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New Horizon Solutions

Improving business performance through people, process, and technology.

New Horizon Solutions is a multi-disciplinary advisory firm. They put the same rigour into culture and capability that most put into the finances, then hold it to outcomes. They make the soft stuff hard. 

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About New Horizon Solutions

NHS Richard Dunks and Graeme Linklater founded New Horizon Solutions to fix a problem they kept seeing inside their executive search work: great hires being undone by the businesses they were placed into. Wrong culture, no alignment on what success looks like, or both at once. The candidate's career hit a handbrake nobody owned.

NHS now advises across three pillars. Richard leads People, Culture and Talent. Graeme leads Strategy, Process and Technology. Between them they've spent twenty-five years running the kind of organisations they now advise. Founder-led businesses and SMEs at inflection points: scale, sale, succession, or turnaround.

How NHS approaches the work

NHS is built around one mantra: improving business performance through people.
That extends across three pillars, with executive search as one of several entry points:
NHS People

People, Culture and Talent

 Culture diagnostics, capability planning, work personality, succession, executive search, CPO advisory. Richard's pillar. 
NHS Strategy

Strategy, Process and Technology

Operational improvement, technology transformation, CFO advisory. Graeme's pillar.
NHS Advisory Board

Advisory board services

Across both pillars. Fractional or embedded leadership for businesses that need experience at the table without a full-time hire.

A common arrival point is a founder calling because something inside the business is broken, but they're not sure what.

NHS starts with diagnostics, finds where the actual fracture is (usually different to where leadership thought it was), and runs a structured engagement to fix it.

 
boards and executive teams

Who NHS works with

Small to medium enterprises, mostly founder-led. Boards and executive teams who carry the strategic accountability. Businesses growing, scaling, transitioning, or under pressure to perform.

Industry-agnostic. NHS's track record covers professional services, traditional engineering and heavy industry, technology, and others where the people decision is the real bottleneck.

Diagnostics done properly used to take weeks of observation before a real engagement could start. Compono delivers a measured baseline at day zero, so Richard's time goes into what the data reveals rather than gathering it.

Track record

25+ years of operational experience across the founders

Work with boards, shareholders, and CEOs as standard

Multi-disciplinary advisory across people, process, and technology

Partnership approach: long-engagement, embedded, outcomes-led

Where Compono fits

Richard had spent years measuring culture the only way he could. Observation, judgement, twenty-five years of pattern recognition. It worked, but it didn't travel. When a CEO asked how he knew, the answer came back as experience rather than evidence.

Compono adds the data layer Richard had been looking for. Work personality, culture, and engagement measured at day zero, ninety, and one hundred and eighty. Hard numbers behind the things HR has traditionally called "esoteric". Culture fit, alignment, capability gaps, the distance between where a team is and where it needs to be.

NHS engagements run on facts rather than feel. Diagnoses you can act on, with a measurable line you can watch over a quarter.
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Compono can introduce you to Richard for a conversation about whether NHS is the right outside lens. No obligation, no pitch.

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"AI transformation is a people transformation. The technology is the easy part."
Richard Dunks
Co-founder, New Horizon Solutions

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If your business is at an inflection point and you need an outside advisor who'll diagnose where the actual fracture is, Justin can introduce you to Richard, and the NHS team.
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