About Tribus People
At Tribus People, we empower organisations to unlock their full potential by cultivating leadership at every level. Our mission is to remove barriers to growth through strategic talent solutions and development programmes.
Who we are
Tribus People was born from the merger of Tribus and Sarah West Recruitment and is dedicated to enhancing leadership capabilities within organisations. With over 20 years experience, and a focus on strategic alignment, recruitment, and development, we partner with businesses to foster environments where leadership thrives, driving sustainable success.
What we offer
We provide tailored solutions across three core service areas: Recruitment, Development, and Alignment. Whether it’s finding exceptional talent, turning managers into leaders, or unifying teams around a shared vision, our services are designed to meet the unique needs of your organisation and drive lasting results.
Recruit
PLACING TALENT THAT DRIVES SUCCESS
We don’t just find candidates; we identify skilled professionals who align with your culture, ambition, and goals. From sales and marketing to senior leadership, we place individuals who are ready to make an immediate impact.
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Develop
TURNING MANAGERS INTO LEADERS
Leaders aren’t born; they’re developed through tailored training, mentoring, and real-world challenges. Our bespoke coaching and development programmes empower managers to inspire and lead high-performing teams.
Learn more about Develop
Align
UNITING TEAMS AROUND SHARED GOALS
When everyone moves in the same direction, extraordinary things happen. We help teams align their purpose, culture, and strategy, fostering collaboration and building cohesive, high-performing teams.
Learn more about Align
Why Tribus People?
In today’s competitive landscape, businesses don’t just need teams that work—they need teams that lead. Misaligned strategies, ineffective leadership, and poor recruitment can hinder even the best-laid plans. That’s where we come in.
At Tribus People, we understand the challenges of building and sustaining a successful team. That’s why our services are designed to empower organisations to recruit strategically, develop leadership effectively, and align teams for peak performance. By partnering with us, you’re investing in a stronger, more resilient future for your business.
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Meet our team
Sarah Knight
Co-Founder & Director
With over 25 years in recruitment and leadership, Sarah is a trusted partner to leaders of fast-growth SMEs. She has supported businesses across tech, SaaS, and other high-growth industries, often at pivotal moments post-investment or acquisition when getting hiring right is critical.
She combines data-driven insight with deep market experience to identify exactly what’s needed to build the right team, from securing senior and commercial talent to running recruitment health-checks that strengthen future hiring.
As Co-Founder of Tribus People, Sarah brings together practical business knowledge and academic insight from her MBA at the University of Exeter. She mentors start-ups through Exeter Innovation, is an alumna of the Goldman Sachs 10KSB programme, and has been recognised as one of Exeter’s Top 100 Influential Women.
“Sarah didn’t just raise the bar, she reinvented the standard.”
Izzy Sanders
Consultant
Izzy specialises in building high-performing sales teams, taking a partnership-led, quality-first approach that helps ambitious companies scale with intent.
With a degree in Psychology and a genuine interest in understanding people, she brings a curious, evidence-driven approach to recruitment. Izzy cuts through the sales spin to identify real indicators of high performance, ensuring the talent she recommends has the track record, mindset and capability to deliver.
Beyond recruitment, she has dedicated significant time to fundraising for charities, reflecting her drive to go the extra mile for people.
“If there is a perfect balance for how involved you’d like your recruitment consultant to be, Izzy has cracked the code.”
Helen Shaw
Consultant
Helen brings a unique mix of creativity, commercial insight and people expertise to her work with fast-growth businesses. With a degree in Graphic Design, and a background in marketing, e-commerce and customer service for national brands, Helen understands how brand, people and customer experience connect to drive growth.
Recognised for her meticulous approach and incisive questioning that uncovers what businesses truly need, she places herself inside a business to understand its challenges and opportunities.
At Tribus People, Helen specialises in supporting ambitious companies to hire the talent that powers their growth. From Product Owners and Managers who shape the vision, to Designers who craft user experiences, through to Marketing professionals who drive adoption, she helps companies assemble the cross-functional teams that bring digital products to life.
