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An immersive occasion by recruitment leaders, for recruitment leaders. Attend if you are a recruitment agency owner, MD, team leader, future leader, FD, head of ops or marketing or a key decision-maker within a recruitment agency.
In addition to speaker content, you’ll have the chance to meet peers, build relationships,, share experiences, and enjoy a day away from the coalface.
7 dynamic speaker presentations and engaging conversations to ignite personal and commercial advantage for 2025 and beyond.
- How to make more placements with just a few easy tweaks to your process
- Legal and employment law update – all you need to know to remain relevant
- Tech & AI – maximise what you have, be more efficient, the future of rectech
- Marketing: superhero personal branding and strategies guaranteed to make you money
- Understanding the economic climate and how to prepare for what’s coming
- Ops – whatever size your business, practical advice on what great modern ops looks like
- Simple solutions to achieving elite individual performance
This event will end with networking drinks and the chance to ask questions to our expert speakers.
Tickets include lunch, refreshments, networking drinks.
I’ve now attended two Summits and have to say they are the best recruitment events I’ve been to. Great speakers, loads of useful content, and professionally run. Kelly Fenna, Business Director, Anderson James
Hands down the most informative recruitment leader event in Manchester for years! – Janine Owen, Co-founder, Talent Crowd
At less than fifty quid a ticket, it’s a no-brainer. Just book it! Rohan Shah, Director, Reuben Sinclair
Maria Vavoulas, Fractional COO & Founder, C-Suite Solutions
Maria is a specialist in helping recruitment businesses scale efficiently through structured facilitation, operational best practices, and strategic execution. With a track record of optimising processes, implementing high-performance systems, and enabling businesses to “Make It Happen,” Maria will guide you through a practical, no-nonsense session to help you improve your next project rollout.
In addtion to being the event’s MC, Maria will introdue her unique collaborative style that concludes with a session to ensure you not only enjoy the day but implement all the relevant learns into your business to drive success.
Talk Title: Reflect, Refocus, Realign: Turning Lessons into Action
Overview
Every recruitment business implements new projects—whether it’s a CRM rollout, a BD strategy shift, or an internal process revamp. But how often do we take the time to reflect on what really worked and what didn’t?
This interactive session is designed to help you uncover valuable insights from past projects, identify key takeaways, and leave with practical strategies to drive better results in the future.
What You’ll Gain:
1️⃣ Learn from Real-World Successes – Discover what made certain projects successful, from stakeholder alignment to seamless adoption.
2️⃣ Identify & Overcome Challenges – Recognise common pitfalls that slow down or derail projects, and explore strategies to avoid them.
3️⃣ Collaborate & Benchmark with Peers – Gain insights from other recruitment leaders who have faced similar challenges.
4️⃣ Walk Away with Actionable Takeaways – Use a structured retrospective process to pinpoint immediate improvements for your next initiative.
Session Format:
🔹 Reflect – Share your experiences from a recent project and highlight what worked well.
🔹 Refocus – Identify common challenges faced by peers and vote on the key takeaways.
🔹 Realign – Leave with clear, practical actions to improve future projects.
This session is for recruitment business owners and leaders who want to drive operational excellence by learning from both successes and setbacks. Whether your last project was a triumph or a struggle, this is your chance to gain fresh perspectives and set the stage for future success.
John Salt, Recruitment Advisor, NED, Tech Specialist, Speaker & Presenter
I build, advise, deliver and execute commercial strategies.
A market tested strategy and operating executive with a successful track record of driving aggressive growth in digital businesses. A hands-on people leader, individual contributor, and entrepreneur with successful P&L management experience.
An expert in internet marketplace, e-commerce and SaaS business models with deep experience in marketing execution, and multi-channel sales. A background rooted in data-driven problem solving as a strategy consultant and working in a top-tier firm across multiple sales channels and industries.
A driver of change within large matrix-organisations (£350M+) as well as a creator and builder of pre-revenue start-ups or SMB’s, leading them as they scale (<£1M).
Talk Title: The UK Recruitment Economy: Why Data and AI are your Recruitment Allies, Not your Replacements
Key takeaways:
- A look at the current economy.
- What does that data tell us and what does that mean to you now?
- How Data and AI can drive your growth. Be fuelled, not fooled.
