Ami Jenick – Director

Ami started People Beyond Profit because she saw a need for a recruitment model to not simply support purpose-led organisations with high quality talent, but to create a business that proactively committed to its values by investing profits back into leadership programmes that make a social impact.

Ami brings over two decades of executive search and recruitment experience where she has delivered complex searches, serving as a trusted advisor to foundations, social enterprises, charities and other purpose-led organisations operating at local, regional, national and international level.  She has developed particular insight into the philanthropic/grant-making sector, building a strong understanding of their unique and diverse challenges and leadership required.  

Ami takes pride in her ability to develop long term client and candidate relationships built on trust, transparency and a genuine interest in finding the best and most effective talent to ensure mutual success and impact. Providing excellent customer service to create a smooth and engaging search journey for both client and candidate is important to her - demonstrated through her exemplary track record of appointed candidates successfully retaining their roles for many years and clients returning for repeat business. 

Ami proactively considers how values-based selection techniques can help provide insight and ensure mutual alignment between a candidate and an organisation, highlighting skills and experience whilst also importantly exploring their future potential. She has also partnered with clients to ensure the search process is diverse, inclusive and equitable, oftentimes thinking creatively and looking beyond the obvious for true talent. This has led to some extremely rewarding work with incredible and inspiring clients and candidates alike.

Ami is a Trustee of Working Chance, the UK's only employment charity solely for women with convictions.

Further details on her track record can be found here.

Jessica Stockford, Director Associate

Jess is an independent governance and search consultant working as an adviser and critical friend to purpose led Boards. For almost a decade, she led a global non-executive search practice at Prospectus Ltd, building the Boards of purpose led organisations and social enterprises- including Crisis, Friends of the Earth, War Child and Global Witness – working closely with Boards to shape key appointments, succession planning and undertaking board and governance reviews, alongside frequent benchmarking, skills audits and staff and stakeholder consultation.

Prior to that, Jess ran governance capacity building programmes for the nonprofit sector at Business in the Community and leveraged commercial and ESG partnerships for arts and cultural organisations for clients such as Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Sky Arts and American Express.

Jess lectures on good governance practice for Goldsmiths, University of London and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and is a judge for the annual Charity Governance Awards, supported by the Clothworkers Foundation.

Jess is Co-Chair of Hackney CVS including Hackney Giving, a grant maker and Chair of the Tenants and Residents Association of her estate in East London – she is a member of the Housing Ombudsman Resident Board.

For further details on her experience, please click here.

Antonia Byrne, Director
Byrne Creative

Toni leads on all our design and brand work for the wide range of clients we work with, helping us create engaging appointment briefs and marketing collateral for executive search and recruitment campaigns.

Toni is an experienced graphic designer with 20 years experience. She has a proven track record of working successfully across design and marketing for large trade brands, agencies and small businesses who want a fresh and unique approach. She has worked on high profile campaigns including those for Lord Alan Sugar, Dame Deborah Jones and Sir David Attenborough.

Her passion lies in bringing brands to life, delivering exceptional quality and stand-out creative solutions that capture the essence of a brand and connect with the target audience. With expertise that spans across print, digital, social media and web design, Toni is always developing her skillset and embracing new methodologies.

For further details of her design and branding portfolio, please click here.

Joan Mwambi - Research Associate

Joan is a talent and executive search professional with experience working with commercial and not-for-profit organisations across Executive and Board level positions in Europe, Africa, Asia and US. Joan supports the team with proactive outreach into relevant talent pools across a wide range of industries.

For further details on her background and experience, please click here.

Elise Kanareck - Research Associate

Elise has over 20 years experience in recruitment and executive search specialising in senior executive and non-executive appointments in both the private and public sectors, across multiple functions in the UK, Europe, US and internationally.

She has worked as a Senior Researcher for leading search firms that work across the charity, public and education sectors and has significant experience of search and selection for Trustee and NED appointments. Elise supports the People Beyond Profit team with proactive outreach into relevant talent pools across a wide range of industries.

For further details on Elise’s background and experience, please click here.