“We have been hugely impressed with how you and the whole team have assisted our recruitment project, and look forward to continuing this successful partnership.”
David Chamberlain
Co-Founder & Director
An experienced leadership, talent and development professional with over 20 years’ experience, David designs and delivers solutions for a broad range of fast growth businesses.
Having worked on multiple projects with a diverse mix of clients throughout the UK, he believes in building long term, trusting, collaborative relationships, taking time to explore and understand their specific challenges to deliver the best possible outcomes. An accomplished facilitator, he works with both leaders and teams to create alignment, engagement, and high performance, balancing individual, team and organisational needs and priorities.
Jeremy Lowen
Senior Consultant
With an MSc Organisational Psychology & BSc Psychology, Jeremy brings over 13 years experience in developing teams, leaders and organisational cultures to create sustainable high performance. An expert facilitator, he has worked with clients in the UK and overseas and believes that work should be a place where people can thrive; where they can develop, find meaning, feel like they belong and be empowered to deliver amazing things.
Matt Jenkins
Senior Consultant
Matt is a passionate and creative business mentor and coach, highly experienced in coaching, training and development. He has specific experience in building and supporting high performing teams across Europe, Scandinavia and the Americas and has also lived and worked in the Asia Pacific region.
Outside of work, Matt is a trustee of a charity that designs and manufactures 3D printed limb devices for children and adults who are missing limbs and is also an author and illustrator of twelve children’s books having created “Chops”, the world’s first limb different children’s book character.
Chris Milliner
Senior Consultant
Chris is a dynamic business change and transformation consultant and coach with over 30-years’ practical experience in the UK and overseas, across the public and private sectors and various industries, including: management consulting, defence, software development, healthcare, Home Office, mobile telecoms, automotive and engineering.
Chris has worked at an executive and operational level and has significant experience of advising and coaching senior managers as well as delivering output. Educated toMasters Degree level in Business Management and Economics, he is a pragmatic employer of best-practice methodologies.
Laura Pelling
Senior Consultant
Laura is an experienced commercial leader who specialisies in helping organisations to activate strategy and align teams around a common set of goals to deliver their commercial ambitions.
She is adept at leading organisational change, including restructures and setting up new business units, and has extensive experience in working with growing SME’s, recently as a Board member for a business that grew from £6 million to £10 million during her time with them. Laura has a Diploma in Business Management, is an Accredited Coach, and has won numerous awards for Leadership and Mentoring.
David Chamberlain
Co-Founder & Director
An experienced leadership, talent and development professional with over 20 years’ experience, David designs and delivers solutions for a broad range of fast growth businesses.
Having worked on multiple projects with a diverse mix of clients throughout the UK, he believes in building long term, trusting, collaborative relationships, taking time to explore and understand their specific challenges to deliver the best possible outcomes. An accomplished facilitator, he works with both leaders and teams to create alignment, engagement, and high performance, balancing individual, team and organisational needs and priorities.
Jeremy Lowen
Senior Consultant
With an MSc Organisational Psychology & BSc Psychology, Jeremy brings over 13 years experience in developing teams, leaders and organisational cultures to create sustainable high performance. An expert facilitator, he has worked with clients in the UK and overseas and believes that work should be a place where people can thrive; where they can develop, find meaning, feel like they belong and be empowered to deliver amazing things.
Matt Jenkins
Senior Consultant
Matt is a passionate and creative business mentor and coach, highly experienced in coaching, training and development. He has specific experience in building and supporting high performing teams across Europe, Scandinavia and the Americas and has also lived and worked in the Asia Pacific region.
Outside of work, Matt is a trustee of a charity that designs and manufactures 3D printed limb devices for children and adults who are missing limbs and is also an author and illustrator of twelve children’s books having created “Chops”, the world’s first limb different children’s book character.