About Us

With 23+ years of experience helping recruitment business owners just like you, we’ve built a program that is built upon proven strategies that can help you exceed your goals. 

Our coaching community, live weekly coaching calls, and learning management system are designed to provide you with fresh ideas, and renewed energy, and empower you to help build a recruitment business that you love. 

Mark Whitby

Founder, Recruitment Coach

Mark is the founder of Recruitment Coach and one of the world’s leading coaches for the global recruitment industry. Since 2001, he has trained 10,000+ recruiters in 34 countries. He’s helped countless recruiters to double or triple their billings in 6-12 months, and business owners to 10x their company growth. Having worked closely with hundreds of recruiting, staffing and search firms, Mark has a unique insight into how the top producing recruiters and fastest growing companies operate. As the host of The Resilient Recruiter podcast.
Mark has interviewed over 100 owners and directors of successful 7 and 8-figure firms, which keeps his finger on the pulse of what’s happening in recruitment. He teaches a blend of classic “old-school” techniques with cutting-edge systems and strategies leveraging the latest tools/technology.

Leanne Sara Jones Hunt

Chief Operating Officer & Coach

Leanne Sara Hunt Jones is our C.O.O and coach here at Recruitment Coach. Leanne has over 10 years of experience in recruitment. She started her career within Rec2Rec, and then progressed to setup her own agency which she ran for 5 years, placing over 700+ recruiters in that time.

Her breadth of experience as biller, leader, recruitment business owner and coach has given her a multifaceted and well-informed approach to working with other business owners in the space. She decided that her passion was helping recruitment business owners to transform their businesses through accelerating their billings, improving their processes, and building confidence in their leadership skills. Leanne has extensive knowledge of digital marketing and knows Mark’s training inside out. She is our resident “Automation Queen” — while running her recruitment firm, she automated 30-35% of her business, realizing significant savings in both time and money.

Julie McGrath

COACH

Julie McGrath is a highly experienced coach and conducts our 1-2-1 monthly calls with members. She has 15 years experience in the recruitment industry both in large-scale operations and running a solopreneur agency specialising in Tech and Executive recruitment.

She is an active STEM ambassador and panel judge for various socio-economic and diversity initiatives. She currently manages her own digital skills agency that supports businesses to embrace new technological processes and upskill staff for the new digital world of work.

Julie is also an NLP practitioner and this means she is able to help business owners break through mental and physical barriers so they can live a life of abundance and release the restrictions of mediocrity. Julie is well versed in helping recruitment business owners with business burnout, stress, loss of purpose and direction, and also those business owners that are doing well and want to continue achieving and attracting success into their life.

Meet The Team

Rachel Tabunar

Operations Team and Podcast Producer

Ryan Palo

Lead Gen Expert

Sunjay Vyas

Videographer

Meet Your Panel of Experts

Joel Slenning

Founder - INNOVA PEOPLE
Superpower: SCALING A BUSINESS

Lauren Stiebing

CEO - LS International
Superpower: Inbound Marketing

Rich Rosen

Executive Recruiter - Cornerstone Search
Superpower: Cold Calling

Jordan Rayboy

President & CEO - Rayboy Insider Search
Superpower: Power Planning

Will Bourne

Founder - Rekall Consulting
Superpower: Mental Health

Matt Walsh

CEO & Founder - Blue Signal Search
Superpower: Scale Your Business

Michelle Parchman

Executive Recruiter - Parchman + Parchman
Superpower: Work Less, Bill More

Tom Hopkinson

Board Advisor - Taylor Hopkinson
Superpower: Sell Your Business

Lisa Dixon

Director - Infinite Players
Superpower: RPO and MSP Services

Christina Stroud

Founder - Group928
Superpower: Personalized Business Development

Rebecca Hastings

Founder - Lucent Search
Superpower: Networking, Systems and Sales Process

Tyler Frisbie

Managing Partner - Global Recruiters of McKinney (GRN)
Superpower: Bigger Fees

Increase Your Billings By Up to 300% in 6-12 Months

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