Mark Linden25 Years in Enterprise TA Leadership
Mark is the founder of The TA Training Academy. Over a 25-year career spanning agency, RPO, and in-house TA leadership, he has built and transformed enterprise hiring functions at organisations including Mitie, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, Sky, IBM, Sedgwick and BUPA — and now brings that experience directly into the development of TA professionals at every stage of their career.
"TA stops being seen as a cost centre the moment its leaders learn to speak the language of the business. Everything I teach is designed to move you from operationally capable to board-credible — and to make sure the function you lead is impossible to ignore."
Built at the executive table, taught from the practitioner's chair.
Every session in the Academy comes from a real boardroom, a real transformation, or a real hiring crisis Mark has lived through — never theory for theory's sake.
Twenty-five years, mapped.
Early career across agency and RPO environments, building commercial and delivery foundations across the full recruitment lifecycle.
BUPA — Head of Resourcing Transformation, accountable for 11,500 annual hires, managing a team of 90 across global locations. Allied Healthcare — Head of Resourcing & Shared Services Transformation, led the Support Services Programme, overseeing a function of 300 employees and managing a £6.5M budget as part of a large-scale transformation portfolio.
Leading the IBM RPO Division across Middle East & Africa.
Mondelez — Global Head of Recruiting Shared Services, accountable for 11,750+ hires annually, managed by a global TA team of 190. easyJet — Director of Resourcing, led a team of 40, delivering approximately 5,000 hires per annum across Pilots, Cabin Crew, Engineering, Central Functions, and Apprenticeships.
Global Workday Recruit & Onboarding transformation lead across 76 countries.
Group Resourcing Director for an 80,000-person organisation responsible for 37,500 hires annually across Total Talent. £3M+ in verified TA savings delivered.
HR Programme Director. £28M savings case presented to the UK Operating Board. £500K annual savings at Sedgwick through contingent workforce governance.
Founder. 25 years of enterprise TA practice brought into structured mentorship for TA professionals at every career stage.
Twelve disciplines, aligned to the twelve sessions.
The Academy curriculum is built around the twelve disciplines Mark has repeatedly seen separate the operational TA professional from the board-credible TA leader — one per month, across the year.