Kerri-Ann Hargreaves, Founder of Consult Ka, explores the evolving world of recruitment, in this episode. Kerri-Ann shares her journey from finance to recruitment and how her business emphasises human connection in an industry often driven by numbers. Kerri-Ann and Lysha reflect on the importance of authenticity, both in social selling and personal branding and how a strong online presence can impact job prospects. They explore the shift from passive to active recruitment, the role of technology...
Jun 30, 2025•47 min•Season 5Ep. 282
Welcome Kath Reynolds, Director and Co-founder of Balance Recruitment, with a career spanning over 35 years in finance - 25 of which have been dedicated to recruitment finance, including senior leadership roles at Robert Walters in Sydney and New Zealand. Kath brings a depth of experience and insight into the financial foundations of the recruitment industry. The episode explored the vital role that financial understanding plays in effective leadership and business development. Kath emphasises t...
Jun 23, 2025•40 min•Season 5Ep. 281
Donna Owen, founder of The Engine, to explore her entrepreneurial journey and expertise in sales and recruitment. Donna shares how she launched her business to support startups and tech companies, emphasising the importance of identifying real world problems and building clear, solution oriented messaging. The conversation dives into the challenges founders face when scaling their sales operations, particularly the transition from founder led sales to a repeatable, team driven process. Donna off...
Jun 16, 2025•51 min•Season 5Ep. 280
Welcome Alistair Collier, founder of The Altech Group, a technology change and transformation recruitment business launched in December 2023. Over 15 years of experience leading recruitment firms, Alistair shares what inspired him to strike out on his own and build a business rooted in purpose and community. Alistair discusses his strategic focus on regional tech markets, emphasising the untapped potential in local recruitment ecosystems. He believes in leading with emotional purpose, cultivatin...
Jun 09, 2025•44 min•Season 5Ep. 279
Sanne Wouters, CEO and Founder of RevoData, shares her journey from law student to recruitment professional - working across Liverpool, London and Amsterdam before stepping into leadership as COO of Revo Data. She also runs Empowered by Sanne, a coaching business for founders and hiring managers. Their conversation covers high performance in recruitment with Sanne advocating for sustainable & consistent results over burnout driven peak performance. They discuss challenges in the industry, in...
Jun 02, 2025•51 min•Season 5Ep. 278
Renuka Gundala, Founder & Director of Talent Grader LTD. In this episode she shares her, two decade long, journey in recruitment with a focus on executive search and senior roles in the not for profit sector. Starting Talent Grader during the COVID-19 pandemic, she initially provided talent assessments for recruiters and HR professionals then later expanding into executive search services for charities and purpose driven organisations, including B Corps. Renuka emphasises the thoughtful use ...
May 26, 2025•43 min•Season 5Ep. 277
Rebecca Shannon, Founder of Complement Coaching, with nearly 30 years of Recruitment experience. Transitioned from a successful corporate career at Hays to founding her own consultancy and later becoming a personal coach. Her shift was driven by significant personal changes, including parenthood, caregiving and a divorce. She now focuses on self leadership coaching & helping clients reconnect with their authentic selves. Rebecca emphasises authenticity, especially for women navigating life t...
May 19, 2025•49 min•Season 5Ep. 276
Kieron Mayers, Head of Marketing at Paiger, explores the evolvement within recruitment, marketing and person branding. Kieron has 15 years of marketing experience in the recruitment industry, working in-house, as a consultant, and now as a recruitment tech product marketer, who we proudly have as a sponsor! In this episode, both reflect on their two-year podcast sponsorship, emphasising authenticity and diversity in content. Kieron highlights the challenges of crafting effective podcast ads and ...
May 12, 2025•49 min•Season 5Ep. 275
Lysha Holmes interviews Abbie Heywood, Founder and principal of The ATeam Dance School. Mentioning her remarkable journey from a dance teacher to a thriving business owner. Abbie reflects on her early days teaching street dance, the creation of the A Team within a different business, and her decision to launch her own dance school in 2018. Over the past seven years, her school has expanded to two branches in different locations, diverse class offerings and a strong community ethos. The episode e...
May 05, 2025•42 min•Season 5Ep. 274
Welcome Emma Devereux, Founder of Manteca Recruitment, joining us for the second time after her first episode in our Birmingham Live Podcast Event. In this episode she discusses her entrepreneurial journey of launching Maintech Recruitment during one of the most uncertain times—January 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emma opens up about the challenges of starting a business during a national lockdown and shares the key lessons she’s learned about resilience, leadership, and adapting...
