About us

My speciality

I am part of our management consulting and strategy division here at Leadenhall. We work with a number of boutique consultancies and strategy houses as well as in-house strategy roles for a variety of blue-chip organisations in the UK, Europe (DACH region) North America. We typically cover roles ranging from Consultant to Partner level and base salaries anywhere up to £400,000.

I’ve spent the first 5 years of my recruitment career within the corporate governance space with FS focus. I have then decided to make a switch into the consulting and strategy space and have not looked back since! I have gained experience in working on senior level executive mandates, as well as team moves and I approach every candidate’s job search tailored to their motivations and expectations.

I have always enjoyed working with professional and highly intellectual clients and candidates, as well as approaching recruitment in an intelligent way, partnering with my stakeholders on their search for talent or their next role. I find the consulting market especially exciting to work with due to its relatability to the worldwide markets and forces, where I get to work with professionals that influence global and local organisations on a daily basis. I believe that within the strategy consulting space the line between client and candidate is blurred and aim to partner with professionals to help them expand their own departments or find the best next step in their career, or simply provide them with relevant market information and insight.

Why I chose Leadenhall

As mentioned above, I started off within a large recruitment firm (largest in the UK in fact) and progressed within the internal audit team there leading on to managing the team as well. Having spent 5 years at a large, global recruitment firm and then a year within a smaller, yet still sizeable organisation, I was looking for a company where things were done differently and where I could be heavily involved in growing a business and moulding the way things are approached and business is done. It was also refreshing to see a healthy gender diversity balance within Leadenhall and real genuine desire to create a business with a healthy work/life balance (everyone says they can achieve this, not everyone does!). I find an even bigger motivational drive that I can work hard and achieve my career goals, whilst shaping my work around my life, rather than the other way round.

Career history

I am originally from Ukraine and have been in the UK for 11 years (funny enough you will not get the expected strong harsh Eastern European accent from me). I came to the UK for Sixth Form (Sevenoaks School), then proceeded to graduate from Warwick University (BSc Management) with a 2.1 and had very little idea as to what career route to take. After interviewing for a number of Marketing & Sales roles, and one or two recruitment jobs, I got sold the recruitment dream and very quickly turned down my Masters offer to join Hays in summer 2014. I had spent just a month short of 5 years at Hays in London working my way up through the levels and becoming an expert in the internal audit market within FS, as well as leading the internal audit team.

I enjoyed my time at Hays tremendously and have gained some of my best friends there, as well as solid recruitment experience and skillset. However, I was ready for a change to a more mature culture organisation with higher standards and performance, as well as a change of specialism. Strategy consulting had sparked my interest when interviewing and I decided to join Investigo to set up and develop their Partner hiring desk focused on the DACH region. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 impact, a number of jobs were affected at Investigo and I was made redundant. Fortunately, that meant I had secured a role with Leadenhall to continue placing Senior end professionals into Strategy consulting teams across DACH and the UK.

Outside of work

Despite having lived in London for 6 years, I still enjoy exploring the city and what it has to offer, especially its food scene… I am also known to get really creative with my holiday allowance and maximise the amount of travel back home to Ukraine as well abroad.

As a side business, I am a Co-Founder of a fine jewellery brand, as jewellery has always been a passion of mine (mostly from consumer perspective, and now from a designer perspective too!). All this combined, as well as spending time with my younger sister who goes to school in the UK, keeps me pretty busy outside of recruiting and placing consultants!