CONNECTING THE DOTS

Supporting your growth with insight, experience, and trusted counsel, Odyssey draws on an extensive industry network and Advisory Partners to connect the dots and deliver sustainable results. From strengthening leadership capability to driving strategic growth, we work alongside you to turn ambition into achievement. 

Backed by a proven record of launching, scaling, and advising successful companies.

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Advisory Partners

We guide recruitment owners through growth, governance, and succession, delivering trusted strategic advice through our advisory and non-executive network.

Strategic growth

We help recruitment businesses prepare for sale, acquisition, or investment, delivering clear valuations, due diligence insight, and transaction support with proven success

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Leadership engagement

Through our trusted national network, we connect leaders, investors, and advisors and manage senior appointment introductions where strategic alignment matters most

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OUR TEAM

Founded by Ben Richardson, Odyssey Group brings together a collective of trusted Advisory Partners with deep recruitment industry experience, specialists in strategy, finance, M&A, executive search, and leadership. United by shared values and proven capability, we collaborate with founders and executives to achieve sustainable growth. Together with you, we’re shaping the future of our industry.

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Ben Richardson

Co-Founder & Executive Director

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  • We collaborate with founders, boards, and investors shaping the future of recruitment
  • Every engagement begins with a conversation, grounded in trust, commercial insight, and shared ambition
  • For a private discussion about partnership, growth, or leadership engagement, please contact:
  • ben@odysseygroup.one

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© Odyssey Group — helping recruitment businesses grow with integrity, insight, and impact

Advisory Partners

We work alongside recruitment business owners and boards to provide strategic guidance, commercial discipline, and governance insight.

At the core of Odyssey is our network of trusted Advisory Partners — senior professionals including virtual CFOs, marketing strategists, and operational leaders who collaborate on specific mandates.

Our approach combines objectivity with deep sector knowledge, helping leaders define clear priorities, strengthen performance, and build scalable structures for growth and succession. Many engagements evolve into ongoing board or non-executive roles, offering continued counsel and ensuring lasting impact and accountability.

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Strategic Growth

We help recruitment businesses prepare for sale, acquisition, or investment — aligning financial readiness, leadership capability, and commercial strategy to maximise enterprise value.

Drawing on our extended network of trusted Advisory Partners, we bring the right expertise to every stage of the transaction.

Our mergers and acquisitions experience spans buy- and sell-side mandates, business-readiness programs, valuations, and due-diligence support through to completion. Whether positioning for scale or sale, we deliver clarity, confidence, and commercially grounded advice that achieves exceptional outcomes.

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Leadership Engagement

Our national network connects recruitment leaders, investors, and advisory partners who share a passion for building exceptional businesses.

This collaborative ecosystem enables us to introduce the right expertise at the right time, across leadership development, finance, marketing, and strategic growth.

In partnership with you, and guided by your business priorities, we may also facilitate senior executive-level introductions. Each engagement draws on long-standing relationships and market insight to secure leaders aligned with your organisation’s values, vision, and growth objectives.

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Ben Richardson

Co-Founder & Executive Director

With over two decades of extensive experience in the human resource sector, Ben has amassed a wealth of knowledge spanning the recruitment and talent acquisition industry sector, providing solutions across RPO design and delivery, team assembly, executive search, HR tech, M&A, and offshore BPO.

His deep understanding and experience of the sector provides unparallelled delivery standards when optimising team performance. Ben brings a unique perspective to the table with his boardroom experience and strategic insights consistently elevating organisational capabilities. Furthermore, his experience in M&A and offshore BPO adds a valuable layer of adaptability to dynamic business environments. Business leaders can draw value from Ben’s journey, recognising that success lies not only in expertise but also in fostering a culture of passion, collaboration, and appreciation.

A lover of beaches and a dedicated yogi, he values openness, creativity, gratitude, and limitlessness. Committed to living his best life, Ben’s mantra is “love what you do and love who you do it with”, which underscores the significance of surrounding oneself with exceptional individuals, both personally and professionally.

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