ABOUT ABI DEMI
Abi is the Managing Director of Spencer & Trent, a talent strategy consultancy helping founders, CEOs and business leaders in tech, finance, property and architecture protect their business from the legal and financial cost of getting talent decisions wrong.
With over ten years of experience spanning employment law, senior operations and people strategy, Abi brings a rare combination of legal understanding, commercial thinking and hands on people expertise to every client engagement. Her legal background as a solicitor representative, working across court and tribunal proceedings, is what gives Spencer & Trent its edge. She sees the legal and financial risk in people decisions before they become costly problems.
Prior to establishing Spencer & Trent, Abi built her expertise working on contract with organisations including FTSE 100 companies British Land and Landsec, internationally recognised architecture practices and a number of scaling tech businesses across the UK, operating at the centre of senior leadership teams, contributing to executive level restructures and building people functions from the ground up for scaling businesses.
Her work spans talent strategy consulting, recruitment and leadership development, with a particular focus on the people decisions that carry the highest commercial consequence. She works directly with founders and CEOs as a trusted adviser, bringing the kind of senior people expertise that most SMEs and scaling businesses need but rarely have access to.
As a neurodivergent Black woman, Abi brings a perspective that has been largely absent from boardroom conversations about talent. She has sat on both sides of the table and that lived experience is central to the insight and counsel she brings to every client relationship.
