If we can’t help you we will know somebody who can

We think it’s fair to say that our team of industry experts have experienced all the highs and lows associated with running your own recruitment business including, recessions, COVID-19, booms, labour shortages, talent shortages and much more. It’s this experience and knowledge that we share with you to help you navigate the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead by supporting you along the way. We offer flexible support based around your needs whether that be coaching sessions, finance reviews, business planning, new products and services, operational excellence, legal and compliance or support with training and development. In the unlikely event that we can't support you we usually know someone who can, and we freely use our network to connect and help people.

Meet the team and our partners

If you have any questions or would just like to talk through an initial challenge or opportunity, please don’t hesitate to contact any one of the team or partners direct.
Paul Sharpe CEO

Paul Sharpe

Director at Sharper Outcomes

+44 (0) 77899 24581

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Over the last 12 months Paul has advised and supported 28 business owners with every aspect of scaling their business from business planning, people planning, operational excellence, marketing, winning bids, account management, innovation and overall business performance.

Paul moved into this advisory position using his vast recruitment acumen gained from a successful senior leadership career inspiring, scaling and developing teams in both large multinational and niche SME agencies.

He has a recent and demonstrable track record of helping owners accelerate company profit, headcount and equity value.

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Bernie Payne

Director at Labvolution

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Bernie has 20 years’ experience in legal & compliance roles within the staffing industry. An industry-acknowledged expert, she advises recruitment businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Bernie is passionate about upskilling and supporting business owners and managers, helping them understand and navigate the often complex and technical legislation affecting the staffing industry. She won’t give theoretical advice that’s impossible to implement; instead she offers honest, no-nonsense guidance that's applicable in the real world.

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Miles Lloyd

Founder of Milestones

+44 (0) 7867 316626

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Miles has operated in and around the Recruitment Industry since 1998 and is highly experienced in using best practice business planning & strategy tools, operational excellence processes and project & process methodologies. A true talent solutions expert, having enabled multiple agencies develop and deploy successful RPO, MV and MSP propositions to market, Miles is founder of Milestones, a results focussed with a track record of delivering successful projects with over 60 clients since 2004, working with; Start-ups, Micro Businesses and SME organisations.
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Michelle Mellor

Independent Coach and Advisor

+44 (0) 7733 120676

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Michelle founded her business in 1990. A highly experienced MD, taking her businesses from start up to succession. A true family business and people expert, believing everything in business is all about the people, leading by example with a strong ethos of maintaining a learning, development, and inclusive culture for all. Michelle now spends her time coaching and consulting executives and teams around personal and strategic development including workforce planning, leadership, and helping organisations have in the best workplace cultures..
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James Gage

Director at Fully Engaged

+44 (0) 7903 652690

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Fully Engaged was founded in 2013 to utilise James Gage’s experiences of working within the recruitment industry as a fee earning manager and subsequently his expertise from being responsible for all learning development across North America for Hays. Since that time he has supported owner managed businesses to drive their growth and large corporates like SThree to improve their EBITDA per head through structured and engaging learning and development.
Andrew Gardner

Andrew Gardner

Managing Director Peak Talent

+44 (0) 7548 204950

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With over 20 years of leadership and management experience in the Recruitment Sector, Andy is now using his acumen, network and demonstrable rack record of hiring brilliant people by connecting talented individuals with business owners. His business, Peak Talent is now a market leader in finding some of the best Senior Consultant, Team Managers, Practice Managers, Business Managers and Directors in the industry.
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Simon Dickinson

Finance Director

+44 (0) 7814 017573

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After spending my ever-increasing working life working with businesses from small to medium sized, I’ve developed a passion to change the status quo and do things somewhat different to the norm by having a data driven approach to accounting. I’ve found that owners and MDs don’t know what information they can have, and I’m determined to give them it. A visionary approach to accounting services where technology is used to take away the admin burden of managing the back office.

What people say

I never really appreciated the value in working with a business coach until I met Paul. In only 6 months of working together, Paul has helped us streamline our processes and implement a strategy and goals that are in line with our values and have enabled us to increase our average monthly revenue by over 300%! He doesn't just offer great advice; he is incredibly understanding and supportive.
 
 
 
Paul's support as a mentor has been invaluable for me over the past 6 months. His knowledge and insight in terms of running and growing a recruitment business is second to none. His style is supportive but challenging when he needs to be, and I am so pleased I found him and I would highly recommend working with him.
 
Paul has been a brilliant coach and mentor to me. We started working together at a difficult time when I had just returned from maternity leave and the business was battling the stresses of the pandemic. He built my confidence and helped me navigate the challenges of 2021 by offering great support and advice, asking excellent questions and holding me accountable to the plan I created. I would recommend Paul to anyone; he is quite simply a great guy.