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UK – Alexander Mann acquires specialist diversity consulting firm

29 January 2015

Alexander Mann Solutions, a provider of talent acquisition and management services, earlier this week announced the acquisition of the consulting arm of Capability Jane, a specialist diversity recruitment and flexible working consulting firm.

Capability Jane’s Consulting Practice will be separated from Capability Jane’s Recruitment business, a boutique business that specialises in resourcing part-time and job share executives, will continue to operate outside of Alexander Mann Solutions, and will be led by Managing Director Gill Stewart.

The acquisition is a strategic move to deepen the company’s ability to support clients through its integrated Diversity and Inclusion consulting offering.

Founded by Sara Hill (CEO) in 2006, Capability Jane is a specialist diversity recruitment, flexible working, and job share consulting firm that helps organisations attract, engage, and retain top female talent through innovative proprietary methodologies and practical consulting solutions.

The integration of the suite of Capability Jane products and services will enable Alexander Mann Solutions to extend the breadth of its Diversity and Inclusion Consultancy offering, to cover the full talent acquisition and management lifecycle, and notably to deepen expertise in its diversity, flexible working, job share implementation, resourcing, training, and managed service propositions.

Sara Hill, along with her consulting team, has joined Alexander Mann Solutions as the Head of Diversity Consulting, where she will lead and build the global Diversity and Inclusion practice.

Jeremy Tipper, Director, Consulting, Innovation & Solution Sales of Alexander Mann Solutions, commented: “The acquisition of Capability Jane is a clear sign of Alexander Mann Solutions’ commitment to providing our global clients with innovative talent solutions and more specifically, tangible outcomes to diversity initiatives across the whole of the talent lifecycle. We are passionate about the diversity and inclusion agenda. And with the integration of the Capability Jane Consulting business, we are able to offer our clients embedded capabilities across all stages of total integrated talent acquisition and management.”  

Ms Hill added: “I am extremely excited about the opportunity to integrate our consulting capability into Alexander Mann Solutions as market-leaders with the talent acquisition and management space.”

“At Capability Jane we have been on a mission to help organisations understand how to attract, retain and progress women into senior roles and create a world where flexibility, part-time, and job sharing is the norm, not the exception and where organisations embrace innovative ways of working as a source of competitive advantage. This partnership gives us a much bigger platform for our consulting services and also provides us with a really robust delivery capability that enables us to offer a full integrated global service to our clients, making an impactful difference to the marketplace.”  

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.