What we do
The Recademy helps recruitment professionals and leaders build real capability, confidence and consistency in role.
We focus on how people actually operate day to day – not generic hacks, trends or shortcuts.
Everything we deliver is practical, behaviour-led and grounded in commercial reality.
Experience that matters…
The Recademy is led by Dave Lewis and built on more than 25 years of experience developing recruiters, managers and leaders.
Dave began his career in recruitment before moving into learning and development, including senior roles at Reed and as Dean and Director of Reed Business School. He has also worked on university-accredited recruitment qualifications.
For the past 21 years, he has worked with recruitment businesses to design and deliver training and coaching programmes that improve real, day-to-day performance.
It’s experience that started as a consultant and evolved into designing and delivering countless development programmes to thousands of recruiters.
More importantly, this work has created deep exposure to hundreds of teams across different markets, models and maturity levels.
That breadth matters, because it creates judgement rather than guesswork.
It allows us to:
Identify what’s genuinely holding performance back
Cut through symptoms to the real issues
Adapt development to the context in front of us, not a generic framework
…and why it matters
Because Dave has worked in so many different recruitment environments, Recademy programmes are designed to deal with reality rather than ideal scenarios.
That experience shows up in how programmes are built and delivered.
Recademy programmes are designed to:
Work in the reality of busy desks and commercial pressure, not protected training-room conditions
Avoid theory that sounds good but fails in practice, especially once people return to live roles
Anticipate the problems that typically show up after training, not just the ones discussed on the day
Build habits, standards and decision-making discipline that last beyond the programme
It also means development can be shaped quickly and accurately.
The result is development that feels relevant, credible and immediately useful – not abstract, motivational or generic.
People don’t just leave understanding more.
They leave thinking better and operating differently.
How we work
All Recademy programmes are designed and delivered by Dave, with content shaped by real-world experience rather than off-the-shelf frameworks. We don’t treat development as a one-off event.
Our work is structured as development journeys, combining:
Clear frameworks and expectations
Practical skill-building
Application in real situations
Coaching, reinforcement and accountability
The aim isn’t knowledge transfer.
It’s proven capability.
People leave able to do the job better, not just talk about it.
Who we work with
We work with:
Recruitment agencies and solopreneurs
Consultants at different stages of their career
Managers balancing billing and leadership
Business owners looking to improve consistency and standards
Whether the requirement is foundational capability, performance optimisation or leadership development, the approach is always tailored to the reality of the role.
Next steps
Our development programmes always starts with a conversation.
We’ll talk through what you’re looking to achieve, the challenges you’re facing and whether we can help.