EVP & Employer Brand Strategy

Creating EVPs That Have Impact

We help organisations cut through complexity and build employee value propositions that are clear, differentiated, and designed to have genuine impact.

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Vicki Saunders, Founder of The EVP Consultancy

Vicki Saunders

Founding Director

Where ambition meets reality

EVP work designed around your goals

No two organisations have the same challenges, so we don't do cookie-cutter approaches. Whether you're focused on attraction, retention, shifting workforce demographics, or building a high-performance culture, we design our work around what matters most to your business.

Our work is grounded in 17 years of in-house and consultancy experience across organisations from household brands to purpose-led scale-ups. We bring a consumer brand mindset to employer brand strategy; rigorous, evidence-based, and always focused on real impact.

Cutting through complexity is what we do. We bring structure, clarity, and genuine partnership, so you can make confident decisions and own the strategy long after the project is complete.

17+
Years in EVP &
Employer Brand
8
Dimension EVP framework
enables our data-led approach

Two sides of one strategy

Customer Proposition and Employee Proposition


Your customer value proposition and your employee value proposition are two sides of the same coin. When they're aligned, they reinforce each other; when they're not, the disconnect shows up in everything from candidate experience to employee engagement.

We help organisations build EVPs that sit naturally alongside their customer brand, not in competition with it.

Customer Proposition and Employee Proposition, two sides of one strategy

Read "When Your EVP and CVP Don't Talk to Each Other" →

Understanding the building blocks

The difference between EVP and Employer Brand


EVP, employer brand, and recruitment marketing are often used interchangeably, but they're different things. Think of it like a Mars Bar.

  • Employee Experience is the raw ingredients
  • EVP is the bar itself, shaped into pillars that make up your offer
  • Employer Brand is the wrapper
  • Recruitment Marketing is the supermarket shelf
  • Reputation is what others say about you

The most effective organisations start with the substance, not the packaging.

The Mars Bar Analogy: Employee Experience (raw ingredients), EVP (the bar), Employer Brand (the wrapper), Recruitment Marketing (the shelf), Employer Reputation (what people say)

Read "So, What Exactly Is the Difference Between EVP and Employer Brand?" →

A guiding philosophy

What we do and what we don't


After 17 years of working in and around EVP and employer brand, some things have become really important to me. They come from experience, yes, but honestly, they come from knowing how I'd have wanted a consultant to work with me before I became one.

What we do

  • Take the time to understand your biggest challenges and opportunities, so we build an EVP that directly addresses them
  • Design an approach that works with how your organisation operates
  • Go deep into understanding what your target talent genuinely want and need
  • Bring the perspective of someone who's sat in your chair and knows what good looks like from the inside
  • Ground every recommendation in evidence, not assumptions
  • Provide the structure needed to navigate complexity and keep momentum
  • Have honest, respectful conversations about gaps in what organisations offer
  • Focus on outcomes that genuinely matter, not just activities we can report on

What we don't

  • Hand over a document and hope for the best
  • Apply off-the-shelf thinking to unique organisations
  • Create a one-size-fits-all EVP. We build one that unifies but allows for nuance across audiences and markets
  • Skim competitors at surface level. We go deeper across their content, channels, and candidate experience
  • Lead with creative before the strategy is clear
  • Just tell you what we think you want to hear
  • Walk away without helping you measure the impact of your investment and energy

Trusted by

Kingfisher Group Royal London Holland & Barrett BAE Systems Currys Boots No7
Anthony Nolan zooplus Weatherbys Booksy AB Agri THG

Let's start with what matters to you

Every brief is different. Tell us what you're trying to achieve and we'll share how we'd approach it. No pitch decks, no obligation; just an honest conversation about whether we're the right fit.

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