The Value of Shaun Simmons on Our Board
Some board contributions are quiet and steady rather than headline-grabbing. Shaun Simmons has been exactly that — and several years into his role as Strategic Advisor to Cubed Talent and Indigo Healthcare Recruitment, the impact is easy to see if you look at what he's actually done.
He's built recruitment businesses from the inside out.
Shaun didn't arrive at the boardroom from a spreadsheet. He started as a frontline permanent/specialist search recruiter, hit top billing in his first year, and was promoted to Business Manager within nine months. From there: Senior Manager, Area Manager, Regional Manager, and eventually Main Board Director — a 30-year climb through every layer of the recruitment business, from Leeds to Manchester to the South East.
Along the way, he led the integration of multiple acquisitions — Recruit Direct, ORS, Tudor — and steered the merger of Prime Time Recruitment into Cordant Recruitment, coaching and mentoring teams across 20 locations nationally. That's not an advisory experience picked up from the outside. It's a career spent making recruitment businesses actually work on scale — and it's exactly what he's continuing to bring to our board year after year.
He knows how to modernise without losing people.
As Managing Director of Cordant Recruitment Technical & Engineering, Shaun ran a programme of technology and innovation that delivered outstanding financial performance within a year — while building out specialist sector expertise across Automation, Aviation, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Power & Energy, and more. He picked up a CEO Award for it in 2014/15.
The lesson he took from that, and still champions with us now: technology and strategy only work if the people behind them are developed alongside it. It's why, throughout his time advising Cubed Talent and Indigo Healthcare Recruitment, he's pushed as hard on coaching and mentoring as he has on commercial growth.
Why sustained experience like this matters to you.
A board is only as useful as the experience sitting on it — and the value compounds the longer that experience is embedded. Over several years, Shaun's decades of hands-on knowledge of what makes a recruitment business perform have become part of how Cubed Talent and Indigo Healthcare Recruitment actually operate: smart use of technology, disciplined growth through the right acquisitions and partnerships, and a relentless focus on developing people rather than just managing them.
That's not abstract governance sitting on a slide. It's ongoing, direct input into how we scale, how we serve clients, and how we build the teams that deliver for you.
“Never accept the status quo — one can only achieve through people.”
— Shaun Simmons
Years in, that's still the standard he holds us to. And it's a standard that keeps paying off for everyone we work with.