Liz Hirst joins Q5 as associate partner
Q5 has welcomed Liz Hirst as an associate partner. She brings deep expertise supporting clients to improve their organisational performance through culture change, leadership development, operating model design and organisation design.
Commenting on her appointment, Hirst said, “I’m thrilled to be joining Q5 at such an exciting time for the firm. Q5 has a strong reputation for combining deep organisational expertise with a genuinely human approach to transformation – something that I feel really passionately about. I’m looking forward to working with clients and colleagues to help organisations create clarity, alignment and momentum around what really matters to enhance performance.”
Hirst is a highly experienced consulting leader with 18 years’ experience delivering complex transformation programmes across a wide range of industries. She joins Q5 from Wharton Business Consulting, where she led the organisation design practice.
During her career, this has seen her partner with senior leaders across banking and insurance, retail, logistics, hospitality, mining and consumer goods, supporting organisations to build the structures, capabilities and cultures needed to deliver sustainable performance. At Q5, she will focus on helping clients tackle their most critical organisational challenges, working alongside leadership teams to design effective operating models.
Her appointment further strengthens Q5’s capability and reflects the firm’s continued investment in senior expertise to support clients navigating increasingly complex change. This comes amid continued growth across Q5’s London and Saudi Arabia teams.
First launched in 2009, Q5 is a global management consulting firm that specialises in organisational health. With offices in London, Leeds, Cardiff, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Oman and Houston – as well as joint ventures in place in France, Sweden, Italy and Germany, Q5 is able to serve a range of businesses; from multinational players to small, family firms. It also supplies a host of pro bono services to non-profits around the world – supported through its Q5 Foundation.
