Promotions at Ardent's London office as growth continues

Ardent, which also has offices in Birmingham, Glasgow, Warrington, Leeds and Dublin, has promoted 17 members of the team across the board as it reaches 170 staff – up around 40 per cent on the same time last year.

The company, which has expertise in the transport, renewables, utilities and regeneration sectors, has promoted Emily Devery to Surveyor and Isabel Doyle has moved up a grade as Assistant Land Officer in the Land Assembly team. In the Compensation team, Connor James has become Principal Surveyor.

Jake Neye-Swift and Joe Thompson have both been made GIS Consultants after joining the company as Graduate GIS technicians. Matt Anderson has been promoted within the company’s Consents Management consultancy.

Ardent’s London office, which is situated in Botolph Lane, is now home to 47 members of the company’s overall team.

Richard Caten, the CEO of Ardent, said: “We are ahead of our growth targets that we set out last year, and that is down to the fantastic work of the whole Ardent team, so we are delighted to be able to announce our latest round of promotions.

“Providing transparency, support and development opportunities for our people in reaching their career aspirations whilst being engaged in their work is key to us at Ardent.

“We support this in many ways and complement it by our internal coaching programme to support our people in continually developing in a way that works for them and to be the best versions of themselves.

“We are really proud of everyone at Ardent and wish all our newly promoted people lots of success in their new roles.”

Elsewhere in Ardent’s Land Assembly team, Amy Clark-Kennedy and Kieran Mirner have been made a Director and Rebecca James becomes Associate.

Sukhi Somal has been made Senior Associate Director in the Land Referencing team, Jack Withington becomes an Associate Director, while Louie Hinchcliffe has been promoted to Consultant and Bethan Bloor, Sean McDonnell and Harrison Zemura have all moved up to Senior Land Referencer.

And, in the People and Culture team, Becky Scott has been made People Advisor while Heather Hegarty has been promoted within the consents management consultancy.

It is the latest example of Ardent’s commitment to supporting staff to develop.

It launched the Ardent Academy in the second half of 2023, which offers a mix of written and video resources to the company’s teams across the country as well as live sessions.

All of the material is being provided by senior leaders within the company.

The training programme also includes a mix of hard and soft skills, as well as incorporating site visits hosted by Ardent’s clients who are undertaking major regeneration and infrastructure projects.

Ardent is also in the process of rolling out a wider coaching programme across the whole business that will underpin the learning of those in the Academy and throughout the company.

Kate Ramscar, People and Culture Manager at Ardent, said: “It’s great to be able to see members of the team progressing with the business at all levels, and we’ve worked extremely hard over the past year to look at all aspects of our people strategy to ensure we are a great company to work for.”