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3:00pm - 5:00pm, 19 May 2026
(Europe/London)
(Europe/London)
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Event Details
Business Diversification Forum
Tuesday 19th May
Registrations and refreshments: 2:30pm-3:00pm
Meeting: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Brabners, 100 Barbirolli Square, Manchester
Networking drinks from 5:00pm
Kindly sponsored by
Meeting Agenda
Welcome, introduction and APSCo update
Moya Rylands, Commercial Director, APSCo UK
Mapping out your business diversification journey
Alison Humphries, Owner & Director, Recruitment Leadership Ltd
Alison 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, Alison 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
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.
Our speaker 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.
Facilitated by:
Lee Knowles, Owner & Director, Adepto Technical Recruitment Ltd
Alison Humphries, Owner & Director, Recruitment Leadership Ltd
Speakers
Alison Humphries
RecruitmentLeadership Ltd, Founder
Alison is an award winning NED and strategic advisor. Working with recruitment business owners to help them achieve their objectives profitably, intentionally and with individuality.
She has nearly 40 years of experience in the recruitment sector working as a Managing Director and director of sales, operations and training for some of the most successful, listed businesses in the industry and their client organisations (Hays, Robert Half, Barkers Norman Broadbent, Penna Plc).
She established a specialised consultancy in 2013 , working with businesses across the recruitment spectrum to help them maximise performance, achieve competitive advantage and optimise cultures. Also an experienced executive coach, conference speaker, columnist and author:
“The seven behaviours of successful recruitment leaders”. (Amazon 5*)
She is also a host of the Recruitment Leadership podcast, won awards including Best International Recruitment Agency, Best Achievement through L&D, and Recruiter Best Recruitment Company transformation, awarded Honorary Fellowship of the REC for services to the industry, one of only 25 people worldwide to hold this honorific.