Get to know suzi…
I founded Appartenir to help organisations hire better, and along the way I started to coach people around their job search. Appartenir, translated from French, means to belong. Belonging is my special interest and I spend a lot of time thinking about how recruitment and belonging fit together.
I’m a people-first provocateur with 30 years in tech. I led global recruitment for global software consulting firm Thoughtworks - once described as the most selective hiring process in the world - as well as establishing operations in more than eight countries and helping shape the Tech Radar.
Now I help startups and scale-ups build teams where belonging and psychological safety are the baseline, not just buzzwords. I love helping companies get to grips with values-driven hiring, radically better interviewing, and recruitment processes that don’t make people scream. I also really love coaching as it allows me to be a gamekeeper turned poacher, helping people understand the mechanics of hiring and get into a different headspace to have a more productive job search.
Expect honesty. Expect humour. Expect really great questions.
My mission? To help people interview with confidence, put humanity at the heart of hiring and get people out of their comfort zones and into the wild spaces of North Wales.
“Have worked with Suzi when she helped me start the ThoughtWorks UK operation, helping transform our Australia and Canada operations, as the heartbeat of us starting our Brazilian business, and as a global leader from the US guiding us in how we attract, recruit and induct the greatest talent. There’s no doubt she’s the best recruiter I have ever come across in my career, but she is also someone I trust implicitly, with the highest integrity and work ethic and someone who really both cares about and tries to improve the business she is in.”
“We had tried our best with recruiting for a more balanced and stronger team for a few years, but without success. Suzi came in as a saviour. She guided me from day one and onwards. She worked with my team. She really understood us and she did most of the heavy lifting. My team kept saying that they wanted to work more with Suzi. :) I can’t blame them, I agree!
She helped us to an amazing recruitment and we have one more lined up. At least as important was that in the process she actually helped us reboot the process itself, including the onboarding, to a much higher level of quality than ever before. I think our recruitment bottleneck is now opened!
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“Every tech start-up is really a group of people who share a common
goal to build something new. But many entrepreneurs are “product
builders” who don’t know how to grow a professional “people
organization”. Suzi filled this gap brilliantly for our team at
Weaveworks. Starting as an advisor and then moving to interim CPO — the P is for People — she
enabled us to implement a scalable, resilient and inclusive team all
around the world. ”
“Suzi led global recruiting at ThoughtWorks whilst I was a recruiter on the team in London. Suzi is an inspiring leader with a strong vision and creative ideas around direct sourcing, employer brand, interview calibration and diversity & inclusion.”
“Suzi was an invaluable thought partner and friend during my time with ThoughtWorks. She has a combination of creativity and reliability that is truly rare. She is a great listener and intuitive judge of people, and that makes her world class in the recruiting and HR spaces.”
