About BELOVD
We put the heart into business success.
BELOVD is a London human strategy agency. We connect people and culture, AI and data, communities and creative into one system, so organisations grow in ways their people and their audiences believe in.
What human strategy means
Strategy only works if people believe in it.
Human strategy aligns an organisation's people and culture with its business strategy. We treat organisations as living things: they think, see, listen, speak, feel and act. When those parts are connected, the organisation performs. When they are not, it hurts, and people can usually tell you exactly where.
So we built the agency the same way, as one body of six practices with Heart at the centre.
Values
How we work
Six values, one for each practice. Each is a behaviour you can hold us to.
- Heart firstHeart
Every recommendation is tested against the people who have to live with it. If the team inside cannot deliver it, it is not a strategy.
- Listen before we speakEars
No strategy, campaign or workshop starts without first-hand signal from the people it affects.
- Think in systemsBrain
We solve the pattern, not the incident. Outputs are built to be reused, automated and measured.
- Earn the right to be heardVoice
We show up where communities already are, and give before we ask.
- Craft is respectEyes
Quality of execution is how we honour the audience and the people in the work.
- Be in the roomHands
We deliver in person, alongside the client, not from a distance.
Founder
Marvyn Harrison
Marvyn founded BELOVD, Dope Black Dads and Dope Black Men. He works as a leadership and business coach, produces content and books, and is a regular commentator on Channel 5, LBC and the BBC.
He speaks at the Commonwealth Business Forum 2026 in Antigua and Barbuda as BELOVD's Global Lead for AI and Innovation.