about.

habeō talent has been founded by Mike Lewis & Elliott Broom - two senior recruitment professionals with over 30 years experience working at major recruitment brands including global PLCs. Both have worked in depth across a wide variety of markets, developing outstanding track records.

Mike and Elliott have stepped away from this corporate environment to lead a recruitment business that will deliver a better experience in the industry, focused on providing best in class personal customer service that helps our customers acquire world class talent.

our mission.

habeō talent focus on recruiting into the people related disciplines that create world class workforces. From Talent Acquisition, HR Ops and Change to innovative cloud based HRIS implementations our unrelenting goal is to identify the people that will drive your business or career forward.

Our mission is to understand your intangibles, engage your challenges, and deliver brilliant additions to your business. As a candidate our mission is to represent you better than anyone else, and present only the best and most suitable opportunities in the market.

We will always be honest with our clients and candidates – it’s an integrity both sides deserve.

We will always give our opinion based on our industry knowledge, professional insights and trusted instincts.
We will always make our customers and clients stop, think and only then, do.

habeō has an everyday commitment – to prove out an honest, enjoyable and successful recruitment experience
-  a rarity in our industry.

the team.

Mike Lewis: Director

Mike has close to 20 years experience in professional recruitment, and has recruited across many areas over his career. Mike left his previous role as a Director of one of the largest recruitment companies in the country, to focus on building habeō talent – A business that we believe will approach recruitment in the right way.

Mike has specialised across HR, Executive Search, Commercial and Finance through his career, and brings an established network, a proven track record and a wealth of knowledge across all areas of the recruitment landscape.

In his down time, Mike is generally obsessed with wildlife, photography, sport and music. A published wildlife photographer, Mike can often be found, in the depths of the wilderness, in the cold, in a photography hide -  Much to the amusement and bewilderment of his friends and family. 

Elliott Broom: Director

Elliott began his recruitment career in 2004, holding Director level roles and senior management positions for global listed businesses as well as a market leading boutique recruitment organisations.

Throughout his career Elliott has recruited into the HR Systems, Transformation and senior appointment space building high performing teams for innovative start ups through to global blue chip businesses. Elliott has an enviable network in the HR transformation world that he is always looking to add to and is a regular contributor to industry blogs & events.

Elliott is a proud Father, long suffering Colchester United fan, and quite possibly the worst golfer in England.

Lauren Scott: Consultant

Lauren is habeō’s first hire, adding a wealth of HR and in-house recruitment knowledge to the team. Lauren joins us with 7 years worth of experience across the manufacturing and retail industry where she was a CIPD level 5 HR Advisor turned internal recruiter, and and has a great track record delivering on complex search assignments at mid/senior level. 

Lauren loves the people-focus aspect of recruitment, and prides herself on her quality of service to both clients and candidates alike.

In her spare time, Lauren enjoys travelling and exploring new cities, reaching new personal bests in the gym, and is an avid fan of a bottomless brunch!!!

Having walked in the shoes of HR professionals, Lauren understands the challenges in the roles you may need her support on.

Steph Wellman: Senior Consultant

Steph has a proven track record of success in recruitment and is known for being conscientious, a great communicator and quick to truly understand the needs of her candidates and clients.  

Having also spent four years in a customer success role at a FTSE 100 tech company, Steph has a wealth of client facing experience, spending every day on-site with clients, providing training and support, building relationships and ensuring that customer's needs were always met.

Steph is stepping back into recruitment after a career break raising her two children. Two years as a stay at home mum has given her valuable experience in managing stress, excelling on little sleep, multi-tasking, meeting the needs of two extremely demanding clients and learning the value in being over-prepared. 

In her free time, Steph has a lifelong obsession with the cinema and is always in the middle of a DIY project, such as wallpapering, redecorating or up-cycling furniture.