Melissa and I co-founded mavis, an all-female team of creative headhunters dedicated to supporting equality and diversity. Both coming from design and creative backgrounds, means we have a deep understanding of what it takes to identify the best people in our industry. We work with design, advertising, product and tech companies, from startups to scaleups. Melissa and I have 30+ years of combined recruitment experience, we are renowned for our human approach in uniting creative minds with top-tier companies, ensuring the right cultural fit, making us a go-to partner.Our strength lies in our ability to make connections, we are nimble, confidential and can move swiftly. We are an intermediary, and have access to senior roles that are not often advertised. We are able to understand the nuances of any creative brief to match the right type of talent to the role quickly and efficiently, often when internal hiring teams have not been able to get it quite right for Creative leaders. We are also able to advise and give guidance to help senior candidates navigate the process, ensuring salary match meets requirements.What differentiates us is that we encourage equal opportunity by specialising in deep research to find truly diverse candidates. Supporting people from different cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds, inclusive of disabilities and neuro diversity needs. And as female founders we are particularly passionate about seeing more women in senior leadership roles.Mavis are experts in the areas listed below:Design Creative Motion DigitalProductStrategyClient Services We find the best talent for clients and the right opportunities for candidates, so that they can feel empowered and fulfilled in a new role.With a large talent network and a lot of industry know-how, we respond to client briefs and candidate requirements intelligently, creatively and efficiently.

Helping agencies find top level people from both the creative and management side – from senior level candidates up to CEO within the digital and product sector.

Part of the digital creative team looking after freelance and full time creatives for the digital industry.Set up a creative graduate day for digital creatives, selected graduates from various colleges and arranged various creative directors to crit portfolios through out the day. It was a great success and ran for 2 years with most succeeding with internships to full time roles.

Worked as a Designer on stints at:Innocence / Interbrand IdenticaFuturecity Meadow Creative