About Us

Finding a person is the bare minimum you should expect from a recruiter. The real value comes before recruitment even begins. I believe most hiring mistakes don’t start with recruitment. They start with unclear hiring decisions.

Recruitment is execution. Hiring is the business decision that comes first. That’s why clients increasingly involve me before they push the hiring button, not after.

The results speak for themselves:

96% success rate
12-month guarantee
25+ years’ specialist experience
350+ recommendations
27,000+ LinkedIn followers
4,200+ newsletter subscribers

I’ve built my reputation on two things:

An unrivalled network (MIA board member, featured columnist, mentor, awards judge, speaker at CONFEX, IMEX, TMS etc.)
Knowing that culture + ambition matter just as much as skills.

I also try to play my part in supporting the industry.
I mentored female event professionals, launched a men’s mental health programme for people working in events, co-founded an award-winning scholarship helping people of colour into the sector, and occasionally lumber through a charity run for Meeting Needs.

If you’re thinking about making a senior hire, speak to me before you push the hiring button.

We’ll shape the hiring decision together.
Then I’ll find the right person to deliver.

Nicky is Group CEO and Co Founder of Disrupt Group, bringing together Disrupt Talent, Disrupt Staffing and Disrupt Search to provide specialist talent solutions across the live events and exhibitions industry.

Having built Disrupt Talent and Disrupt Staffing around a deep understanding of the sector and the people within it, Nicky saw a clear opportunity to extend that expertise into leadership and executive search. As clients grew and evolved, they increasingly needed support with the senior appointments that could shape the next stage of their business.

That led to the launch of Disrupt Search in partnership with Robert Kenward.  Nicky works closely with Robert on Disrupt Search, bringing her commercial understanding of the sector, extensive industry network and knowledge of the businesses and people shaping its future.

For Nicky, the partnership brings together two complementary strengths. Disrupt’s reach, relationships and knowledge across the events industry, combined with Robert’s extensive executive search experience and proven approach to leadership appointments.

Together, their focus is on helping ambitious events businesses find the leaders who can genuinely influence what happens next.

Jade is Group Sales Director and Co Founder of Disrupt Group, working across Disrupt Talent, Disrupt Staffing and Disrupt Search and playing a key role in developing the long term client relationships that sit at the heart of the Group.

Through those relationships, Jade has seen first hand how much impact the right senior appointment can have on a business and why leadership hiring needs a different level of understanding and approach.

Partnering with Robert Kenward to launch Disrupt Search meant the Group could bring specialist executive search expertise to its clients, alongside the permanent recruitment and staffing solutions already provided by Disrupt Group.

With a background in coaching and as a DISC accredited practitioner, Jade brings a strong understanding of people, behaviours and team dynamics to Search.

Her focus is on understanding not only what a leadership role needs to deliver, but the type of person who will thrive within the business, its culture and its ambitions.