Apr 28, 2025•38 min•Season 5Ep. 273
Lysha Holmes welcomes Scarlett Allen-Horton, founder of Harper Fox, to discuss the state of female leadership and diversity in the recruitment industry. Scarlett is also a business partner to Lord Sugar and an ambassador for several UK-based charities, including domestic abuse and women's employment initiatives. In this powerful episode, conversation dives deep into the gender pay gap and the persistent disparities in hiring practices. Sharing Scarlett's observation that many women still ask for...
Apr 21, 2025•39 min•Season 5Ep. 272
Our Host, Lysha Holmes - Founder of Qui Recruitment, deep dives into her experiences and practical strategies for thriving in a competitive and ever changing market. Focusing on adaptability and proactive planning, she provides valuable insights on how businesses can maintain success even when facing pressure. Lysha begins by emphasising the importance of going back to basics. In difficult times, it’s easy for companies to lose sight of their core principles, by revisiting the fundamentals of bu...
Apr 14, 2025•20 min•Season 5Ep. 271
Briony Platt, Founder and Director of Lean Into Learning, delves into the crucial yet challenging role of the billing manager in the recruitment industry. With her knowledge of 25 years in the recruitment industry, to now transitioned into a training development role, running her own business. They discuss how a billing manager role is a delicate balance between managing people and driving revenue, making it one of the toughest positions in the field. Briony argues that separating these function...
Apr 07, 2025•44 min•Season 5Ep. 270
Roisin McCabe, Founder of Greenback Group, a community & network building business, shares her entrepreneurial journey and insights - Roisin founded the group after her husband, Ryan McCabe, sadly passed away. She shared her perspective on the importance of community, explaining how her background as a teacher shaped her understanding of fostering environments where individuals can support and learn from each other. She highlighted that Greenback Group attracts individuals who are aligned in...
Mar 31, 2025•35 min•Season 5Ep. 269
Joined by Ellie Kay, sharing her remarkable journey from a success in recruitment to launching her own business- The Key 2 ADHD. Ellie opens up & explains her career path before her diagnosis of ADHD; Ellie joined recruitment straight after University, then goes onto starting her own business at 27 years old, trained redundant recruiters through the recession in 2008, then she became a REC2REC, not long after she returned back to the recruitment industry and now today- an ADHD Coach! "How in...
Mar 24, 2025•36 min•Season 5Ep. 268
Ian Knowlson, an expert in global strategy, who better than to interview on what we should be doing as recruiters to thrive in the current recruitment evolution. With his 40 years of recruitment experience and now therefore coaching abilities in his worldwide board advisory role, we ask Ian to plagiarise what all the top global recruitment firms are doing to take strides forward...So, we can all do the same! Key trends touched on: Pivoting & Innovation... Relationship... Ai... Future proofin...
Mar 17, 2025•43 min•Season 5Ep. 267
Our host, Lysha Holmes is joined by Tom White, Owner & Founder of 5 Values - a recruitment & media business. Tom dives deep into his journey from starting out in recruitment back in 2008 to now leading a business that spans across three brands: 5V Tech, 5V Video, & 5V Media. Alongside his role as CEO at 5values, he also produces sales advice content through his platform- Tom White Talks; Sharing his expertise with over 45,000 followers across social media platforms. In this weeks epi...
Mar 10, 2025•37 min•Season 5Ep. 266
Greg Savage is making his THIRD entrance back on the show- his first was back in 2020 which put our podcast on the global map; and he is BACK, bringing his knowledge of the recruitment industry to every single recruiter listening. Board adviser, Speaker around the world, even an Author - with an audience of 350k followers on LinkedIn; Greg delves into the topic of creating and keeping target audiences on LinkedIn as a recruiter - whether that being as a leader or all the way to being a starter/n...
Mar 03, 2025•49 min•Season 5Ep. 265
Joined in this episode by George Bristow, Director & Co-Founder of Bristow & Hardy, a Manchester based recruitment marketing agency established in 2018. Understanding what works and doesn't work for recruitment companies - through their 5+ years of evolution. Working with numerous recruitment businesses across the UK & Internationally, helping them enhance their marketing strategies. Lysha and George delve into the importance of cementing your company and personal brand but also talk...
Feb 24, 2025•37 min•Season 5Ep. 264
Natasha, Global Executive Search Director of Kennedy Fox, shedded light on her experiences and insights into the recruitment industry. Natasha the "near" nurse - ex "near" graduate, highlights the importance of industry experience & the right personality type in recruitment - including Natasha moving from inside the industry she operated for to recruiting for them. She shares the global reach of her company in the manufacturing sector, specialising in industrial engineering and scientific fi...
