models, Anna AI is designed to significantly boost recruiter productivity and improve hiring outcomes — all while maintaining the highest standards of compliance and candidate experience. The launch is part of TP’s new strategic ‘Future Forward’ initiative, which focuses on bringing together human expertise with advanced AI technology to create new business opportunities for the company. Anna AI’s technology follows the framework of TP.ai FAB (Foundational AI Backbone), TP’s AI orchestration platform designed to seamlessly integrate artificial intelligence, human expertise, and automation at scale. “Anna AI is not just another AI tool – it is a transformational solution for how recruiters engage, evaluate, and hire at scale,” said Dave Bethea, President and CEO at PSG. “The strong early results and enthusiastic client feedback confirm that Anna is setting a new standard for the future of recruiting.” Scalable, Human-Led, AI-Powered Recruitment for Endto-End Hiring Anna AI supports the full recruitment lifecycle — from screening to scheduling, interviewing, and onboarding. It conducts interviews autonomously, understands natural language (including tone and intent), and tailors conversations to each candidate’s profile. The result is a consistently high-quality, engaging experience for every applicant. By automating repetitive tasks and augmenting recruiter capabilities, Anna AI helps recruitment teams focus on strategic, high-value activities while maintaining a personalized, brand-aligned candidate journey. Anna also integrates seamlessly with humanin-the-loop processes, ensuring that critical decisions remain people-led. Key features and benefits: • Scalable & Always-On: Conducts unlimited interviews and screenings simultaneously, 24/7, across all time zones. • High-Impact Results: Early data shows an up to 2.5x increase in recruiter productivity and an up to 4x increase in daily hires. • Customizable Experience: Multilingual and fully configurable to reflect each employer’s brand voice and recruiting strategy across channels including voice, chat, email, and SMS. • Integrations with PSG and TP’s broader tech capabilities: Anna AI leverages sentiment analysis technologies and candidate experience measurement technologies to improve on a human-only recruiting experience. • Compliance: Compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, EEOC, and TCPA standards, and continuous innovation based on NIST AI guidelines
News Josh Bersin Company’s New Galileo Release: 25+ Years of HR Research Now Empowers Every Line Manager • New release of Galileo® includes Galileo for Managers: a new feature of the Galileo AI assistant designed for managers, supervisors, and senior leaders • The new Venus release includes HR job task data from work intelligence leader Reejig, expanding Galileo into an AI work redesign tool for HR transformation • The Venus release also introduces functional enhancements to Galileo’s platform for an enhanced user experience The Josh Bersin Company, the world’s most trusted HR advisory firm, announced the launch of Galileo for Managers, a new capability in the Galileo agent designed to provide research-based AI-powered guidance, development, and daily support and tools for managers. Galileo for Managers is purpose-built for non-HR users—particularly people managers—who play a critical role in shaping the employee experience but often lack direct HR support. Already trusted by thousands of HR leaders to inform strategic human capital decisions, Galileo is now optimized for supervisors, managers, and business leaders. With the new Venus release, Galileo for Managers transforms 25 years of research, hundreds of case studies, and extensive benchmarking data into a practical, everyday tool for frontline leaders. Galileo for Managers empowers leaders to confidently address urgent team challenges such as recruitment, managing hybrid teams, and resolving performance and workplace issues. It also serves as a daily tool to support meeting management, one-on-one discussions, goal setting, performance management, difficult conversations, and the wide range of responsibilities managers navigate every day. Drawing on decades of research, 500 real-world case studies, proven leadership models from world-leading organizations, including the Irresistible Leadership model, and expert content from trusted partners, Galileo functions like a personal management coach—always present, continuously learning, and helping leaders improve over time. This capability is delivered through more than 100 tailored prompts that guide managers through core responsibilities, including leading effective meetings, conducting performance reviews, managing difficult conversations, and developing succession and growth plans. It also offers on-demand leadership development and coaching to help managers grow in real time, exactly when they need it. That means that when a non-HR manager asks Galileo a question—How do I address lateness and disengagement? What makes a strong project proposal? to How do I structure a one-on-one?, or What can AI help me automate in my 10-person team?