FRESHA
NAME: KIRAN TAYLOR TITLE: GLOBAL HEAD OF TALENT COMPANY: FRESHA LOCATION: LONDON
Kiran is a passionate talent and recruitment leader, dedicated to transforming lives while building world-class teams that drive business success. He joined Fresha in 2025 as Global Head of Talent, a role in which he oversees the company’ s global hiring strategy, bringing exceptional talent into the business and driving meaningful value. Kiran has worked in recruitment for more than 10 years in both agency and internal leadership roles, giving him unique experience of recruitment excellence.
talent function for businesses. Instead, companies relied on agencies, but that often leads to a fundamental disconnect. Agencies will never live and breathe your culture or values the way an internal leader or function does, and business recognising that has been the biggest shift in my career.”
Technology, particularly AI, has also changed how HR leaders operate. Both Sharee and Kiran point to the growing use of AI solutions at Fresha across key areas including automating processes and bringing efficiency to interviewing and hiring.
“ We use AI sourcing tools in the applications process, solutions to help us interview so that we as leaders can be fully engaged with the candidate, tools to take up a lot of our admin work so we’ re able to focus more strategically, and operationally to analyse data and improve our decision-making,” says Kiran.
While highly beneficial across the entire people and talent function, the rapid pace of AI adoption and broader technology innovation also allows readers to spend more time on leading, says Sharee.
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