The Milton Keynes Recruitment Leader Summit 2025

Gain exclusive access to industry data, insights, trends, and best practices to help you and your business save time, improve efficiency, increase profitability and keep you ahead of the game.

PROVIDING SOLUTIONS TO CHALLENGES FACED BY 99% OF RECUITMENT BUSINESSES.

These Summits are widely acclaimed across the UK and now we bring it MK!

An energy-driven, collaborative, event by recruitment leaders, for recruitment leaders. Whether you're flying solo or guiding a team, this event will help you navigate modern challanges by igniting curiosity, improving efficiency, inspiring change, and connecting you with some of the indutry's finest figures.

Attend if you are a recruitment agency owner, MD, team leader, head of ops or marketing or a key decision-maker within a recruitment agency.

In addition to dynamic speaker content, you'll have the chance to meet peers, build relationships, and share experiences. And we'll have a lot of fun along the way!

Topics covered will include:

• The economic landscape and how to prepare for what’s coming
• Tech insights to improve efficiency, save money, and make more placements
• Incoming legal reforms and what these mean to you, your business, and your clients
• Personal branding LinkedIn tips that will revolutionise the way you use the platform
• Simple marketing tricks to help you stand out from the crowd
• How to make one small mindshift shift that could prove to be a 'goldmine'
• Building relationships that smash business development, whatever the weather!
• Mastering time management for high performance
• AI for job advertising - what every recruiter should be aware of

Tickets include lunch, refreshments, networking drinks.

"I've attended three of these Summits and have to say they are the best recruitment events I've been to. Great speakers, loads of useful content, and professionally run." Joseph Sweeney, MD, Manners Maclean

"Hands down the most informative recruitment leader event in Manchester for years!" Kelly Potter, Director, Daniel Owen

"Everytine I attend these events something positive happend immediately after." Rohan Shah, MD, Reuben Sinclair

Laura Clark, Owner, The OA Group

I joined recruitment in 2008 with a love of people, freedom and money.

After 14 years of several different jobs, I successfully completed an MBO and now own the OA Group, a recruitment business specialising in the industrial, logistics, and commercial support sectors.

During that period I've had four children and juggle managing a growing and ambitious business whilst trying to find my voice in a crowded recruitment market.

My goal is to inspire others to do things that most believe are not possible, to laugh as much as possible and grasp every opportunity.

Talk Title: Operation Goldmine

In this session Laura will exclusively share a recent business strategy revolutionising how her business engages with clients and the uplift in revenue as a result.

Maria Vavoulas, Fractional COO & Founder, C-Suite Solutions

Maria is a specialist in helping recruitment businesses scale efficiently through structured facilitation, operational best practices, and strategic execution. With a track record of optimising processes, implementing high-performance systems, and enabling businesses to “Make It Happen,” Maria will guide you through a practical, no-nonsense session to help you improve your next project rollout.

Talk Title - Map Your Stack - What’s Really Powering Your Recruitment Business?

Summary

Whatever the size of your recruitment business, before you invest in new tools or explore the latest trends, it’s worth taking a step back and understanding what’s already powering your business.

This session is designed to help you take a fresh look at your current tech setup - across every function of your recruitment business. From BD and candidate engagement to operations and finance, we’ll explore what tools are in use, where there may be overlap, and what might be missing.

This isn’t just about tech - it’s about clarity, value, and making more informed decisions about how you scale.

5 Key Takeaways

1. A clearer view of your tech stack
2. Spot gaps and duplications
3. Peer-to-peer insights
4. Operational reflection
5. Inspiration for smarter investment

Rohit Kapoor, Co-founder, Paiger

Following moderate success as a recruitment consultant, Rohit switched to rectech and became one of the cornerstones to the success of Broadbean Technology (now called Veritone), before co-founding Paiger, the dynamic recruitment marketing product enabling recruiters to market their candidates, market their jobs and build their brands without taking them away from selling to candidates and clients.

Rohit is perfectly placed to help recruiters make the most of their technology, save time and money, and make more placements.

Talk Title: Your Employees LinkedIn Networks Are Your Business’s Net Worth

The often repeated Tim Sanders quote ‘your network is your net worth’ applies to businesses even more so than to individuals. Your business needs to access the network of networks your employees are building. AI and automation can help you do this.

This session will cover the following areas:

• The Value of Employee Networks
• Understanding how employees’ LinkedIn connections can drive business growth.
• AI and Automation in Networking
• How automation streamlines outreach and relationship management.
• Accessing the Network of Networks
• Encouraging employees to participate in network-sharing initiatives.
• Automated Engagement Strategies

Balancing automated messages with authentic interactions.

Michelle Flynn, Health & Performance Coach

Michelle's energy and passion for the recruitment sector inspires positivity and helps create the change needed in an industry so often caught in its own siloed vacuum.

You won't want to miss this.

Talk Title: Mastering Time Management for High Performance

In the fast-paced world of recruitment, time is your most valuable resource and often the first to slip through your fingers. In this session, former top-billing recruiter and performance coach, Michelle, shares practical, no-nonsense strategies to help you prioritise, focus and master your schedule.

Expect actionable insights, interactive exercises and a fresh perspective on managing your time so you can hit targets without burning out.

Mitch Sullivan, Owner, Copywriting for Recruiters, Legend

Alongside coalface recruiting, Mitch has spent much of his career helping recruitment businesses attract more relevant candidates through job advertising.

To stand out from the crowd, how you write, present, and distribute your job ads, is vital. But most of us get it wrong. Mitch solves the challenge and ensures no time or cost is wasted producing job ads that don't work.

He's also quite a funny chap, too!

Talk Title: Job Advertising & AI

In this short session Mitch will explain the pros and cons of using generic AI tolls to write job descriptions,the affect this can have on your brand as well as applications, plus introduce us to a tool every recruiter and marketer should be looking at.

Will Astbury, Global Head of Marketing, SourceFlow

Will has veeb cemented in recruitment marketing for nearly a decade, working with leading firms like Oscar and Crimson (part of Harvey Nash Group), rising to the role of Marketing Director.

Will' achievements have included leading initiatives that grew Oscar's LinkedIn following by 205%, increased headcount by 111%, and helped boost turnover by 83%. Now, as Global Head of Marketing at recruitment marketing platform SourceFlow, he has jumped the fence to be part of a team that builds high-performing websites and marketing tools that amplify results for recruitment firms around the world.

Tak Title: How to Build a Lead Machine

In this session, Will shares a proven framework for building a recruitment marketing function that consistently delivers leads, supports sales, and drives measurable growth.

Takeaways:

• How to hire the right marketer for your business stage and goals
• Why every marketing strategy should include lead magnets, events, and campaign infrastructure
• The importance of aligning your marketing and tech stack—and reviewing it annually
• How to budget with intention: marketing spend should reflect strategic priorities
• Why consistency, execution, and patience are critical to long-term marketing success

Expect practical, no-fluff advice on turning your marketing team into a revenue-generating engine—and a renewed understanding of how to make marketing a strategic asset, not just a support function.