Nick Shaw

Co-Founder and CCO

Spotted Zebra

Jun 2020 - Current (6 years 1 month)

I'm proud to be part of the Spotted Zebra team, where we're redefining recruitment through our award-winning Interview Intelligence and Assessment platform. At Spotted Zebra, we're tackling one of today's biggest business challenges: with 77% of companies facing a widening skills crisis and AI flooding recruiters' inboxes with automated applications, finding the right skilled people has never been more difficult. Our solution uniquely combines skills science with AI to empower talent teams to make more confident, data-informed hiring decisions at scale. I'm passionate about helping forward-thinking enterprise organisations build high-performing teams through technology that enhances human decision-making rather than replacing it. If you

EF LD14 Cohort Member

Entrepreneurs First

Apr 2020 - Jun 2020 (3 months)

Entrepreneur First brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London, Singapore, Berlin, Hong Kong, Paris and Bangalore. EF funds individuals and help build co-founding teams, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising from the world's best investors. EF have built over 150 companies, have over 1000 alumni worldwide, and our portfolio has a valuation of over $1.5 billion. EF's major exits to date include Magic Pony, led by Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang, which was acquired by Twitter for a reported $150 million only 18 months after the founders met on the EF programme.

Psychologist

Self Employed

Feb 2020 - Apr 2020 (3 months)

Chief Executive Officer

x Psychology

Jul 2019 - Feb 2020 (8 months)

Managing Director, SHL UK & Ireland

SHL

Apr 2018 - Sep 2018 (6 months)

Managing Director

x Psychology

Sep 2018 - Jul 2019 (11 months)

Overall responsibility for the optimised delivery of wide-reaching, data driven psychometric solutions for successful client outcomes. Leading the UK business across R&D, consulting and sales to ensure that our products and services align with client needs - today and in the future. Act as a project sponsor for key global solutions, working in partnership with clients and internal teams to define key success metrics and measure the impact of HR interventions.

Managing Director, SHL Talent Measurement UK & Ireland

CEB now Gartner

Jan 2016 - Sep 2018 (2 years 9 months)

Leading the SHL Talent Measurement business in UK & Ireland. Delivering market leading talent solutions through our world class account management and consulting teams (110 FTE in the UK business).

Commercial Director: EMEA & Asia

CEB

Jan 2015 - Dec 2015 (1 year)

In essence, this role exists to ensure the effective development and delivery of regional plans and activity that meet the strategic and operational objectives of CEB SHL: 1. Driving continual improvement in the effectiveness and efficiency of the region 2. Initiating and building engagement around, and support for, the delivery of targeted activity at a country level that drives growth Key accountabilities include: - Sales and revenue realisation across the region, making recommendations for changing roles, coverage models or team configuration in order to maximise productivity and achieve plan - Developing regional processes (such as pricing, governance) in line with corporate frameworks to ensure revenue growth whilst managing risk an

Consulting Director - UK & Ireland

SHL Group Ltd

Dec 2012 - Dec 2014 (2 years 1 month)

- Member of CEB SHL Talent Measurement solutions' Global Leadership Group, Senior Leadership team (Global) and UK&I Leadership team. - Accountable for delivery of all UK&I Consulting projects, including face-to-face interventions, product consulting and bespoke online assessment design, and training. - Responsible for ensuring optimum utlisation of 25+ FTE Consultants, 10 members of Operations team (Programme management, resourcing and reporting), and extensive associate pool - Responsible for ensuring solutions remain leading edge and continue to delight our clients, securing case studies and business outcome studies

Commercial Operations Director

SHL Group

Feb 2011 - Dec 2012 (1 year 11 months)

- Member of UK&I Leadership Team, working alongside VP Sales and VP Consulting to set strategy for the business and to create solutions in response to commercial challenges - Responsible for delivering commercial analysis and reporting on/forecasting UK&I business performance, to inform decision making process at UK&I and Group level - Lead on reporting to the SHL Operating Committee, producing UK&I Board Reports, monthly/quarterly UK&I performance data, and defining and measuring progress against UK&I Leading Indicators - Lead responsibility for planning and implementation of key sales initiatives, such as subscriptions, bid process, Sales Transformation (selling skills and account management), and reboarding clients - Alignment of p

Head of Commercial and Capability Development

SHL Group Ltd

Jul 2010 - Apr 2011 (10 months)

- Responsible for developing the capability of the UK Consulting and sales team to sell and deliver our propositions in a way that adds maximum value to the client. - Responsible for the continual development and refinement of our go-to-market propositions; including volume recruitment, graduate recruitment, leadership assessment and restructuring - Accountable for ensuring that our consultant capability continues to develop in a way that aligns with the needs of our clients - Responsible for recruitment and induction processes for new consultants, and for the creation of clear development pathways and development opportunities - Delivery of senior-level client interventions, such as Talent Management, coaching, executive assessment

Principal Consultant

Kiddy Partners

Dec 2009 - Jun 2010 (7 months)

Principal Consultant specialising in the delivery of Talent Management, Senior Assessment and Development interventions, OD and coaching

Business Development Director

SHL

Sep 2007 - Dec 2009 (2 years 4 months)

As Account Director and then Business Development Director for SHL UK, I had a number of key responsibilities. The first was to manage a number of key global account relationships, including UBS, Vodafone, Royal Mail, EY and KPMG. Secondly, I was the SHL Public Sector specialist, joining up our thinking and activity around this sector and supporting the SHL Sales and Professional Services team with projects and proposals within the sector. Thirdly, I worked with members of the UK Sales Team, providing support and coaching to them with particular clients or projects. In addition, I maintained a particular focus in the area of Talent Management, and presented on this topic at the HRD Conference (ExCel), the CIPD Conference in Harrogate an

Senior Consultant

SHL Group

Apr 2003 - Sep 2007 (4 years 6 months)

Whilst working as a Senior Consultant at SHL, I delivered projects across the entire employee lifecycle. This included: - job analysis, competency design and talent framework design - the design and delivery of assessment and development centres - developmental feedback and coaching - Level A and B training - Competency design training - Assessor skills/interview skills training I particularly specialised in the design and delivery of multi-strand, high profile projects, and managed a number of projects within different sectors and across geographies. This included the delivery of an extensive assessment and talent management project in Saudi Arabia, a number of development centre events for clients in Europe, the design of several glo

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