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.
Caroline Fox
Global EDI Strategy Lead, Frank Recruitment Group
Caroline Fox
Global EDI Strategy Lead, Frank Recruitment Group
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
Partners Support Manager at Bridge of Hope Careers
Chance Bleu-Montgomery
Partners Support Manager at Bridge of Hope Careers
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)
Global Head of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion , Robert Walters
Coral Bamgboye (She/Her)
Global Head of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion , Robert Walters
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.
Gemma Branney
Global Director of Purpose and Inclusion, SThree
Gemma Branney
Global Director of Purpose and Inclusion, SThree
With 20 years of experience in social impact, Gemma Branney is a seasoned strategist and change-maker. Her career spans commercial, third sector, and government organisations, where she has developed and implemented strategies and change programmes. As an accredited executive coach, Gemma specialises in inclusive and impact leadership, empowering leaders to foster diverse and inclusive workplaces.
In 2018, Gemma joined the recruitment sector and now holds the role of Director of Purpose and Inclusion at SThree PLC, a global STEM recruitment leader, where she leads the Group's environment, social impact, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy.
Hayley Klaff
Director of Projects, Lorien
Hayley Klaff
Director of Projects, Lorien
Hayley is a dynamic and accomplished professional with a strong background in recruitment and project management within the STEM field. As a Director of Projects - STEM, Hayley has demonstrated a commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace, leading initiatives that promote mental health awareness and foundering and rolling out mentoring schemes in the Impellam Group. With a career in recruitment for over 25 years, Hayley has been instrumental in implementing new customer projects, managing client projects, supply chain, and Vendor Management systems.
Hayley's dedication to creating an inclusive environment is evident through her leadership of the Diversity & Inclusion group Unity UK in the Impellam Group, and her active participation in networking and industry events to ensure the company and industry are fully inclusive.
Helen Tomlinson
Head of Talent & Inclusion, The Adecco Group
Helen Tomlinson
Head of Talent & Inclusion, The Adecco Group
Helen Tomlinson is the UK Governments first-ever Menopause Champion. Working alongside the Department for Work and Pensions, Helen helps employers develop policies that empower women experiencing menopause to stay and progress in work. Applying the principles of Education &
Allyship creating Cultural Change, Helen has built a clearly defined sector based strategy to support women across all aspects of intersectionality throughout their career from a women’s health perspective.
Advocating for gender equity is the common thread throughout Helen’s 30-year career in the recruitment and employability sectors. In addition to her voluntary Menopause Champion role, Helen is Head of Talent & Inclusion (UK and Ireland) for the Adecco Group, the global leader in HR solutions. Her pioneering podcast on menopause and work inspired the Adecco Group to design and implement one of the UK’s first corporate menopause policies.
Since then, Helen has supported companies of all sizes to create supportive environments, encourage open conversations, and help women thrive at work through menopause and beyond.
With three decades of experience across commercial management, sales, and strategic HR planning, Helen helps organisations realise the business benefits of an enlightened approach – and drives positive, pragmatic change for employers and their people.
Jackie Torr
Member Services Director
Jackie Torr
Member Services Director
Jackie began her recruitment career back in the early 90’s working for an Independent Generalist recruitment firm. After a successful 4 years in recruitment, she moved on and spent 15 years working in Event Management.
In 2016, Jackie returned to the recruitment world, heading up a recruitment network.
Jackie joined APSCo in 2024 APSCo, and is focused on delivering a high quality and innovative services portfolio to continue to enrich our Member experience.
Jane Hatton
Founder and CEO, Evenbreak
Jane Hatton
Founder and CEO, Evenbreak
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
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Client Solutions Director , PageGroup
Joanna McCrae
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Client Solutions Director , PageGroup
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
CEO, Pod Talent
Lucy Morgan
CEO, Pod Talent
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
Co-Founder, Inventum Group
Russell Thompson
Co-Founder, Inventum Group
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.