—they’ll get intelligent, structured, research-backed advice that’s evidence-based, and actionable. View the video. A powerful new innovation in the Galileo release is the integration of Reejig’s proprietary Work Ontology® data for HR roles. Reejig’s Work Ontology breaks down work into tasks, identifies the required skills, and identifies where AI can unlock capacity within HR. This enables HR teams and business leaders to redesign roles, orchestrate AI-human collaboration, and lead AI transformation initiatives with precision and purpose. Combined with Galileo’s powerful AI assistant and Josh Bersin Company’s trusted research, this integration empowers every manager to take bold, responsible action—reimagining HR work at scale with confidence and clarity. The new Venus release also introduces functional enhancements to Galileo’s platform for an enhanced user experience. These include: • Advanced reasoning model for deep research, expanding Galileo’s “consultant mode” where it proactively asks users clarifying questions • The ability to generate and analyze graphics, images, and documents, including interpreting charts and visual data • A new User Task Library, including an Agentic prompt, for saving, sharing, and organizing custom prompts View the video. • Multi-model support, enabling users to switch between LLMs including Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4.1, o4-mini, and more • Integration with Galileo Learn™, providing access to 700+ courses across HR, leadership, and management. View the video. Galileo Product Manager Amy Farner says: “With Galileo Venus, every manager, regardless of the organization’s size, has access to a super-powered HR business partner in Galileo Manager—unlocking sophisticated HR intelligence for environments that previously couldn’t benefit from such advanced tools. “As machines increasingly perform current tasks, we must reimagine work to design future-ready roles in partnership with AI. Reejig provides a roadmap, enabling smarter efficiency and resource planning. “Together, these latest advancements represent a fundamental evolution in what Galileo can do—and how managers across industries can grow, lead, and make better decisions every day, enabling Galileo to take on a new role of becoming the AI-based advisor for every manager.”
Corporate Vision LaunchX: Empowering Youth Entrepreneurs to Engineer Enterprises Young people are the future, poised to play an instrumental role in shaping the world around us. Yet, many face challenges that traditional systems do not prepare them for, from rapid technological change to global crises and shifting professional landscapes. To empower them, we must offer them with ample opportunities to thrive – providing them with platforms that cultivate ambition, creativity, and resilience. LaunchX is an innovating programme blending innovation with education to allow young people to unlock their full potential and achieve their dreams. We spoke to Forest Richter, President of LaunchX, as the programme is named in the 2025 Corporate Excellence Awards. With a fully remote team dispersed throughout the world, LaunchX offers a robust and rigorous curriculum designed to help develop budding entrepreneurs. Laurie Stach founded the organisation in 2012, starting with the first Launch Summer Programme held in 2013 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2014, MIT invited Laurie and the Launch programme to become a part of the Martin Trust Centre for MIT Entrepreneurship, running for several years with the school’s resource support. 2016 to 2018 marked the beginning of LaunchX’s growth, as Laurie and the team decided to leave the Trust Centre and branch into additional universities. This expansion allowed the programme to meet the growing demand for high school entrepreneurship education, providing opportunities for growth and development to a broader base of young people. From 2018 and beyond, LaunchX grew in locations and students alike. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck and lockdowns subsequently enforced in 2020, LaunchX moved its services online. The programme continued to grow, with record applications and student reviews despite the ongoing difficulties. This obstacle provided LaunchX with the opportunity to leverage the powerful resource of online learning and prompted the programme to continue the 2022 summer programme via its online platform. 2023 was a pivotal year for LaunchX, with the launch of the first Innovation Programme. Through this exciting new offering, students were able to partner with existing businesses and enterprises to solve real problems of the modern business landscape. That year, LaunchX offered four programmes throughout the summer – making 2023 the largest year of Launchies.
