Founded by operators who have built leadership teams from the inside

Adam has been in recruitment and executive search since 2016. From 2018 until founding Mycelium he worked in-house, most recently as Head of Talent at UNiDAYS, and earlier helping build teams through Ola's UK launch.

His in-house work focused on the parts of senior hiring that determine whether a leader actually succeeds: designing the employer brand candidates encounter, building fair and equitable interview processes, embedding structured scorecards into hiring decisions, and running diversity, equity and inclusion capability programmes for hiring managers. He has scaled leadership and executive teams through rapid growth and international expansion, and brings a practitioner's view of what makes a senior appointment land, or quietly fail.

Adam has been in executive search and recruitment since 2015. From 2021 until 2025 he worked in-house, leading talent across Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell), one of the most demanding leadership environments in business: global quick-service restaurants and consumer hospitality. The sector moves fast and runs lean, and has been navigating significant change for years: shifting consumer behaviour, franchise transformation, supply pressures and the rise of digital channels. It is a context where senior decisions are visible quickly, and where the quality of leadership hires materially shapes pace and performance.

Across agency recruitment, global leadership search, corporate talent acquisition and employer branding, Adam has built leadership capability within those environments, with expertise spanning leadership search, ED&I and talent strategy. Proudly neurodivergent, he uses that perspective to challenge conventional thinking and design more inclusive leadership models, because when people know better, they lead better.