Steering Committee
The purpose of the APSCo Embrace Steering Committee is to drive activity in line with APSCo’s D&I Member Services strategy, to sense check our approach to equality, diversity, and inclusion in relation to its service provision to members, and put forward any suggestions to improve this.
Through its expertise and experience, the steering group will look to support APSCo to deliver its mission to help the recruitment sector lead the way for equality, diversity and inclusion.
Alexa Bradbury
As Global Marketing Director of Guidant Global, my role is to ensure that our marketing function directly supports high business growth and delights stakeholders.
Our Brand team is responsible for all aspects of corporate marketing across the globe and our award-winning Talent team is 100% dedicated to delivering innovative talent acquisition and recruitment marketing strategies to our enterprise-level clients. We work closely with our colleagues across the business to drive growth and each one of us is committed to instilling our brand values; challenging, agile thinking, global perspective, collaborating and inventive, into everything we do.
Part of Impellam Group, Guidant Global is a new force in global talent acquisition and managed workforce solutions. We are committed to delivering a better way for the recruitment industry, by focusing the lens firmly on people and innovation. We are currently active in over 80 countries, managing over 200,000 engagements for over 125 clients.
On a personal note, I am a highly motivated marketing professional with a strategic perspective and hands on approach. I have 20 years’ experience gained primarily in the London recruitment sector and a proven track record of success. I have led and motivated marketing teams to deliver all aspects of corporate marketing to enhance brand presence and digital footprint. I am also a keen promoter of diversity and inclusion in the recruitment sector and member of APSCo Embrace’s Steering Committee, and the RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative) Communications Committee.
Originally from Glasgow, I am a passionate Scot and have been a London resident for almost 20 years. When not in work, you’ll find me walking my dogs in the countryside seeking out a beautiful beach or cosy pub!
Caroline Fox
Frank Recruitment Group is a global leader in staffing for IT professionals. It is backed by TPG Growth, one of the world's leading private equity firms, which counts Airbnb, Survey Monkey, and Spotify amongst its portfolio.
Since 2006, Frank Recruitment Group has helped to connect businesses of all sizes with permanent and contract workers, from start-ups in need of a single developer to international enterprise clients building a complete team in a new country.
The group has eight distinct brands—Nigel Frank, Mason Frank, Jefferson Frank, Nelson Frank, Anderson Frank, Washington Frank, Pearson Frank, and FRG Technology Consulting— which deliver the very best professionals in Microsoft technology, Salesforce, AWS, ServiceNow, NetSuite, ERP, Java and PHP, and emerging technologies to vendor channel partners, SMEs and Enterprises across the globe. By maintaining a specialist focus, its consultants build an in-depth knowledge of their products and their markets, which means an expert resourcing service for its clients.
Operating out of strategically placed offices in the USA, EMEA, and APAC, Frank Recruitment Group has developed market-leading positions within our markets, driven by over 1,600 product-specific recruitment experts who have transformed the recruitment landscape.
Chance Bleu-Montgomery
Chance was not born lucky. A childhood of physical and mental abuse was followed by the death of his sister to Cancer, and in his twenties, Chance had a mental breakdown which led to reckless behaviour and heavy use of drugs and alcohol. Before he knew it, his life had spiralled out of control, and he woke up one day in a prison cell, alone, with a lengthy term ahead of him.
Prison was more difficult than he could have imagined, but it turned out to be a transformative experience. He used the time to reflect on what got him there and how he could ensure he never went back. In prison, he finally recognised that he needed help – and got some – but he also discovered a capacity to significantly help others. In pursuit of a better life, he realised he could be more than good: he could be determined, resilient and remarkable.
After his release, and with the help of the employment charity, Resume Foundation, Chance started his own health and wellbeing brand, Troothshop. Seeing his potential, the team behind Resume also employed him as the Partner Support Manager for Bridge Of Hope, where he now works with the talent portal’s charity partners to bring other marginalised but talented and resilient candidates into the workplace.
Coral Bamgboye (She/Her)
An experienced strategic, commercial leader within the talent acquisition industy for over 20 years. Having worked for Resource Solutions, the outsourcing business of the Robert Walters Group for 14 years, Coral has worked with a variety of organisations globally with responsibility for the strategic, commercial and operational delivery of RPO, MSP & Early Careers solutions across sectors including financial services, FMCG, insurance, energy, media and technology.
In her current role as Group Head of EDI across the Robert Walters Group she is responsible for developing, implementing and enabling strategies to challenge the status quo and drive fairness and equity for all with clients, candidates and employees of the Robert Walters Group.
With more than 4,200 people in 31 countries, Robert Walters Group deliver recruitment consultancy, staffing, recruitment process of outsourcing and managed services across the globe. From traditional recruitment and staffing to end-to-end talent management, our consultants are experts at matching highly skilled people to permanent, contract and interim roles across all professional discipline.
Coral has a real passion for supporting young girls thrive Coral is currently a Role Model from inspiring Tomorrow's Leaders and mentor with The Girls Network working with teenage girls to inspire and support them in reaching their potential. Coral is a big believer in working with the local community and is a member of the Grants Committee for Hertfordshire Community Foundation where she wears her D&I hat to ensure fairness of distribution of funds to charities across the county and combines her passion for supporting the youth and local community in her role as Co-opted School Governor for a local primary school.
Jane Hatton
Jane has been in the field of inclusion and diversity since 1990, with a particular interest in intersectionality. Although her focus since I becoming disabled in 2004 is on disability, she recognises that many people are disadvantaged by multiple factors.
Jane founded an exciting award-winning social enterprise called Evenbreak in 2011, run by and for disabled people, which helps inclusive employers attract and retain more talented disabled candidates.