August 2025 | 7 In 2024, LaunchX started AwardX – a high school entrepreneurship competition focused on company viability. AwardX challenges student teams to validate their ideas in the real market, requiring them to create minimum viable products, generate actual sales, and prove that their startup concepts are not only imaginative, but executable. The launch of AwardX reflected the programme’s powerful mission of building real entrepreneurs. Finally, 2025 saw the beginning of the Online BootCamp, a programme designed to provide students with the foundational knowledge they need to thrive in the world of startups. Today, LaunchX continues to innovate and expand its programmes, always striving to offer rigorous – yet practical – programmes to enhance and empower young talent from across the globe. “We believe in the incredible potential of youth entrepreneurs around the world,” stated Forest. “Where some would ask high school students to make a business plan, we ask students to start a revenue-generating business in less than five weeks. Or where businesses might give students a simulation, our Innovation Students consult on a genuine business problem with a real world company. We believe youth entrepreneurs should pursue their passion to make a positive change in their community, city, and corner of the world.” This is precisely what enables LaunchX to stand out from its peers; the programme goes beyond theory, expecting students to act as real consultants and launch real revenue-generating startups during the programmes. The team has been developing and calibrating this fiercely independent curriculum for more than a decade, dedicated to providing the best learning experience for the Launchie students. Ultimately, LaunchX expects its students to, after learning the foundational knowledge, put it into practice by going and doing. Launchies in the Innovation Programme are expected to provide a real solution to the partner business within three weeks; youth entrepreneurs in the flagship Entrepreneurship Programme are expected to startup a real business and generate a minimum of $250 in revenue within four to five weeks. “We provide support throughout the programme through courses, simulations, mentorship, and more,” added Forest, “but we expect our high-calibre students to take initiative and meet their goals.” Of course, the LaunchX team practices what it preaches. The organisation is continually pursuing internal innovation, both to create a better experience for its students and to understand the landscape of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Team members are invited and encouraged to seek new solutions, start new initiatives, and improve any aspect of the student experience. While LaunchX has been providing quality programming since 2012, the organisation still views itself as a nimble startup with the capacity to disrupt and innovate in incredible ways. This culture has been baked into the day-to-day experience of its team members. No one person is seen as more important than the rest, and no aspect of the programme is off limits for exploration. LaunchX works hard to ensure that the team feel comfortable to pinpoint areas of improvement, working collaboratively to solve problems as they arise. There is a significant demand for LaunchX around the world. Over the last year, one of the organisation’s biggest challenges has been understanding the market and where it makes the most sense to expand. With so much opportunity to empower youth entrepreneurs worldwide, the team want to ensure that LaunchX uses its finite resources in a way that maintains the rigor and incredible experiences that have come to be associated with the programme. “We often approach problems like these by looking for small experiments that we can do,” Forest told us. “We are a very datafocused company, and we are constantly looking for low-risk ways of testing new programmes and areas – and quickly learning from those findings. This may mean launching a new programme, expanding into a new geographic area, or talking with government officials about bringing LaunchX into the public education system. All of these initiatives have potential to empower more youth entrepreneurs.” This year, LaunchX implemented this strategy with the introduction of LaunchX Online BootCamp. This two-week programme serves as a pre-programme for the flagship Entrepreneurship Programme. In the first cohort alone, LaunchX saw more than 200 students – a shining glimpse into future success. Of the 2025 BootCamp, Alum Yeskendir Aidarbekuly said: “I am truly grateful for the experience – it has been a valuable journey that has inspired me to think more boldly and build with greater purpose.” In addition to this, the organisation has also launched its youth entrepreneurship competition, AwardX. The team has run three distinct competitions to date, with more on the way. For LaunchX, this has been an incredible opportunity to reward youth entrepreneurs for their passion and skills as they pitch unique ideas and businesses. Melvin Gatete, a participant in AwardX East Africa, commented: “I like how it supports everyone, no matter what stage their business is at.” What’s more, LaunchX has also introduced the beyondX Youth Conference. This is a worldwide conference for youth entrepreneurs that will take place in San Francisco this year. The conference will serve as a chance for youth entrepreneurs to find their community, allowing them to connect with like-minded peers while experiencing personal development. Each of these empowering programmes have not only educated emerging entrepreneurs but have also allowed the LaunchX team to work closely with the young minds of tomorrow, teaching the team invaluable lessons that can only be learned from the next generation of talent. Drawing upon these experiences is an essential element of expanding and enhancing the LaunchX programmes, and a habit that the entire team prioritise across operations. To those looking to establish themselves within this inspirational industry, Forest shared the following advice: “Never underestimate youth. There are such capable students around the world, ready to take on challenges. Focus on providing those students with the best experience possible so that they can continue to grow and develop their skills. Because you are working with youth, never stop innovating. Look at the current landscape of youth entrepreneurship and work to adapt, so that you can provide relevant experiences for the next generation of youth entrepreneurs.” Looking to the future, LaunchX aims to maintain its status as a global company and continue to empower more youth entrepreneurs around the world. The organisation is seeing an ongoing influx of international students and is honoured to serve individuals from such a diverse set of backgrounds to help empower and educate them, wherever they live. LaunchX will be exploring the addition of more programmes, in both public forums and private institutions. Driven by the goal of becoming a name synonymous with global youth entrepreneurship, LaunchX is an outstanding organisation wholly deserving of being named the Best Youth Entrepreneurship Programme 2025. Contact: Forest Richter Company: LaunchX Web Address: www.launchx.com
Corporate Vision Improved Leadership for a Complex World Agile Plus Leadership International Ltd is the delivery firm for Complex Adaptive Leadership (Research) Ltd, or CAL, an ISO-certified global organisation famed for blending the complexity science of the modern West with the ancient wisdom of China. In doing so, the company, which has been recognised here as the Best Leadership Development Consultancy 2025, helps leaders to get better results and enhance the agility of their organisation. Nick Obolensky, the founder told us more. “Real learning, real results.” The cutting-edge, multi-award-winning services delivered by CAL in the areas of leadership development, consulting, and strategy are underpinned by a measurable ROI and a drive to deliver customised services that appeal to every business’ unique situation. With executives and organisations throughout the world today finding themselves in increasingly VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous ) times, these solutions help cut through the uncertainty and achieve real results through simple actions. Whether through organisation-wide initiatives, team or group leadership development, or even one-on-one coaching, the interactive workshops delivered by CAL have a track record of changing the mindsets of leaders. This stems from the company’s integrated and logistically easy 70-2010 approach, with 10% being workshops, 20% being peercoaching and mindful reflective practice and 70% application to the day job. . This results in clients widely reporting better, faster, and increased outcomes – all with less effort, cost, and resources than many other development programmes. And uniquely the on-line programmes get even better results than the international award-winning face-to-face programs! On the back of this, Nick told us: “Our mission is to change the world, one person and team at a time, by taking them through amazing programmes that get real, measurable, and – for some – life-changing results.” This aim is reflected through the core values at the heart of this operation: innovation, disruption, openness, and reciprocity. These not only form the basis for the programmes themselves, they also underpin the outcomes they deliver. For instance, CAL is so confident in the effectiveness of these CALAgility System® programmes that it offers a money-back guarantee in the event a 100% ROI is not achieved. Such assurance causes people to take notice, but this is just the beginning, and reinforcing the company’s standout nature is the fact that it disrupts traditional beliefs across these services. The online version of its flagship EFMD Gold Award face-to-face executive development programme reflects this, altering leadership paradigms from static to participatory. CAL’s effectiveness in delivering this EFMD Gold Award programme is best seen through its work with Nokia, where it turned the curriculum into a three-month online journey where participants would spend a few hours in groups of 24, before being split further into sub-action learning groups of six. Nokia is just one of the global brands to benefit from this approach, alongside others including Rolls-Royce, IBM, and AstraZeneca. In the cases of many of these clients, CAL scales its intervention by having company alumni interested in its approach deliver the online workshops of the programme themselves. The reasons behind this are two-fold, as this helps to reduce expenditure and increase effectiveness, given the person knows the company inside out and can therefore tailor these teachings to best suit its culture. Companies across the world have benefited from this, and the outcomes they have received demonstrates that it really does works. “The following results and testimonies speak for themselves: 90% report more empowerment; 85% better personal productivity with more time gained; 65% a better work-life balance; and 60% better team productivity and engagement.” As for how CAL ensures such results, its culture of innovation does much of the heavy lifting, whilst the sustained scientific foundation the company rests on sees it break new ground and receive acclaim for its efforts. Commenting on this, Nick explained: “We nurture this culture by always looking for new research within our speciality of complexity science as well as working with clients to ensure measurable real results with a high ROI.” ROI may be a common theme throughout this piece, but in a world where economic downturn is causing businesses to cut back – leadership coaching is often one of the first things to go, despite its array of benefits – CAL’s ability to guarantee that its clients will, at the very least, earn back everything they put into this endeavour demonstrates a capacity to help businesses of all shapes and size flourish. Ultimately, the high-impact leadership development Complex Adaptive Leadership (Research) Ltd delivers in this space can be attributed to the application of complexity science and its contrasting yet beneficial use of Chinese wisdom. The result is a combination quite unlike anything else, making the company a fitting recipient of the title of Best Leadership Development Consultancy 2025. Contact: Nick Obolensky Company: Complex Adaptive Leadership (Research) Ltd Web Address: www.complexadaptiveleadership.com/
