Jo Sands

Jo is part of our Executive Interim business, bringing a wealth of experience across both Executive Interim and Executive Search. Her breadth of functional experience across Board, Supply Chain and Business Transformation married with her depth of sector knowledge within Consumer, Retail, hospitality and FMCG will play a critical role in further elevating and diversifying our client portfolio.

Jo was most recently a Director with a boutique executive search and leadership advisory firm focusing on B-Corp businesses, having previously spent a number of years at leading Executive Interim brands such as Odgers, Interim Partners, Norman Broadbent and Barracuda.
Jo has a broad track record of supporting Private Equity backed, Privately-owned and PLC businesses at board and executive leadership level in the UK and internationally. Providing her clients with diversity of thought and leadership, that meet both immediate and long-term business objectives, she has enabled sustainable and competitive outcomes. In addition, Jo has an extensive track record in Consumer Operations and Supply Chain with a strong bias towards the ESG agenda including B-Corp, ethical, transparent and sustainable supply chains.

A Hospitality Management graduate, Jo worked with some of the best chefs of our time including-Albert, Michel Roux & Michel Roux Jnr, Anton Edelman, and Raymond Blanc. This led her to work at the Sydney 2000 Olympics as a Distribution Manager. The move to executive search was driven by her exposure at the Olympics where she experienced at first-hand, how organisations and cultures can excel through the positive impact made by the right leaders.
Jo’s driven by her passion to make a positive difference to business effectiveness, change and transformation by finding immediately available purpose-led expertise that can both effect change from day one and leave a positive long-term legacy for the business.