Why would you want to employ disabled people? People with disabilities form a valuable pool of talent and are productive, loyal, bring additional skills and help you attract the £249 billion a year that disabled people and our families spend in the UK.
Advertising all your vacancies on Evenbreak's specialist job board means you attract more talented disabled candidates than you would find elsewhere, and also positions you very powerfully as an inclusive employer of choice. Subscribing to Evenbreak's best practice portal means all your people become more confident and competent around inclusion and accessibility. Employers already benefitting from Evenbreak include John Lewis, Unilever, Channel 4, HS2, and many, many more.
Evenbreak's many thousands of diverse candidates come from a very wide range of sources and have a vast array of experience, skills, talents and qualifications. It offers support to employers in becoming more inclusive and accessible through our bespoke training and consultancy. Evenbreak offers disabled candidates relevant and accessible careers support delivered by careers professionals with lived experience of disability through our Career Hive.
Jane is proud to:
- - be named as 7th on the Shaw Trust Power 100 list in 2019
- be Patron of the Inclusive Skills Competitions, organised by the NATSPEC, which showcase the many and varied talents of young students with learning or other disabilities
- be a member of the executive board of the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative
- be used as a recruitment expert in BBC2's Employable Me series
- have brought together an incredible team of disabled people, who are diverse in so many ways - and who all work flexibly from home around their impairments
- be a Patron of Arkbound
- be a trustee of ADD International
- be a TEDx speaker
Jane is also author of "A Dozen Brilliant Reasons to Employ Disabled People" and "A Dozen Great Ways to Recruit Disabled People" (available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback versions).
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/janehatton/
Joanna McCrae
Joanna has worked at PageGroup for 16 years, spending the majority of her illustrious career as a senior recruitment consultant across sales, marketing, procurement and HR. Joanna has established her reputation as a committed and successful recruiter with clients in the private sector and public sectors. Following her passion to improve diversity within the workforce and as a continuation of the work she had done in recruitment, and for the last seven years of her recruitment career advised the NHS on DE&I recruitment processes to support their diversity goals. Joanna moved to become the director of the DE&I Client Solutions team in 2022. She says:
‘Over the past 10 years I have seen PageGroup as well as our clients evolve on their journey of bringing diversity and inclusion into the workplace. I am passionate about bringing DE&I solutions to life for our clients, and being part of the conversation to ensure no one is left behind. Ensuring DE&I is at the forefront of a recruitment strategy means all talent acquisition is done from a place of equity.’
In 2020 Joanna created a mentoring programme for women in Finance from Not for Profit and Public Sectors. This programme is currently in its third year.
And most recently launch a Networking Group for Asian and Black C-Suite leaders who are looking to progress their careers into Non Executive positions.
Lucy Morgan
Lucy Morgan is Pod Talent’s CEO, and one of the co-founders of the business. Lucy has been working in Supply Chain recruitment for 14 years and is passionate about both recruitment and Supply Chain as industries.
Pod was started to change the negative perception of the recruitment industry - Pod does recruitment in the right way, driven by company values and with people at the heart of everything they do. Pod feels they are doing something right, having won 4 industry awards; and Lucy is most proud of “best recruitment company to work for”.
Lucy became Managing Director in 2020, and after successfully navigating Covid, Pod went on to have their best-ever year in 2021. As an openly gay, non-binary leader, Lucy is a strong advocator for D&I in both the recruitment industry and also Supply Chain. Both industries are under-represented in terms of gender, sexuality, and racial diversity, so Lucy is passionate about doing everything we can to drive change.
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucymorgan/
Russell Thompson
Inventum Group is a talent consultancy providing inclusive people solutions. It delivers strategic consulting, executive search and recruitment, helping organisations to engage, hire and retain diverse talent.
In Latin, Inventum means ‘discovery’. Inventum discovers great talent, and innovative ways of working. It want to change the world, one company at a time, by helping organisations to benefit from the value of inclusion and diversity. Organisations that embrace inclusion and diversity are more likely to be successful than their non-inclusive competitors.
Inventum believes that different voices, with different lived experiences, should be heard. From that collective wisdom comes creativity and innovation, driving organisational performance in the digital age. But different voices can only be heard in an organisation that embraces inclusion and fosters a strong sense of belonging for everyone, regardless of background, identity and characteristics.
Sam Rope
Sam Rope spearheads The Adecco Group’s People Strategy across the UK, Ireland, and Northern Europe, and serves as the board sponsor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Her unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace aligns with the company’s broader vision – to make the future of work for everyone.
Sam oversees a thriving HR team that looks after three global business units – Adecco, LHH and Akkodis. Under her leadership, the focus is on creating an inspirational culture, where colleagues feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work, and leaders actively engage in building diverse teams.
Her ground-breaking work at The Adecco Group has led to a ‘best-in-class’ provision, taking a data-led approach to shaping strategy and designing interventions, understanding current and future needs, and gaining insights to deliver measurable and impactful people priorities.
Prior to The Adecco Group, Sam worked across private and public sector organisations, focusing on strategic transformation, culture, and organisational change. With more than 30 years’ experience, she is equipped with a nuanced understanding of the dynamics at play in different sectors, and prior to working in HR she had a successful career in operations, leading multi-million-pound RPOs for large international businesses and executive search.
Samantha Hurley
As APSCo's Operations Director, Sam has responsibility for the development of APSCo’s presence and reputation within the UK. She ensures innovation, development and improved delivery of existing and new members services, resources, and engagement through the various delivery teams, and the continuing improvement and development of the operational running of the UK business.
Sam has over 30 years’ experience in the UK recruitment sector, and previously ran APSCo’s legal and public affairs offering. Prior to joining APSCo in May 2013, Sam owned and ran a legal services company and held senior management positions within the recruitment sector.