Ready to
find and empower
great people

Experts on a mission

Choosing a career and building career pathways is a journey full of emotional and complicated choices .  Decision makers need to know they are backed by credible, knowledgeable and experienced talent partners. This is why our Talent Partners are our Directors.

It’s taken decades of experience to learn how to curate, build and run high performing workforces and we are unashamedly proud of all the careers we have nurtured, the people we have coached and the companies we have transformed.

Underpinned by our values

Our work is hugely important to us. Every organisation we support and every project we deliver is underpinned by our value backed missions.

To be Ingenious Building the remarkable from the ordinary.

Making a positive difference. Our work is Impactful

A continued journey of understanding and sharing our expertise. We are Curious Educators

Why be anything less than brilliant. Building Brilliance is our benchmark.

Introducing our Talent Partners

Emma McNamara (nee Rose)

Emma McNamara (nee Rose)

Founder, Executive Search Partner and Workforce Strategy Expert

Emma is an expert in building senior leadership teams. Having built and successfully exited her own digital hiring agency, Emma has a longstanding career in the digital and staffing industry and 5 years ago pivoted her personal development into workforce planning,  and delivering people strategies for a diverse range of companies.

Her career has supported large numbers of executive hiring decisions and people journeys across multiple, disruptive organisations and industry sectors.  Alongside, investors, founders and other senior stakeholders she has supported significant leadership hires and transformed capabilities to meet demanding and sustainable business objectives.

Her entrepreneurial background and career to date invites curiosity and conversation. Her ability to analyse and influence who a business has access too is vital, as is her ability to make connections, install confidence and be able to give structured advice to the people she champions.

Emma’s career has landed her both sides of the fence, so she fully understands people decisions and there impacts from all angles. She has recruited a large number of renown business leaders and teams and continues to support their ongoing career pathways.

How people are seen and valued within a business is core to Emma’s drive. She sweats the detail, embraces diversity and is an empathetic and gritty leader, who’s tenacity will continue to support change for good and people progression within the staffing services she enjoys.

LinkedIn (13) Emma McNamara | LinkedIn
Email: Emma@hillierrose.co.uk

Michelle Hillier

Michelle Hillier

Founder, Executive Search Partner and Leadership Development Expert

Michelle is devoted to supporting and championing a diverse number of businesses and their leaders with key hiring, learning and development and leadership reward and recognition strategies.

The owner of a highly successful people development business, Michelle is a proven expert in the field of skills assessment, skills development, coaching and senior level hiring. She has a passion for developing leaders and really turning the course of people performance within organisations , so they have structured learning paths, developed managers and business leaders who have clear strategic vision, values and objectives to obtain results.

As an executive recruiter, Michelle has the rare ability to understand both current capability and development potential in the leaders she works with. This is of huge benefit to our clients and a rarity in the executive recruitment sector.

Michelle works directly with the executive teams within the HillierRose portfolio of clients to analyse the performance of the current management teams, to identify skills gaps and build leadership development programmes that directly address those gaps and drive the performance of the organisation in line with organisational strategy.

Her prior recruitment and workforce strategy experience has seen her deliver large scale projects where high-volume hires have been required quickly. She has an ability to know exactly what is needed to deliver the hiring needs at speed, whilst building and training the leadership teams needed to continue this work once she has gone.

An unapologetic optimist, Michelle is deeply passionate about embedding leadership change into the companies that need it and assessing leadership potential to actively support business scale and revenue growth.

LinkedIn: (13) Michelle Hillier | LinkedIn
Email: Michelle@hillierrose.co.uk