Founded in 2016, Sweetmans and Partners specialise in people and business development services for the financial, legal and professional services sector, and purpose led organisations.
They do this through a combination of workshops, hackathons, coaching and consultancy services.
Whilst they are a profit-making business, they are also passionate about having a wider impact through their work. Fully certified as a B-Corporation, they are legally required to ensure their business has a positive social and environmental impact, as well as delivering shareholder returns.
Core to their success has been the partnerships they’ve developed with clients and at a sector level. In particular, Sweetmans holds an annual hackathon for the financial, legal and professional services sector. Based on a model from the tech sector, the hackathon has been adapted as a vehicle to:
- Respond to sector challenges and opportunities, including wellbeing and diversity
- Develop non-technical skills and behaviours
- Build networks across the sector
Sweetmans has also delivered in-house hackathons for individual clients to support them to:
- Elicit views from across the business to inform strategy and change programmes
- Bring values to life
- Develop leadership skills and behaviours
The business was a winner at the 2019 Wales Start up Awards, scooping the prize for Financial and Professional Services Start-Up of the Year.
Speaking on the award, Rosie Sweetman said:
“Winning this award has, first and foremost, meant we’ve been able to celebrate our journey of hard work, fun and risk-taking over the last 3 years!
It’s also an endorsement of our approach of working in genuine partnership with clients to meet their fast-changing needs in an increasingly uncertain, and complex world.”
