Elliot Dell //Global CEO // Life Coach // Motivational Speaker // Career Mentor

Expertise and motivational talks on:

· Building a global business

· Cultural transformation through mindfulness and self-love

· Eroding the stigma around mental health

· Growing a business that is diverse and inclusive

· Thriving through a Global Pandemic

Elliot is CEO and shareholder of Salt Recruitment Group, a global recruitment business specialising in digital with 14 offices across the world, 4 of which he opened during the Global Pandemic of 2020. Having joined the business as a start-up, Elliot has created and optimised the Group Operating Model from the ground up, encompassing core values and a system of working that drives performance excellence.

Elliot has become an expert on globalisation having opened his first international office in Sydney in 2014, followed by further organic builds in New York and Dubai a year later. In 2016 Elliot entered the world of M&A, part-acquiring a business in Auckland (New Zealand), along with their sister company in Asia, adding on offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. Further acquisitions in 2019 and2020 brought more locations into the Group (Melbourne & Cape Town),followed by more organic builds in Austin (Texas), Johannesburg, Amsterdam, and Brussels.

Elliot’s development in the business world encompasses expertise in sales, marketing, HR(including learning & development), cultural transformation and of course hiring great talent. He has nurtured multiple leaders across the globe from junior and mid-level positions to those commanding countries and entire regions; his ability to tap into mindsets and accelerate professional growth is built on a foundation of self-love and care.

Elliot’s leadership style is influenced by a sporting background having been a semi-professional footballer and captain of Surrey FC, further evolving through Life Coaching and Mindfulness trainings. Influenced by his yoga teacher wife, Elliot has brought mindfulness, wellbeing, and mental health awareness into the businesses he runs and mentors, becoming a speaker on mindful living and self-care which he encourages openly on social media.

Whilst attending university Elliot was selected for Channel4 show Shipwrecked which gave him the taste of travel prior to globalising a recruitment business, spending 5 summers working in Rhodes, Greece, and time in Singapore and Australia. The diversity of what Elliot has experienced in life has enhanced his ability to integrate multiple cultures and working environments, as well as conflicting business models and governance.

To prepare Salt’s global expansion Elliot hired a Diversity Manager in 2013 and has since been involved in multiple diversity events across the world, as well as close work with The Big Issue Foundation who support the homeless community into sustainable lives. In 2016 following the success on culture of diversity and inclusion, Elliot designed a Mindfulness in the Workplace Progamme, rolling this out across Salt’s global offices and subsequently sharing with other global businesses.

Elliot uses his online presence to share thoughts on mindfulness, mental health, and self-love whilst inspiring people to make the most of their career and life choices. In addition to support the development of children in his local area, Elliot has recently been appointed as a Trustee and non-executive director at the “Engage, Enrich, Excel Academies” of schools in Surrey and Hampshire.