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3:00pm - 5:00pm, 16 September 2025
(Europe/London)
(Europe/London)
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Event Details
Trusted Partner Forum
Tuesday 16th September
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
Kindly sponsored by
Meeting Agenda
Please note, this event is for APSCo Trusted Partners only.
Welcome & Introduction
Amy Davies, Managing Director Workwell Global
The Recruitment Market 2025 and Maximising Your membership
Ann Swain, Global CEO, APSCo
Ann will share her unique insights into the evolving recruitment landscape, highlighting key emerging trends that are shaping the sector. She will also explore how as Trusted Partners you can fully leverage your membership to gain a competitive edge, strengthen client relationships, and stay ahead in a fast-moving market.
Creating effective networks and selling into recruitment companies
Nick Barton, Founder, The Barton Partnership
As a recruitment leader and sales professional Nick will explore the power of building strong networks, how to overcome real or perceived barriers when forming new connections, and the art of establishing meaningful relationships. He will particularly focus on how to add genuine value to relationships within the professional recruitment market.
Breakout roundtable discussions
There will be facilitated discussions to reflect on the topics raised today and how we can create greater community across the Trusted Partner network.
You can register your interest in advance here.
Speakers
Ann Swain
APSCo, CEO
Ann is the founder and Global CEO of APSCo - an international trade body representing the professional recruitment sector. Since its launch over 25 years ago, Ann has overseen the organisation's global growth to now include operations in the UK, Germany, Australia, and across Southeast Asia — most recently expanding into Malaysia.
She has over thirty years’ recruitment experience including time as UK Sales Director of multinational staffing firms and Managing Director of recruitment training company Learning Curve before establishing APSCo in 1999.
In 2009, she was honoured to receive a fellowship from the NSPCC and in 2018, received the prestigious Leadership Award from the Trade Association Forum. Ann currently features in the SIA ‘Global Power 50’ list of the most influential women in international recruitment. She is also one of the select recruitment sector leaders to have made the Staffing Industry Analysts Hall of Fame, which celebrates individuals in the recruitment field whose accomplishments, dedication and drive are making a difference to work today, and to what work will look like in the future.
Ann is an acknowledged thought leader and her articles feature regularly in the national and recruitment media. An award-winning business leader and inspirational keynote speaker, she is also the co-author of the best-selling ‘Professional Recruiter’s Handbook’.
Nick Barton
The Barton Partnership, Founder & CEO
Nick is a Founder, Advisor and Investor with nearly 30 years of recruitment industry experience. Since 2007, he has built The Barton Partnership into a world-class specialist executive talent solutions firm, expanding across multiple locations and service lines whilst maintaining a niche and specialist focus. At the core of his philosophy is a commitment to cultivating a unique company culture that fosters community engagement and social responsibility.
In 2024 Nick won the prestigious Business Leader of the Year award at the APSCo Awards for Excellence, the Recruitment Industry Entrepreneur of the Year award at the Recruiter Awards and Entrepreneur of the Year (Service Industries) at The Great British Entrepreneur Awards! He was also honoured to be shortlisted for the Recruitment Leader of the Year at the TIARA Awards.
In 2025 Nick stepped back from his duties as CEO and now operates as a Founder, Advisor, and Brand Ambassador which will give him the opportunity to work ON the business rather than IN the business and will continue to support the company by promoting the values and vision that define the brand globally.
Outside of The Barton Partnership Nick will look to continue to advise, invest and support ventures like Search Chain Partners, a niche recruitment business focused on the fintech sector along with sitting on the board of BritishAmericanBusiness, the leading transatlantic business organisation dedicated to helping companies build their business on both sides of the Atlantic.