John is invited to speak at all the RecConnect Summit events because, well, quite simply, he’s awesome!
Michelle Flynn, Health & Performance Coach
Michelle is a Health & Performance Coach and Breathwork Instructor, and ex recruiter with 20 years in the industry including running her own in-house recruitment business. Michelle provides coaching and mentoring for individuals and teams to improve wellbeing, reduce burnout and enhance overall productivity and consistent performance.
Talk Title: Achieve Peak Performance Through Breathwork and Flow
Discover how intentional breathwork can unlock flow state and drive exceptional performance. In this interactive session you’ll explore the science of flow and how breath control regulates stress, sharpens focus, and enhances creativity. You will leave with practical breathing techniques to manage pressure, sustain energy, and lead with purpose.
Darren Westall, CEO, Paiger
Following a decade of success as CTO of Broadbean Technology, Darren established Paiger, the dynamic recruitment marketing product enabling recruiters to market their candidates, market their jobs and build their brands without taking them away from selling to candidates and clients.
A techy at heart, Darren is perfectly placed to help recruiters make the most of their technology, save time and money, and make more placements.
Talk Title: Your Employees LinkedIn Networks Are Your Business’s Net Worth
The often repeated Tim Sanders quote ‘your network is your net worth’ applies to businesses even more so than to individuals. Your business needs to access the network of networks your employees are building. AI and automation can help you do this.
This session will cover the following areas:
- The Value of Employee Networks
- Understanding how employees’ LinkedIn connections can drive business growth.
- AI and Automation in Networking
- How automation streamlines outreach and relationship management.
- Accessing the Network of Networks
- Encouraging employees to participate in network-sharing initiatives.
- Automated Engagement Strategies
Balancing automated messages with authentic interactions.
Jamie Burrows, Recruitment Coach
Accelerating the performance of recruiters and recruitment leaders through innovative training, coaching and mentoring.
Talk Title: Your Recruiters are Leaving £250k on the Table! Here’s why and how to get it back!
In 2024, the average UK Recruiter could generate an additional £24,237 in annual gross margin. Simple maths: if you’ve got 10 consultants, that’s almost £250k per year!
So why is so much money being left on the table?
Reason #1…They have reached the “OK plateau”
Reason #2…They have lost the ability to win new business
Reason #3…They lack structure, strategy, and discipline.
In this session, Jamie will give you the tools you need to start tackling Reason #2.
He’ll be covering:
- Identifying good (and bad) business
- Engagement Funnels that work
- Messaging that converts
This is a session you cannot afford to miss!
Rebecca Shannon, Founder, Complement Coaching, Leadership Coach, Guide, Author
A powerful 30 minutes covering how everything can be seen as a system, how we turn up in ourselves as individuals, our leadership approach, our business development.
An eneergetic session covering:
- Breaking free from limiting beliefs and creating a success mindset
- How to implement powerful systems to boost productivity and streamline your life
- Building unstoppable momentum towards your goals
- Overcoming procrastination and self-sabotage
- Developing a winning game plan for success
Catherine Henderson, Fractional CMO, NorthStar People
With over a 20 year marketing career under her belt, 15 of those specialising in recruitment, Catherine has a passion for using marketing to support recruitment business growth. She has successfully built marketing functions as profit centres – fuelling business growth with strategic marketing and collaborating with Sales to drive recruitment businesses forward.
Catherine has gone from a global corporate recruiter, to scaling specialist, SME agencies, to becoming a marketing consultant to the industry, now with North Star People. Catherine provides marketing, brand and website strategy services, resource and tech planning, as well as mentoring in-house marketers.
North Star People are a group of recruitment specialist business advisers and mentors.
Talk Title – How to Get More Bang for Your Marketing Bucks
Whether you have a fully-fledged marketing team within your business – or just a website – chances are you are spending money on marketing. Catherine will discuss how to make your marketing activity indispensable to your business, and how to measure it. Yes – you can make ROI on your marketing!
Her talk will be an engaging one, sharing her top tips and pets hates on:
- Using your website as a work-winning, revenue generating machine
- Lead management – they’re not just ‘candidates’ or ‘clients’
- Measuring leads through to revenue
- Making the most of your marketing resource