Our values are the guiding principles that shape our culture, influence our decisions, and drive us towards excellence. Together, we live by these values and use them to create a business and environment we can all be proud of.
Values
Carlyle was founded on values that remain the foundation of our service offering today. Beyond delivering excellence in our services, we also believe that a simple act can carry a great impact.
Our Values
Unshakeable integrity
We do the right thing, every time.
Success through collaboration
We believe in nurturing long term and rewarding relationships, encouraging collaboration with all our partners and within our team.
Constant and never ending improvement
We strive for excellence and positively challenge ourselves and each other to ensure we are constantly improving.
Fun in everything we do
We are passionate and enthusiastic about our work and the people we work with, encouraging a culture that is rewarding and fun for everyone.
What our values mean to us
Paloma Paige
Researcher
Failure is a prompt – giving you the chance to learn and grow. Success is ephemeral – always asking to be earned over and again.
Failure is a prompt – giving you the chance to learn and grow. Success is ephemeral – always asking to be earned over and again.
Alice Deakin
Principal
Constant and Never-Ending Improvement means always looking to raise the bar and never resting on laurels. It means innovating, being willing to test and sometimes to fail but always learning. And most of all for me it means teamwork and collaboration. In my experience the best improvements and innovations come from sharing ideas and building on them together. Many heads make the best CANI!
Constant and Never-Ending Improvement means always looking to raise the bar and never resting on laurels. It means innovating, being willing to test and sometimes to fail but always learning. And most of all for me it means teamwork and collaboration. In my experience the best improvements and innovations come from sharing ideas and building on them together. Many heads make the best CANI!
Ben Walker
Principal
Fun in everything we do: A big challenge for any business is to drive employee engagement, high performance and a positive culture of enjoyment. Carlyle does that by encouraging open dialogue, setting very professional standards and adding a strong social element and humour to everything we do. Walks, cricket, beers etc are all great ways to ensure fun without compromising on the quality of service and delivery.
Fun in everything we do: A big challenge for any business is to drive employee engagement, high performance and a positive culture of enjoyment. Carlyle does that by encouraging open dialogue, setting very professional standards and adding a strong social element and humour to everything we do. Walks, cricket, beers etc are all great ways to ensure fun without compromising on the quality of service and delivery.
Carol-Ann Searles
Partner
Success through collaboration for me is built upon the foundations of mutual trust and respect whether that is between colleagues, clients or candidates.
Success through collaboration for me is built upon the foundations of mutual trust and respect whether that is between colleagues, clients or candidates.
Fraser Lyle
Associate Partner
A lot of time is spent in the workplace so I believe that ensuring it is a fun and enjoyable environment is essential to getting the best out of people. You can still have a strong sense of purpose, work hard, maintain high standards and hold each other to account while having fun and life is too short not to enjoy yourself along the way!
A lot of time is spent in the workplace so I believe that ensuring it is a fun and enjoyable environment is essential to getting the best out of people. You can still have a strong sense of purpose, work hard, maintain high standards and hold each other to account while having fun and life is too short not to enjoy yourself along the way!
Lucy Seligman
Senior Researcher
To me, unshakeable integrity is the constancy of our commitment, to all of our clients, candidates and to each other as a team, to doing the right thing; being honest, transparent and collaborative and in so being, finding solutions, even when challenges seem insurmountable. The team at Carlyle really do live by this and I am very proud to be one of them.
To me, unshakeable integrity is the constancy of our commitment, to all of our clients, candidates and to each other as a team, to doing the right thing; being honest, transparent and collaborative and in so being, finding solutions, even when challenges seem insurmountable. The team at Carlyle really do live by this and I am very proud to be one of them.
