Summary
Paul Booth is an Operations Director with over 25 years of leadership experience building and scaling service businesses, including founding and exiting a recruitment agency and later doubling turnover and expanding operations to 16 branches as Managing Director. He blends practical operational delivery with Lean Six Sigma and IoD-trained strategic skills to drive cost reduction, digitisation, people development and new system implementations that consistently improve efficiency and revenue. Paul specialises in temporary and permanent recruitment frameworks across public and private sectors and has recent leadership roles optimising SEND and tuition services for multi-academy trusts and local authorities. Comfortable at board level, he pairs hands-on process improvement (Gemba, VSM, KPI design) with commercial growth instincts and a track record of bringing struggling operations back to profitability. Based in East Hampshire, he is known for pragmatic change programmes that prioritise frontline staff development as the lever for sustained performance gains.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Inspirational Leadership, Inspirational Leadership at Institute of Directors (IoD)
Diploma In Recruitment Practice Recruitment & Employment, Diploma In Recruitment Practice Recruitment & Employment at Institute of Recruitment Professionals
Toynbee Senior School
Lean Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma at Zenith Lean Ltd