This event is designed for those in a position to realistically target the more competitive board roles, which usually involves senior experience in large and/or complex organisations.
What are non-executive recruiters looking for in a board candidate? What do they want to know about you? And how does your ‘pitch’ really come across?
This hour-long session is a chance to connect informally with leading headhunters working to source quality, diverse candidates for listed boards and other large, complex organisations (we expect you will meet 2 headhunters at the session). You will gain a brief insight into their work and receive supportive feedback on your ‘elevator pitch’.
After an introduction, you will then meet the headhunters in a small group via Zoom’s breakout rooms functionality. You will have the chance to practise introducing yourself succinctly (1 minute maximum, please!) as a prospective or actual board member, and receive feedback and advice where applicable.
Who should attend this webinar?
This session is suited for those who are actively targeting senior, competitive non-executive roles and/or looking to expand their headhunter connections. It is a chance to make informal connections with the headhunters participating, but more importantly to refine how to present yourself in future to recruiters as a (prospective or actual) board member.
Our headhunter guests:
Amanda Floyd, Partner, Valentine Thomas
Amanda is a Partner at Valentine Thomas, with 15 years’ international headhunting experience across the investment management and real assets sectors. Amanda has built up an impressive international track record and client portfolio across Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East. Amanda works on a cross-asset class basis, spanning both traditional and alternative asset classes with considerable experience across real assets investment (both real estate and infrastructure). She has extensive experience conducting board (executive and non-executive), investment, and distribution searches across a wide range of channels, as well as advising on succession and talent planning.
Prior to joining Valentine Thomas in 2024, Amanda was part of the founding team and Head of Investment at Beaumont Bailey. Founded in 2019, Amanda was instrumental in helping scale the business into one of the fastest growing businesses in Europe. The first decade of Amanda’s career was spent at Forrester Partners, an established boutique search firm, where she covered investment management and real estate was an Equity Partner.
As a partner of Women on Boards UK, Amanda is dedicated to bringing more female and diverse talent onto Boards and leadership teams and has been a leading industry voice on the need for more diverse representation on fund, pension and investment trust board. A key focus has been creating valuable networking and mentoring programmes which bring together high-potential women throughout the investment markets.
James Haspel, CEO, J.D. Haspel Global Executive Search
James is an experienced search consultant who has worked for clients across the finance sector for the last 27 years. He started JD Haspel in 2006 to help clients recruit the very best talent for a range of revenue generating positions and specialist functional disciplines. He splits his time between business development, managing assignments and developing the firm’s boardroom practice.
James is known for being a diversity and inclusion champion, where every assignment the firm manages is assessed against a series of DEI criteria. James is an investor in Career Masterclass, giving black and ethnically diverse professionals the tools they need to get ahead; he was a founder investor in The Return Hub, helping women return to the workplace after a career break; he is helping the next generation of black NEDs access their first boardroom role and he is a member of the 30% Club.