HR Consultancy Solihull & West Midlands

HR consultancy and people support in Solihull

Solihull is one of the most economically significant locations in the West Midlands. Jaguar Land Rover has its global headquarters and main manufacturing operations in the borough, making automotive and its supply chain a dominant force in the local economy. Birmingham Airport, the NEC and business parks including Blythe Valley and Meriden bring professional services, events, logistics and technology businesses into the mix. It is an area with high expectations of its employers and, by extension, its HR support.

Limelite HR & Learning provides practical HR consultancy and people support for organisations in Solihull, helping leaders manage employee relations, develop confident managers and build strong organisational cultures.

Whether you need ongoing HR support, help with a complex people issue or leadership development for your management team, we work alongside organisations to provide clear, commercially focused HR advice.

Supporting organisations across the West Midlands

We provide a wide range of HR consultancy and leadership development services for organisations across Solihull.

These include:

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Common HR challenges for organisations in Solihull

Organisations in Solihull face some distinctive HR challenges. The presence of Jaguar Land Rover creates a competitive talent market where businesses find it hard to attract and retain skilled workers, particularly in engineering and technical roles. The automotive supply chain is also prone to volatility, meaning restructuring, redundancy and TUPE processes are more common here than in many other areas. Professional services and technology businesses in the borough’s business parks bring their own challenges around rapid growth, flexible working and retaining talent in a highly competitive market.

Many organisations we work with in Solihull come to us when they experience challenges such as:

  • managing employee relations issues
  • supporting managers with difficult conversations
  • making sure policies and processes remain compliant with employment law
  • improving recruitment and retention
  • developing confident leaders and managers
  • strengthening workplace culture and employee engagement

By combining strategic HR expertise with practical guidance, we help organisations address these challenges and build stronger people practices.

Trusted by West Midlands organisations

We support organisations across the West Midlands, helping them build strong HR foundations, manage their teams with confidence and create workplaces where people genuinely want to stay.

“Their team is knowledgeable, always providing clear and practical advice tailored to our needs. Whenever we reach out, they’re there with helpful insights and solutions. It’s clear they genuinely care about helping us navigate any HR issues we encounter, allowing us to focus on our mission with confidence.”

Jen Kelly, CEO, Grace Kelly Childcare

  • Local HR support across the West Midlands and beyond

    While based in Worcestershire, we support organisations across Solihull and the surrounding area, including Shirley, Olton, Dorridge, Knowle, Balsall Common, Meriden and the wider Metropolitan Borough.

    Our flexible HR consultancy services allow us to work with organisations both locally and across the UK, providing practical support tailored to each organisation’s needs.

  • Looking for HR support in Solihull?

    We’d love to hear from you. Book a free 30-minute discovery call and let’s talk about what you need.

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FAQS

  • Do you provide HR support for small businesses in Solihull?

    Yes. We work with SMEs across Solihull alongside larger organisations. Whether you’re a growing professional services firm or a family business, we can provide HR support that fits your size and your needs.

  • Do you work with organisations across the West Midlands as well as Solihull?

    Yes. We cover the whole of the West Midlands, including Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Dudley, as well as Worcestershire and the wider Midlands.

  • Can you help Solihull organisations with complex employee issues?

    Yes. We handle the full range of employee relations matters, from disciplinary and grievance procedures to restructures, redundancy and performance management. We make sure every process is handled correctly and commercially.

  • Can you support charities and not-for-profit organisations in Solihull?

    Yes. We work with third sector organisations across the West Midlands and understand the specific HR challenges they face, including governance requirements, volunteer management and funding-related decisions.

  • What types of organisations in Solihull benefit from HR consultancy?

    We work across automotive, professional services, technology, events, retail and logistics. Solihull’s economy is dominated by the automotive supply chain, particularly Jaguar Land Rover and its suppliers, alongside significant professional services, tech and events businesses on the borough’s major business parks.

  • Are your HR services only available locally?

    No. We work with organisations across the UK. For Solihull clients, we’re well connected locally and can combine remote and in-person support depending on what works best.

HR made simple, explore our services

  • HR Support

    Our retained HR support packages are designed to provide you with ongoing, dedicated HR support and partnership, providing proactive, expert guidance and reliable assistance right when you need it.

