Claire joined Meet in 2022 with over two decades of experience across recruitment and L&D. As our Executive Director of Talent, she leads our overarching learning strategy – partnering with leaders across the business to design and deliver impactful programs to support our people at every stage of their careers. Claire is passionate about creating engaging learning experiences and is proud to support Meet’s continued growth within the life sciences sector. She also relocated with the business to San Diego for three and a half years before returning to London in 2026.
Learning & Development
At Meet, learning and development isn't limited to your first few weeks. From building strong foundations to developing advanced sales skills, leading a team or increasing your earning potential, your development continues throughout your career. Our dedicated Learning & Development team works alongside you, with training and coaching shaped around where you are, where you want to go, and what will help you get there.
Is there one way to learn at Meet?
No, your development is tailored to reflect your experience, your goals, your learning preferences and the areas that will make the biggest difference to your performance.
You'll have access to personalized programmes, one-to-one coaching, workshops and learning both from our dedicated L&D team and your manager and wider team. You will also benefit from learning from the skilled recruiters around you.
As your career develops, the support does too. Once you have learned the basics, or if you join us with prior recruitment experience, your manager will work with you to build a personal development plan detailing your path to the next step in your career. Both your manager and L&D will provide tailored support to help you achieve this.
As a new starter at Meet, we will strive for you to feel connected with the business and your team at the earliest opportunity. Onboarding at Meet is delivered in partnership with your sales team. Our structured, blended programme combines interactive workshops, roleplays, video learning content and coaching. The training flow and cadence is designed to build skills progressively.
Foundation - Month 1 - During month one, you will focus on candidate acquisition, market mapping and lead generation, building the skills to attract and engage strong candidates, understand the market landscape, and identify new business opportunities.
Month 1+ - Business development - By the end of month one, you will move on to business development activity - applying everything you've built so far.
Our Advanced Sales Programme takes experienced recruiters beyond the fundamentals, introducing advanced concepts and elevated versions of our foundational models. Rather than repeating the basics, the programme challenges you to draw on your own experience, combining theory with practical application to sharpen your approach. The curriculum is designed to stretch established performers, helping them refine their skills, win more complex opportunities, and deliver consistently stronger results.
Modules Include:
- Cross Selling
- Negotiation
- SPIN selling
- Personal Branding
- Storytelling
- Leveraging market insights
- Rules of Engagement & Selling Urgency
- Engagement Signals
- Turning intel into Revenue
- Exceling in client meetings
This programme is paired with tailored workshops and individual coaching sessions.
Our Leadership Development Programme equips new and experienced managers with the practical skills and confidence to lead high-performing recruitment teams. Rather than focusing on leadership theory alone, the programme is built around real management challenges, giving leaders practical frameworks and tools they can immediately apply with their teams. The curriculum combines interactive workshops, discussion, and practical application to help managers drive performance, develop people, and build engaged, successful teams.
Modules include:
- What is Leadership?
- Data-Driven Leadership
- Vision, Purpose & Motivation
- Leadership & Time Management
- Leader as Coach
- Leadership & Communication
- Running Revenue-Driving 1:1s
- Having Challenging Conversations
- Performance Management
- Building Your Team
Leaders also receive regular coaching sessions from our internal specialists and external coaching partners.
Technology that helps you perform
We invest in the latest learning technology to accelerate your development.
Orca Call Coach is our AI-powered roleplay platform that gives recruiters a safe environment to practise real recruitment conversations before they happen with clients or candidates. By simulating realistic scenarios and providing instant feedback, it helps our teams build confidence, refine their communication skills, and accelerate their development through deliberate practice.
Ryvr AI is our intelligent meeting assistant that captures conversations, generates comprehensive notes, and suggests clear follow-up actions automatically. By reducing administrative work and improving the quality of our meeting data, it allows our consultants to stay fully engaged in conversations and spend more time building relationships with clients and candidates.
Meet our Learning & Development team
Lauren joined Meet in 2017 for the launch of our San Francisco office before relocating to our London office in 2024. With a background in both recruitment and biology, Lauren was drawn to Meet’s focus on life sciences and has loved being part of a business that supports such an innovative and impactful industry. As Head of Learning & Development, she coaches our recruiters throughout every stage of their careers and continually evolves our programs to support the needs of the business.
With a passion for building high-performing cultures through learning, coaching, and development, Jess’ role involves improving the employee experience at Meet. Having joined the business in 2021 as a recruiter, she felt the pull towards L&D where she transitioned into an L&D associate in 2022. Four years on, she is now our Learning & Development Manager who supports onboarding, delivers training with purpose and creates development opportunities to help our teams perform at their best. Jess has relocated with Meet three times, embracing new locations and experiences along the way.
With five years of recruitment experience behind him, Nathan joined the team as an L&D associate in 2024. He leads the development of our recruiters (from early careers to those more established), providing them with the tools, knowledge and confidence to become exceptional. Nathan is passionate about sharing the lessons and experience he has gained throughout his career and seeing individuals apply that learning themselves – a key part that makes his role so rewarding.
Jessica joined our Learning & Development team in 2025. As an L&D consultant, she combines her previous sales experience (where she worked as a senior recruiter and lead) with a passion for coaching and developing high-performing teams. Jessica designs and delivers training programs that build confidence, consistency, and long-term success, helping individuals turn their potential into performance. Fun fact: outside of work, Jessica is a professional dancer for the San Diego Seals, which is something that keeps her grounded, creative, and disciplined.
Where can our support take you?
Hear from our people about the different paths they’ve taken at Meet from starting out and building a successful career, to increasing their earnings, moving into leadership or starting a new role after maternity leave.
Your journey starts here
Join a business where learning doesn't stop once you've got the foundations. Keep improving, increase your earning potential and see where your performance could take you.
