We deliver authentic and lasting value to recruitment leaders to accelerate and sustain growth, to create a world of outstanding leaders who shape the future of modern recruitment.
Jump Advisory combines strategic advice and over 150 years of collective industry capability to accelerate success on your path to change.
At the heart of Jump’s culture is a shared passion for what’s important to us, what brought us together and will forever be our guiding principles in everything we do.
We are not afraid to be ourselves and are consistent in what we say, do, and mean. We draw strength from our individual differences and collaborate with an open approach. We consider alternatives and look at situations through a different lens to encourage ourselves and each other to be better and get the best results.
We’re in this together and want to help people aim for more, whatever the circumstances. We appreciate that communication starts with listening, understanding, and caring. Treating each other with kindness helps us shape people’s growth in line with their values and needs. Compassion establishes trust with each other and our clients, to build lasting and meaningful relationships that we care about.
We’re courageous and challenge people when it’s in their best interest, empowering clients to make decisions, act and benefit from opportunities that might feel impossible. We look for win-for-all strategies with empathy and humility because we’ve learned to take nothing for granted. We behave with a quiet confidence and treat others and ourselves with respect.
We believe it’s not enough to fall back on long-established ways of doing things and if we’re asking people to step out of their comfort zone, we need to demonstrate our ability to grow and learn. It’s our curiosity that helps us stay informed, be better for our clients and partners and promote progress. We’re curious together and never lose sight of the value of taking a moment to appreciate each other, have fun and bring joy and optimism to what we do.
Our Jump founders are individually accomplished but united in their passion to create a world of outstanding leaders who shape the future of modern recruitment. During an unchartered period of global economic uncertainty, three dynamic individuals joined forces to create a powerful recruitment advisory group to accelerate resilience and sustainable growth in an industry that changes lives.
Howard Greenwood
Co-Founder at Jump Advisory
Meet Howard. Co-founder of Jump Advisory Group with a track record of driving the acceleration of revenues and profitability within recruitment, for over 25 years. A well-known figure in the UK recruitment industry in the North of England and Scotland, Howard played a leading role in influencing APSCo’s successful growth into Yorkshire and North East regions.
He cut his teeth in technology recruitment at Computer People, where he led the North of England to be the most profitable business unit in the brand. After becoming Board Member, Howard transformed the fortunes of London and South East regions, leading them to their former glory of most profitable business unit. He continued his success guiding multiple technology businesses to achieve consistent, sustainable, and profitable growth.
With all the charm of a Yorkshireman, Howard is a proud father, devoted partner, ex semi-pro rugby player and accomplished black belt in multiple styles of martial arts. Chuck Norris eat your heart out.
Howard is passionate about teaching martial arts. He dedicates his free time to young people across Yorkshire and the North of England, enabling them to take advantage of the associated benefits of wellbeing, both mentally and physically, improved decision-making, confidence, respect, honour, humility and hard work, to succeed in all aspects of their life.
Howard’s belief is people first. His skills are focused on leadership and development and his success is founded on motivating, training and mentoring employees, executive leadership teams and business owners to exceed beyond their ambitions.
Heather Salway
Director at Jump Advisory
Meet Heather. Heather is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Consultant, with expertise in People strategy and practice, leadership, learning & development, employee relations and employment law. She is an ILM level 7 qualified and experienced Executive Coach with 30 years of experience working with large and small recruitment and talent solutions businesses across the UK, Europe and the USA. Her focus is on the attraction, engagement and retention of talent. Heather is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. She is currently a NED of the REC.
Area’s of interest and expertise include Learning and Development, Graduate Development, Coaching and Mentoring, Employment Law, Human Resources Strategy and Practice, Leadership, Change Management, Recruitment, Psychometric testing, Advanced Sales, Employee Relations
Paul Jacobs
Co-Founder at Jump Advisory
Meet Paul. Co-founder of Jump Advisory Group, well-known, high-profile recruitment figure, and over 40 years’ experience of successfully accelerating growth across multiple national and international recruitment businesses and sectors, as a CEO, COO, and a Strategic Advisor. Board Director of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, regular judge at industry awards and multiple recruitment award-winner himself, Paul reflects the best of an industry that changes lives and has created a legacy of inspiring future-focused leaders to progress beyond their ambition. He’s also a very likeable guy.
A bit of a celebrity, Paul guest-starred in over 400 national and local radio broadcasts including all BBC radio channels, IRN, ITN and Jazz FM. Friends might say ‘loves the roar of the greasepaint’, but his co-founders prefer ‘media enthusiast’. Malcontent with radio stardom, Paul extended his reach into TV with regular appearances on CNN, Channel 4, BBC One 1 and NBC. (It’s always good to have a back-up plan).
Hackney-born father of 2, grandfather of 3 (with a fourth on the way), loving husband to a very understanding wife, Paul’s other passion, coming in a (very) close second to recruitment, is his beloved Arsenal. Paul is also a member of Ronnie Scott’s (might explain his appearance on Jazz FM).
Paul has collaborated with well over 100 executive management teams to develop and accelerate strategies that have achieved impressive turnover and profit margin, at speed and scale. Instrumental in implementing the famous pink of Office Angels as MD, his skills extend beyond advisory into developing a brand as standout, that organisations in the sector followed and adopted for years to come, with significant success.
