About Kindtide
People, Talent & Search from the inside out.
Kindtide brings more than 20 years of experience working inside organisations, owning hiring outcomes, building Talent capability and making the People decisions that sit behind growth. We understand the pressure, trade-offs and commercial reality because we have been accountable for them ourselves.
Why Kindtide
Why Kindtide
Built from inside the problem
Kindtide comes from more than 20 years working inside organisations, carrying vacancies, owning hiring budgets and outcomes, building Talent capability and making People decisions with real commercial consequences.
We look beyond the presenting problem
A difficult hire may be a role-design issue. A performance problem may begin with unclear expectations. A resignation may expose something that should have been addressed much earlier. We look at what is actually sitting underneath the issue.
We stay human and commercial
We are clear, honest and practical. Candidates deserve respect. Clients deserve straight answers. If the brief is unrealistic, the package is misaligned or recruitment is not actually the answer, we will say so.
The Kindtide Philosophy
Not all tides roar.Some move quietly, but powerfully.
For Kindtide, impact does not need to be loud or performative to matter. Often the most valuable work happens earlier: challenging a brief before an impossible role goes to market, fixing a hiring process before great candidates disappear, noticing when onboarding is setting someone up to fail or helping someone navigate a difficult transition with clarity and confidence.
A tide changes the environment around it. Sometimes you only recognise the impact when you look back and realise the landscape has changed.
But the “kind” matters just as much as the tide.
Kind hiring. Kind leadership. Kind conversations, even when they are difficult.
Kindness is not weakness. It is strength with humanity: being clear, honest and commercially responsible while remembering there is a person on the other side of the decision.
Care deeply. Be commercially useful. Leave things better than you found them.
Meet the Team
Senior expertise, directly connected to delivery.
Kindtide brings experience across Talent, Search, HR, People operations and career strategy, with direct involvement from the people doing the work.
Sarah Purches
Founder
Sarah brings more than 20 years of experience across Talent, recruitment, employer brand, candidate experience and workforce strategy. She has built Talent functions, owned hiring budgets, led hiring outcomes and supported leaders through growth, change and complex People decisions.
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Brixx Adraincem
Talent Partner
Brixx brings 7 years of experience across Talent Acquisition, Search and HR operations. His background spans end-to-end and confidential search, candidate assessment, market and salary research, onboarding, HR systems and People operations across Australia, Asia and the US.
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Yasmin Trinder
Principal Career Strategist
Yasmin brings more than 18 years of experience across Talent, assessment, executive search and career strategy. She works with individuals navigating career decisions, professional positioning and transition, and supports Kindtide’s Outplacement & Career Transition work.
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Let's create better tides together.
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