Shani is the founder and Managing Partner of Cadence Partners. She has over 20 years’ experience in executive search and talent management in the UK and US. She has delivered successful talent acquisition and diversity consulting assignments for not-for-profit, central and local government, and healthcare and other public- sector organisations. Shani personally leads all of our executive and Board recruitment assignments. Shani was a founding member and principal of the public-sector search practice at Penna Executive Search. Later, as Head of Executive Search, she built and led the executive search business at another large diversity-focused executive recruitment business. Her experience has focused on recruiting senior executives within the public sector, as well as designing talent acquisition strategies and talent management programmes that drive better diversity outcomes. Shani’s experience includes recruiting Board-level roles across all functional areas at the Department of Health & Social Care, Home Office, Department for Media, Sports & Culture, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Department for Transport, HS2, Associated British Ports, Highways England, a number of NHS trusts, health and social care and disability focused charities including Leonard Cheshire, RNIB, Macmillan Cancer Support, Stroke Association and the British Red Cross among many others. Shani sits on the race advisory board at Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO).