Partnerships
Global Provider
Penna has strategic alliances with global partners to provide integrated career transition, outplacement, career development and executive coaching services to our clients.
Our important alliances give us the broad reach we need to best serve our global customers and clients – providing a presence in the areas of the world that matter most to them. It also enables us to bring together world-class capabilities, resources and experience to ensure that our clients receive expertise and service that is second to none.
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Sanders and Sidney O’Shea
Sanders and Sidney O’Shea is a joint venture between Penna Plc and O’Shea Business Consultants Ltd, offering Career Transition support across the Republic of Ireland through offices in Dublin and Limerick. We also have a presence in Cork, Galway and Tralee.
O’Shea Business Consultants Ltd has been operating from its head office in Limerick since 1987 and has built up a large client base across all sectors of industry. Our joint venture, formed in 1999, created a market-leading partnership with the expertise and experience to provide specialist advice to help organisations plan and implement change.
PeopleMetrics
PeopleMetrics is a leading research firm specialising in Employee Engagement, Customer Engagement and Strategic Market Research. We work in partnership with them to conduct, analyse and interpret employee research programmes for our clients. Our joint offering includes;
- a proven methodology in instrument design and analysis, which includes a core set of engagement outcome and driver questions,
- superior technology including a proprietary online feedback system that can be used for online surveying, electronic focus groups and response-rate tracking,
- a focus on business results through ‘outcomes modelling’, demonstrating the link between engaged employees and business results, and
- geographical coverage: PeopleMetrics is a global research firm based in Philadelphia, USA and complements our international coverage.
Career Star Group
We are very pleased to announce that Penna has been instrumental in the formation of Career Star Group, a new global alliance of the world’s leading career transition and outplacement providers. Career Star Group which launched in April, has been established to provide multinational companies with access to the best career transition service providers regardless of where workforce changes occur.
By aligning the leading career transition firms in each market, Career Star Group ensures that departing employees receive services from the best experts in their country, who have unparalleled knowledge of the job market, access to the best resources, and have extensive local business networks. It is this local knowledge and networks that ensure that departing employees receive the best career transition support available.

