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Daryl Riley

Pioneer · DISC type Dsi
Business Development Director at Personal Group
📍 Northampton, England, United Kingdom

Daryl is a Business Development Director at Personal Group, specializing in employee rewards, benefits, and wellbeing solutions. He leverages 20 years of experience in recruitment and talent acquisition to help organizations strengthen their workplace culture and gain a competitive talent advantage. He studied Business Management at Amersham College.

Outside of his professional life, Daryl is deeply interested in his personal roots. He actively uses his professional network to help others advance their careers, embodying a "pay it forward" mentality. His colleagues and clients describe him as proactive, responsive, and a person of the utmost integrity.

He recently discovered that his great-grandmother was from a high-social-class Irish family, with ancestral ties to a former Mayor of Dublin.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Business Development Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Personality Overview

How Daryl shows up

Decisive But Friendly
Dynamic But Sincere
Driven But Considerate

They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders)

Priorities

Topics Daryl cares about

Employee Engagement
He believes that meeting employees face-to-face is the most effective way to drive genuine engagement, a view supported by a recent poll he conducted.
Talent Retention
His 20-year background in recruitment provides him with a unique perspective on what makes employees stay with—or leave—an organization.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Business Development Director
Personal Group
1-2025
Co-Founder & Director
MPower Talent Ltd
4-2024 - 12-2024
Business Director
W Talent
6-2022 - 12-2023
Head of Change & Transformation
Cedar
7-2020 - 6-2022
Director
Absolute Recruitment Group
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Media appearances

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Education
1-2022 - 8-2022
Micro Credentials
The Open University
1991 - 1993
Business Management
Amersham College
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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