Looking Back

History

For 10 continuous years, Lauren worked for an education recruitment agency progressing fiercely through the ranks. Starting life, like so many do, as a consultant to finishing her time with her employer as an area manager across the South West. It was during that time that she met Michael Taylor.

Michael has been in the recruitment space since 2011 – cutting his teeth in a well known corporate across the A&F space, before finding his home in the sector of education in 2012 & since then, has not looked back.

The duo first staring working together in 2016 (in fact Michael was part of the team that were lucky enough to hire Lauren all those years ago) & since then, they have been both collaborators & “competitors” in separate agencies; until after years of toying with the idea, finally started exploring the idea of starting their own agency together.

Like so many of the agencies that Isotope have been lucky enough to work with across education, the triggers to explore the idea were two fold – personally they were getting to a stage in life where they felt ready to make that move, while professionally they had been through the education cycle countless times & each year, progressed. Deepening those relationships with schools across the local area & honing their belief in what a good, sustainable & profitable education agency looks like.

Their conversations with Isotope started slow. Separate conversations with both founders before a number of TEAMs meetings that spanned months. Gradually the vision was becoming clear & with that, a solid idea of what a sustainable & successful partnership together would look like. They had some audacious goals coming into their own agency – measured both through GP & “days”, & also through impact, service & creating a compliant agency that would supersede any that the area had seen before. Call us biased but since inception, they’ve done just that.