Lauren McLeod
Marketing Consultant delivering responsible marketing to accelerate and sustain growth
A commercially astute, strategic, board-level marketer with 14 years multi-channel experience, Lauren is motivated by the opportunity to support businesses transform. She has an analytical, creative and energetic approach to problem solving.
With extensive experience across multiple sectors, both B2B and B2C, in brand, digital, social media, customer and employee engagement and SEO, Lauren’s skills are adaptable to all industries.
As a global brand and customer guardian, she communicates articulately and succinctly and influence marketing effectiveness, strengthen strategic growth and achieve results.
Comfortable in fast-paced, sales-driven environments, Lauren has a proven track record in developing, nurturing and leading high-performance teams, with strong leadership and management attributes.
Dave Pye
Co-Founder at Jump Advisory
Meet Dave. Co-founder of Jump Advisory Group and Fellow of the Institute of Recruitment Professional and the RSA.
25 years of successfully scaling recruitment businesses, both nationally and internationally, father to 7 head-strong and determined children, passionate Trustee at a local teenage mental health charity and an international healthcare organisation charity, and an enthusiastic and permanently disappointed Arsenal supporter – but don’t hold the latter against him.
Dave has advised on multiple MBOs, scaled client development internationally, supported high-growth businesses across sectors, shaped future leaders and is Board member and Advisor to several niche, high growth, recruitment businesses.
Dave is a regular judge at industry awards and conference speaker and leads the REC’s approach to Business Growth.
Former CEO to three UK and international recruitment business, Dave’s working style with recruitment leaders is driven by passion, creativity, relationships, and collaboration. He gets the excitement and challenges of running a recruitment business and is on a mission to help leaders navigate the complexities of modern recruitment to achieve their purpose and ambition, with integrity
Bernie Payne
Compliance Expert and Founder of Labvolution
Bernie Payne is one of the founders of Labvolution. She has almost 20 years’ legal and compliance expertise, working across a range of sectors and industries. She helps businesses understand and manage complex areas of legal, contractual, compliance and strategic risk, and provides clear, concise guidance on implementing strategies to mitigate those risks with the minimum of fuss and upheaval.
She supports and advises businesses on:
Sarah McCracken
Legal Advisor and Co-Founder of ViaLegal
With 23 years’ experience as an in-house lawyer, director, and legal services provider in the recruitment sector and wider professional services sector, Sara brings a unique perspective and insight into her clients’ businesses enabling her to offer a blend of legal experience and business strategy to compliment her clients existing management team.
Commercially astute and pragmatic in her approach, Sara regularly provides legal advice, drafting, litigation and support services across a broad range of matters affecting her clients including commercial contracts, employment, regulatory compliance, and company law.
Her commitment to delivering value for money for her clients means that her services are accessible to all businesses.
John Fedden
Social Selling Global
With a focus on demonstrable results, I advise and assist organisations in generating predictable sales and marketing value using social networking platforms, such as LinkedIn. Through short term engagements, I’ll show you how to use digital techniques to generate results based on your desired outcomes – whether this be brand development, lead generation, thought leadership or indeed a combination.
I have more than 30 years experience in business development, coaching sales leaders and managing strategic sales programmes. I currently advise sales leaders and global CEOs across EMEA, North America and Asia. Over the years, I’ve delivered more than 175 projects and helped my clients generate many millions in revenues
Joanne Lockwood
CEO of SEE Change Happen
Joanne Lockwood is the Founder and CEO of SEE Change Happen and describes herself as an Inclusion and Belonging specialist who works with organisations throughout the UK, Europe and Elsewhere to bring culture change that allows people to thrive and perform at their best from pre-hire to retire.
Jackie Handy
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Specialising in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and its alignment with inclusive leadership, Jackie Handy has seen both sides of the coin. She knows first-hand how exclusion feels and now her mission is to ensure everyone feels safe, valued and understood at work.
Jackie engages and encourages leaders and team managers to think and act differently and become more consciously inclusive. The rewards include a workforce who are true to themselves, motivated and successful, a diverse talent pipeline, as well as stronger brand positioning.
Jackie is a TEDx and event speaker, consultant, trainer and author of ‘The little book of Belonging’
Tim Styles
Technology Advisor/Strategist
Meet Tim. Tim is a highly experienced IT professional with a proven track record of success in the recruitment industry. With over 25 years of experience, he has developed a deep understanding of the IT market and the needs of clients, consultants and candidates.
As one of the founders and CTO of Comensura, a leading UK Managed Service Provider, Tim played a key role in the development and growth of the company. He also served as the CTO of Matrix, where he managed large IT teams and oversaw the insourcing and outsourcing of IT functions. Lately, Tim has been part of the senior leadership team that took a UK recruitment group international and tripled the size of the business.
With a wealth of experience in large-scale development and data analytics, Tim has a deep understanding of the technical challenges facing businesses today. He has worked with recruitment businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to those with over 2,500 users.
Throughout his career, Tim has been recognized for his ability to lead teams to success. He is a skilled communicator, building strong relationships with clients and colleagues. He is also a strategic thinker, with a talent for identifying opportunities for growth and development.
He holds an MBA and has a proven track record of success in a variety of leadership positions. As a former DPO, Tim is a certified member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, qualified as CIPP/E and CIPM
Overall, Tim is an experienced IT professional with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the recruitment industry. His technical skills, leadership abilities, and business acumen enable him to bring value to any organisation.
- Deborah Austin
- Catherine Murtagh
- Gary Telfer FREC