August 2025 | 9 When it comes to driving results within the marketing landscape, Mad About Marketing believes the best way to do so is to address what it calls the fundamental trinity of marketing effectiveness: people, process, and platform. This forms the basis of an approach that sees management consultancy rigour combined with prolific marketing expertise, allowing these experts to solve those deep yet crucial challenges usually hidden behind the more surface-level issues brands face in marketing capability building. Mad About Marketing’s encompassing approach sees it work with clients from discerning start-ups through to well-established corporations, with this diverse group being united by one common goal: unlocking the full potential of their marketing through the inherent power of strategic transformation. Alongside the firm’s hybrid methodology mentioned above, making all of this possible is a fractional talent model, which sees the team here provide their expertise at a fraction of the cost of a traditional agency. Exploring this further, Jaslyin explained: “We resist the temptation to apply successful strategies from one client to another without first carrying out a thorough analysis of different market conditions, regulatory environments, and organisational capabilities. This bespoke approach, combined with our fractional model’s agility, enables us to deliver enterprise-quality results regardless of a client’s size or budget constraints.” Most recently, this was seen through the firm’s work with Melisa Teo, a famous independent photographer/artist who was born in Singapore and now resides in Paris. Mad About Marketing supported with the marketing of her Two Rivers Exhibition, stretching its own creative and planning capabilities by channelling its limited resources into maximising public visibility and driving the event’s attendance figures. Challenges in executing this project included navigating an array of licensing processes and ensuring engagement with relevant, highprofile stakeholders, including several government officials and country ambassadors. Despite these difficulties, Mad About Marketing delivered its signature brand of integrated marketing support, going beyond traditional promotion to deliver a seamless experience. The excellence demonstrated by the firm on the outside is something that starts from within, seen through a collaborative, empowermentfocused culture that directly influences client outcomes. As well as this, Jaslyin’s own experience working within global multinationals with strong cultures sees her establish strong connections with her team members, mentoring others – especially women – and offering genuine career support, regardless of age. This reflects the firm’s belief in driving community impact, not just profit. Initiatives like this have proven instrumental in Jaslyin building this firm from the ground up since January last year, with this venture marking her transition from independent consulting to being in charge of a formal business entity. Jaslyin has excelled in this task over the last 18 months or so, developing Mad About Marketing into a leading B2B and B2C marketing consultant with an innovation Based in Singapore and Vietnam, Mad About Marketing Consulting is an integrated, full-service marketing consultancy that partners with B2B and B2C C-suites throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Whereas traditional agencies focus exclusively on executing campaigns, this firm serves as a strategic marketing advisory. Recognised as the Best Marketing Consultancy Firm 2025 – South East Asia, we caught up with Jaslyin Qiyu, its founder and managing director, for more on what sets it apart in a highly competitive landscape. Digital Transformation Marketing in the Asia-Pacific Region strategy centred around three pillars: methodology evolution, business model optimisation, and emerging technology integration. A great example of this being put into practice is seen through the firm’s most recent service offering, which concerns AI-adoption maturity assessments and recommendations roadmaps. Essentially, this sees the team help organisations to measure the readiness of their employees (both mentally and skillset-wise) for digital/AI adoption, as well as supporting them in this process by developing ethical frameworks that balance generative AI implementation with human-first strategic thinking. On the back of this, Jaslyin told us: “Our five-year vision includes becoming the definitive authority on sustainable marketing transformation, where operational excellence meets innovative thinking.” This ties into the ultimate goal of Mad About Marketing: to build a consultancy that proves marketing is capable of being both creatively inspiring and operationally robust at the same time. Debunking the common myth that the value of marketing stems from creative aesthetics and event coordination, Mad About Marketing Consultancy sees marketing positioned as a strategic business function leading to measurable outcomes. Whether it is balancing AI with ethical frameworks to ensure success or leveraging its fractional excellence model to prove massive overheads are unnecessary in delivering world-class strategic thinking, this marketing transformation consultant is changing the game. Contact: Jaslyin Qiyu Company: Mad About Marketing Consultancy Web Address: https://www.madaboutmarketingconsulting.com/