Feb 17, 2025•42 min•Season 5Ep. 263
Kate O'Neill, Director of her own Recruitment Coaching business and newest addition - Job Slinger Academy. Delivering 12 years of her experience to help Recruitment companies hire the best trainees who are prepped & trained before they even step in.. plus also offering recruitment professionals and businesses tailored coaching and training. A full on discussion in this episode with Kate bringing so much to the table - Lysha really digs into the depth of Kate's Knowledge with a very unique to...
Feb 10, 2025•45 min•Season 5Ep. 262
Chris O'Connell made a return appearance, Leadership Coach of BASE Mindset, dives deep into his personal and professional journey. Explaining the loss of his £25 million business, family tribulations & homelessness which brings him onto how he has created a business where he shares his business lessons learnt and supports leaders as they scale and grow their own companies. In this episode, both Lysha and Chris explore themes like authenticity, vulnerability, and the importance of strong rela...
Feb 03, 2025•45 min•Season 5Ep. 261
Dries De Coster, Managing Director of Chat Automation LTD, Delivered a meaningful insight exploring the exciting potential of AI and automation in the recruitment industry. Shares his story of moving from Belgium to England in 2005 to expanding his career from working in HR to automation from summer 2023. He discussed how his company’s digital 24/7 working bot, Dwight (Digital worker interface for generic human tasks) , enables recruiters to focus on more impactful, candidate-facing activities, ...
Jan 27, 2025•34 min•Season 5Ep. 260
Perran Cooke, an ex-professional footballer to a dynamic leader & CEO founder of Sowena Group - with over a decade of senior/exec finance recruitment. He delivers an elite finance and accountancy search service to high-growth and private equity/VC backed businesses in the North West of England. After his injury in professional football, he moved into sports insurance down in Cornwall. Perran explains his past of winning and achieving a DSA award in his second year ,but also having a deep pas...
Jan 20, 2025•49 min•Season 5Ep. 259
Toby has gone from working in technology at Accenture and the BBC for 8 years, to founding his own consultancy - Mildon, which focuses on diversity and inclusion. His introduction to D&I was implementing a gender balance action plan in the BBC technology department. Also, creating his own book - My Inclusive Growth Book. Which enables anyone to deliver a sustainable, diverse & inclusive workplace to allow their organisation to grow. In this episode, Toby & Lysha discuss: How unconsci...
Jan 14, 2025•36 min•Season 5Ep. 258
Laura has been a powerhouse in recruitment since her first day, 21 years ago, in July 2003, when Laura and Lysha first met. Starting her career at PFJ on the Rec2Rec desk as a trainee, she quickly established herself as one of the most successful recruiters in the business. She spent a decade living down in London working at a couple of agencies and towards the latter years she set up her own rec2rec agency - Lowthbry, which she ran for a few years before deciding to make a move back up North. A...
Jan 06, 2025•51 min•Season 5Ep. 257
EP255: Darren Westall, Co-Founder of Paiger - How To Utilise Tech Effectively Our final guest of the evening for The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast LIVE event was the Co-founder of Paiger , one of our proud podcast sponsors. With over 17 years of experience in the recruitment industry, though never a recruiter himself, he has carved a unique path within Rec-tech and shared invaluable insights during The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast LIVE event in Birmingham on November 14, 2024. Key Highlight...
Dec 17, 2024•16 min•Season 5Ep. 256
Greg Elton, Founder of Day2 and Co-founder of Recruitment Founders Club, delivered an inspiring talk as our fourth guest at The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast LIVE event on November 14, 2024, in Birmingham. As someone with over 17 years of experience in recruitment, Greg brought a wealth of knowledge and perspective to the evening, aligned with the theme of "How to Achieve and Maintain Personal and Professional High Performance." Key Highlights from Greg’s Talk: His Recruitment Journey Greg sha...
Dec 17, 2024•22 min•Season 5Ep. 255
Scarlett Allen-Horton, Founder of Harper Fox and a passionate advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), was our fifth speaker at The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast live event in Birmingham on November 14, 2024. Learn more about Scarlett on LinkedIn . The event's theme, "How to Achieve and Maintain Personal and Professional High Performance," set the stage for an engaging and insightful discussion. During Scarlett's interview, she shared valuable insights on: Fostering true diversity ...
Dec 16, 2024•22 min•Season 5Ep. 254
EP253: Emma Devereux, Founder of Maintech Recruitment - Finding The Balance Between Being an Effective Leader & A Present Parent Emma Devereux, Managing Director of Maintech Recruitment, delivered an engaging and insightful talk as the third guest in our expert panel at The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast LIVE event in Birmingham. Centered around the theme of "How to Achieve and Maintain Personal and Professional High Performance," Emma’s session stood out for its blend of practicality and a...
Dec 15, 2024•19 min•Season 5Ep. 253