Colwell & Partners are a talent management and recruitment partner specialising in strategic planning, brand management and leadership talent across the creative communications industry.
We work with global network agencies, start-ups, independents, specialist agencies and brand owners.
We represent talent whose skills include Brand Planning, Digital/Social, Customer Engagement, Customer Experience, Comms/Connections Planning, Brand Consultancy, Insight.
We understand the responsibility of representing a business to the market and the gravity making career choices carries.
We take the time to understand how our clients think, how they work and where they want to go – thinking beyond today’s brief, helping build teams that can adapt, progress and drive creative growth.
We listen just as closely to the people we represent – what motivates them, how they want to grow, and what kind of work brings out their best.
Having worked together for many years before Colwell & Partners was founded in 2015, it was a shared set of values that brought Caroline, Jenn and Shrijana back together.
Caroline worked at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, Grey London and the BBC before moving into executive search. The people she worked alongside taught her that good judgement comes from listening carefully, asking better questions and never losing sight of the human side of business. Those principles continue to guide her today.
Caroline reads people and situations brilliantly. She has a refreshing blend of tenacity and humility, principle and pragmatism.
(Chairman, Global Agency Network)
The breadth and depth of expertise means they always offer an insightful response to briefs. It’s perhaps not a surprise that in senior positions, a disproportionate share of our brightest stars came to us from Colwell & Partners.
(UK Agency Group CSO)
Jenn’s career began inside agencies, working at Cossette and Leo Burnett in Canada before JWT and CHI in London. She understands agency life because she’s lived it. That experience helps her shape briefs, read cultures and find people who’ll genuinely fit, where they can do their best work.
The difference starts well before the search, helping us shape the brief to attract the best candidates, and continues long after the successful appointment.
(UK Agency CSO)
I never feel like I’m working with a recruiter but more of a consultant and partner.
(Global Agency CSO)
Shrijana started her headhunting career in Hong Kong before moving to London. She has always believed that careers are built over time, not from one opportunity to the next. She is passionate about supporting strategists throughout that journey, offering encouragement, perspective and honest advice along the way.
She is a scout when it comes to finding the most inspiring roles, a coach when it comes to helping you train for those roles.
(Agency Strategist)
Supportive, honest and available. Her approach is refreshingly human and her will to build long-lasting relationships beyond the brief itself made her a trusted partner.
(Agency Strategist)