Corporate Vision timesheets, spreadsheets, and missed deadlines. What is more, with capabilities to integrate directly with payroll and finance systems, Talent Bank takes care of the payroll in its entirety and saves clients further time and money. Talent Bank has served a wide range of clients since its inception, adapting and evolving with every instance as no two clients are ever the same, and neither are their needs. At its core, the platform offers an unrivalled feature set that has been carefully curated specifically for Keystone Employment Group’s client base – ensuring that each element of the platform is designed to meet and solve a real pain point. Compliant, convenient, and cost-effective, Talent Bank has attracted the attention of large organisations hailing from a variety of sectors, including numerous universities and educational institutions, Procurement for Housing, G-Cloud, and the NHS. Shining bright in a complex market, Talent Bank has risen to stand as a leader in casual work management. To those seeking to achieve similar success, Malcolm advised: “Understand your market; understand the end users and understand what problems you are solving for them. It sounds obvious and simple, but when you are starting a business, these things can take time to figure out. Lots of tech businesses have spent a large amount of time building products they think will work, but they have not spent enough time understanding what the end users actually need. The disconnect between what you are building and what the client actually needs has plagued all forms of businesses for decades.” Recently, Keystone Employment Group demonstrated its prowess when undertaking a project with the University of London. The company deployed a solution for the university that has dramatically improved their solution for engaging academic contractors, bringing an entirely novel approach to employment for the sector. A master in this field, Keystone Employment Group served as a vital partner for the University of London – not only aiding the organisation in talent acquisition but also significantly contributing toward improved education through the curation of the region’s top academic talents. Of the solution’s success, the Project Lead commented: “Our experience of working with the Keystone team has really been a positive one. Complex technical implementations can sometimes fill people with dread, but Keystone’s deep understanding of higher education and the challenges we Keystone Talent Bank: Unlock Smarter, Safer Staffing Casual employment is on the rise, offering employers and employees alike a flexible, dynamic approach to work. Reshaping the ways in which people work and businesses operate, the emergence of casual employment reflects changing economic needs and an evolving work culture. In the wake of such developments, however, businesses across the country are now challenged with the task of acquiring and hiring the top talent from an increasingly indemand talent pool. Keystone Employment Group is a company seeking to meet this growing need, providing organisations with the necessary online tools for hiring and managing casual workers. We spoke with Malcolm Paice below, Managing Director of Keystone Employment Group, as the company is recognised in the Corporate Excellence Awards 2025. Located in London, Keystone Employment Group is a leading provider of workforce management software and contingent worker solutions in the UK, on a mission to aid organisations in shifting away from manual processes, costly recruitment agencies, and non-compliant workflow processes. For more than a decade, the company has remained dedicated to this mission, utilising people and technology to deliver world-class solutions to organisations desperately in need of optimised casual employee management processes. In response to this rising demand, Keystone Employment Group has developed Keystone Talent Bank, an awardwinning platform providing organisations with a comprehensive suite of online tools for hiring and managing casual workers. The platform is used in some of the largest organisations with complex requirements for managing casual workers, aiding them with a variety of tasks – from talent acquisition and hiring to digital timesheets, pay controls, worker compliance, and payroll solutions. Talent Bank provides a whitelabel service, meaning that each client’s branding, requirements, and values are upheld through the powerful recruitment and managing solution. The platform is hosted in the cloud with Amazon Web Services, ensuring that talent pools are available any time of day from anywhere in the world, safely and securely in an ISO207001 compliant environment. The platform is also fully ISO90001 Quality Management Certified, ISO14001 Environmental Management Certified, and holds Cyber Essentials accreditation. In the employment industry, compliance and control are paramount. Keystone Employment Group understands this well, and works hard to ensure that casual workers are hired in an assured manner. Passports, visas, and supporting documents can be uploaded directly to a worker’s profile, and no worker is allowed to work until their ID checks have been completed. Hard controls are in place to prevent noncompliant working, and a full audit trail of all actions and automated safeguards ensures that organisations remain compliant and auditable across the process. Once employees are hired, working hours can be managed with smart online timesheets that aggregate working hours across multiple work assignments, with enough intelligence to manage term-time rules for students in and out of termtime. Hiring managers can conveniently approve timesheets from anywhere on any device, mitigating the need for paper
August 2025 | 11 Contact: Malcolm Paice Company: Keystone Employment Group Web Address: www.keystone-jobs.com needed to fix really helped us get to a transformative solution that benefits our internal teams, our Programme Managers, and the Academic Contractors.” Keystone Employment Group’s sustained success can not only be attributed to its exceptional market understanding, but also to the dedicated employees driving its mission. Of course, Keystone Employment Group understands the instrumental role that the workforce plays in the prosperity of any company and so works hard to maintain a small team of hardworking professionals – all working towards one shared goal of excellence. “You can have the world’s greatest tech, but it is nothing without the team to deliver it and continuously stay focused on how we can improve the working lives of our customers,” Malcolm shared. “Our team are consistently cited as the main reason our customers stay with us. The culture we have developed – small enough to care, big enough to deliver excellence – really applies in our case. Being a small company allows us to be agile and make sure that there are no weak links in our customer’s relationship with us – that has been crucial to our success.” This team has served as the primary driving force behind Keystone Employment Group and the successful integration of Talent Bank across the UK’s main sectors. While