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Business Diversification Forum: beyond recruitment - London

Business Diversification Forum: beyond recruitment - London

3:00pm - 5:00pm, 7 May 2026
(Europe/London)
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Event Details

Business Diversification Forum

Thursday 7th May

Registrations and refreshments: 2:30pm-3:00pm

Meeting: 3:00pm-5:00pm

Venue: Trowers & Hamlins, 3 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YZ

Networking drinks from 5:00pm

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Meeting Agenda

Welcome, introduction and APSCo update

Samantha Hurley, MD, APSCo UK


 

Mapping out your business diversification journey

Tara Ricks, Founder & Director, Consulting Eve


Tara will share her experience helping recruitment businesses explore diversification and broaden the value they deliver to clients. Using real examples, she’ll outline how organisations have moved from identifying opportunities to developing proposals and successfully implementing new services.

She’ll discuss how businesses can leverage their client relationships and partner with third parties to create additional revenue streams while strengthening long-term partnerships.

In this session, Tara will explore what diversification really means, when it’s right for your business, and how data can support better decision making.

 

 

Operational Diversity: from value add to strategic priority

Nigel Gausden, Chief Commercial Officer, Shirley Parsons


As margins are squeezed and running costs increase, recruiters are looking for ways to diversify into markets that can offer more lucrative returns. One way is to build on existing relationships and to offer a broader range of services beyond recruitment which can add more value to clients. This can include workforce planning, professional services, compensation and benefits analysis, skills assessment and L&D/Talent Development.

Nigel will share his experience of diversifying their client offering: how they decided on making the change and what outcomes they are experiencing.

 

 

Leader Exchange

Maximise your time at this meeting with our Leader Exchange session - this is designed to deliver tangible outcomes. Guided by experienced business professionals, this discussion will ensure you gain real value from your attendance. You’ll collaborate with sector peers to tackle key challenges and leave with clear, actionable strategies you can implement immediately. This session isn’t just a conversation, it’s designed to be a catalyst for measurable business impact.

Speakers

Tara Ricks
Tara Ricks

Consulting Eve, Founder & Director

Tara is a highly experienced recruitment professional with over 20 years’ experience in the sector. She has a proven track record in leading and growing successful teams, developing strategy and driving new business lines and markets. Tara is now working as an NED and strategic advisor, mentor and coach to several companies in the UK market.

She was included in the 2015 Global Power 100 Women in Staffing list.

Tara’s specialisms include:

  • Growth Management & Business Planning - Developing both strategic and operational plans and roadmaps - to scale businesses, achieve the objective of a capital event and/or international expansion.
  • Organisational Design & Development - Extensive experience in the SME sector, both as a recruitment business leader and subsequently as an NED and board advisor.  
  • Merger, Acquisition & Exit - Advising on the due diligence required for an exit, what “good” looks like and how to achieve it, strong portfolio of legal and corporate finance experts.
  • Executive Coaching - Practitioner diploma via the Academy of Executive Coaching.  Utilising my business experience and coaching academics to support the development of business leaders.
Nigel Gausden
Nigel Gausden

HRJ Solutions, NED

With 30 years of recruitment industry experience, at Board level with Global and SME companies, as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, I have worked in the UK, USA, Australia and Germany.

Since 2008, I have focused on working with start-up, Small and medium sized clients in the UK and USA – advising on scaling and developing their businesses, process improvement and technology selection, pre-sale and sale process. These roles were as Board Advisor and Fractional CFO, COO, CCO and Chair of the Board.

For Larger Clients – Board advisor and Fractional CFO, COO for performance, scaling to world-wide operations, advising on pre sales and sales process.

I pride myself on being a contributor to businesses, working closely with owners and senior management team.

My interest in scaling, managing change and the adoption of AI into recruitment is a real focus, while maximising performance, cash management and funding, utilising data driven decision making to deliver exceptional results.

Specialisms

  • Operational Excellence – Ensuring efficiency across front and back office to maximise performance, utilising technology and performance frameworks as a board Advisor and Fractional CFO
  • Scaling – Developing high growth and defensive strategies as business grow, entering new markets and service offerings as Board Advisor or Fractional C Level
  • Financial Excellence -  Funding, cost -efficiency and exceptional cash management to deliver profitably as Board Advisor or Fractional CFO
  • Pre sales and Sales Ready – Managing the pre sales and sales process for those wishing to exit ensuring the owners and management team can concentrate on their business
  • Technology - I have strong experience in AI, Automation and systems selection to support business of all sixes
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