The future of work starts with people.
We’re Jill and Lynnsey, founders of Working With Me®. We believe in the power of people and every brain, and in every team’s potential to be excellent.
We bring people, systems and strategy together to reduce friction and uncertainty, improve the quality and experience of work, and strengthen the bottom line. That belief shapes the technology we build, the AI we help businesses adopt and the way we support teams through change.
Why we built Working With Me
We’ve worked with great leaders who care about their people and want their businesses to succeed. Even with that commitment, getting people, systems and strategy working well together can be difficult.
We’ve seen people leave workshops full of ideas, then return to working days where little changes. We’ve seen new technology introduced from the top down, without enough involvement or support for the people expected to use it.
Working With Me grew out of those experiences. We wanted to help teams carry what they learn into everyday work, with practical support and technology designed around the people using it.
We built our methodology and platform to make that possible. Together, they help people understand each other, connect their work to what matters and put better ways of working into practice.
Meet Jill and Lynnsey
Jill McAlpine
Jill brings over 20 years of leadership experience and delivering excellence across business, the public sector and politics. She has led teams, delivered projects and built her own business optimisation agency, helping SMEs bring their systems, people and strategy together.
Her work connects an understanding of people with the practical changes a business needs to make. That includes building bespoke technology and implementing AI around the needs of the people and the work.
Jill also founded the Highland Women Growth Partnership and serves on the FSB Member Council for Scotland.
Lynnsey Urquhart
Lynnsey is a business change specialist with over 20 years of experience introducing large-scale change and technology projects across businesses and, more recently, the public sector.
As an experienced business woman, commercial acumen and a practical understanding of what it takes to make change work for teams, helping people turn plans into new ways of working that last.
Recognised
August 2026
Jill McAlpine was named Inspirational Leader at the Highland Business Women Awards 2026.
June 2026
Working With Me was a 2026 semi-finalist in Scottish EDGE, Scotland's leading fund.
March 2026
Working With Me won a Regional EDGE award and funding, a partnership between Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Edge.
February 2026
Jill McAlpine gave evidence on neurodivergence at work to the Scottish Parliament's Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee, representing the Federation of Small Businesses Scotland. Read the Official Report.
Fiona Gunn
Head of Professional Development, UHI Inverness
The Working With Me toolkit was introduced to managers at UHI Inverness in April 2025 as part of our Collaborative Leaders programme. Jill provided interactive sessions to support managers to lead neurodiverse teams and showed how to use Working With Me. Managers have since used it in one-to-ones, team meetings and team building, and reported clearer insight into planning and improved workflows. Staff said it was enjoyable and welcomed the chance to express their preferred ways of working.
Stephen Fuller
Head of Technical and Automation, teClan
The "working with me" approach has been a game changer for my work productivity, and being more aware of my colleagues' workflows has improved how I work with and interact with others in the team, so as not to interrupt their focus and productivity.
What we believe
Every team has the potential to be excellent. Helping that happen starts with understanding the people in it: how they think, how they work, what they bring and what support they need.
One way of working will never work for every person. We make room for every kind of brain, helping teams build shared understanding and agree ways of working that support people and the business.
For us, excellence means people, systems and strategy working well together. Less friction and uncertainty. Better work, a better experience of work and a stronger business.
People and technology, working together
The emergence of AI makes this approach even more important. The decisions businesses make about technology shape people’s roles, their working days and what they can achieve.
We start by understanding the people and their work. We involve them in finding useful opportunities, shaping the changes and putting new ways of working into practice.
We’ve built the Working With Me platform, including our AI adoption module, to support that work. We also build bespoke technology and help businesses implement AI, bringing our experience of people, leadership and change into each project.
Our method gets it working and our platform keeps it working.
Come and talk to us.
Tell us what you want to improve and what is getting in the way. We’ll help you explore how your people, systems and strategy could work better together, and be straight about where we can help.