the platform’s exceptional reception has been an exciting development for the company, it also marks one of the most challenging and busy periods for the team. Many universities are facing financial pressure and are now turning to Talent Bank to drive down the cost of hiring contingent workers – especially those who were previously supplied by employment agencies. Now, the Keystone Employment Group team is working hard to meet the rising demand for its superior services. “It has been a nice problem to have – incredibly high demand focussed over a relatively short time frame,” Malcolm told us. “Our solution makes it simpler, faster, and much lower cost, so we have found that demand has quadrupled in the last 12 months, meaning that we have to manage multiple concurrent deployments. It is a challenge, but we have embraced it.” Meeting and exceeding this demand will be the primary focus for Keystone Employment Group as it continues to scale over the upcoming year. The last five years have seen Talent Bank – and thus Keystone Employment Group itself – change considerably, and the company believes that the next five years will be no different. Looking ahead, Keystone Employment Group plans to continue making Talent Bank well-suited to a wider range of workers. This has been an initiative that the company has seen previous success in and now possesses the expertise and ability to expand upon that success. This expansion will enable Talent Bank to cater to a broader client base – with a significantly larger talent pool to pull from – as well as help the company to branch into other sectors in need of its services, such as health and social care. The Corporate Excellence Awards are held each year to highlight and celebrate the organisations and entities committed to advancing innovation, business growth, and providing the very best products and services to clients across a broad spectrum of industries. Since its inception, Keystone Employment Group has remained committed to serving its clientele and their sectors through the deployment of tailored, client-centric solutions that directly meet, address, and solve their varying pain points. For its unfaltering dedication to the world of casual worker acquisition and significant contributions toward advancing this field, Keystone Employment Group has been rightfully recognised as the UK’s Best Online Recruitment Solutions Provider 2025.
Corporate Vision Established in late 2019, DairyWise prides itself on providing microbiology laboratory services designed to suit all of its clients’ milk and forage needs. Unlike many of the similar operations in this space, DairyWise blends swift service delivery with an ability to interpret data in such a way that adds value to the business’ of its clients at every turn. This sees it go beyond simply running lab results to ensure that producers understand exactly what the numbers mean and how they can translate to smart, impactdriven management. Comprising a highly skilled team of microbiologists, veterinarians, and dairy experts, DairyWise’s high-quality work in the field of animal and produce testing has resulted in a number of accolades within the agricultural industry and beyond, underpinning its dual commitment to advancing dairy science and supporting healthier herds. Serving as a trusted partner to its clients, the team’s capacity to help optimise the production and quality of their dairy can be seen through offerings such as somatic cell counts and PCR tests. Moreover, DairyWise is a proud affiliate of Dairy One, a non-profit cooperative consisting of around 2000 dairy farmers from across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. This allows the company to go beyond its aforementioned testing services to deliver offerings such as milker training, parlour evaluations, and even on-farm herd culture – resulting in an encompassing and transformative support network being delivered to producers. “The team at DairyWise have been a game-changer for our farm. Their milk and forage analysis is spot-on, and their explanations are clear and helpful. We feel more in control of our feeding programme than ever before.” DairyWise’s standout nature is reflected further through its core values, which see innate integrity and excellence across its precise and timely services blended with a pledge to support both the next-generation of agricultural professionals through mentorship and employment opportunities and the community via local, youth-based initiatives. The company’s culture, which is rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and a passion for agriculture, is then just another way everyone here is aligned under the same set of principles. As Andrea explained: “That culture shows in everything from how we handle a forage sample to how we mentor a high school intern. By empowering our team and encouraging continuous learning, we create an environment where quality and innovation thrive.” On the back of this, DairyWise has been able to navigate some big challenges over the past few years, including the rising costs associated with transportation and lab supplies. Through initiatives such as streamlining logistics, adjusting sample schedules, and investing in automation technologies, the team were able to protect the integrity of their testing, all whilst maintaining the reliability and affordability the company has built its reputation on. Pairing science-based milk and forage testing with tailored dairy nutrition consulting services, DairyWise Laboratory Services LLC strives to support both the success and sustainability of dairy producers in the US, empowering them to make those data-driven decisions that improve the health, efficiency, and profitability of their herds. Commended as the Leading Animal Health Diagnostics Specialists 2025 – Idaho in this programme, we caught up with Andrea Mouw, the owner of DairyWise, for more. Dairy Experts Wise to the Industry’s Multifaceted Nature This paved the way for numerous like-minded successes over this same period, including a recent strategy that saw Andrea and the team refine the turnaround time of their forage testing, during peak harvesting seasons no less. She told us: “Thanks to staff dedication and workflow improvements, we’ve been able to deliver