About Heather

I have spent more than thirty years in executive search and senior recruitment, working at board level across sectors to find and appoint the people organisations could not afford to get wrong.

Much of that career took place during a sustained talent shortage, when organisations were competing hard for a limited pool of senior candidates and could not afford to lose strong people to a poor process. Alongside that, I was often asked to run appointment processes with a specific brief to support diversity, to make sure the route to senior roles was genuinely open to people whose paths there had not been straightforward.

Both of those circumstances put me in close, sustained contact with candidates who were unmistakably capable and were still struggling to get the appointments they deserved. Coaching them toward interview success became a natural extension of the recruitment work itself. I was already assessing what panels responded to. It made sense to help the candidates in front of me actually demonstrate it.