Headley to head up PTI recruitment division

Diversity consultancy, Performance Through Inclusion, has appointed Kate Headley to head up its new recruitment division.

Kate moves to Performance Through Inclusion from Veredus Executive Resourcing where she was Associate Director with a specific remit in relation to diversity. During her time at Veredus, Kate completed a project in support of the Women and Equalities Unit at the DTI to increase the number of women at board level in the UK.

Before Veredus, Kate successfully ran Dextra Executive Search and Selection, which placed high-level diversity professionals in some of the UKís largest blue chip organisations.

Kate also founded and continues to chair one of the UKís leading diversity networks, whose members include Centrica, RBS, Ford Europe, PepsiCo UK, KPMG, PWC, HBoS and Deloitte. The group works collaboratively as a thought development forum and is recognised as one of the leading think tanks across all aspects of diversity.

In addition to providing executive search and selection within the field of diversity, Kate and her team at PTI will carry out diversity audits of recruitment processes, train both in house and external recruiters, and run diversity awareness workshops for the executive search industry.

Tony Burnett, Partner at Performance Through Inclusion, said: ìDiversity in recruitment is the core essence of the PTI business with a remit to encourage better practice within employers and to drive accountability within the recruitment industry.

ìMost recruitment agencies have been desperate to jump on the diversity and inclusion bandwagon, and have ëboltedí on a division on to the side of their existing practice. Weíre taking a completely different approach and it is one that will provide a far greater depth of understanding.

ìPTIís recruitment division is certainly a niche player and it will be for some time. No one else in the market can get close to the combined level of diversity knowledge and recruitment expertise we have.î

Performance Through Inclusion recently launched the InclusionIndex and InclusionAudit, the first automated tools for measuring organisational inclusion and analysing diversity policies and practices, respectively.