Recruitment

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Make Key Appointments That Strengthen Your Team Culture

The High Cost of Getting it Wrong

Leadership recruitment is high stakes. The right appointment strengthens your team from day one. The wrong one drains time, morale, and money.

Traditional interviews only reveal so much. Candidates say the right things, but once in post, mismatched styles can erode trust and damage team dynamics. Instead of driving strategy forward, you're managing conflict and starting the recruitment process all over again.

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A Smarter Approach to Critical Appointments

Using a proven combination of psychometrics and leadership expertise, I help you make appointments that strengthen team performance and culture from the outset.

Whether you're appointing a Deputy Head, COO, Bursar, Executive Assistant, or Director of Marketing and Development, my evidence-based approach gives you the intelligence to identify the best cultural fit before you make the offer.

What Makes This Approach Different

Drawing on more than thirty years of working with leadership teams, I take time to understand what matters to you and your team:

  • Data-driven psychometric insights that reveal natural working styles, decision-making approaches, and shifts under pressure
  • Targeted interview techniques designed to go beyond rehearsed answers and assess hands-on capability
  • Leadership expertise to identify who will complement your existing team dynamics and strengthen collective performance.

Setting New Leaders Up for Success

My approach doesn't end when the contract is signed. I provide executive coaching for the new appointment and those they'll work closely with, ensuring expectations and goals are clarified, aligned, and agreed from the outset. This accelerates integration, builds trust quickly, and establishes the cohesion needed to deliver results from day one.

"I would recommend Jo without hesitation. She was supportive, thoughtful and considered. Jo took the time to get to know us as individuals and the school, which contributed enormously to the value she added to the process. She has an acute insight into personality, which she used to draw out valuable insights in interviews."
Head, Independent School Group

The Benefits for Your Organisation

Save Time and Reduce Costs
The cost of a failed senior appointment can exceed 200% of salary when you factor in recruitment fees, lost productivity, and team morale. Get it right first time and avoid months of disruption.

Improve Retention
When leaders fit culturally and complement existing team dynamics, they stay longer and perform better from day one.

Strengthen Performance
Build a leadership team where different styles complement each other and work together effectively, for greater collective impact.

The Result?

Cost-effective recruitment that strengthens your team, and frees you to focus on what matters most.

What Leaders Say:

"Jo was able to quickly ascertain who would be a good fit for the school, and this was very much based on her having gained input from the school about what we were looking for, our core values and expectations. It was certainly not a generic process. I genuinely feel that the process was as successful as it was because of all the aspects which Jo took off our hands and managed so effectively. I do not feel it would have been so successful had she not taken such an active role in the recruitment."
Nina Kingsmill-Moore 
Former Head Glendower Prep School
"Jo explored my values and helped me gain clarity about the type of questions to ask to really probe the candidates and reveal what makes them tick."
Sian Bradshaw 
Head, Bute House School
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