results faster without sacrificing accuracy, helping our clients make critical feeding decisions with confidence.” Looking ahead, the commitment DairyWise has to staying current across technology and research – coupled with the robustness of the partnerships it has built with producers – is seeing the company seek out new and innovative ways to expand its educational programming, integrate sustainable methods, and develop tech-based solutions to further boost efficiency. Its ongoing goal to support the future of industry is felt through its plans to launch an agriculture internship programme for students interested in this work. A small business with deep local roots, DairyWise balances technical proficiency with its people-first nature to have a farreaching impact on this sector. Whether it is raising the bar in dairy testing services and forage analysis for dairy or fostering youth mentorship in agriculture, this dairy lab in Twin Falls, Idaho, is guided by the belief that the key to shaping the resilient future of this space is focusing on the people who make it all possible. More information about the services provided by DairyWise Laboratory Services LLC can be found at its website, the link to which is below. Contact: Andrea Mouw Company: DairyWise Laboratory Services LLC Web Address: https://www.dairywiselabs.com/
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Feature AI Is Ready. Are Your People? By Kevin Fitzgerald, UK Managing Director at Employment Hero AI continues to dominate headlines and social media. For good reason. It’s already helping many businesses work faster and smarter. The global AI market was worth more than $279 billion last year. It’s expected to grow to $1.8 trillion by 2030. That kind of growth tells you how quickly things are moving. But if you’re running an SME, AI might feel like just another thing on an already full list. That’s understandable. Between keeping customers happy, managing teams, staying on top of cash flow and everything else that comes with the day to day, AI can easily fall down the priority list. In our Work That Works report, we spoke with over 2,000 small business leaders and employees in the UK and found that only half of SMEs feel they’ve kept pace with tech and innovation. The gap is even more visible in smaller firms. AI implementation is now the top challenge for small business leaders ahead of economic pressures and talent shortages. For many, it’s less about resistance and more about capacity. Many said they were still in survival mode. Even so, around half the SME leaders we spoke to said they’re already seeing real productivity gains from AI. That’s a strong sign of what’s possible when the right strategy is in place. Build a culture that makes AI work for everyone The answer isn’t to keep adding more tools. It’s to make sure they understand what’s being introduced and why. Give them time to try things out. Offer support that feels useful, not overwhelming. One of the key takeaways from the report is the importance of leaders taking time to understand the day-to-day experiences of their employees, including the details of how they work and creating space for honest feedback. Giving people ownership, a voice and a sense that their input genuinely matters. We’ve done this at Employment Hero. Introducing AI at base level, then providing training for our team has made a real difference. Once people feel confident, they start using AI in ways that genuinely help. Within our own culture we’ve also found it valuable to celebrate how people are using AI and to provide a space where they can ask questions and learn from each other Using AI daily in your business can still feel intimidating, especially when you’re unsure how to begin. That’s normal. It can seem daunting, especially when you’re already juggling a hundred other priorities. But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Small steps can make a big difference. The goal is to create a space where people feel safe to learn, test and get things wrong. That’s when real progress starts. Focus on people first Technology should help people do their best work. That’s always been my view. Our research also showed that when employees see their company actively investing in technology, they’re 28% more likely to rate their productivity as high and 20% less likely to feel they’re wasting time on inefficient tasks. But too often, new tools get rolled out with no context. No conversation. Just another platform and a set of expectations. It doesn’t work. People get confused. Productivity drops. In fact, when employees feel their company handles automation poorly, their reported productivity can be up to 50% lower compared to those who feel their company is doing it well. Good AI strategy starts with people, not software. Recognition matters more than we think Here’s also something that stood out. The number one thing employees said improved their productivity? Feeling valued. Not training. Not software. Just simple recognition. That could be a thank you. A bit of positive feedback. A fiveminute check-in. These small moments carry more weight than most tech rollouts. If people feel appreciated, they’re more likely to try something new. Including AI. Don’t assume Gen Z has it covered Everyone assumes Gen Z is leading the way on AI. Actually, it’s millennials who are out in front. That tells us adoption isn’t always where we expect it to be. Different generations will need different types of support. You can’t take a one-size-fits-all approach. Leadership matters here too. If a manager is resistant or dismissive, that attitude spreads. Even if the business is supportive on paper. That’s why leaders need to be coached and encouraged to keep the conversation going. Bring people along The Government’s investment in AI is a good sign. But investment alone isn’t enough. You still need to bring people with you. We’ve seen that when companies introduce AI properly, the impact is clear. They see twice the productivity of those that don’t. The potential is huge. But the real value comes when people understand how to use it and feel supported every step of the way. The tech is ready. We just need to make sure our people are too. Kevin Fitzgerald
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