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  • Complex Employee Issue

    Expert support for complex employee relations cases, helping you manage investigations, grievances and disciplinaries confidently and compliantly.

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  • Breathe HR Software

    Streamline HR with Breathe HR, the award-winning HR software for SMEs. Manage employee data, holidays, training and performance in one secure, cloud-based system.

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  • Health & Safety

    Practical health and safety support, helping organisations stay compliant, reduce risk and create safe, confident workplaces.

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  • Developing your Teams

    Limelite HR & Learning develops confident leaders, capable managers and high-performing teams through engaging training, leadership development, management programmes, DEIB workshops, DiSC profiling and coaching. We help organisations build inclusive, people-focused cultures where employees grow and thrive.

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The people we support, supporting us

  • We recently had the pleasure of working with Limelite HR & Learning for our Leadership and Management training, and the experience was brilliant. The course was well-structured and highly interactive, allowing our managers to engage fully with the material. What impressed us was their extensive knowledge, approachability, and flexibility, which truly made a difference. They took the time to understand our business context, which enriched the learning experience and made the training relevant and applicable. We are grateful for the valuable insights and skills our team has gained, and we look forward to continued collaboration with Limelite in the future. Highly recommended.

    Clare Flemming, People Director
    Auriga Services
  • We are very grateful for support received from Limelite HR in dealing with a recent grievance investigation. As a small charity, it would have been challenging for us to deal with the volume of material in this case and to appoint an impartial investigator internally, so having a consultant to manage the investigation was very helpful.

    Laura dealt with the complexities of the case very well, and conducted a thorough and detailed investigation – including looking into related areas which were not specifically raised within the grievance, to ensure all relevant information was properly considered before reaching her conclusion. Her findings were well delivered and have given us clarity and confidence to move forward.

    Lorna Potter
    British Society for Rheumatology
  • Firstly, thank you for turning the report around so quickly – much appreciated.

    Secondly, and even more importantly, I wanted to say what an impressive piece of work it is. The skills is in interpreting the data you’ve gathered and presenting it in a meaningful way, and you’ve absolutely nailed it. Well done!

    Louise Skittrall, CEO
    Robinson Grace
  • Limelite have delivered two training courses for us at University College Birmingham over the past 18 months; management toolkit training to upskill a group of less experienced managers to help them succeed in their management roles and bespoke skills training to our entire management population on the launch of our new performance management process.  Lisa and her team worked closely with us to understand our institution’s specific needs and challenges to create training that was relevant and impactful.  On both programmes the training was delivered in an interactive, engaging, and inclusive way which encouraged discussion and created opportunities for knowledge sharing and learning.  The training received excellent feedback from our managers, and I wouldn’t hesitate to ask Limelite to deliver training for us again in the future.

    Caroline Aldred, HR Business Partner
    University College Birmingham
  • At YMCA Worcestershire, we have been through a period of substantial change and development. As part of this we refreshed our vision, mission and values. We also did some solid work in creating a strategic framework with top line objectives. While we had done some preliminaries on further development of this into measurables, a challenge of capacity issues with a need for more operational focus was emerging. We were keen to get through this bottleneck because we knew the strategic planning and implementation would help to ease the operational challenges.

    We were very grateful to get Workforce Planning support for this through consultancy work with Limelite HR who reviewed what we’d done so far, liaised with key staff members and helped us to harness this into a more complete and workable format. This is now enabling us to have a clearer road map in our efforts and a means by which to monitor progress and will, in this respect, enhance our impact for those we serve in our charitable and transformative work. We very much appreciated the timely help with this – thank you to Workforce Planning and Limelite HR!

    Dr Annette Daly, CEO
    YMCA Worcestershire
  • Limelite HR & Learning recently supported me, our Trustees and our team at the Maternal Mental Health Alliance through a review of our terms and conditions. It was a great experience from start to finish.  Their guidance was balanced and they really understood the nuance of our specific situation as a small charity. Relationships are at the heart of all they do and this is reflected in such a positive outcome.  They are incredibly pro-active, write brilliant and succinct reports. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

    Laura Seebohm, CEO 
    Maternal Mental Health Alliance