Founder
David Allison
Chief Executive Officer
Founder of The Talent People, building fairer early careers hiring over more than a decade with backing from Nesta, City & Guilds and UnLtd.
Practitioners on every engagement, not account managers.
We’re a multi-disciplinary team of business psychologists, platform designers, engagement specialists and engineers. The practitioners who shape what we build are the same people you’ll meet on your account, not a sales handover into an account-management layer.
Three things you can rely on across every engagement.
1. A practitioner on every account. Whatever you’re working on (an Assessment Platform deployment, a schools programme, an RPO) there’s a named, qualified practitioner accountable for it. Most are chartered business psychologists or have a decade-plus in early careers. None of them have ever read from a script.
An account manager can tell you what we do. A practitioner can tell you what to do.
2. Multi-disciplinary by design. Behavioural assessment is not a single discipline. We pair business psychologists with platform designers, schools specialists with data scientists, engagement leads with engineers. The arguments at the whiteboard are the reason the work holds up under audit.
3. Embedded, not arms-length. We don’t hand a tool over and walk away. For most engagements, your TTP practitioner is in the room (or the Slack channel) for the entire cycle, from cohort design through shortlist review to post-hire validation.
The people who set the bar.
A small leadership team, deliberately. The work that distinguishes us (predictive validity, adverse impact, schools engagement, platform engineering) sits with named, accountable owners.
Partnerships
Jenny Bicknell
Sales and Marketing Director
Leads on Employer, Educator and charity partnerships to widen access to early talent opportunities.
Technology
Josh Bailey
Director of Infrastructure & Data
Oversees the data and infrastructure foundations of The Talent Hub, ensuring platform reliability, security and the integrity of our candidate and employer data.
Solutions
Amy Davies
Director of Employer Solutions
Translates early talent strategy into practical, measurable outcomes for employers, guiding teams from programme design through to post-hire evaluation.
Platform
Jonathan Garrood
Director of Platforms
Leads product development across The Talent Hub, building the tools that make fairer and more efficient early careers hiring possible at scale.
Innovation
Christos Orthodoxou
Director of Innovation & Insight
Combines research, data and emerging technology to advance early talent recruitment practice and shape how the industry thinks about candidate potential.
A wider team of business psychologists, designers, engineers, engagement specialists and customer-success leads sit behind the six above.
Five teams, one stack.
Every engagement draws on a specific mix of these teams. Procurement teams sometimes ask whose name appears on the SOW, and that’s a fair question, so here’s how the work is structured.
Partnerships & Policy
Works with employers, government bodies and education institutions to shape access to early talent. Owns strategic relationships and policy engagement. Led by Jenny Bicknell.
Infrastructure & Data
The foundations that power The Talent Hub. Responsible for platform reliability, security, UK data residency and the integrity of candidate and employer data. Led by Josh Bailey.
Employer Solutions
Translates early talent strategy into measurable outcomes. Embedded practitioners who guide clients from programme design through to post-hire evaluation. Led by Amy Davies.
Platforms
The engineering team behind the six-product stack. ISO 27001-aligned practice, two-week release cadence, and a product philosophy built around the candidate as much as the employer. Led by Jonathan Garrood.
Innovation & Insight
Combines research, data and emerging technology to advance what early talent recruitment can do. Responsible for our thinking, our publishing and how we stay ahead of the market. Led by Christos Orthodoxou.
Remote-first. UK-based. Always.
We are a fully remote team: no offices, no commutes, no geographic hiring constraints. Everyone on the team is UK-based and UK-employed, and we meet in person regularly for the work that benefits from it.
For procurement: all candidate and employer data is stored in Microsoft Azure UK data centres. We do not subcontract delivery offshore. Our remote structure does not change that.
Where we work
Remote‑first
No offices. Fully distributed across the UK.
Where we’re based
UK‑only
Every team member is UK-based and UK-employed.
Data residency
Azure UK
All candidate data stored in Microsoft Azure UK data centres. No offshore subcontracting.
In person
Regular
We come together for client work, team planning and the conversations Slack can’t replace.
The team is supported by
Nesta
City & Guilds
UnLtd
Social Enterprise UK
Institute of Student Employers
British Psychological Society
The fastest way to meet the team.
Most clients meet two or three of us in their first conversation, usually a senior business psychologist, a platform specialist, and someone from the relevant industry team. No SDR funnel; the people who’d work on your account are the people in the first call.