Consultancy Recruitment and Talent Experts

We established New Minds with the clear intention of supporting ambitious, growing consultancies for whom recruiting and retaining the right people is of strategic importance. Our approach brings together the best aspects of both traditional recruitment agency and in-house practice in a way that is specifically tailored to consultancies.

Our business exists to enable your business to flourish. For us that means embracing the strategic objectives and values that define your consultancy, providing constructive challenge based on our experience in the sector, and enabling you and your team to be the very best that you can be.

We work in true partnership with you, bringing new perspectives to address your people challenges.

Our Values

Meet our team

Our team members have been working in the consulting sector since 2003 and are specialists by domain and by role. We have worked within successful high-growth consulting businesses and led recruitment and resourcing functions in organisations like yours.

Join our team

New Minds is a people business and if you would be interested in working with us we would love to hear from you. We recruit people who really understand the consulting sector, love solving recruitment and talent challenges, and are passionate about working in true partnership with client organisations.

Our work is varied and interesting; we have a core methodology and toolkit but no two projects or clients are the same. We strive to learn from each other and embrace new, more effective ways of working. We do spend some of our time working on-site with clients, many of which are based in London and the South-East, but are also committed to flexible working practices and happy to discuss how we can strike the right balance for you.

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Caroline

Managing Director

Marc

Non-Executive Director

Genene

Client Director

Ben

Managing Consultant

Helen

Associate Consultant

Claire

Senior Consultant

Mark

Finance and Operations Manager

Caroline Boston

Caroline Boston is Managing Director and Founder of New Minds. Caroline works with the leaders of ambitious consultancies to build high-impact recruitment, resourcing and retention strategies. With a background in executive search she has been recruiting management consultants for almost 20 years, including four years within a specialist recruitment agency and ten years building and leading internal resourcing functions.

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Marc Jantzen

Marc Jantzen is a founding Director of New Minds. He has a background in leading performance improvement programmes with some of the world’s leading brands, including Virgin, O2 and Barclays. Marc is a business growth specialist who previously built and sold his own consultancy business and now mentors consultancy business owners, enabling them to achieve their growth objectives.

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Genene Cooper

Genene Cooper is a Client Director at New Minds and brings over 20 years of experience recruiting for management consultancies. More recently she was Head of Consultancy for a business specialising in creating inclusive workplaces.

At New Minds, Genene manages key client relationships, leads recruitment, talent and people strategy projects whilst also spearheading our D&I work.

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Ben Palfreeman

Ben Palfreeman is a Managing Consultant at New Minds. Responsible for managing client relationships and leading recruitment & talent engagements, he brings more than 13 years' experience in talent acquisition and management attained within the IT & Business Consulting arena. Having built and led recruitment teams to service a mix of start-up and mature consultancies, other focus areas include recruitment operational change, employer branding, and talent development initiatives.

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Helen Atkins

Helen Atkins is an Associate Consultant. She works with New Minds clients to source and select the best candidates for their team and has real strength in matching candidates to the cultural fit of an organisation. Helen has more than 20 years’ experience in senior-level recruitment and deep specialism in Marketing, HR and Consultancy roles. Prior to joining the New Minds team, she managed her own successful recruitment business.

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Claire Deacon

Claire Deacon is a Senior Consultant at New Minds. Responsible for working on recruitment, market research and competitor mapping projects. She has over 15 years’ experience in recruitment and executive search, providing comprehensive research support on high profile assignments.

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Mark Boston

Mark Boston is our Finance and Operations Manager. Mark is responsible for finance, technology and product development within New Minds. He previously spent 13 years with Microsoft UK and brings specialism in product management, customer experience and financial reporting.

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