Orla Hogan - Pi Partnership

What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role

I enjoy the variety in the role and the chance to explore different parts of the business. The team is wonderful – always helpful and collaborative, which makes it such a positive and enjoyable place to work.

Interests Outside of Work

Travel, Tag Rugby, music, and the arts – especially live gigs and visiting museums.

Top Achievement To Date

Volunteered with the Inspiring Teachers Initiative (2019) in Laos, providing professional development and support to newly qualified teachers.

Orla Hogan - Pi Partnership

Orla Hogan

Team Support

Orla joined the Pi Trustee Support Team in 2025 where she works closely with trustees, and also provide executive PA support to the Head of Trustees. Her role includes managing complex diaries, coordinating trustee meetings, and supporting the administration of pension schemes to ensure smooth and efficient operations.

Before moving into this role, Orla spent over a decade working as a primary teacher. This experience gave her a strong foundation in leadership, communication, organisation and problem-solving. During this time, she managed a full class and held responsibility as Art and Design Technology Coordinator, overseeing creative projects and collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders. She successfully managed departmental budgets and delivered engaging, high-quality learning experiences.

Diversity

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone has different needs, and we support this balance offering true flexibility in how our people manage their time and fully support part time working and a family friendly approach.

Communication

Communication

We believe in clear and transparent communication and create regular opportunities for internal communication. Our regular business updates and opportunities to input into the business ensures everyone feels part of the team and on the same page at Pi, ensuring our hybrid working model is effective regardless of where you are based.

Development

Development

Nurturing every Pi Person is important to us and we want to ensure everyone has the opportunity for continued professional development by providing the space to do this alongside client commitments. Everyone has an individual Personal Development Plan catered to them, whether they are on the start of their journey with Pi or those looking at ways to transition into the next stage of their careers.

Everyone has the opportunity for a regular development and progression review and everyone has ownership over their own development with input and guidance of senior member of the team where required.

We provide regular opportunities to share knowledge amongst our teams through Lunch Time Learn in sessions and actively encourage involvement and participation into this.

Culture

Culture

We are an open, friendly and supportive team who thrive in a flexible and autonomous environment. Our people are trusted to get on with things, adding value and individual contribution, whilst maintaining a good work life balance and ideally having fun along the way.

We want to ensure we cultivate our special culture and our focus is to maintain our exceptional engagement levels. We are proud to have been awarded the Sunday Times Best Place to Work for small businesses in 2023 and 2024, and also in 2025 after moving to the medium-sized business category.

Employee Owned

Employee Owned

Our employee ownership structure is central to our philosophy of making sure every Pi Person is part of our success story, contributing to how we run the business, and sharing in the profits. We know that being successful is not just down to numbers, it’s about our people who all contribute in their unique way to our success and creating a working environment where everyone has a voice.

Visit Us

2nd Floor Tuition House, 27-37 St. George’s Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 4EU

Email Us

enquiries@pipg.co.uk

our team

Amanda Burden

Director and Governance Specialist

Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership Group and leads the development of Pi’s services. She works closely with clients, the Pi team and professional advisers to ensure all of Pi’s services meet the changing needs of the pension market and deliver clear value to Pi’s clients.

Amanda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, as well as ensuring Pi’s services continue to meet the needs of our clients in a rapidly changing pension landscape, is also a member of Pi’s Executive Management Team. She provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, trustee board assessment and governance design.

As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance, was a past Prince2 practitioner and is a Certified Risk Management Practitioner.

What do you most enjoy about your role:  Successfully delivering complex projects and creating a happy team environment.

Interests outside work: Travel, theatre and as part of Abundance London helping create beautiful spaces in urban settings.

Top achievement to date: Competing in the 2005/06 Round the World Clipper race.